Past actions.
Governance Fund Phase 0 voting decisions:
-
Proposal A - Batch Vote: For.
Reasons: we are ok supporting this proposal to start encouraging the growth of the optimism ecosystem. While we don’t agree with the vote taking place in a single batch, there is no reason to reject it among the 24 listed proposals included here. -
Proposal B - Uniswap: Against.
Reasons: did not follow the guidelines. -
Proposal C - 0x: Against.
Reasons: did not follow the guidelines.
Governance Fund Phase 1 voting decisions:
-
Proposal A: Optimistic Railway: No
Reasons: in a very early stage, without clarity of what kind of positive impact it can have on the ecosystem. -
Proposal B: dForce: Yes
Reasons: protocol of the first to deploy in Optimism. Acceptable proposal and detailed. -
Proposal C: GYSR: No
Reasons: Amount higher than its potential use case. No clear strategy. -
Proposal D: Mean Finance: Yes
Reasons: a one-of-a-kind protocol. Reasonable distribution. This project is well known and supported in our region. -
Proposal E: Raptor: No
Reasons: does not apply to this phase. -
Proposal F: Balancer & BeethovenX: Yes
Reasons: reasonable proposal in general terms, it seems positive to us. -
Proposal G: Summa: No
Reasons: it doesn’t make sense at this stage, they ask for an excessive amount of tokens. -
Proposal H: WardenSwap: No
Reasons: DEX aggregator. Not very interesting proposal. It would be good to see the deployment first to judge better. -
Proposal I: Pickle Finance: Yes
Reasons: known team and protocol, reasonable proposal. -
Proposal J: Ooki Protocol: No
Reasons: excessive amount for the protocol use case (see metrics in other chains). Author does not ensure co-incentives. -
Proposal K: Infinity Wallet: Abstain
Reasons: difficult to evaluate, we leave it to the rest of the voters to establish their criteria. -
Proposal L: Beefy: No
Reasons: excessive amount according to distribution. Not deployed at the time of decision. -
Proposal M: 0xHabitat: No
Reasons: from our perspective they should finish defining ideas and deploying in Optimism. Happy to re-evaluate later. -
Proposal N: Thales: No
Reasons: this project received funding from Phase 0. Distribution has not started yet. It’s counterproductive to approve new funds without evaluating the use of previous funds. -
Proposal O: Paraswap: Yes
Reasons: reasonable proposal. -
Proposal P: Roki: Yes
Reasons: well detailed proposal, interesting use case. Reasonable. -
Proposal Q: Candide: Yes
Reasons: wallet focused on Rollups, with innovative features. Experimental proposal.
Other actions:
- Proposal: Pause Phase 1 and start a discussion round to improve the governance process.
- Small improvements on Incentive Proposal Template for Phase 1.
- 1st Governance Call at DeFi LATAM (6th July)
- Several spaces, calls and on-line meetups (together with Optimism Español) in at differents spanish-speaker communities to talk about Optimism: scalability properties, vision and its governance.