Horizen Improvement Proposals: How to Vote Tutorial
If you are a ZEN holder, you have the possibility to vote on the Horizen improvement proposals: the ZenIPs and EONIPs. Your vote will be weighted regarding the tokens you hold, either on the Horizen mainchain (the historic one) or Horizen EON (the EVM chain).
If you already linked your mainchain address for a previous vote, you won’t have to connect it again.
Connect your wallet and verify if it’s properly linked here
The vote happens on Snapshot and is done through MetaMask and therefore via the Horizen EON network.
Before going through the tutorial, we assume that the Horizen EON network is well configured on your MetaMask wallet. If not, please follow this guide.
A/ You already voted and linked your mainchain address
Then it’s very simple.
We still encourage you to verify if your mainchain address is properly linked on the Horizen Governance app.
If it’s not linked, follow the tutorial just below.
If it’s linked, just head to Snapshot on the Horizen governance page, and vote for the proposal when it’s published and available.
B/ You have to link your mainchain address
1/ First, make sure to have some ZEN on Horizen EON, you will need some gas tokens in order to interact with the EVM chain, link your address, and vote.
To do that:
- Download and create an address on Sphere By Horizen if you don’t have any. You will also have to send some ZEN to this address;
- Open the address you want to use, select the option to send ZEN;
- Check the “Sidechain transaction” button to make appear the list of Horizen sidechains
- Select “Horizen EON”;
- Enter YOUR MetaMask address in the “Send to” field;
- Enter the amount you want to send, knowing that 0.1ZEN will be largely enough;
- Then click on “confirm”;
- Some minutes after, you should see the ZEN on your MetaMask wallet, so let’s go for the next step;
2/ Now it’s time to link your mainchain addresses. Any ZEN on Arizen, Sphere By Horizen, ZEN wallet, Swing wallet, or multi-sig wallets, Ledger, ZEN on exchanges are usable. Here, we will focus on Sphere By Horizen. If you need assistance for non Sphere By Horizen wallets linking, please have a look to this post on the Horizen forum.
You’ll get a more detailed tutorial with a screenshot in the Governance doc, but here are the steps:
- Make sure Horizen EON is configured on MetaMask and to have some ZEN on there thanks to the steps stated above.
- Open the Horizen Governance page.
- Click Connect Wallet. The EON wallet (MetaMask) appears in the top-right corner. Once connected, the EON address field is automatically filled with the connected EON address.
- Note: If the EON wallet (MetaMask) was previously connected to the Horizen Governance app, then it is automatically connected.
- Open Sphere By Horizen and navigate to the mainchain wallet address you want to link to the EON address. Click the Information icon to view your address, then Copy it.
- In the Horizen Governance app, on the Linked Addresses pane, click Link Mainchain Address.
- The Link Address pop-up appears. Paste the Sphere wallet address in the Mainchain Address field.
- Copy the EON address from the connected wallet to the Horizen Governance app.
- In Sphere, go to the Addresses pane. Click the compose icon (hand holding pencil).
- The Sign message with address pop-up appears. Paste the EON address in the message field and click on Create signature. The mainchain signature appears below the message field. Then click on COPY TO CLIPBOARD.
- Click COPY TO CLIPBOARD.
- In the Horizen Governance app, on the Linked Addresses pane, paste the signature in the Mainchain Signature field.
- Click Link. The Pending pop-up appears stating that the transaction is being submitted.
- The MetaMask Notification appears. Read the information details. Click Confirm.
- The Linked Address appears showing that the EON Address and Mainchain Address are linked
- You can repeat the process for other addresses.
Now that it’s linked, just head to Snapshot on the Horizen governance page, and vote for the proposal when it’s published and available.
We also have a helpful video tutorial here with instructions on how to vote for the Horizen DAO.
Helpful Links
- Horizen Foundation on Snapshot
- Horizen DAO Forum on Discourse
- Horizen DAO Governance page on Horizen EON Web App
- How to connect MetaMask Wallet to Horizen EON
- How to Link Horizen Sphere Addresses with Horizen EON Address
- Download Sphere Wallet
- Download MetaMask
- Additional voting instructions for Multi-sig wallets, non Sphere wallets, Staked ZEN on a Horizen Node, ZEN Stored on an exchange
If you need assistance, please reach out to us on the Horizen Discord, and be sure to join the Horizen DAO discussion on Discourse!