Ownership,
with a little more to it.

The big picture

hood.vote brings the views of onchain stock holders into the conversation. When a supported company publishes proposals for its shareholder meeting, those questions can open here as a community voting round.

Trading fees from $vote are used to acquire tokenized stocks. Of that stock allocation, 75% is distributed to $vote holders as dividends and 25% funds voting rewards. The two allocations serve different groups: owning $vote earns dividends; owning the relevant company stock lets you vote and earn voting rewards.

Community voting on hood.vote is separate from a company’s official shareholder ballot. Published results express the views of participating onchain holders.

Hold $vote. Receive stock dividends.

$vote is the hood.vote token. Its holders receive the 75% dividend allocation in tokenized stocks, distributed every 15 minutes. These are protocol distributions of acquired stock, rather than cash dividends declared by the underlying companies.

Distributions run every 15 minutes, using the stock acquired since the previous payout. Each payment is proportional to your $vote holdings at its recorded snapshot. Confirmation and processing time can vary; payments do not wait for a voting deadline. Integer rounding dust stays for the next distribution.

You do not need to vote to receive this allocation. Holding $vote also does not give you access to every company’s voting rounds: that access comes from holding the specific company’s stock.

For example, holding $vote makes you eligible for stock dividends. To vote in a NVIDIA round, you must also hold the supported NVIDIA stock token.

Your stock is your access.

Anyone who owns a supported company’s tokenized stock on Robinhood Chain can participate in that company’s open rounds. No $vote holding is required.

1. Find your company. Choose an open round for a stock you own.
2. Verify the wallet holding that stock. Your wallet establishes your stock holdings and receives your voting reward.
3. Read the proposals. Review the company filing, the choices, and any board recommendation.
4. Cast your vote. Your stock holdings determine your weight and proportional reward.

Holding AAPL qualifies you for Apple rounds; holding NVDA qualifies you for NVIDIA rounds. A holding in one company does not qualify you for another company’s rounds. Keep your stock in a supported wallet you control.

Vote. Earn your proportional share.

The remaining 25% of acquired stock is allocated to voting rewards. Each round’s reward pool is in that company’s stock. Your reward is proportional to your holdings of that stock relative to eligible holdings.

Holdings are checked when you vote, so buying stock during an open round can qualify. Each raw stock unit counts once per round. If stock has already been used to vote, that status follows it when transferred. When used and unused shares are mixed, used shares move first. Rewards received from that same round cannot earn again.

Each round receives a fixed stock pool when funding is available. Your payment is your unused holdings divided by eligible stock supply, multiplied by that pool, up to the stock still available. Fractional holdings count. Trading venues and protocol addresses are excluded from eligible supply.

The voting reward is paid for your participation, in the stock of the company you voted on. One wallet receives one voting reward per round. Changing your answers before the deadline updates your vote and does not create another reward.

Voting rewards depend on your company stock holdings, not your $vote balance. If you also hold $vote, you can participate in the separate dividend allocation.

The deadline ends voting.

When a round reaches its closing date, it stops accepting new votes and changes. The results are finalized and published.

There is no additional payout at closing. The deadline is the end of the voting window. It is not a second reward event or a settlement date for a share of the remaining pool.

Unused voting stock funds future rounds. Payments that have not reached the chain before the deadline are not sent afterward.

Rounds show their voting deadline and, where available, the company’s meeting date. A retrospective round covers a meeting that has already happened and is identified as such.

A process you can inspect.

Proposals come from company filings. Each round links to its source so you can read the original context alongside the questions.

The public record includes the proposal hash and, once finalized, the findings hash and snapshot block. Published findings contain the responses and weights needed to check the result. Available transactions link directly to the chain explorer.

The keeper calculates eligibility, transfer history and payment amounts. The contract enforces allocation budgets, duplicate payment protection and the deadline. Dividend manifests and vote snapshots make the keeper’s calculations inspectable. The owner controls the keeper and permitted trading venues.

Where a company’s official meeting tally is available, it can appear beside the community results. The two show different things: the company’s official outcome and the views of participating tokenized-stock holders.

hood.vote is independent of Robinhood and the companies featured. It does not submit your community response as an official proxy vote.

Verify the wallet that holds your stock.

The wallet verification flow uses a one-time receiving address. Send at least 0.0001 ETH or 0.5 USDG on Robinhood Chain from the wallet holding the relevant company stock. The sender of that transfer is the wallet associated with your response and reward.

The small verification transfer is not refunded. Use a wallet you control, rather than an exchange withdrawal or a smart-contract wallet whose transfer could identify a different sender. Never share a seed phrase or private key.

Keep the verification session open until the transfer is detected. If it expires, start again to receive a new address. Voting must be open before you begin; preview rounds let you explore proposals while participation is unavailable.