GOVERNANCE
Who decides today —
and why.
Governance reality, stated plainly: Beyul is an independent research project and decisions are made by the founder and core team, who answer for them. This page describes today’s reality, future principles, and decision categories — with no DAO, token-governance, or decentralization-ready claims.
Research prototype · no testnet · no mainnet · unaudited · not production-private · not safe for funds
Governance today
Centralized decision-making at the research stage is a fact. Stating it plainly is more responsible than performing decentralization.
- Independent research project
- Decisions made — and answered for — by the founder and core team
- No DAO
- No token governance
- No public validator governance
- No on-chain governance commitments yet
Future principles
- Safety before decentralization theater.
- Public evidence before public claims.
- Staged release decisions — each stage defined before it is entered.
- Audit and security checkpoints before any mainnet claim.
- Legal entity and jurisdiction disclosure before any public testnet.
Decision categories
For each category, the future mechanism will be publicly defined before the corresponding stage begins — define first, then enter.
Protocol safety
Changes affecting consensus, the shielded pool, or cryptographic assumptions.
Verifier key ceremony
Replacing development verifier material with production ceremony output.
Testnet launch
When a joinable public network is offered, and under what stated limits.
Public repo & docs release
When the repositories and documentation open, and what ships with them.
Validator onboarding
Who may operate, under which documented requirements.
Disclosure policy
Changes to what the protocol allows to be disclosed, and how.
Incident response
How security events are triaged, communicated and remediated.
Decentralized governance is an outcome, not a posture. It will advance with the network’s real maturity — not with narrative demand.