# Axelar approves governance-transfer calls for multi-chain Gateway contracts

> The approved payloads encode transferGovernance(address) calls directing Gateway governance toward 0x7acbae6cba67d78aaf69e47000884ae00f9b2525.

- URL: https://riadefi.com/on-chain/2026-06-08-axelar-evm-gateways-governance-transfer-approval-proposal-474/
- Type: Control change
- Stage: Approved, not executed
- Evidence: confirmed
- Materiality: material
- Event date: 2026-06-08
- Version: 1, published 2026-08-22 (first published 2026-08-22)
- Follow-up: 2026-08-26
- Advisor-relevant: yes
- Affects: Axelar (protocol)

## What happened

Axelar governance passed proposal 474 containing interchain calls to Gateway contracts across 17 EVM integrations.

## What changed

The approved payloads encode transferGovernance(address) calls directing Gateway governance toward 0x7acbae6cba67d78aaf69e47000884ae00f9b2525.

## What did not change

Passage on Axelar does not by itself prove each destination-chain call cleared its delay and executed successfully.

## Confirmed

- Proposal 474 passed on June 8.
- The record includes calls for Celo, Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, Moonbeam, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Kava, Filecoin, Optimism, Linea, Base, Mantle, Scroll, Immutable, Fraxtal, and Blast.
- The target contract addresses correspond to Axelar Gateway contracts, and the nested call selector is transferGovernance(address).

## Still open

- Execution status on each destination chain remains unresolved.
- The ownership, signer composition, threshold, and operating rules of the proposed new governance address remain unresolved.

## What it means for an advisor

- Verify destination-chain execution and timelock completion separately for every relevant Gateway.
- Update the Axelar control map only for chains where the governance transfer is confirmed.
- Identify and assess the new governance controller before treating the transfer as an improvement.

## Sources

1. [Interchain Governance Proposal](https://axelarscan.io/proposal/474) · Axelar on-chain governance · 2026-06-08


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