# Townhall’s Astar Governance : Next Steps

**URL:** <https://forum.astar.network/t/townhall-s-astar-governance-next-steps/7345>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 22, 2024, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.astar.network/t/townhall-s-astar-governance-next-steps/7345 "2024-10-22T07:06:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juminstock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.astar.network/juminstock/32/5942_2.png) [@Juminstock](https://forum.astar.network/u/Juminstock)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.astar.network/t/townhall-s-astar-governance-next-steps/7345/3 "2024-10-22T17:03:57Z")

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Hello @0xAthena.

I find myself in total disagreement with your post, I see many flaws in what you publish here:

> [@0xAthena](#):
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> Townhall has been instrumental in developing Astar’s governance structure, from off-chain tools to transitioning toward a fully decentralised on-chain model. This journey includes the research and implementation of Governance V1, an interactive governance UI

First, I don’t feel that Townhall was instrumental in anything regarding the development of our governance model, they simply opened up access to their platform which served us well in seeing what a more robust voting process would look like, but they did NOT contribute directly to the planning effort (beyond the theory in your past post [https://forum.astar.network/t/astar-governance-product-development-by-townhall/](https://forum.astar.network/t/astar-governance-product-development-by-townhall/)).

> [@0xAthena](#):
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> Our recent proposal, which received community approval, outlines the scope of upcoming governance initiatives.

Second, community approval? Are you seriously saying this?

> [@GuiGou](#):
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> Is it really the community who approved the proposal or two whales?
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> ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/plasmnet/original/2X/b/b48790c8ca1387839075f63b70fbd18156679c20.png)

As my colleague here shows, the approval of the proposal came about because of your two whales (who in my opinion are either yourselves or related to you), if you exclude the 24.3M ASTR tokens on behalf of these whales, the voters in favor do not even exceed 30%.

> [@0xAthena](#):
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> We would be actively participating in astar governance , user feedback and community events to understand needs and ship features. This is to establish direct communication with the community and operate with the DAO.

Third, I fail to see Townhall in the future of the Astar DAO.

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