Vaulta technical governance at the chain level

Vaulta inherits Antelope governance. Token holders call eosio::voteproducer with up to 30 producer names, or they name a single proxy. The protocol ranks producers by vote weight and builds a 21-producer schedule that signs blocks in 500 ms slots.

Vote weight is not raw token balance. It scales with time from the Antelope epoch (2000-01-01 UTC), doubling about every 52 weeks. That is why “vote tokens” displayed in explorers must apply the same formula as the system contract.

Standby producers sit below rank 21. They receive vote pay when their estimated vpay clears the 100 A threshold used by the system math. Only the top 21 receive block pay. EOS Support shows rank and A-denominated vote weight from get_producers, not a marketing percentage.

System contracts (eosio, eosio.token historically, core.vaulta for A) define PowerUp, RAM, REX, and name bids. Changing them is a privileged action, usually through eosio.prods multisig. That is chain-level governance: code plus producer signatures, not a foundation press release.

A healthy desk publishes peers, a query API, and a human path for users who got stuck. Governance without usable accounts is just a leaderboard.