Astroport said the governance shutdown is already in effect, with proposal quorum set to 100%. The Neutron Assembly contract lists its required quorum as 1, or 100%.
The change removes the tokenholder mechanism for directing liquidity incentives. Under Astroport’s documented vxASTRO system, users locked xASTRO to obtain voting power over ASTRO emissions while retaining governance rights. The normal exit requires users to start a 14-day unlocking period before withdrawing xASTRO; the announcement does not replace that process with an immediate release.
Contributor Control, Continued Trading
Astroport says contributors now run the protocol through a DAO DAO organization on each chain. Actions take the form of public proposals executed onchain, while a multisig remains the emergency owner to recover control if a DAO is compromised.
That ends tokenholder governance, rather than all onchain decision-making. It also departs from the model described in Astroport’s earlier governance documentation, which assigned tokenholders binding votes over contract parameters, upgrades and treasury disbursements instead of giving multisig signers complete control.
The project calls the restructuring a move to long-term support: its contracts and app will remain live and maintained, with security fixes taking priority.
ASTRO’s planned role shifts toward protocol fees rather than voting. Astroport’s next announced step is yASTRO on Terra, a staking contract with a seven-day ASTRO lock that would distribute USDC.inj from protocol fees. When it launches, the project says Terra fees will be split 50% to the Development Fund, 25% to ASTRO burns and 25% to yASTRO.
