# What is snapshot ?
Snapshot is a decentralized voting system. It provides flexibility on how voting power is calculated for a vote. Snapshot supports various voting types to cater to the needs of organizations. Creating proposals and voting on Snapshot is user-friendly and does not cost gas as the process is performed off-chain.
In short, Snapshot is an off-chain gasless multi-governance client with easy to verify and hard to contest results.
**On Snapshot is:**
* Free (gasless) to create proposals and vote on them.
* Votes are signed messages easily verifiable online.
* Multiple voting systems - Single choice, Approval voting, Quadratic voting, and more.
* Flexible voting strategies to calculate voting results - vote with ERC20s, NFTs, other contracts, and moreSpaces can have their branding with custom color schemes and domain nameFully .
* open-source with MIT license.
Read more about snapshot [here](https://docs.snapshot.org/).
Sushi's snapshot space can be found [here](https://snapshot.org/#/sushigov.eth).