# Governance **Minto Governance** encompasses the proposal and decision-making processes for matters relevant to the protocol. The BTCMT token, including staked BTCMT, empowers their holders to collectively govern the Minto Protocol by enabling them to vote and submit proposals. All future protocol decisions will be made using this procedure. BTCMT holders can propose and vote on the following changes to the Minto Protocol: * Treasury management, including the use of treasury funds to purchase new miners, cover additional operational overheads, and run incentivization programs; * mining process parameters, such as Average Energy Efficiency (AEE), Customer Energy Efficiency (CEE), Treasury Energy Efficiency (TEE), and uptime mode; * implementation, deprecation, and modification of Minto smart contracts, including BTCMT minting/burning related to the purchase or decommissioning of miners; * centralized and decentralized exchange listings; * the governance process itself. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.minto.finance/governance.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.