Effective August 15, 2025
Understanding overriding strategies
The "delegation" strategy is an "overriding strategy" that allows a single vote to dynamically affect other voters' voting power. This requires recalculating voting power for all participants every time someone votes, which does not scale well for proposals with many votes.
Key differences between strategies
Delegation works like liquid democracy. When person A delegates to person B, if both vote, only A's vote counts because A can reclaim their voting power by voting directly.
With-delegation combines both delegated and own voting power (Total VP = delegated VP + own VP). Once someone delegates, they cannot take it back by voting and must undelegate first to participate directly.
"with-delegation" includes both voting power and delegated voting power from inner strategies, while "delegation" only includes delegated voting power.
Migration steps
Remove your standalone voting strategies (like "erc20-balance-of") from your main strategy list when switching to "with-delegation" to prevent double-counting votes.
Configuration changes
Before using delegation:
• erc20-balance-of:
{
"address": "0xC18360217D8F7Ab5e7c516566761Ea12Ce7F9D72",
"symbol": "ENS",
"decimals": 18
}• delegation:
{
"symbol": "ENS (delegated)",
"strategies": [
{
"name": "erc20-balance-of",
"params": {
"address": "0xC18360217D8F7Ab5e7c516566761Ea12Ce7F9D72",
"symbol": "ENS",
"decimals": 18
}
}
]
}After using with-delegation:
• with-delegation:
{
"symbol": "ENS (delegated)",
"strategies": [
{
"name": "erc20-balance-of",
"params": {
"address": "0xC18360217D8F7Ab5e7c516566761Ea12Ce7F9D72",
"symbol": "ENS",
"decimals": 18
}
}
]
}
Important considerations
Users lose the ability to reclaim delegated voting power by voting and must undelegate first. "with-delegation" provides better performance for high-participation proposals but removes liquid democracy flexibility.
If you want overriding strategies, consider upgrading to Snapshot Pro.