As we recently announced, July is a voting month for Etherlink and the time has come for Tezos bakers to participate in the first of the two planned Etherlink governance votes: the Etherlink 4.1 (Dionysus Revision 1) kernel upgrade proposal.
Your vote today powers Etherlink’s and Tezos’s tomorrow!
Important Dates
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Proposal period: slow governance period 14, spanning between L1 level #9,473,089 (current ETA is 6 July 2025 12:04 UTC) and L1 level #9,523,488 (11 July 2025 04:04 UTC).
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Promotion period: slow governance period 15, spanning between L1 level #9,523,489 (current ETA is 11 July 2025 04:04 UTC) and L1 level #9,573,888 (11 July 2025 20:04 UTC).
Key proposed changes in Etherlink 4.1 (Dionysus Revision 1)
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Governance v2: Etherlink 4.1 introduces the first major update of its governance mechanism, improving UX for participating bakers. Notably, the new mechanism will allow bakers to designate alternative voting keys for the L1 governance contracts — in addition to their manager (baking) key, which will always be available for voting.
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Updating Gas Targets: Dionysus Revision 1 allows Etherlink to function at a higher capacity while preserving lower transaction fees. This is achieved by raising the gas target, the limit after which the gas pricing mechanism kicks in to constrain excessive usage, from 2MGas/s to 4MGas/s.
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Removing Maximum Gas Limit Prevalidation: Etherlink will now execute transactions requesting more than 30Mgas of execution within the limits of the system, to accommodate with third-party tools systematically over-approximating the gas limit of transactions.
You can find more details in the announcement post:
It’s voting month for Etherlink: Two governance votes coming in July 2025
The proposed Etherlink 4.1 kernel’s hash is 0001010d789e7cccc25c785cf73a658574ed0995ef36b8416a46ab0ddc6b058b39.
How to vote
Participating in Etherlink’s governance is quite simple. Bakers can submit their vote with the Octez CLI, or interact with the governance contracts using Better call dev — it only takes a few clicks!
Using Octez client
To upvote Dionysus Revision 1 in the Proposal period vote, you can use the following Octez client command:
octez-client transfer 0 from <baking address> to KT1XdSAYGXrUDE1U5GNqUKKscLWrMhzyjNeh --entrypoint "upvote_proposal" --arg "0x0001010d789e7cccc25c785cf73a658574ed0995ef36b8416a46ab0ddc6b058b39" --burn-cap 0.2
If the proposal is selected for the Promotion period, you’d then use the following command to vote:
octez-client transfer 0 from <baking_address> to KT1XdSAYGXrUDE1U5GNqUKKscLWrMhzyjNeh \
--entrypoint "vote" --arg '"yea"'
Using better Call Dev
Proposal Period
- Go to better-call.dev and look for the kernel governance contract
KT1XdSAYGXrUDE1U5GNqUKKscLWrMhzyjNeh. Or, you can follow this link:
https://better-call.dev/mainnet/KT1XdSAYGXrUDE1U5GNqUKKscLWrMhzyjNeh/operations
- Connect your wallet, and go to the Interact tab.
- Select the
upvote proposalentrypoint and fill in Dionysus Revision 1’s hash as parameter:0001010d789e7cccc25c785cf73a658574ed0995ef36b8416a46ab0ddc6b058b39—
Clicking on latest callwill fill it up for you! - Click on
Executeand verify the vote details in your wallet. - Sign the operation and submit the contract call for the vote
- Verify your vote in Etherlink’s governance explorer (or a block explorer):
https://governance.etherlink.com/kernel/period
Promotion Period
Should Etherlink 4.1 (Dionysus Revision 1) gather enough support to advance to the next stage, you would need to cast your final vote once period 15 starts.
For that,
- Go to better-call.dev and look for the kernel governance contract
KT1XdSAYGXrUDE1U5GNqUKKscLWrMhzyjNeh. Or, you can follow this link:
https://better-call.dev/mainnet/KT1XdSAYGXrUDE1U5GNqUKKscLWrMhzyjNeh/operations
- Connect your wallet, and go to the Interact tab.
- Select the
vote, entrypoint and fill in the parameter with your vote:yea,no, or,pass. - Click on
Executeand verify the vote details in your wallet. - Sign the operation and submit the contract call for the vote.
- Verify your vote in Etherlink’s governance explorer (or a block explorer):
https://governance.etherlink.com/kernel/period
