The Council is a group of people that have collective interests in the Threefold Chain. The council is responsible for the following:
- Proposing & Approving runtime upgrades
- Approving chain configuration changes
- Approving new council members
- Approving new validators
- ..
Council members are configurable at runtime, members can be added and removed by the council itself.
Browse to the Polkadot UI and connect to the Node, select the Governance -> Council page
Select Motion on top and click Propose Motion on the right.
Now select councilMembership as proposal and select addMember or removeMember as extrinsic.
Use the id of the account address (SS58) you want to add or remove.
Proposals are created by council members and can be voted on by other council members. Proposals can be created as following:
Browse to the Polkadot UI and connect to the Node, select the Governance -> Council page
Select Motions on top and click Propose Motion on the right.
Now select any motion (any extrinsic from any pallet can be proposed) and click Propose
Voting can be done by council members, the voting process is as following:
Browse to the Polkadot UI and connect to the Node, select the Governance -> Council page
View any open motion and click Vote (Select Aye or Nay)
When a motion is closed, the motion is executed on the chain. This means that the extrinsic is executed and the state of the chain is changed.
To close a motion, browse to the Polkadot UI and connect to the Node, select the Governance -> Council page
View any open motion and click Close