# Astar Townhall - Offchain Governance

**URL:** <https://forum.astar.network/t/astar-townhall-offchain-governance/6950>\
**Category:** Astar\
**Created:** [June 7, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.astar.network/t/astar-townhall-offchain-governance/6950 "2024-06-07T12:25:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gaius\_sama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.astar.network/gaius_sama/32/4741_2.png) [@Gaius\_sama](https://forum.astar.network/u/Gaius_sama)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.astar.network/t/astar-townhall-offchain-governance/6950/11 "2024-06-10T06:50:58Z")

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For Astar Townhall, voting power is calculated on the basis of the amount of ASTR held in the user’s address at the time the vote is created (a snapshot is taken and each ASTR user has its voting power calculated).

For chain governance, I suggest reading Hoon’s proposal to understand how govASTR is defined and distributed to Astar users.

> [@Astar Governance Technical Specification Proposal](https://forum.astar.network/t/astar-governance-technical-specification-proposal/6692):
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> Preface Hello, dear Astar community. This is Hoon, the former Chief Technology Officer of Astar Foundation, and now the Chief Technically is still working on the network Officer of Astar Network. This is the second of three main posts regarding Astar Governance modeling. The first post discussed [Astar community culture](https://forum.astar.network/t/setting-astar-network-community-and-governance-culture/6601) and how we should view dApp Staking and the community treasury. For casual and long-term community members passionate about the network’s governance, you should read that post,…

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