# Delegation

## How to delegate?

Snapshot enables a couple of ways to delegate your Voting Power to another address (a delegate[^1]).

You can delegate your Voting Power via:

👉 [Delegates Registry per Space](#delegates-registry) (if the Space has set up their custom delegation contract)

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This is a great solution for those who are **not sure who to delegate** their VP to.
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👉 [General Snapshot's delegation page](#from-snapshot-interface)

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The quickest solution to delegate the Voting Power to a **known address.**
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👉 [Smart Contract](#with-a-smart-contract)

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If you prefer to skip the interface and **interact with the Contract** directly.
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Let's look at each option in detail.

### Delegates registry

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This page only applies to custom delegation contracts.\
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To see the Snapshot native delegation, head to:

**<https://snapshot.org/#/delegate/space-name.eth>**
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It is possible to discover the Delegate registry of Spaces that provided their custom delegation contract in settings.

Head to the Space page and click **Delegates** in the left sidebar\*\*:\*\*

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You will then see a list of delegates for the Space with the number of their delegators[^2] and their total Voting Power within the Space.

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You can delegate your Voting Power to one of the delegates directly by clicking the **`Delegate`** button:

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### Delegate page

1. Go to <https://snapshot.org/#/delegate>
2. Enter the address you want to delegate to.
3. To limit the delegation to a specific space, tap the on switch button and enter the space key (example: `balancer.eth`) you want your delegation to take effect on. If no space is selected, the effect will take place for all spaces.
4. Click confirm to save your delegation.

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The **direct delegation** to a chosen space has priority over the **all spaces** delegation.\
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What does it mean?\
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:thumbsup: Address A delegates to B for all spaces, and A delegates to C for a chosen space.\
:arrow\_backward: The chosen space uses overriding delegation strategy.\
:raised\_back\_of\_hand: B votes first - their VP is taken into account.\
:hand\_splayed: C votes - their vote has priority (direct single space delegation) and erases B's Voting power (all spaces delegation).\
:raised\_hand:A votes - B and C's Voting Power decreased to 0.
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### Smart contract interaction

You need to call the `setDelegate` method with the space id as the first argument (space id is its ENS domain name, for example *fabien.eth)*, and the address of the delegate as the second argument.

Here is an example of integration in a Solidity contract:

<https://github.com/convex-eth/platform/blob/d3061c19b5e01a4e562c8121b08c44f1b42f0b85/contracts/contracts/BasicCvxHolder.sol#L49-L53>

#### Supported networks

* Mainnet
* Sepolia
* Optimism
* Arbitrum
* Polygon
* BNB Chain
* Gnosis Chain
* Fantom
* Base
* Base sepolia
* Linea
* Blast
* Sonic
* Mantle

## Delegation contract

Snapshot uses the Gnosis "Delegate Registry" contract here:\
<https://github.com/gnosis/delegate-registry>

The contract is deployed on this address: [0x469788fE6E9E9681C6ebF3bF78e7Fd26Fc015446](https://etherscan.io/address/0x469788fE6E9E9681C6ebF3bF78e7Fd26Fc015446#code)\
The contract is also available on "Supported networks" listed above.

Delegations are stored on this subgraph:\
<https://thegraph.com/explorer/subgraph/snapshot-labs/snapshot>

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A **delegation Voting Strategy must be added** to the Snapshot space before delegated votes will be counted. You can use the [**with-delegation**](https://snapshot.org/#/strategy/with-delegation) strategy.
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[^1]: By *delegate* we mean the address which receives the delegation from another user, the *delegator.*

[^2]: By *delegators* we mean the address which has delegated their Voting Power to the *delegate*.