# Proposal: Lowering minimum BPT staked requirements in Governance pool to qualify for governance rewards
**URL:** https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121
**Category:** Vaults
**Created:** [20 July 2020 16:43 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121 "2020-07-20T16:43:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@donkhalil](https://gov.yearn.fi/u/donkhalil)
#### Post date: [20 July 2020 16:43 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121/1 "2020-07-20T16:43:00Z")
Lowering it to 300BPT so small holders can participate in governance and get rewarded, this is good for long term viability of the protocol.
**FOR** : Agree to lower it to 300BPT
**Against** : Keep it to 1000BPT
discuss.
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### Author:  [@lexus](https://gov.yearn.fi/u/lexus)
#### Post date: [21 July 2020 01:49 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121/2 "2020-07-21T01:49:59Z")
Agree. Smaller holders are already limited in a sense that they would earn smaller rewards, proportionally with their holdings. I strongly disagree with them being additionally damaged by being excluded.
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### Author:  [@milkyklim](https://gov.yearn.fi/u/milkyklim)
#### Post date: [21 July 2020 02:18 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121/3 "2020-07-21T02:18:25Z")
Making sure we are on the same page, you can participate in governance now:
- To make a proposal you need to have more than 1 BPT.
- To vote your balance should be above 0 BPT.
Are you interested specifically in staking part (represented by this contract: [https://etherscan.io/address/0xb01419E74D8a2abb1bbAD82925b19c36C191A701](https://etherscan.io/address/0xb01419E74D8a2abb1bbAD82925b19c36C191A701))?
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Sadim](https://gov.yearn.fi/u/Mr_Sadim)
#### Post date: [21 July 2020 07:14 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121/4 "2020-07-21T07:14:31Z")
> [@milkyklim](#):
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> - make a proposal you need to have more than 1 BPT.
> - To vote your balance should be above 0 BPT.
Sure. But what we are essentially doing is asking big holders from pool #3 to give away their alpha to the small guy 🙂
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### Author:  [@milkyklim](https://gov.yearn.fi/u/milkyklim)
#### Post date: [21 July 2020 07:54 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121/5 "2020-07-21T07:54:06Z")
I see, title and description are a bit detached and it is not clear which part implies which.
Should the proposal explicitly read:
> Lower governance stake amount from 1000 BPT to 300 BPT and allow smaller holders to earn governance pool rewards.
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> **For** : Lower stake to 300 BPT
> **Against** : Keep stake at 1000 BPT
?
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### Author:  [@edenau](https://gov.yearn.fi/u/edenau)
#### Post date: [21 July 2020 11:20 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121/6 "2020-07-21T11:20:48Z")
Good for decentralisation but bad for my bag.
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### Author:  [@milkyklim](https://gov.yearn.fi/u/milkyklim)
#### Post date: [2 September 2020 18:31 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/proposal-lowering-minimum-bpt-staked-requirements-in-governance-pool-to-qualify-for-governance-rewards/121/9 "2020-09-02T18:31:22Z")
Closed since obsolete.