# Governance Structure SolvBTC governance is operated by an institutional committee and enforced through a threshold-approval model. As SolvBTC scales, the committee is designed to expand over time by onboarding additional institutional partners, further improving security, fault tolerance, and governance efficiency. ### Governance Committee The committee currently consists of seven initial institutional partners: * Solv Protocol * Antalpha * Spartan Group * Apollo * UOB Ventures * Gumi * IOSG These institutions jointly participate in the governance and signing processes of the protocol. *** ### Key Distribution From the seven institutions, six members serve as active governors, while one member remains as a backup participant. Among the six active participants: * Solv protocol holds two governance keys * The other five active institutions each hold one governance key This results in seven governance keys, with a **4-of-7** approval threshold for governance decisions. *** ### Backup Member Mechanism The remaining institution acts as a backup member. If one of the active members exits or becomes unable to participate: 1. The backup institution immediately replaces the departing member 2. Governance operations continue without interruption 3. The committee identifies a new seventh member to restore the original structure This mechanism ensures governance continuity under member changes. --- # 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.solv.finance/solvbtc-technical-architecture/solvbtc-governance/governance-structure.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.