Overview 👀

Democracy page consist of five sub-pages:

  • Overview
  • Actions
  • Targets
  • Waiting
  • Payouts

Overview

The overview is divided into two parts: Summary and Validators

The summary is a small dashboard with all important information such as validators count, nominators count, actual era, and many others

Summary

In the validators, the user is able to see info about validators on the selected network. As an example users can see how much currency the actual validator staked, the commission of the current validator.

Actions

The actions tab shows a list of available stashes

As we can see on the image below each stash consist of stash address, controller address, reward destination, bonded funds, commission, and session keys.

Actions

Moreover, clicking on the button user are able to see actions available for the stash.

Action Modal

Bond Funds

Change Controller

Change Keys

Change Destination

Change Prefs

Users are also able to add a new nominator using the + Nominator button. On the first image below the user selects account for the stash, account for the controller, funds to nominate, and reward destination. If the stash account is protected by a password, the user has to also type a password.

User is able to choose the same account for stash and controller, however, it's not recommended.

New Nominator One

On the second screen shown below the user is able to select validator accounts.

New Nominator Two

Using the + Validator button user can add a new validator.

The first screen for adding a validator is the same as the first page of adding a nominator.

New Validator One

The second screen allows the user to set session keys and commission. Clicking on the green Generate button, function author_rotateKeys is called, which generates session keys for the user.

author_rotateKeys is considered as unsafe RPC method.

New Validator Two

Targets

Targets tab is the list of actual validators.

Same as an overview, targets consist of vital information about validators,

Targets

Waiting

The waiting tab shows a list of waiting validators to be approved.

Waiting

Payouts

The payouts tab shows a list of stakers eligible to claim rewards for past eras.

For more info about payouts https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/en/learn-simple-payouts

Payouts