👨‍🔬 Governance Lab #020

Lab Report #020 - ETH CC [6] Edition

gm. This is a special Saturday edition because I’m still recovering from ETH CC week. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week. Enjoy frens.

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🚀 Launches & Deployments

• GHO is officially live on Mainnet

• Introducing Solace Derivatives Accelerator

• Introducing Infinex, What Comes Next Synthetix

• Meet UniswapX

• Introducing Liquity v2

• Introducing Pendle Earn

• Mantle Network goes live

📑 Insights & Reports

• Report on the Upgradeability of Ethereum L2s

• The Three Pillars of Polygon 2.0 Governance

• Endgame: Proof of Governance

• Stablecoins: The Next Financial Platform

• A Flexible Voting Money Market on Compound V3

• Should Protocols Make Money?

• Here’s where DeFi innovation is happening

• Is Aave More Conservative than Compound?

🧗 Milestones & Updates

• Introducing the Arbitrum Foundation Grants: Phase 1

• Velodrome V2: Just Getting Started

🗞️ Miscellaneous

• WinterGov - Delegate Tool Dune Dashboard

• Proposal to transition Celo L1 to an Ethereum L2

• Paladin Tokenomics 2.0

• GHO Analytics Dashboard

• GHO Monitoring Risk Hub

• BIP-372: Adopt Service Providers Standards

• Start Exploring Solana DeFi

💸 Raises

• Ethena Finance raises $6M

📺 Podcasts & Listens

• Hasu & Jon Charbonneau: The Reboot on Uncommon Core 2.0

• ETH CC

  • Doo Wan Name (StableLab) - The Rise and Fall of Governance

  • Marcos Miranda (StableLab) - Quantifying Governance Maturity in DAOs

  • Gustav Arentoft (StableLab) - The Evolution of Governance for DeFi DAOs

  • Cassidy Daly (Centrifuge) - DAO Treasury Management

  • Paul Frambot (Morpho Labs) - The Metamorphosis DeFi Lending Needs

  • Tadeo - MakerDAO Endgame: Spark Protocol

  • Dennison Bertram (Tally) - The Hyperscale Public Infrastructure Thesis for DAOs

  • Marc Zeller (Aave Chan) - The Decentralization Journey

  • Romain Figuereo (Paladin) - Learning to Love Vote Markets for What They Are

• DeFi Security Summit

  • Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs) - Economic Security of Onchain Oracles

  • Andrei Kozlov (BGD Labs) - Security Challenges of Aave Governance V3

  • Ernesto Boado (BGD Labs) - Where to introduce formal verification in a protocol like Aave?

❲ Proposal Watchlist ❳

Balancer - veToken Launchpad

Compound - Compound Grants Progam 3.0

Safe DAO - Safe Token Value Alignment Program

Aura Finance - Polygon Deployment

Rarible DAO - On-Chain Protocol Governance and Security Council

Rocket Pool - Updating of Grants Management Committee

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❲ From the Lab ❳

ETH CC Photo Dump

ETH CC [6] Maison de la Mutualité

Gustav moderating a heated debate between Marc Zeller & Julien Bouteloup

Gustav highlights the importance of Governance Standards & Solutions

Marcos presents our various learnings from building DAOmeter

Highlight of the Week: Doo’s Governance Memes

Cheers to a great week meeting so many amazing builders and teams

❲ This Week’s Voting ❳

📆 July 14th → July 20th | 🗳️ Total Votes: 22

See our full vote history and rationale here.

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❲ Meme ❳

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