Ludopoly is designed to transition over time from a platform governed by a founding team to a protocol governed by its community. This transition is implemented through a two-stage DAO structure. In the early phase, the Platform DAO holds governance authority over infrastructure decisions, protocol upgrades, and treasury management. As the ecosystem matures and the community grows, the Game DAO assumes increasing responsibility for game-specific decisions, eventually reaching a state where the founding team's authority is largely ceremonial.

Governance in Ludopoly operates through token-weighted voting. Holding the platform's token grants voting power proportional to your stake. Proposals can cover a wide range of decisions: adjusting game parameters, approving protocol upgrades, allocating treasury funds to development initiatives, or addressing emergency security situations.

Room-level moderation decisions are a distinct category of governance conducted by room participants rather than the broader token-holder community. These decisions are scoped to a single session and executed by the room's smart contract rather than the top-level governance contract.

Beyond formal voting, the community contributes to the protocol through open participation in improvement discussions, bug reporting, and strategic analysis of game balance. The open architecture of the Diamond Standard means that technically sophisticated community members can propose and prototype new facets, which the DAO can then vote to incorporate into the canonical deployment.

The long-term vision for Ludopoly governance is a system where the community decides what the game becomes. Card balance changes, new game modes, tournament formats, and infrastructure priorities should all ultimately reflect the preferences of the people who play. The governance infrastructure being built today is the foundation for that vision.