# How to Vote To participate in Hop governance with your HOP tokens you need to first delegate your voting power to yourself. \ \ This requires an on-chain transaction and costs some gas. If you prefer you can also delegate your voting power to one of the [existing delegates](https://www.tally.xyz/gov/hop/delegates). \ \ Once you have delegated you will be able to vote for the **next** governance vote. \ \ Both actions can be done here: \ \ Currently you need to hold the tokens on Ethereum as Hop uses the same governance contracts as most DAO's like Uniswap, ENS, Compound etc. \ \ However, multichain governance is an active area of research. --- # 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.hop.exchange/governance/how-to-vote.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.