Overview
GovTool Governance Actions is a page that lists the proposals open for a community vote and shows how close each one is to passing1. Anyone can browse it without connecting a wallet2. Registered voters can also cast their vote from the same page3.
The page is the Live Voting section of GovTool, an open-source app for taking part in Cardano governance that has been maintained since September 2026 by Sireto, a team led by Sandip Pandey, one of GovTool's original builders4,5. Intersect, the member organization that coordinates Cardano's development, has listed GovTool Governance Actions in a weekly update as one of the places to follow vote progress5.
The proposals it lists, called governance actions, can ask to pay out treasury funds, change network settings, adopt a new constitution or start a hard fork, a network-wide upgrade6. GovTool tallies votes from three groups: DReps, the representatives ADA holders choose to vote for them; stake pool operators, who run the computers that produce blocks; and the Constitutional Committee, a small group that checks proposals against Cardano's constitution7.
Key Features
- Find the proposal you care about. A search box takes an action ID, title or keyword, filters narrow the list by type of action, and the list sorts by soonest to expire, newest first or most Yes votes1.
- Key facts on each card. Each proposal card shows its type, the dates and epochs (Cardano's fixed time periods) when it was submitted and when it expires, its ID in both the current and older formats, and a button to view details and vote8.
- See how close each vote is to passing. A proposal's own page shows each voter group's totals next to the threshold, the share of votes the proposal needs to pass7. DRep and stake pool operator totals read Yes, No, Abstain and Not voted, while the committee's read Constitutional, Unconstitutional, Abstain and Not voted8.
- Only the groups that vote are shown. GovTool hides stake pool operator totals on action types they don't vote on, such as treasury withdrawals and new constitutions, and hides committee totals on no-confidence motions and committee updates7.
- Vote and explain your choice. Registered voters pick Yes, No or Abstain, sign in their wallet, and can add a written rationale of up to 10,000 characters that GovTool can store on IPFS, a public file-storage network3.
What to Expect
Open the page and you see the live proposals as cards, with arrows to page through them1. Clicking View Details opens a proposal's own page with its title, type, dates, ID, the authors' write-up and a share button1. None of this needs a wallet2.
ADA holders who want to vote for themselves can register in GovTool as a Direct Voter, someone who votes directly instead of delegating to a DRep, by paying a refundable deposit9. Once a DRep or Direct Voter connects their wallet, the page adds To vote and Voted on by me tabs, so it's easy to see which proposals still need a vote3.
Past decisions live on a separate Historical Actions page. It has its own search and filters by action type and by status (Live, Ratified, Enacted or Expired), and each past action shows its final Yes and No totals next to the threshold it needed10. Developers can read the code for GovTool Governance Actions in the GovTool repository on GitHub, published under the Apache 2.0 license11.
