Editing Sinapolis/Services/Govtx (section)

== Why it exists ==

Before govtx, a governance transaction travelled as files and messages passed hand to hand. That route failed in seven documented ways on 2026-08-04 alone: a 16-operation XDR did not fit in a bus message and was truncated; the Assembly 0036 execution package expired 19 seconds '''before''' it was even dispatched, twice; Assembly 0032 needed 18 state files and a "sign and pass it on" relay in which no participant could see the threshold; a trustline request was corrected by a second message that a reader of the first would never see; two unrelated transactions silently competed for the same account sequence.

None of those are carelessness. They are what happens when correctness depends on every participant remembering everything. govtx moves that burden into the service.

'''The principle: freedom in content, rigidity in form.''' Anyone may open a question, argue any position, propose any amendment, refuse to sign for any reason. What is validated is the ''shape'' — fields, transitions, hashes, deadlines. An invalid action is refused at the door instead of being cleaned up afterwards.