Governance

Overview

The Governance precompile provides a Solidity interface to the Cosmos SDK x/gov module. Smart contracts can submit proposals, vote, and query governance state. Precompile Address: 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000805

Gas Costs

Method Type	Gas Cost
Transactions	`2000 + (30 x bytes of input)`
Queries	`1000 + (3 x bytes of input)`

Transaction Methods

Method	Description
`submitProposal`	Submit a JSON proposal with deposit
`cancelProposal`	Cancel a proposal
`vote`	Cast a vote on an active proposal
`voteWeighted`	Cast a weighted vote with split options
`deposit`	Deposit tokens to a proposal

Query Methods

Method	Description
`getConstitution`	Get the active constitution text
`getProposal`	Get proposal details by ID
`getProposals`	List proposals with optional status, voter, depositor, and pagination filters
`getVote`	Get a specific vote record
`getVotes`	List votes for a proposal
`getDeposit`	Get a specific deposit record
`getDeposits`	List deposits for a proposal
`getTallyResult`	Get current tally for a proposal
`getParams`	Get governance parameters

Example

// Pseudocode: import IGov and VoteOption from the canonical interface.
IGov constant gov = IGov(0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000805);

// Vote YES on proposal #1 with this contract's account
gov.vote(address(this), 1, VoteOption.Yes, "");

The voter address must be the direct caller of the precompile. A contract votes with its own account by passing address(this); an EOA calls the precompile directly with its own address. Any other address reverts with msg.sender address ... does not match the requester address .... For exact signatures, return structs, and events, see Precompile ABI Reference.

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