Firsts is a short series on the first time each thing actually happened on the EmpoorioChain public testnet — because the ecosystem's rule is that a feature is done when it has executed a real transaction, and these are the receipts.
What happened
During block 2 of the Eoonia Wallet audit (7 September 2026), the governance flow was tested against the live chain for the first time: a proposal was submitted — proposal #0 — and a vote was cast on it, from the wallet, through pallet-community-governance.
The numbers
- Minimum deposit to submit a proposal: 1,000 DMS, locked for the proposal's life.
- The CI account used for live tests held 1,000 DMS; to exercise governance it was raised to 5,000 DMS by sudo, using the ecosystem's testnet funding script.
- Governance tests in the wallet's suite are gated behind an explicit flag because they lock 2,000 DMS per run; they do not run on every CI pass.
What it corrected
The first audit report had listed governance voting as unimplemented in Eoonia. It was implemented; the audit was wrong, and said so. The live test was what settled it — not a code reading.
Why it matters
Every runtime upgrade under the policy is meant to pass through a governance proposal with a preimage and a timelock, indexed by EmpooScan and surfaced by Eoonia as a warning before sensitive operations. Until proposal #0, that path had never carried a real proposal on the public chain. Now the mechanism has been exercised once — which is not the same as being battle-tested, and is infinitely more than zero.
What has not happened
A runtime upgrade proposed through governance rather than by sudo. A treasury spend. A vote with more than one voter. The governance design's five layers (guardian, technical committee, veDMS) are mostly design. The pallets that exist have now been touched.
The series
First signed transaction (7 Sep) · first accepted EVM transaction (runtime 211) · first storage migration (213) · first governance proposal (7 Sep) · first mobile adapter implemented (8 Sep) · first NFT passport from a production app · first partner delivery via API (12 Aug) · first swap and first DID (14 Sep). Each has a post.
Based on the Eoonia audit block 2 (2026-09-07).