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Delegate votes to a DRep

Delegating your voting power to a SanchoNet delegate representative (DRep) operates much like delegating your stake to a stake pool. Voting power delegation involves the issuance of a delegation certificate from your stake key to the chosen SanchoNet DRep. Just as with stake delegation, the process of delegating votes to a SanchoNet DRep does not entail relinquishing control of your funds. Instead, the vote delegation certificate grants the selected DRep permission to vote on your behalf.

In addition to the registered SanchoNet DReps, the system features a couple of default DReps:

  • --always-abstain: this option signals your intention not to participate in the voting procedures, indicating a choice to abstain from the voting process

  • --always-no-confidence: this option signifies your lack of trust in the current constitutional committee, indicating a vote of no confidence in their decisions

Prerequisites​

  • Payment keys and address with funds
  • Stake key
  • Default SanchoNet DRep selection: --always-abstain or --always-no-confidence
  • SanchoNet DRep ID (key hash or script hash) of a registered DRep. See useful cli queries
  • A SanchoNet node

Generating the vote delegation certificate​

  1. Generate the vote delegation certificate.
  • Delegating to the --always-abstain default DRep:
cardano-cli conway stake-address vote-delegation-certificate \
  --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
  --always-abstain \
  --out-file vote-deleg.cert
  • Delegating to the --always-no-confidence default DRep: 
cardano-cli conway stake-address vote-delegation-certificate \
  --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
  --always-no-confidence \
  --out-file vote-deleg.cert
  • Delegating to a key-based registered SanchoNet DRep:
cardano-cli conway stake-address vote-delegation-certificate \
  --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
  --drep-key-hash $(cat drep.id) \
  --out-file vote-deleg.cert
  • Delegating to a script-based (i.e. multisignature) registered SanchoNet DRep:
cardano-cli conway stake-address vote-delegation-certificate \
--stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
--drep-script-hash $(cat drep-multisig.id) \
--out-file vote-deleg.cert

Submitting the certificate in a transaction​

  1. Submit the vote delegation certificate in a transaction.
  • Build:
cardano-cli conway transaction build \
--testnet-magic 4 \
--witness-override 2 \
--tx-in $(cardano-cli query utxo --address $(cat payment.addr) --testnet-magic 4 --out-file  /dev/stdout | jq -r 'keys[0]') \
--change-address $(cat payment.addr) \
--certificate-file vote-deleg.cert \
--out-file tx.raw
  • Sign with payment and stake keys:
cardano-cli conway transaction sign \
--tx-body-file tx.raw \
--signing-key-file payment.skey \
--signing-key-file stake.skey \
--testnet-magic 4 \
--out-file tx.signed
  • Submit:
cardano-cli conway transaction submit \
--testnet-magic 4 \
--tx-file tx.signed