You can use this proposal template when submitting your governance ideas to the Marinade forum. You can use this sample proposal for what a suggestion on changing Discord access permissions would look like if it were to go through this process.

Feel free to move sections around if you feel the rationale is more important than the actionable changes - these meant to be are guidelines, not a straight jacket.

As a recommendation: Keep your proposal as focused on a single topic as possible. A proposal that combines a few different things (eg.: partnership, token grant, and a loan) is a lot more likely to end up stuck in discussion or fail to reach quorum than three separate proposals.

Once you are done, please post it on the Marinade forum.

After you're satisfied with the discussion, you can then move to an on-chain vote. If the discussion has led to any changes, make sure you summarize those changes on a forum comment - otherwise the assumption will be that the terms from the original post are the final ones.

Keep in mind that weekends have low engagement, so you're better off setting the proposal live on a Monday to increase voting coverage. That means creating a draft on Sunday to set it live 24 hours later.

What do you propose?

Please include a high-level bullet point description of the proposal’s actionable changes.

In this section, you include a succinct description of what would happen if the proposal passes. You can then tell us more about the thinking behind it, including your motivation, on the next section.

If there are any percentages or settings that you are suggesting (eg. maximum “100,000 MNDE used”) do you recommend that these be hard values or governable parameters?

Are any of these optional?

What is the rationale behind the proposal?

This is the section where you go into detail:

• What is the opportunity this would let Marinade take advantage of? What is the problem you are trying to solve?
• What is motivating you?
• Have you discussed this with other Marinators in the Discord? If so, what do they think?

Please feel free to go ahead and include links to the relevant topics on the Discord discussion, if any.

What is the expected positive impact of this change?

Please describe how will this change positively impact Marinade, mSOL, or the Solana ecosystem as a whole. Sell the community on your idea.

The impact may be something as trivial as cleaner forum discussions, or as far-reaching as an improvement on the algorithmic stake distribution.