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# Governance

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Plutus is Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO), meaning users can **participate** in the protocol's decision making via **voting** on proposals. Community members with over 1M **xPLUTUS** and the Plutus Team write proposals called **PRFCs** (Plutus Request for Comments), which are then voted on on the [Plutus snapshot](https://snapshot.box/#/s:plutus-dao.eth/proposals) space.&#x20;

The proposals are generally related to the team furthering the shared vision of Plutus, such as rebranding from PlutusDAO to Plutus ([PRFC-15](https://snapshot.box/#/s:plutus-dao.eth/proposal/0x586aae17b2c352d4fc9d8f7b8d71d7eb90bd0b919b1fe06c4493f4a88858178a)), or approvals of budgets and other strategy related issues ([PRFC-16](https://snapshot.box/#/s:plutus-dao.eth/proposal/0x28c09bf06675e158ffa1555eccf80a1523996be0cfafdac29caa38631cca10d9)) and investments ([PRFC-8](https://snapshot.box/#/s:plutus-dao.eth/proposal/0xfacb98dad8621ace8391135f75f4bcf994f753b38081329fccc7c95e07258734)).

Users can vote with their **xPLUTUS** tokens, with each token counting as **one vote**. This ensures that all voters have a vested interest in the future of Plutus.&#x20;

In the past, voting was aggregated through **bPLS**, which was a composite of multiple different tokens. After PRFC-15, the tokenomics were simplified by the introduction of [PLUTUS](/tokenomics/plutus.md#usdplutus) and it's locked counterpart [xPLUTUS](/tokenomics/plutus.md#usdxplutus).