### Summary

In the final step towards the [Amplitude democracy launch](https://medium.com/pendulum-chain/amplitude-the-rollout-1ddc51a3f68f), where the network will be entirely in the hands of the token holders, we propose to remove the Sudo pallet and enable asset transfers.

### Proposal

1. **Remove Sudo pallet:** Up until this point, prior runtime upgrades were executed with a sudo key as a fallback. Sudo is a “super user” with special privileges that can override governance decisions. Removing the [Sudo pallet](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/tree/master/frame/sudo), will remove the sudo user from the network, which means that from hereon Amplitude relies on the Councils and the decentralized governance to steer the network.
2. **Unlock token transfers:** Enable $AMPE token transfers. From hereon the AMPE token can be freely transferred between accounts on Amplitude.
3. **Other additional items required to be done using Sudo:** with this runtime upgrade a few additional updates will be performed.
    1. Increase democracy cycle times: During the democratization rollout, the democracy cycles were decreased to expedite the process. Now we change the democracy cycle times to the average of Kusama parachains as below:
        1. 5 days launch period
        2. 5 days voting period
        3. 2 days enactment period
        4. 7 days cool off period
    2. Change pallet weights — small [security update](https://github.com/pendulum-chain/pendulum/issues/33#issuecomment-1195399811)

- The Amplitude network is getting ready for the token holders to have full control.
- They want to remove the Sudo pallet, which is like a special user with extra powers.
- They also want to allow the AMPE tokens to be freely transferred between accounts.
- They need to make some other updates, like changing the democracy cycle times and making a small security update.
- These changes will make the network more decentralized and secure.

#1750 Proposal: Democracy Launch

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