Building our future together: introducing formal governance for HashPack and $PACK

From day one, HashPack has grown side‑by‑side with its community. Feature polls in Discord, spontaneous Twitter threads, late‑night DMs—your feedback is woven into every release. Today we’re taking the next step and giving that conversation an immutable home: on‑chain voting.

Hashgraph.vote - On-Chain Voting for the Community

To that end, our team has developed and launched Hashgraph.vote, a public site where anybody can run and participate in polls. The platform is based on the HCS-8 and HCS-9 open source standards which were written by our CEO May Chan and published in the Hashgraph Online DAO standards library.

We hope that the community will use this platform to launch their own polls and engage with their own communities. In addition, this platform will serve as a key focus point for us to bring governance utility to the PACK, using the token as the mechanism for on-chain voting.

Why bring voting on‑chain?

Open discussion is powerful, but it can be noisy. An on‑chain vote turns ideas into clear signals we can act on, while letting holders see that their voice was counted. Starting next month, official proposals will appear on hashgraph.vote, and announced on our Discord in the #governance channel. Each one will have an official HashPack Logo on the poll so you can instantly spot the official HashPack polls.

Security Reminder: Be aware that this is an open community site, where anybody can create a poll. Be especially vigilant of any polls that claim giveaways, airdrops, free hbar, staking rewards, and anything else that prompts you to visit a website. Be especially cautious if that website asks you to connect your wallet to sign a transaction.

HashPack polls are signed by our official account, so if a poll doesn’t have a HashPack logo, it is NOT authored by HashPack.

What falls inside—and outside—community control

While we’re sure our users are very excited to vote on the future of HashPack, let’s set some boundaries. HashPack governance is purpose‑built to help us engage with our community and provide another way to directly give us feedback.

It does not hand the steering wheel of the entire company to token holders; it invites you engage with us and help us make better decisions and align with the community:

• Product priorities – Which wallet feature ships next? How important is a particular functionality to the community?
  
• $PACK initiatives – Adjustments incentive structures, or utility experiments that directly affect the token economy.
  
• Cosmetics & themes – From colour palettes to holiday easter eggs, you decide what makes the wallet feel like home.

Security architecture, regulatory compliance, and day‑to‑day operations remain non‑negotiables entrusted to the core team. Similarly, though we know many of you will have brilliant ideas on how to best use PACK and our digital collections, don’t expect core decisions around these assets to come through a community vote.

How your voting power is calculated

Voting is strictly proof‑of‑holding. Before every proposal, we take a snapshot of Hedera accounts:

• Every 20 000 $PACK equals one vote. Someone holding 75 000 tokens wields three votes in the ballot box. HashPack Docs
  
• Concierge Collection NFTs add weight. A Standard NFT adds 5 %, Premium 10 %, First‑Class 20 %, and the coveted Fully Packed pass 25 %. Different tiers stack, so a Premium + First‑Class combo tacks on 30 %. Identical NFTs don’t stack. HashPack Docs
  

Importantly, you never spend or lock your tokens.

From idea to implementation

1. Ideation. Join the #governance channel in our Discord. Pitch anything—from “add staking analytics” to “tweak theme launch cadence.
   
2. Curation. The HashPack team packages viable suggestions into clear, executable proposals and posts them on hashgraph.vote as official HashPack polls (Check for the HashPack logo).
   
3. Snapshot & vote. The snapshot is created, voting opens, and the count happens transparently on‑chain.
   
4. Action. Once a poll is completed, the HashPack team will take appropriate action. We'll keep the community updated on our progress as we work to implement the poll results.
   

An evolving framework

Hashgraph.vote is at what we call MVP stage - Minimum Viable Product. It’s the starting point, the foundation of a hopefully engaging and fun community-focused platform. We’ll see how the community makes use of the site, what kind of features you need, what kind of bugs and friction points you encounter. Reach out to us on Discord or X, let us hear your voice and we’ll refine it together.

Ready to cast your first vote?

• Review the $PACK governance primer in our whitepaper for thresholds, multipliers, and examples. HashPack Docs
  
• Join the Discord and drop your suggestions in #governance‑ideas.
  
• Watch for the first tagged proposal on hashgraph.vote—we’ll be proposing PACK related decisions that will impact the token economy of PACK
  

HashPack’s success has always been a joint project between builders and users. Formal governance simply etches that partnership onto the ledger—and opens the door for $PACK holders to help write the next chapters, from feature wish‑lists to token‑economy updates. We can’t wait to build the future of Hedera wallets with you, hand‑in‑hand—and vote‑by‑vote.