Uniswap proposal under fire for enabling Dharma to 'take over governance'
Dharma’s Uniswap governance proposal risks giving it too much power, according to critics in the community. Decentralized exchange Uniswap is currently undergoing its first governance vote, which was submitted by open-source lending protocol Dharma. But a number of community members have raised concerns that if successful, the proposal will hand Dharma too much control over the future direction of Uniswap.The proposal, for which voting ends on October 19, suggests a reduction in token governance and quorum thresholds. This potentially gives the top holders — of which Dharma is one —....
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Decentralized community governance isn’t always so decentralized. This week, one bit of news really grabbed my attention: Dharma getting criticized for allegedly trying to capture Uniswap governance.Dharma is the company behind a crypto payments and exchange app, a sort of Ethereum-based cousin of Square’s Cash App. Or at least that’s what I previously used to describe it — if you visit the website now you basically only see mentions of DeFi and some very trippy images.The Dharma website design is now very… daring. And inspired by Uniswap in some ways.Like Uniswap and Compound, Dharma is....
The Uniswap community is voting on its second-ever governance proposal to distribute 5 million governance tokens to users who interacted with the DEX via a third-party platform. The second-ever governance proposal for the Uniswap decentralized exchange (DEX) is more than halfway to reaching a quorum with a little over 30 hours to go.If passed, the proposal will see 12,619 wallet addresses that interacted with Uniswap via a proxy contract receive 400 UNI tokens each. 5.05 million UNI in total will be allocated to the users of MyEtherWallet, Argent, Dharma, DeFi Saver, Nuo, Eidoo, Opyn,....
Uniswap’s first community governance proposal is up for a vote. The Uniswap community is currently holding its first-ever vote, set to be completed by October 19. Up for consideration is the reduction of thresholds required to submit governance proposals and quorums.In recent weeks, there has been much discussion and criticism about the protocol’s standing governance framework. A post by the market intelligence platform Glassnode concluded that with its current setup, only Uniswap’s centralized competitor Binance would be able to successfully submit a governance proposal. Though the latest....
Uniswap’s first governance proposal has ended in defeat, with votes in favor falling a whisker short of the required threshold. The first governance vote for decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has ended in failure, despite the proposal attracting overwhelming support of 98% of votes cast. Despite this, it fell roughly 1% short of the 40 million votes threshold needed for approval by the close of voting.The poll ended earlier today with almost 39.6 million UNI staked in favor, compared to roughly 700,000 opposed. DeFi blogger Danger Zhang (‘@safetythird’) described the vote as “the DeFi....
It is not the first time Uniswap governance has been dominated by a whale. The effect of whales on Uniswap governance is a topic of hot debate once again after Harvard's blockchain group threw a massive amount of voting power behind its own proposal.The proposal, made on May 27 by the Harvard Law School Blockchain and FinTech Initiative, is for the creation of a fund that would finance existing and new political groups engaged in crypto policy making and lobbying to defend decentralized finance against regulation.The proposed fund would have a chest of 1-1.5 million UNI, worth....