Delegated representatives — or stakeholders that ADA holders elect to vote on governance proposals on their behalf, similar to representatives in a parliament — voted 78.97% in favor against a 60% threshold.
The constitutional committee, a body of elected members that rules only on whether a proposal complies with the Cardano Constitution rather than on its merits, found the hard fork compliant, with all seven members agreeing where five were required.
Interestingly, the pool operators who actually run Cardano’s infrastructure approved the community’s first self-directed hard fork by the narrowest of its three margins, with 53.02% of operators voting to approve the upgrade, a reminder that decentralized governance means the founders’ preferred outcome is no longer guaranteed.
Under Cardano’s constitution, the upgrade also required at least 85% of stake pools by active stake to run compatible node software before ratification. Network telemetry showed adoption well ahead of that, with roughly 93% of block production already on version 11 heading into activation.
What is version 11
On the technical side, version 11 is an intra-era hard fork, meaning it stays within Cardano’s current governance-focused era and does not change the structure of transactions, so the work required to upgrade is minimal for the wider ecosystem.
