🏛️📞 MetaGov Working Group – 2025 Meetings: Tuesdays at 2pm UTC (Currently 9:00 am ET)

Details

Time: Tuesdays at 9:00 am ET (1pm UTC)
Google Meet Link: meet.google.com/bms-grvp-jbw

Stewards:

Agenda

  1. Weekly Endowment Updates (@karpatkey + @Steakhouse)
  2. General DAO Updates Section
    1. Karpatkey PUR Update Proposal
    2. Service Provider Program Updates with Avsa.eth
  3. Open Discussion

1. Weekly Endowment Updates (@karpatkey + @Steakhouse)

  • Current endowment value is $102 million.
  • Market fluctuations have resulted in a temp loss of $5.2 million.
  • Offset by DeFi results of approximately $113k.
  • EP 6.2 has passed, resulting in 5000 ETH transferred to the Endowment.
  • Already deployed and utilized
  • Capital utilization rate is close to 100% with an APR of around 4.65%.
  • More here:
  • 6.1 proposal passed
    • Already sold 1,000 ETH, the remaining will be swapped over the course of 3 months.

PUR #5 includes:

  • Upgrading DAI into Sky (USDS) for better yield opportunities.
  • Inclusion of oETH as another LSD provider.
  • Increasing stablecoin diversity by incorporating USDT and RWA.
  • Previous proposals 6.1 and 6.2 have passed, including the transfer of 6000 ETH from the DAO wallet.
  • For the next call, we will have a distinction between all dao holdings and endowment holdings.
  • Lido chunk should be less than 10% based on the IPS.
  • Will make sure it goes below 10%
  • Current yields on ETH are all around ~5%

2. General DAO Updates Section

2.1. Karpatkey PUR Update Proposal

What next PUR update will give us?

  • Converting DAI into USDS and allocating to appropriate pools
  • Mint oETH and utilizing Curve and Convex pools
  • USDT - depositing into Aave and Compound
  • RWA as a hedge against stablecoin issuer depegging risk
  • Adding new tokens into arrays for swapping in and out
  • More details here: [EP 6.X] [Executable] Endowment permissions to karpatkey - Update #5
  • Proposal for Buckful to review the payload.
  • Discussion on enabling USDC to send directly from the endowment to the DAO wallet (to streamline the operations and save time)

Proposal to enable TWAP through the endowment.

  • DAO would own the TWAP safe.
  • Karpatki and Medigov could initiate T WAP, output directed to DAO wallet.
  • DAO would control the Safe through the DAO vote but Kartpatkey can initiate swaps.

2.2. Service Provider Program Updates with @AvsA

  • Timeline for service provider program discussed.
  • Current allowance for 18 months, expiring in June.
  • Next steps involve posting more temp checks until we reach a consensus.
  • Need to vote on increasing, maintaining, decreasing budget, or canceling a project.

Selection Process

  • Use of ranked-choice voting via Agora.
  • Custom dashboard will be developed for live results by Agora! :fire:

Eligibility

  • Candidates must meet specific eligibility criteria.
  • Must be an existing company with an established team and reputation.
  • Team members must have prior experience with ENS blockchain projects.
  • MetaGov working group expected to review candidates for eligibility.

Proposal types

  • Last year’s focus was on developer-centric proposals.
  • Suggestion to open up proposals for marketing, research, event organizing, etc.

Budget

  • Increase of the maximum grant limit to $1.3 million.
  • Justification for higher budgets to attract serious applicants.
  • Need to accommodate to everyone’s needs

Safenotes Intro by @Limes

  • Since Parcel will shut down, we need a new annotation tool for transactions
  • Safenotes: a tool that allows you to attach categories and descriptions to safe transactions
  • Annotations and categorization of DAO-related payments
  • Website Safenotes.xyz

3. Open Discussion

Working Group Amendments proposals

Arnold (Lighthouse)

  • Founder of Lighthouse - Governance Lab
  • Lighthouse offers a mobile client for voting on Snapshot spaces.
  • Recently completed integration for safe voting on Snapshot Spaces.
  • Lighthouse DEMO
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