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# Governance

## PikuDAO Governance Process

DAO stakeholders and holders of sPIKU tokens govern asset backing, smart contract updates, and platform settings via proposals. 

PikuDAO will start by a simple two stage governance process: 

1\) A **preliminary discussion on Discord and proposal formulation on the Forum page which will be live soon.**

 2\) Followed by an **off-chain** [**Snapshot**](https://snapshot.box/#/s:pikudao.eth) **vote**