Staking Pool Voter

If you are a staking pool voter, then we recommend strongly that you do not store your Aptos voter keys with a custodian before the custodian supports this function. Until then, we suggest you store your voter keys in an Aptos wallet like Petra.

This document describes how to perform staking voter operations while in the Aptos mainnet using an Aptos wallet.

Using Governance UI

To participate as a voter in the Aptos governance, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Proposals section of the Aptos Governance page.
2. Connect your wallet by clicking on CONNECT WALLET (top-right).
3. Make sure that wallet is set to connect to Mainnet.
4. View the proposals. When you are ready to vote on a proposal, click on the proposal and vote.
5. You will see a green bar indicating that the voting transaction is successful.

Using the Aptos CLI

1. Get your stake pool info using: aptos node get-stake-pool --owner-address <owner-address> --url <REST API for the network>.
2. To see the list of proposals, execute: aptos governance list-proposals --url https://api.mainnet.aptoslabs.com.
3. To set up your voter profile, run: aptos init.
4. To vote on a proposal, execute: aptos governance vote --proposal-id <PROPOSAL_ID> --pool-address <POOL_ADDRESS> --url <URL> --profile <profile>.

Delegation Pool Voter

If you staked to a delegation pool, you can vote proportional to your stake amount in the delegation pool or delegate your votes to another voter address.

Using Governance UI

To participate as a voter, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Proposals section on Govscan.
2. Connect your wallet by clicking on CONNECT WALLET
3. Make sure that wallet is set to connect to Mainnet.
4. View the proposals. When you are ready to vote on a proposal, click on the proposal and vote.
5. You will see a green bar indicating that the voting transaction is successful.

Using the Aptos CLI

1. Get your delegation pool address from the Aptos Explorer page.
2. To see the list of proposals, execute: aptos governance list-proposals --url https://api.mainnet.aptoslabs.com.
3. To set up your voter profile, run: aptos init.
4. To vote on a proposal, execute: aptos move run --function-id 0x1::delegation_pool::vote --args address:<pool-address> u64:<proposal-id> u64:<voting-power> bool:<true or false>.

To delegate your voting power, follow these steps:

1. Get your delegation pool address from the Aptos Explorer page.
2. To set up your voter profile, run: aptos init.
3. To delegate voting power, run: aptos move run --function-id 0x1::delegation_pool::delegate_voting_power --args address:<pool-address> address:<delegated-voter-address>.
4. The new delegated voter will take effect in the next lockup cycle after the current lockup cycle ends. To view delegated voter, run aptos move view --profile delegator --function-id 0x1::delegation_pool::calculate_and_update_delegator_voter --args address:<pool-address> address:<delegator-address>.