Votes placed as declared:
- Proposal : Migrate AXS 250k Co-Investment to New Axie Infinity (AXS) Contract
- Proposal : Increase ROOK co investment by 600,000 BNT
- Proposal. Experiment to assess effect of 0.1% swap fee on USDT stable coin pool
- Proposal: Extend LM rewards on MKR/BNT pool
- Proposal : Whitelist Perpetual Protocol (PERP)
- Proposal to Whitelist Union Protocol Governance Token (UNN), Default 20,000 BNT Co-Investment.
- Proposal : Whitelist NEXO - 250K Co-Invest
Extra votes:
I voted only for Arbitrum. I don’t know enough about the alternatives to rank them, and I’ve made it clear how I feel about Polygon.
Votes abstained:
I wasn’t able to find enough data, so I didn’t feel confident that I was making an informed decision. Apparently we’ve lost track of some of our archives.
I saved this one for last, because it really annoyed me. From where I’m standing, it looks like a fresh, hot proposal (that I have to take time to research before I can even consider placing a vote on it, because I am very careful about what I do with other people’s votes) just got dropped into my lap on voting day with no warning. Reviewing a given proposal takes a significant chunk of time, at least a good portion of a day; delegates review all proposals (or they should, as much as they can). I understand that it’s been in (private) draft for a while, but I personally hadn’t even heard of THORChain until today; it’s unreasonable, no matter the size of your project, to expect everyone to know who you are and what you do right off the bat, and I feel like that’s what’s being expected of me. Sure, the vote goes on for three days, but I shouldn’t have to start researching a proposal the day it goes to vote; I think that’s an absurd way to carry out the task of governance, and we shouldn’t be asked to do it like that. We need time to review proposals; that doesn’t just go for me, because of my limited time, that goes for all voters, independent or delegate, because all voters have lives.
EDIT: I’d like to add that I’ve since read up on THORChain (research is not complete) and I am thoroughly intrigued and I really like what I see; had it been posted by Friday (or at least before Monday) or waited until next week to go to vote, I likely would have given this proposal a glowing FOR. However, I am constrained by, among others, the following two rules: a) I do not vote on proposals that I research after they go to vote, even if the vote is still active when I finish my research, and b) I vote on Mondays only, because I use the rest of the week to research outstanding Level 1 proposals as I can make time. I’m afraid I simply cannot be persuaded to break the rules I set for myself, especially given that I propose to be casting votes on behalf of others; in fact, it’s precisely for that reason that I will not break from principle. To some, DAO participation is a hobby; I have made it my solemn duty.