Community Conversations | Staking & Neurons 

The open and permissionless autonomous governance system that controls the Internet Computer blockchain is called the Network Nervous System, or NNS. The NNS works by allowing the community to stake ICP governance tokens to create “voting neurons.” Collectively, neuron holders are incentivized to vote to adopt or reject proposals submitted to the NNS. Neurons can be made to vote manually, and can also vote automatically by following other neurons in a form of liquid democracy.
Principal Engineer John Wiegley gives an overview of staking and neuron management in this talk.