UMA’s Partnership with Polygon Ecosystem DAO

SUMMARY

  • Polygon Ecosystem DAO (“EDAO”) has the aim of creating a decentralized community of people and projects willing to bring value to Polygon for the benefit of all its participants
  • Polygon Foundation has funded the Polygon EDAO with 1M USD
  • The DAO will establish the DApps Council, in which projects may contribute to allocate grants and take strategic decisions.
  • 6 months membership in the Polygon EDAO DApps Council requires a contribution of 100k USD in native tokens or USDC
  • UMA should be a strategic partner and one of the founding members of the DApps Council

BACKGROUND

Polygon Ecosystem DAO was born in the last quarter of 2021 with the aim of creating a decentralized community where all projects that bring value to the chain can collaborate together and shape the future trajectory of the ecosystem.

The newborn DAO should become the perfect location to onboard innovative projects, to shape new strategies of interoperability between DeFi protocols and to augment the use cases on the Polygon network.

During Season 0, the Genesis Team started the operations of the Polygon EDAO, which got support from Polygon foundation with a grant of 1M USD, which currently forms the treasury of the DAO.

The DAO is using the funding to allocate small grants to people seeking to develop new ideas on Polygon and to pay contributors. To date, the DAO has received more than 140 grant applications from various projects and numbers are steadily growing.

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In Season 1, starting from February 2022, the Polygon EDAO will decentralize its operations and set up a brand-new governance structure and tokenomics. It will organize teams of contributors and provide bounties to people aiming to help. More importantly, it will further implement a procedure to allocate grants of bigger size to promising projects willing to build on Polygon. The DAO should strengthen the reasons why people should decide to start building on Polygon.

As UMA is one of the most important protocols on Polygon, we think that a strong strategic partnership at an early stage would be beneficial for both parties. In this regard, Polygon’s team has in the last weeks presented its project to Clayton and Poopster, in order to start discussions.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

1. Membership in the Polygon Ecosystem DAO DApps Council

During Season 1, the Polygon EDAO will create the DApps Council in order to decentralize the governance operations, in giving power to the projects, which were able to bring value to the Polygon chains. This is why the primary focus of the DApps Council will be awarding grants to “younger” projects that deserve financial help to bring significant value to the ecosystem in terms of quality and creativity.

We would like to propose to UMA to join the DApps Council as a founding member together with other prominent DeFi protocols such as AAVE, Balancer and 0x Protocol!

From a practical point of view:

  • A selected team of the Polygon EDAO will organize the work-flow through programs/dashboards and exercise a first scrutiny on the projects presented by the applicants in order to prepare them for the DApps Council vote
  • The DApps Council members will have access to the relevant documents/links and may contact the applicants to get additional information and to provide suggestions
  • Once this clarification stage will be concluded, the DApps Council will vote on the grants requests
  • DApps Council members will have their wallet whitelisted in a customized Snapshot strategy
  • The grants requests will be presented by a selected Polygon EDAO Team on Snapshot on a weekly basis

2. Framing a New Governance Model for the Polygon Ecosystem DAO

The Polygon EDAO aims at becoming the DAO of the DAOs. Such a goal can be achieved only in granting decision-making power to the projects that have already been built on Polygon.

In this regard, the DAO wants to set-up a new governance model, which will connect tokenized voting to reputational aspects. It will take advantage of the most disruptive DAO tooling available on the market. Consultations with service providers are going on almost every day and the general framework will be designed during Season 1.

UMA will have a say in framing the future governance structure!

3. Organize DAO Operations and Onboard Contributors

“Inclusiveness” will be the main point of reference in the onboarding procedures of the DAO. Anyone willing to collaborate and bring value to the DAO will have the chance to demonstrate their skills.

The DAO will establish different avenues to contribute: fixed compensation schemes for recurring tasks, bounties for selected activities, etc. On the basis of the output, people will acquire reputational recognition in the form of NFTs.

The Polygon EDAO will take advantage of UMA’s products, especially of KPI options in order to create the right incentives for its contributors. The use-cases will range from marketing (number of views and followers on social media) to general community growth indicators (as the activity on the Discord server).

UMA will contribute to extract talent from the Polygon EDAO!

4. Specific benefits for UMA

The participation to the proposed program will assure the following direct and indirect benefits to your organization:

  • Augment Polygon’s TVL through the growth of the Polygon Ecosystem and augment the use cases of UMA’s products through new adoptions
  • Being presented as Polygon’s strategic partner
  • Contribute directly to the development of the ecosystem, deciding on the awarding of grants
  • Having a dedicated channel in the PolygonDAO Discord Server, in which to act as administrators, so as to create synergies between communities, especially for the use of KPI options
  • Being able to contact all the PolygonDAO participants directly: the Polygon Team, the DAO Team, the contributors, the projects and the community
  • Build partnerships, campaigns and projects with PolygonDAO, financed by the revenues obtained from the implementation of the DAO DeFi Treasury
  • Have direct contact with the most promising DeFi projects in the ecosystem, in order to foster interoperability between protocols and build money-legos
  • Having the possibility to team-up with DApps Council participants on matters related to the growth of the Polygon ecosystem in terms of composability and creation of value
  • Apply KPI options also to grant allocations. This could be beneficial especially for DeFi projects for which TVL constitutes the most important success indicator

FUNDING REQUEST

1. DApps Council participation

For the participation in the DApps Council for six months, UMA should provide an allocation of

  • 100K USD in native tokens or USDC

The funding will form part of the Polygon EDAO Treasury. The allocation can be transferred in native tokens or USDC.

2. Utilization of the DAO Treasury

Amounts committed by Council members will be utilized as follows:

  1. Used to grant grants to third-party projects that request them from Polygon Ecosystem DAO
  2. Stored in the DAO DeFi Treasury for governance token accumulation and swap operations
  3. Used for operational and community costs of the DAO

Depending on the amount raised, the funds will be allocated accordingly:

  • raised up to USD 1,000,000: ○ A: 75% ○ B: 12,5% ○ C: 12,5%
  • raised up to USD 1,500,000: ○ A: 76,5% ○ B: 12,5% ○ C: 11%
  • raised up to and above USD 2,000,000: ○ A: 77,5% ○ B: 12,5% ○ C: 10%

MILESTONES

  1. Set-up of the DApps Council
  2. Set-up UMA’s dedicated channel in the Polygon EDAO server
  3. Allocation of 700k USD in grants during Season 1
  4. Creation of KPI options schemes for Polygon EDAO contributors and grantees
  5. Framing of the Polygon EDAO governance

SQUAD

  • Poopster (discord: poopster#3593): Core Contributor at Polygon EDAO biz dev / Super uman / UMA ambassador
  • Grendel (discord: Grendel#3875): Leader of Polygon EDAO, Developer and Historian
  • Tommy (discord: tommyolofsson#5656): Core contributor of Polygon EDAO for Accounting and Operations
  • Eagle (discord: Eagle#2979): Core contributor of Polygon EDAO for Legal and Governance matters

2022-01-30T23:00:00Z

  • yes
  • requires further discussion
  • no

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Thanks for posting this @eaglelex, this is well thought out and i think it clearly outlines the value proposition. As an active member in both communities i’m excited for the collaboration potential here and would love to see this pass. I’d also be happy to help represent Uma on the dapps council if needed or help find that representative for Uma and the Super Umans.

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As a SuperUMAn, I firmly believe this is beneficial to the UMA DAO for the key reasons of inclusion, interoperability and integrations that this would enable for us both within the Polygon EDAO and for grant recipients :+1:

I support the structure of the Polygon EDAO and the framework of membership an allocation of $100K UMA/USDC provides us. This is a great way for us to get embedded in a number of upcoming protocols that will get exposure to UMA products through the program, and thus enable us to grow our relationships and reach in the Polygon ecosystem :fire:

Utilisation of KPI Options within the Polygon EDAO and for grant recipients will also likely help diversify the TVL within the UMA protocol and help us weather market downturns better, as well. Given its relation to the DVM and the safeguarding of the OO, this is highly desired :tada:

Given the above, I vote yes for this proposal, and look forward to supporting the UMA DAO in its membership in the Polygon EDAO, as a SuperUMAn and a Polygon user :handshake:

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So is the idea here that UMA would contribute $100k in funds, and would also have some say in the grants that get funded? So we might, for example, fund grants that used KPI options or otherwise increased UMA’s adoption?

Is this the full list of potential founding members? I am supportive of the idea, but would like to know who else is likely to be at the table alongside UMA.

Also, big up to @eaglelex for this super thoughtful writeup.

Thank you for your question.

The idea is creating “verticals” among the DApps Council so that members (ie UMA) will fund (on Polygon) projects which fit well with their value proposition.

The use of KPI option may concern the grant funding, but also the way in which Polygon DAO contributors are compensated. The idea is that UMA, as the other members, will not only fund grant but actively participate at the governance in order to decentralize decisions.

Thanks for your reply.

The idea is onboarding more and more projects. We followed some criteria to choose the first members, based on TVL, functionalities for the DAO, dimension of the community, etc. We try also to be careful in understanding which are the interests and the expectations of our partners! To be 100% transparent we will perhaps have another founding members in Quickswap, which plays an important role in the Polygon Ecosystem.

UMA fam, an interesting up-date.

The Polygon Ecosystem DAO will also start a liquidity mining program and the DApps Council will have an active role in deciding how to distribute incentives. We are working on a final plan which should be ready next week.

For a general view, please read this post:

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