Getting Started

How to connect your wallet and vote on Ekklesia.

Connecting Your Wallet

The wallet requirements depend on your voter type:

  • Address/Token/NFT holders — Any CIP-30 compatible wallet that supports CIP-8 message signing
  • DReps — A wallet that supports CIP-95 message signing specifically
  • SPOs — Cold key or Calidus key (CIP-151) signing

Connect your wallet using the button in the top-right corner of any Ekklesia voting instance.

Any Cardano wallet that supports the required CIP standard for your voter type should work. See Supported Wallets for more details on requirements.

You can also authenticate via CLI using CardanoSigner, which supports MultiSig configurations.

How Voting Works

  1. Connect your wallet to the Ekklesia instance
  2. Browse live ballots you are eligible to vote on
  3. Select your choices and save your vote
  4. Sign and submit — your vote must be signed with your wallet to be counted
Important: All votes must be signed and submitted. If you see a red "Pending Votes" alert, you still need to sign and submit for your votes to be included in the results.

You can change your vote as often as you want while a ballot is live.

Checking Results

  • Results are rolled up every 10 minutes while a ballot is live
  • You can look up any voter’s activity in the Voter Directory
  • Final results are published on-chain after a ballot closes and can be independently verified

Eligibility

Eligible voter groups may vary from ballot to ballot. If you are logged in but cannot vote, make sure you are connected with a wallet that belongs to an eligible voter group for that particular ballot.