[RFC 0] - Putting the Treasury to Work

Plugging into Anchor Protocol at 19.49% APY comes to mind. I think it checks all criteria except for 3.

Edit: Rating

  • Enviroment-friendly: ++
    Reasons: The Anchor rate is powered by a diversified stream of staking rewards from major proof-of-stake blockchains. Proof-of-stake blockchains use significantly less energy than proof-of-work blockchains

  • Not a Ponzi Scheme: +++
    Reason: Stake and reward will be in UST so not any bag holding risk in that department

  • Advertisment towards core values/goals: +
    Reason: Well, not much “doing good” here. Unless if we agree that the end justifies the means.

  • sustainable (long term ROI like in stable coin LP farming): ++
    Reason: Like I stated earlier Anchor stake and yields are in UST. I’m not 100% if the 19.49% APY will be the same in the foreseeable future. It was 24% not so long ago. Crypto regulation could potentially reduce the yield percentage.

  • shouldn’t be too risky: +++
    reason: Again, everything is in stablecoins. We also have the option of purchasing insurance if we take the Anchor path

Overall score: 11

Bonus Idea: Maybe we can do it via Coinlist and possibly look into participating in their very profitable ICOs? We can create a situation where one needs to hold and lock a certain amount of POP to join the ICO crowdloan. That should further give POP more utility and reduce selling pressure.

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GoodDollar is a non-profit decentralized protocol designed to deliver sustainable and scalable UBI.

The GoodDollar G $ token model leverages performance protocols to sustainably fund the minting of new G $ tokens that are distributed as UBI for recipients and rewards for protocol supporters.

250,000 worldwide from more than 180 countries have received more than $ 25,000 in G $ UBI from a market capitalization of $ 300,000, and the protocol has between 40,000 and 80,000 members who claim G $ daily. Members focus on key emerging economies for financial inclusion: dashboard. good dollar organization

GoodDollar is launching V2 where we are integrating with the AAVE protocol to allow our community of followers to stake their USDC while sharing the returns from our UBI protocol and earning G $ in rewards.

The GoodDollar protocol proposes to Aave Grants DAO a request to increase liquidity in our participation contracts to increase the value of UBI distributed to members every day. Our application is for popcorn DAO is not a grant per se, but a loan of 500,000 USDC staked on the GoodDollar protocol.

The USDC 500,000 stake commitment will increase the revenue streams of our inclusive economy and allow the Popcorn community to gain governance in GoodDAO Community Governance, strengthening collaboration between the two ecosystems.
What is GoodDollar?

GoodDollar is an Ethereum protocol on a mission to harness new digital asset technologies to enable all people to experience, learn, and join the digital economy. To ensure maximum participation, we are creating innovative products that are inclusive by design. GoodDollar envisions a world in which everyone has access to basic economic assets, in accordance with the principles of Universal Basic Income (UBI).

The GoodDollar Foundation, a non-profit NGO sponsored by eToro, recently completed the implementation of a fair launch protocol in both G $ and Governance tokens, neither of which was distributed to core team members or the Foundation. .

Since launching our Proof of Concept (v1) in September 2020, we have grown GoodDollar’s global community to over 250,000 registered users, of which over 80,000 access their GoodDollar wallet app every day to claim. G $, a reserve-backed cryptocurrency. . The issuance of G $ is governed by a modified Bancor formula bond curve, so the price and supply of G $ are a function (Bancor function detailed in the Appendix of the GoodDollar whitepaper) of how much money there is in the reservation contract.

The main input (in addition to the direct minting of G $ through the purchase of this reserve contract) of this bond curve, which is used to generate new G $ for the distribution of UBI (see distribution and impact in the document GoodDollar technical), is the return generated by our participation contracts as a result of their integration with third-party DeFi protocols that earn interest, such as Aave and Compound.

GoodDollar V2

Our PoC demonstrated that the GoodDollar system can successfully generate an inclusive and sustainable crypto UBI for anyone who wants to join the digital finance ecosystem. Now with GoodDollar V2 4, we want to expand the protocol and increase the amount of G $ that we can distribute to our UBI claimants. To further this goal, we are introducing a new set of capabilities, which are outlined in the following graphic:
Perhaps the biggest change is that GoodDollar V2 will include two participation rewards contracts. This is a big difference from V1, which only integrated the Compound protocol and offered no rewards. All returns were to the protocol).

With V2, we will add an Aave participation contract, along with a new rewards mechanism to incentivize those who wish to support the decentralized GoodDollar UBI system. The Rewards scheme works as follows:

The rewards vary depending on the third party protocol (eg Compound, Aave, etc.) and the currency pair selected by the user.

Participation rewards are calculated in G $ values, as set out in the smart contract (for example, XM G $ in rewards per month).

The rewards are prorated based on the amount of capital staked per block.

In short, users are rewarded in each block, based on the following calculation:

$ (UserStake / TotalStaked) * (Reward per block) $

Users can choose not to withdraw their assigned rewards, which would be redistributed as incentives, helping to attract additional participants.

The initial participation rewards mechanism is assigned as follows:
The rewards vary depending on the third party protocol (eg Compound, Aave, etc.) and the currency pair selected by the user.

Participation rewards are calculated in G $ values, as set out in the smart contract (for example, XM G $ in rewards per month).

The rewards are prorated based on the amount of capital staked per block.

In short, users are rewarded in each block, based on the following calculation:

$ (UserStake / TotalStaked) * (Reward per block) $

Users can choose not to withdraw their assigned rewards, which would be redistributed as incentives, helping to attract additional participants.

The initial participation rewards mechanism is assigned as follows:

Compound (DAI) Total Reward Per Block = 138.88 G $ | (291M G $ yearly) Aave (USDC) Total Reward per Block = 69.44 G $ | (145.5M G $ yearly)

Currently, more than 1 million DAIs are deposited in our compound participation contract 1.

We believe that the integration of Aave V2 will be an important incentive for our fans. That is why we are looking to forge a partnership with Aave Grants DAO that will help us drive the aggregation of liquidity in this participation contract.

With the release of GoodDollar V2, we will also introduce a new DeFi concept called Social APY, which calculates the returns that users generate for our global GoodDollar community through their bets. This key measure of supporter impact is calculated based on the APY that each third-party protocol offers to a specific asset (for example, USDC in Aave), divided by the reserve ratio of the bond curve issued by the G $.

Therefore, for an Aave APY of 3.44% in USDC and a reserve ratio (total GoodDollar reserve value / GoodDollar market capitalization) of 80%, the social APY would be 4.30%. The financial APY, on the other hand, is calculated according to the reward scheme outlined above.

Below is a screenshot of how these two measurements would appear on our V2 Dapp (currently only available on Kovan TestNetwork). 6):

The idea is to stake a part of usdc right now, the apy is currently high and you earn popcorn and at the same time they help more than 75 thousand claimants to have a basic unervesal income every day

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I am a GoodDollar user because I am aware of a geopolitics where the UBI should be of exceptional value in the equation where technology is also.

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I definitely agree with Klima. The potential incoming bear market is something to consider but I feel that KLIMA’s values/goals lining up with ours alongside profitability supersedes potential risk.

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I +1 your GoodDollar suggestion, as I’ve been watching them for a while and see the efforts they’re making. It’d definitely be a good idea to get involved with them.

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Let’s do it!

Hey, This is Gus, I’m Protocol Community Lead at the GoodDollar team.

The TL;DR; is we have a set of smart contracts called Trust Fund, it aggregates liquidity from UBI supporters liquidity providers, it aggregates yield to our bonding curve reserve to mint G$s based on a decreased through time reserve ratio, and currently distributing to 40k unique humans daily (we have 200k registered low-income not crypto familiar users, our scope includes to educate them).

The mentioned yields for staking are not that really much as show in the +500% USDC (yeah, we decrease the reserve ratio for minting incentive), but in total is around 58k USD yearly (at current G$ prices), so that high yield is for the current 5k liquidity.

Since we launch the V2 last Dec 21st, the only considerable (1M DAI) stake is from eToro (we are their CSR project, they fund development as well), so we are starting to look for partnerships like this one

G$s are not pre-mined BTW and current value in reserve is less than 500K, reserve ratio has decreased from 100% to 84% in 1.5 years (see token section of our dashboard.

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yeah, we can be considered as a DeFi2.0 or Protocol Owned Liquidity model (actually we launched way before that term came), we are actually a BancorV1 fork (GoodSwap.xyz is our G$ liquidity on demand AMM), but we are not a ponzi because we are in the mission to give utility to our token (basic reason for starting with a 100% ratio is impossible for a Medium of Exchange currency to start with real utility), and we are slowly making it, you guys know how tech adoption goes.

In any case, regarding inflation:

  • Our staking G$s rewards are not that high. But we are looking forward to incentivize more with GOOD rep (non-transferrable) governance tokens, so DAOs like yours can gain governance over ours.
  • Protocol decreases reserve ratio (and therefore inflation) in favor to the UBI distribution, expansion rate also subjected to GoodDAO governance.
  • What we want to do is to optimize the aggregation of liquidity for Good, for growing and sustaining the value for a UBI distribution where incentives al aligned among all the GoodDollar stakeholders, UBI supporters, stakers, LPs, and ofc UBI claimers (who BTW are the one receiving the more GOOD for GoodDAO governance).
  • We really want to optimize the liquidity aggregation by increasing volume of G$s transactions and sustaining demand, we are not there yet, as we haven’t being able to deliver much value (not as $UBI is doing), but this is the way we can foresee UBI sustainability in the long term.
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WAGM! Hagámoslo posible.

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WAGMI hagamos pocible

Interesting idea :slight_smile: could you please rate it based on the cirteria defined before?

And @josead11- gooddollar also sounds interesting. Could you please rate it based on the cirteria defined before? (see my Klima post)

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+1 GoodDollar. Cumple los requisitos expuestos en klima

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  • environment-friendly: +
    Reason: runs on Ethereum & FUSE (DPOS EVM) with low energy consumption.
  • not a ponzi scheme: -
    Reason: as it’s cryptoeconomics produce inflation but at current low rates and will expand through time while suiting users and market utility. Goal is to optimize liquidity aggregation for good for a UBI currency and organic value creation.
  • advertisement towards our core values/goals: +++
    Reason: GoodDollar aims to socialy distribute Earn and yields on UBI supporters cryptoassets while creating real world impact
  • sustainable: +
    Reason: G$ UBI is designed to be sustainable in the long term, still there are many challenges to solve through market behaviour and governance.
  • shouldn’t be too risky: +++
    Reason: Action to stake selected amount (let’s say 500k USD) has close-to-zero financial risks (3rd party protocol AAVE). As per the smart contract risks, contracts are audited and submitted to bug bounties.

Overall score: 7

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Hey! I’m just reading the iddle liquidity is of 4M USDC, and draft GoodDollar request is to stake 500k but It actually could be more if there are not further candidates.

Can I ask how do you guys decide on the ammount to be invested?

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This is a rough discussion of ideas, but this is the first deliberation we’re having of this. So initially we discuss potential amounts/potential investments, then we bring these values to the core team. If they agree with the investment amount then we will move it to a snapshot proposal, but any feedback they provide we will consider before anything.

Our DAO system is something we’re working on, in terms of how we make these decisions. However, this is the fairest route currently

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just FYI in the current step we are only discussing which investments would fit our criteria. The amount of money we would put in will be decided at a later step together with the core team.

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Thanks for sticking to the format :slight_smile: I agree with the goal rating but I disagree with the risk rating - that one is much too positive. I would guess more like a + or ++.

Update: Or even more like -? After reading a bit about it I saw that G$ was backed by 1 DAI initially but now it is down to 0.17$? How should the value of G$ increase?

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I’ve edited my post.

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I agree, +++ at risk rating might be too high, in any case, here the mentioned security audit, bug bounties program with Inmunefi and Hats Finance are also in process. Might I suggest a ++ to that?

having a 100% collateral ratio doesn’t mean 1G$ = 1 DAI (our reserve asset is actually cDAI), it means price would remain constant independently of the value added/subtracted from the reserve (adding value = purchase G$s / subtracting value = sell G$s).

G$ price was never 1 DAI, G$ is not, and is not mean to be a stablecoin either. Launch price (september 2020) was 0.0001 USD per G$. Our Bancor bonding curve with a decreasing expansion rate looks to guarantee that price to continuously growth through time with a protocol controlled volatility.

now that you ask this question, and since the request is not to purchase goodDollars but to stake USDC for G$s and GOOD rewards (although you can choose to dispense with the G$s claiming so rewards are distributed to rest of UBI supporters), I’m wondering if PopcornDAO might be interested in acting as a G$ Holder / Liquidity Provider and also purchase a considerable amount of GoodDollars from our reserve (goodSwap.xyz). Current lowCap is low so the long term opportunity is big although the risk here would actually be increasing.

In case it’s useful, and the opportunity is appealing is appealing to the Popcorn community, here my rating about a second proposal to purchase GoodDollars for further diversification of PocornDAO treasury. Here my rating about it:

  • environment-friendly: +
    Reason: runs on Ethereum & FUSE (DPOS EVM) with low energy consumption.
  • not a ponzi scheme: - -
    Reason: in case PopCorn purchases 500k USD of GoodDollar, it would position itself as a close to holding 35~45% of the circulating G$ supply, this action would anticipate the inversion of other players that we are bringing into the ecosystem, and PopCorn would be able to dump on them to take profits.
  • advertisement towards our core values/goals: +++
    Reason: this action will considerably increase token price so will generate positive impact to the +200k people we have been distributing in a UBI way.
  • sustainable: ++
    Reason: A good use of the purchased G$s (for example, distributing it as extra yields for people adding liquidity to your protocol) might help us in having a more fairer distribution so it would contribute to the sustainability of our model
  • shouldn’t be too risky: - -
    Reason: making such a big purchase might pump the market and create incentives for G$ holders to cash out and lower the price. Still, major G$ liquidity is distributed over Fuse network, so only G$ “whales” (that we assume are emotionally incentivized to hold in long term) might be able to go to Ethereum Network and afford the gas cost of the selling. Still, I think if such a cool org as PopCorn put some skin in the game here (let’s say 100k USD), I think it would lead the #invest4good ecosystem to grow up and sustain the value.

Overall score: 2

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Some additional context / news re Klima for anyone interested in their MO: