# Governance We Anthill Members run Anthill, we make decisions together and we evolve our community together. We together "own" Anthill. *"Blockchain and smart contracts are governance technologies that have the potential to provide higher levels of transparency while reducing bureaucracy with self-enforcing code. They can minimise existing principal-agent dilemmas of organisations and subsequent moral hazards. Tokens of distributed networks hereby provide incentives to automatically align interests in the absence of third parties."* ## CONSENSUS We achieve consensus by voting. Our voting power is connected to our individual rank. Our [Ranking System](/docs/ranking-system.md) measures members' contributions to the community. ## REFERENDUM, CUSTODIANS AND TECH COMMITTEE **Anthill members** (token holders) can submit proposals, for example on how to improve and evolve Anthill, or to finance a specific project, a festival, a movie and so on. Other members can vote on these proposals and once the quorum is reached the proposals go to Public Referenda, where the community can vote. The **Custodians** (elected by the community) validate the proposal and if in line with Anthill Community Constitution, they make the required changes. The **Technical Committee** (elected by the community) checks the proposal if it is technically doable, checks for vulnerabilities and doesn't bring risks to the existing code. ![click to enlarge](/files/M3uiQklGYOE1R8RiwXIc) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://anthill-dao.gitbook.io/docs/governance.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.