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PTBR-35 Governance Shutdown (redux). The first proposal only executed 3 of the 12 actions; may have been a Tally UI bug. This one is proposed manually.
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# PTBR-35: Governance Shutdown
# Governance Shutdown
This proposal will redistribute all remaining liquidity in the PoolTogether governance system to POOL token holders via AMMs. The governance system will then be permanently shut down.
# Scope of Work
## Motivation
The majority of POOL token holders are staked in the protocol to win prizes. POOL is no longer staked in governance, so engagement has diminished to myself (a whale) and a few other token holders. If I stake my tokens in the protocol, then the treasury would be defenseless against attacks.
That being said, the treasury has reached the end of its runway: with approx 24 ETH and 1.1m POOL remaining.
It's time to distribute the remaining tokens and shut down governance permanently.
## Goal
The goal is to:
* Empty the treasury
* Distribute the non-POOL assets (mostly ETH) to POOL token holders via AMM liquidity.
* Create a World Chain POOL LP position.
* Adjust remaining POOL LP positions to be within range.
## Deliverables
### On-chain Actions
1. Transfer Uniswap V3 LP Positions - Transfer all 6 LP positions
2. Withdraw przWETH
3. Withdraw POOL
4. Withdraw stETH
5. Withdraw Av2-POOL-LP
6. Disable Timelock
### Post-Proposal Actions
These actions will be executed manually:
* Collect LP fees
* Create a new broad WETH/POOL LP position on Ethereum. Use all of the WETH and the corresponding amount of POOL.
* Create new WETH/POOL LP position on World
* Adjust POOL LP across other chains
* Burn all LP positions: transfer ownership to 0x0 (or 0x1 if 0x0 is restricted)
## Timeline
The on-chain portion will occur on execution, and the post-proposal actions shouldn't take more than a few hours.
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# PTBR-34: Pooltime
* Start date: January 1st, 2026
* Est. Timeline: 6 months
* Budget: $83,000
Pooltime is responsible for social media channels, discord, apps, api, and bot repositories.
Our team consists of four contributors:
* Tjark
* underthesea
* shivansh
This proposal seeks a six-month budget extension to maintain our community coordination and infrastructure work.
## Scope of Work
### Motivation
We are motivated to continue supporting the protocol with our years of knowledge and passion for PoolTogether.
### Goal
Keep saving money fun and exciting, and encourage others to join us in achieving the PoolTogether endgame: An unstoppable prize machine.
## Deliverables
### Pooltime App & Toolsuite
We will maintain the user experience through pooltime.xyz and associated tools.
* [<u>Pooltime.xyz</u>](http://pooltime.xyz) and [<u>winETH.xyz</u>](http://wineth.xyz) will be maintained and follow any new deployments.
* The Pooltime api at [<u>poolexplorer.xyz</u>](http://poolexplorer.xyz) will be maintained.
* The Pooltime [<u>bots repo</u>](https://github.com/underethsea/pooltogether-node), which accounts for the majority of prize draws, liquidations, and prize claims, will be maintained.
### Social Media & Community Management
We will maintain PoolTogether’s social media and community-building efforts across various platforms. That means keeping the community informed and allowing everyone to follow along or engage. We’re constantly monitoring any mentions of PoolTogether and related keywords to directly engage with users and fans. Our work ensures that the PoolTogether legacy remains intact and the protocol continues to be loved.
* Amplify protocol updates and news: Share updates, collaboration news, and success stories to keep the community informed and excited.
* Interact with users: Engage with user-generated content, cross-post inspiring stories, and highlight key community members and integrators.
* Host regular Community Calls: Facilitate the PoolTogether swim meets to engage community members and discuss updates and announcements.
* Manage delegation budget: Extend the campaign around the $100,000 delegation to support growth and community initiatives.
* Distribute the \[contributor fund]\(https://debank.com/profile/0x7be92a3ff9e0c9a2fa2144c1a34e9f65b821978a).
## Budget
$83,000 in przETH
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# PTBR-33: G9 Hosting
# PTBR-33: G9 Hosting
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| Start Date | Jan 1st, 2026 |
| Duration of Work | 6 months |
| Budget | $42,000 USD |
Generation (G9) Software Inc. is a proud service provider to the PoolTogether protocol.
This proposal offers continued hosting for the Cabana suite of apps.
# Scope of Work
## Deliverables
### Hosting of Cabana Suite of Apps
G9 will continue to host the Cabana suite of apps at https://cabana.fi for another six months.
# Budget
| Amount |
| ------ |
| $42,000 USD |
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# PTBR-32: G9 Base Miniapp Development
\# PTBR-32: G9 Base Miniapp Development
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|Start Date|Aug 5th, 2025|
|Duration of Work|6 months|
|Budget| 3 ETH (~$11,352 USD)| 
Generation (G9) Software Inc. is a proud service provider to the PoolTogether protocol.
For this proposal we are offering to create a new Base Miniapp to further promote PoolTogether within the Base ecosystem, host this new Cabana app and provide developer support.
\# Scope of Work
\## Motivation
Base has recently launched an internal ecosystem of apps similar to World. Base Miniapps run inside the main Base iOS and Android app. The PoolTogether Base Cabana Miniapp will also be discoverable and likely featured within the Base app.
This will support all of the existing Base prize vaults as it is essentially a lighter version of the Cabana app for mobile and Base chain only.
\### Benefits
Promotion of PoolTogether through marketing and outreach via the Base app and ecosystem.
Depositors on Base will be able to interact with any Base prize vaults, Cabana's rewards systems and prize checking systems from within the main Base mobile app.
\## Goal
Our goal is to ensure that PoolTogether continues to thrive. This means continued hosting for the apps, bug fixes, and support to external PoolTogether developers.
\## Deliverables
\### The New Base Miniapp:
Create a fork of Cabana and modify the existing codebase to:
1\. \*\*Wagmi\*\*. Support connection to the Base Miniapp via Wagmi Farcaster connector to utilize all existing Wagmi code. (\[learn more]\(https://docs.base.org/base-app/introduction/mini-apps#wallet-interactions))
2\. \*\*Scope vaults to only Base chain\*\*.
3\. \*\*Redo the look and feel to match the existing World Miniapp's styles\*\*. The World Miniapp has it's own style, and this will be ported to the Base Miniapp.
4\. \*\*Create Metadata Manifest for Discoverability\*\*. (\[learn more]\(/base-app/introduction/mini-apps#mini-app-store-page))
2\. \*\*Scope vaults to only Base chain\*\*.
5\. \*\*Deployment and Testing\*\*. Deploy to Vercel and test Miniapp within the context of the main Base app
(Duration of work is set to 6 months however development of app will be much faster - 6 months is there for any future support requirements)
\### Hosting of PoolTogether Base Cabana Miniapp
G9 will deploy and host this new Cabana Base Miniapp.
\### Developer Support
G9 will retain developers and have them on call to:
\* Fix any issues with the Base Miniapp to ensure depositors are taken care of
\* Assist the community as needed
\* Provide guidance for builders and partners
The developers will be available on Discord and at least one representative will attend the Council calls each week.
\# Budget
|Amount|Token|
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|3|ETH|
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# PTBR-31: POOL incentives for new World Morpho Vault
# POOL Incentives for Morpho WLD Vault
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|Start Date | Aug 1st, 2025|
|Duration of Work | 9 months|
|Budget | 100k POOL |
This proposal will incentivize a new WLD vault on World Chain that utilizes Morpho for yield. The incentives will run for six months.
# Scope of Work
## Motivation
We need a vault on Morpho that generates organic yield. The existing vault is a simple staking vault, and thus relies entirely on synthetic yield. The POOL will incentivize users to migrate to the new vault from the old one.
## Goal
The goal is to migrate existing depositors to a new Morpho vault.
## Milestones & Deliverables
1. Replace existing PoolTogether mini-app with a new Cabana-based mini-app.
2. Launch new Morpho vault
3. Add incentives
## Timeline
Our goal is to complete this by August 5th.
# Budget
| Amount | Token |
| ------ | ----- |
| 100,000 | POOL |
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# PTBR-29: Pooltime
* Start date: July 1st, 2025
* Timeline: 6 months
* Budget: $100,000
Pooltime is a team of dedicated long-time contributors who have been meaningfully involved in all layers of the PoolTogether universe. We focus on growing the PoolTogether ecosystem through community management, a strong presence on social media, and the development and maintenance of apps and tools.
Our team consists of four contributors:
* Tjark
* underthesea
* Lonser
* shivansh
## Scope of Work
### Motivation
We have an obsession with the vision of onchain prize savings. PoolTogether is one of the few protocols on the brink of proving that true positive-sum financial applications are possible. We are motivated to continue supporting the protocol with our years of knowledge and passion for PoolTogether.
### Goal
Keep saving money fun and exciting, and encourage others to join us in achieving the PoolTogether endgame: An unstoppable prize machine.
## Deliverables
### Pooltime App & Toolsuite
We will maintain the user experience through pooltime.xyz and associated tools.
* [Pooltime.xyz](http://pooltime.xyz) and [winETH.xyz](http://wineth.xyz) will be maintained and follow any new deployments.
* The Pooltime api at [poolexplorer.xyz](http://poolexplorer.xyz) will be maintained.
* The Pooltime [bots repo](https://github.com/underethsea/pooltogether-node), which accounts for the majority of prize draws, liquidations, and prize claims, will be maintained.
### Community Building
We act as a bridge between the protocol, brand, community, builders, and lurkers. This community needs care and safe spaces to get together and align. We are dedicated to responsibly maintaining, nurturing, and safekeeping our community spaces, providing a secure and inclusive environment for anyone who wants to engage with the PoolTogether ecosystem. Our tasks involve:
* Maintain spaces for the community: Ensure the upkeep and security of community spaces across various platforms to facilitate gatherings and interactions among people.
* Host regular Community Calls: Organize and facilitate the PoolTogether swim meets to engage community members and discuss updates and announcements.
* Sustain a level playing field: Enforce the community code of conduct to maintain fairness and inclusivity in our community spaces.
* Manage delegation budget: Administer a $100,000 budget to support growth and community initiatives.
* Distribute the [contributor fund](https://debank.com/profile/0x7be92a3ff9e0c9a2fa2144c1a34e9f65b821978a).
### Social Media Management
We lead PoolTogether’s social media efforts across various platforms, keeping the community informed and allowing everyone to follow along. We’re constantly monitoring any mentions of PoolTogether and related keywords to directly engage with users and fans. Our work ensures that the PoolTogether legacy remains intact and the protocol continues to be loved.
* Amplify protocol updates and collaborations: Share updates, collaboration news, and success stories to keep the community informed and excited.
* Interact with users: Engage with user-generated content, cross-post inspiring stories, and highlight key community members and integrators to deepen relationships and create superfans.
* Announce major enhancements: Celebrate winners and announce new features and protocol improvements to increase excitement and drive growth.
* Share Interesting stats: Provide regular updates on key metrics, such as prize distributions and participation statistics to keep users informed.
* Remind about opportunities: Keep the community up to date about current opportunities, such as reward programs and upcoming campaigns.
Handles and spaces we oversee for the PoolTogether community:
### Proposal Support
We continue to offer assistance to anyone aligned with PoolTogether’s vision and values. If you need help with a proposal, just get in touch with us.
* Copyread RFCs for PTIPs and PTBRs: Provide editorial support for requests for comments and proposals.
* Assist in Bringing Proposals Onchain: Help moving proposals through the necessary stages to be implemented onchain.
* Maintain Bridge Liquidity: Work together with Across to ensure bridge liquidity for POOL remains at healthy utilization levels, and manage new POOL deployments if necessary.
### Budget
$100,000 in przETH
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# PTBR-30: G9 Support & World Miniapp Improvements
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| Start Date | Jul 1st, 2025 |
| Duration of Work | 6 months |
| Budget | $98,965 USD |
| Generation (G9) Software Inc. is a proud service provider to the PoolTogether protocol. | |
| For this proposal we are offering to create a new World Miniapp to support multiple vaults, host the Cabana suite of apps and provide developer support. | |
# Scope of Work
## Motivation
Outside of on-going hosting & support our plan is to add multiple vault support on Worldchain.
Morpho recently launched on Worldchain and we would like to see users migrate from the existing custom WLD stake vault to a WLD vault which has real yield.
The smart contract team will deploy a new prize vault for the Morpho WLD vault on World Chain.
### Benefits
There is the obvious benefit of using a real yield-bearing vault on Worldchain, users will also not require human verification or be met with a deposit limit.
Other benefits of the new miniapp include:
1. **Supporting Reward Campaigns**. Users on World will be able to accrue and claim rewards.
2. **Helping inform users of their winnings**. There are issues with the existing miniapp architecture relying too heavily on RPC. The new miniapp will use subgraphs to support showing user's their historical data.
3. **Display the POOL vault**. User's on Worldchain will be able to interact with the POOL vault, as well as any other prize vaults (USDC, etc.) created down the road on Worldchain.
## Goal
Our goal is to ensure that PoolTogether continues to thrive. This means continued hosting for the apps, bug fixes, and developer guidance for those wishing to spin up their own apps, bots, vaults, or otherwise.
## Deliverables
### The New Miniapp:
Create a fork of Cabana and modify the existing codebase to:
1. **Replace Rainbowkit in favor of World's Minikit**. This includes replacing how transactions are submitted throughout the app, and how we look up the status of existing transactions.
2. **Scope vaults to only Worldchain**.
3. **Help users easily migrate to the new vault**.
4. **Add translation support for all languages the current Miniapp supports**. (Japanese, Korean, Spanish, etc.).
5. **Redo the look and feel to match the existing World Miniapp's styles**.
### Hosting of Cabana Suite of Apps
G9 will continue to host the Cabana suite of apps at [https://cabana.fi](https://cabana.fi/).
### Developer Support
G9 will retain developers and have them on call to:
* Fix any issues with the apps or infrastructure to ensure uptime
* Assist the community as needed
* Provide guidance for builders and partners
The developers will be available on Discord and at least one representative will attend the Council calls each week.
# Budget
| Amount | Token |
| ------ | ----- |
| 98,965 | USDC |
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# PTBR-28: Continued POOL Incentives
# PTBR-28: Continued POOL Incentives
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| Start Date | ~May 1st, 2025 |
| Duration | 12 months |
| Budget | 2M POOL |
This PTBR extends the current POOL incentives for another year.
# Scope of Work
## Goal
The goal is to distribute ownership of the PoolTogether protocol. This proposal is intended to be the first of several proposals that distribute the remaining supply of POOL tokens.
For context: POOL governance holds approximately 2.44m POOL directly, and 741k POOL indirectly through LP positions.
This proposal distributes about 2/3 of the remaining supply of POOL. The expectation is that the rest of the supply will go to new chain deployments.
The amount is slightly greater than the current rewards, as the POOL vault is now included among the incentive recipients.
## Milestones & Deliverables
We will distribute 2M POOL across the chains according to this distribution:
| Chain | Amount |
| -------- | --------- |
| Optimism | 1m POOL |
| Ethereum | 400k POOL |
| Base | 300k POOL |
| Gnosis | 200k POOL |
| Arbitrum | 100k POOL |
Each chain will distribute rewards using the new PrizePoolTwabRewards contract (delivered in [PTBR-24](https://gov.pooltogether.com/t/ptbr-24-automation-support-from-g9/3366)). This contract distributes incentives to *all* vaults that contribute to the prize pool, including the POOL vault. In this way, the incentives are permissionless and even vaults created after the program begins will be eligible to receive rewards.
## Timeline
We will start the incentives immediately after this proposal passes. The incentives will run for one year.
# Budget
| Amount |
| ------- |
| 2M POOL |
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# PTBR-25: Watchman Labs
* **Start Date**: January 1, 2025
* **Duration of Work**: 3 months
* **Budget**: $20,000 USDC (28K POOL)
### **Summary**
Over the last two months, Watchman Labs successfully contributed to the growth and visibility of the PoolTogether Protocol through new partnerships, innovative tooling (e.g., Timalytics), and advocacy at high-impact events. By collaborating with platforms like Giveth, Beefy, Yearn, and Gnosis, we’ve increased TVL and user engagement, reinforced PoolTogether’s multi-chain presence, and built new tools to grow Prize Pool Contributions (PPC).
Over the **next three months**, Watchman Labs will **focus** on:
1. Driving Prize Pool Contributions (PPC) by deepening key partnerships (Beefy, Yearn, Morpho, Moonwell, Giveth).
2. Securing new sponsorship campaigns and ensuring all vaults are on Odos and Portals for zap functionality.
3. Expanding PoolTogether’s visibility with co-marketing initiatives and integrations, including attending Twitter Spaces and Community Calls with relevant partners.
4. Enhancing user experience with features like Rainbow prize token display and Zerion prize notifications.
5. Monitoring and reporting progress on PPC, marketing wins, integrations, and incentives.
This proposal outlines our **accomplishments**, **next-phase goals**, **milestones**, and a **$20,000 USDC** budget request for three months of work.
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# Expanding POOL Liquidity with The DeFi Collective
Start Date
1st of February, 2025
Duration of Work
3 months
Budget
$150,000
Following the success of the initial grant, The DeFi Collective proposes renewed measures for PoolTogether to contribute to liquidity and enhanced community engagement. This proposal outlines a $150k POOL grant to be deployed across Base, Optimism, and PoolTogether.
As part of the measures, we are introducing the PermaLP initiative: a long-term liquidity approach where funds are permanently allocated into a dedicated multi-sig wallet (permalp.deficollective.eth). This ensures consistent, growing liquidity that remains in place indefinitely, providing stability and confidence for supported protocols.
PoolTogether will be among the first to benefit from this new initiative, with POOL liquidity integrated into PermaLPs.
The DeFi Collective is a non-profit organization, focusing on the enhancement and support of maximally decentralized DeFi protocols across various EVM chains. There is no equity, no shareholders and no profit distribution. The Collective is governed by its members as outlined in our articles of association, publicly accessible[ here](https://github.com/deficollective/deficollective.github.io/blob/06e4705a9993398d2d79fecdd783a309bd3032f5/assets/pdf/articles-of-association-v1.pdf). Operations are overseen by the board members, which act on a non-salaried basis.
The DeFi Collective identifies and self-appoints to support protocols and projects aiming to further decentralization in DeFi. The DeFi Collective does not act as a paid service provider, but rather finances its mission and ongoing operations through the receipt of donations, grants and similar contributions as well as through the active deployment of its proprietary on-chain treasury.
The DeFi Collective also operates DeFiScan, a cutting-edge research framework and analytics dashboard that provides verifiable insights into the decentralization level of EVM-based DeFi protocols. By evaluating protocols on a scale of Stage 0 to Stage 2 of decentralization, DeFiScan helps users understand and assess the maturity and risks associated with DeFi platforms.
For those who haven’t heard yet, Pool Together is [Stage 2!](https://defiscan.vercel.app/protocols/pooltogether-v5)
Through DeFiScan, we aim to promote transparency, education, and self-policing, empowering users to make informed decisions when engaging with EVM-based DeFi applications.
**The DeFi Collective Team Overview**
**TokenBrice** - A prominent figure in DeFi and a cornerstone of The DeFi Collective, he’s known for his pivotal role in shaping the DeFi landscape through his work with leading protocols and his contributions to DeFi governance.[ Twitter](https://twitter.com/TokenBrice)
**Nils** - With a background in financial engineering, Nils excels in crafting decentralized protocols and enhancing DeFi security. His technical prowess strengthens our mission to advance DeFi’s integrity.
**Florian** - As our legal and policy expert, Florian leverages his extensive experience in DeFi and traditional finance law to guide our compliance and regulatory strategy, ensuring our initiatives align with legal standards.
**Contributors** - In addition to our board members, The DeFi Collective is supported by a group of dedicated contributors. These contributors play a vital role in various aspects of our operations, from technical development to community engagement. They bring diverse skills and perspectives, helping to drive the Collective’s initiatives forward.
# Scope of Work
## Motivation
The DeFi Collective’s mission is to support Genuine DeFi protocols like PoolTogether by ensuring robust liquidity, cross-chain accessibility, and community engagement. With the success of our previous grant deployment, we are motivated to further deepen POOL liquidity, enhance its utility, and contribute to the protocol’s long-term growth and sustainability.
## Goal
### The DeFi Collective’s fund request offers significant benefits to the PoolTogether ecosystem:
**Expanding Existing Pool Support**
We aim to contribute to the liquidity of the POOL/ETH pool on Velodrome (Optimism) and the POOL/LUSD pool on Aerodrome (Base). These pools are already supported by The DeFi Collective, and this proposal will enhance their capacity, improve efficiency, and attract additional participants. POOL will be transferred into the permalp.deficollective.eth wallet, a dedicated address used to ensure that support remains permanently available, reducing churn and optimizing long-term support for PoolTogether’s ecosystem.
**Expanding Community Engagement:**
A portion of the grant will be deposited into PoolTogether’s prize pools and delegated through the “Ants of the Month” program. A monthly donation that fosters community participation and rewards contributors, reinforcing PoolTogether’s reputation as a collaborative and innovative DeFi protocol.
## Milestones & Deliverables
Milestones for The DeFi Collective’s Initiative with PoolTogether
**Milestone 1: Strategic Liquidity Expansion**
* **Goal**: Deploy $100,000 in POOL tokens, matched with $100,000 equivalent from The DeFi Collective’s existing proprietary treasury, to strengthen the POOL/ETH pool on Velodrome (Optimism) and the POOL/LUSD pool on Aerodrome (Base).
* **Deliverables**: On-chain deployment in the specified pools.
* **Timeline**: Completed within two weeks of receiving the grant.
**Milestone 2: Enhanced Community Engagement via Delegation**
* **Goal**: Strengthen the “PoolChad of the Month” initiative by adding $50,000 in POOL tokens to the existing $10,000 allocation. This program continues to recognize and reward active community members who make significant contributions.
* **Deliverables**:
* $50,000 POOL deposited into the mainnet POOL vault on deficollective.eth, and added into the existing rolling delegation of 10 000 PTaUSDC harnessed to reward the Ant of the Month.
* Monthly delegation of POOL tokens to a selected “PoolChad of the Month,” fostering greater community motivation and engagement.
* **Timeline**: Completed within two weeks of receiving the grant.
* **Measurement**: The effectiveness of this milestone will be measured by enhanced community engagement, successful monthly delegation of the $50,000 POOL allocation, and strengthened collaboration between The DeFi Collective and PoolTogether.
**Milestone 3: Ongoing Reporting and Transparency**
* **Goal**: Ensure ongoing transparency by publishing Monthly and Annual Treasury Reports on The DeFi Collective’s website, detailing key activities, governance participation, and impact.
* **Deliverables**:Regular monthly and annual reports outlining treasury operations, supported initiatives, and program outcomes. Publicly accessible reports available for independent verification.
* **Timeline**: Reports are published monthly and annually on an ongoing basis, ensuring consistent and perpetual transparency.
* **Measurement**: Consistent publication of monthly and annual reports on time. PermaLP positions can be audited by anyone at any time by [looking onchain at permaLP.deficollective.eth](https://debank.com/profile/0x9c413014c0b8b853b93953537d9aF112aD821345). A [PermaLP Dune Dashboard](https://dune.com/spicypiz/defi-collective-perma-lp) has also been developed to facilitate the endeavour.
## **Timeline**
January 2025 - April 2025: Full deployment of the measures, with continuous monitoring and monthly community engagement initiatives.
# Budget
# The DeFi Collective requests a total of $150,000 in POOL tokens.
**Liquidity allocation:**
**POOL Token Deployment ($100,000):**
* **$50,000 in POOL** for the POOL/ETH Pool: **We will match $50,000 of the POOL tokens with an equivalent $50,000 in ETH** from our existing proprietary reserves. This action will be executed on Velodrome protocol on Optimism, with a total of $100,000 in supplied support.
* **$50,000 in POOL** for the POOL/LUSD Pool: **We will match $50,000 of the POOL tokens with an equivalent $50,000 in LUSD** from our existing proprietary reserves. This action will be executed on the Aerodrome protocol on Base, with a total of $100,000 in supplied support. The POOL/LUSD pairing is likely to evolve into POOL/BOLD following BOLD’s launch.
AmountToken 116279POOL
Assuming a POOL price of $0.86.
**The “PoolChad of the Month” Initiative:**
We request an allocation of $50,000 in POOL tokens, which will remain in the Collective’s wallet (0x6665e62ef6f6db29d5f8191fbac472222c2cc80f). From this wallet, we will directly handle the delegations for the initiative. The representative, @TokenBrice, will oversee the process to recognize and reward outstanding contributions from The DeFi Collective community.
This program aims to foster a collaborative and innovative spirit by delegating the “PoolChad of the Month” rewards to deserving community members each month, driving engagement, strengthening ties within the ecosystem, and showcasing PoolTogether's commitment to Genuine DeFi initiatives.
AmountToken 58139POOL
Assuming a POOL price of $0.86.
**Ecosystem Support Assurance**
<img height="20" width="20" alt=":rotating_light:" title=":rotating_light:" src="https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/pooltogether/original/2X/0/0cdbadc48ffb16998fc3102e560279b9a795b067.png" />As part of our dedication to DeFi’s growth, we maintain a strict policy of not selling any tokens we receive, focusing on their long-term value to the ecosystem.<img height="20" width="20" alt=":rotating_light:" title=":rotating_light:" src="https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/pooltogether/original/2X/0/0cdbadc48ffb16998fc3102e560279b9a795b067.png" />
**Disclaimer**
POOL granted to the Collective solely belong to the Collective, are not repayable to PoolTogether and will not be custodied or held in trust by The DeFi Collective. Any rewards generated in implementation of the proposal belong to the Collective and will not be forwarded. The DeFi Collective acts proprietarily within the limitations of its purpose and does not manage assets on behalf of or provides financial advice or other services to third-parties. The DeFi Collective may cease support in case of future regulatory or legal limitations with respect to the proposal, POOL, or else.
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# PTBR-24: Automation and Support from G9
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| Start Date | Jan 1st, 2024 |
| Duration of Work | 6 months |
| Budget | $106,450 USD |
Generation (G9) Software Inc. is a proud service provider to the PoolTogether protocol.
For this proposal we are offering to build incentive mechanisms, host the Cabana apps and provide developer support.
# Scope of Work
## Motivation
Outside of on-going hosting, there are two important efforts we wish to pursue:
1. The POOL incentives should be automated and permissionless
2. It should be easy to bootstrap a new vault to encourage growth
**Permissionless POOL Incentives**
The POOL liquidity mining program introduced in [PTBR-22](https://gov.pooltogether.com/t/ptbr-22-pool-incentives/3342) has proven to be a success; with deposits growing from ~$10m to over $21m USD in about 7 weeks [[Defi Llama]](https://defillama.com/protocol/pooltogether-v5). However, the incentive program was created manually; vaults were chosen and given somewhat arbitrary amounts of incentives
We need an automated incentive program that:
- is permissionless. New vaults are automatically eligible for POOL tokens.
- is efficient. Vaults should receive incentives in proportion to their prize contributions. This means the vault incentives will be proportional to the underlying vault APR.
**Bootstrapping Vaults**
A vault begins its life with 0% chance to win; until someone deposits funds no prizes will be awarded. In a sense, the vault APR is zero until someone deposits. Why would someone deposit into a vault with 0% chance or APR?
A newly launched vault also won't appear to have any of the above POOL incentives because it hasn't contributed yield; it must contribute prizes to receive POOL so without prizes there are no incentives!
We need to make it easy to bootstrap vaults. This means that:
- We need to contribute prizes on behalf of new vaults so that they receive prizes and incentives
- Ideally we can bootstrap in a no-loss way
## Goal
Our goal is to improve the permissionless nature of PoolTogether by making it easier to add new vaults.
We will also support those who wish to build on PoolTogether. This means continued hosting for the apps, bug fixes, and developer guidance for those wishing to spin up their own apps, bots, vaults, or otherwise.
## Deliverables
### Permissionless Incentives Contract
We will create a new contract, similar to the Twab Rewards, that distributes rewards across any vault that contributes to the prize pool.
The rewards will be visible in the Cabana UI.
**The new contract will be audited by Code Arena.**
### Bootstrapping Functionality
We will give users the ability to contribute their smaller won prizes to another vault. This will enable anyone to use any of their deposits to help bootstrap new vaults, while keeping their chance to win the grand prize.
The feature will be integrated into the Cabana app.
### Cabana App Improvements & Bug Fixes
G9 will:
- Fix any issues with the Cabana apps or infrastructure to ensure uptime
- Improve the Cabana apps and incorporate feedback from the community as time permits
### Hosting of Cabana Suite of Apps
G9 will continue to host the Cabana suite of apps at https://cabana.fi.
### Developer Support
G9 will retain developers and have them on call to:
- Assist the community as needed
- Provide guidance for builders and partners
The developers will be available on Discord and at least one representative will attend the Council calls each week.
# Timeline
- Permissionless incentives will be live by end of Q1, 2025 in time to transition the existing incentives.
- Bootstrapping functionality will be live no later than end of Q1, 2025 but likely sooner.
# Budget
| Amount |
| ------ |
| $106,450 USD |
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# PTBR-23: Pooltime
# PTBR-23: Pooltime
**Start date**: Jan 1st, 2025 **Est. Timeline**: 6 months **Budget**: $100,000
Pooltime is a team of dedicated long-time contributors who have been meaningfully involved in all layers of the PoolTogether universe. We focus on growing the PoolTogether ecosystem through community management, a strong presence on social media, and the development and maintenance of apps and tools.
Our team consists of four contributors:
* [@tjark](https://gov.pooltogether.com/u/tjark)
* [@underthesea](https://gov.pooltogether.com/u/underthesea)
* [@Lonser](https://gov.pooltogether.com/u/lonser)
* [@shivansh](https://gov.pooltogether.com/u/shivansh)
This budget request seeks a six-month budget extension to maintain our community coordination and infrastructure work.
## Scope of Work
### Motivation
We have an obsession with the vision of onchain prize savings. PoolTogether is one of the very few protocols on the brink of proving true positive-sum financial applications are possible. With the foundation that this community has laid out in 2024, PoolTogether is ready for significant growth, while trying some things no one has done before. We 5x’d the total value locked during the past six months and the protocol gets only stronger the more it grows. We are motivated to continue supporting the protocol with our years of knowledge and passion for PoolTogether.
### Goal
The PoolTogether community knows it all: the good and the bad. We navigated through a rough patch in PoolTogether history together, and finally, the hard work started paying out. With $400,000 in prizes with $20 million deposited, this machine is getting hard to stop.
Our goal is to keep this thing fun and excite others to join us in achieving the PoolTogether endgame. A million dollars in prizes and mass adoption in 2025.
## Deliverables
### Community Building
Our bet is on community building as a driver of growth. We act as a bridge between the protocol, brand, community, builders, and lurkers. This community needs care and safe spaces to get together and align. We are dedicated to responsibly maintaining, nurturing, and safekeeping our community spaces, providing a secure and inclusive environment for anyone who wants to engage with the PoolTogether ecosystem. Our tasks involve:
* Maintain spaces for the community: Ensure the upkeep and security of community spaces across various platforms to allow people to get together.
* Host weekly Community Calls: Organize and facilitate weekly calls to engage community members and discuss protocol updates.
* Sustain a level playing field: Enforce the community code of conduct to maintain fairness and inclusivity in our community spaces.
* Manage delegation budget: Administer a $100,000 budget to support growth and community initiatives.
* Distribute Contributor Fund: We have bootstrapped the [contributor fund](https://debank.com/profile/0x7be92a3ff9e0c9a2fa2144c1a34e9f65b821978a) with $20,000. In Q1 we are launching a series of contests to get the distribution going and provide incentives to get involved.
### Social Media Management
We lead PoolTogether’s social media efforts across various platforms, keeping the community informed and allowing everyone to follow along. We’re constantly monitoring any mentions of PoolTogether and related keywords to directly engage with users and fans. Our work ensures that the PoolTogether legacy remains intact and the protocol continues to be loved.
* Amplify protocol updates and collaborations: Share updates, collaboration news, and success stories to keep the community informed and excited.
* Interact with users: Engage with user-generated content, cross-post inspiring stories, and highlight key community members and integrators to deepen relationships and create superfans.
* Announce major enhancements: Celebrate winners and announce new features and protocol improvements to increase excitement and drive growth.
* Share Interesting stats: Provide regular updates on key metrics, such as prize distributions and participation statistics to keep users informed.
* Remind about opportunities: Keep the community up to date about current opportunities, such as reward programs and upcoming campaigns.
Handles and spaces we oversee for the PoolTogether community:
[Discord](https://pooltogether.com/discord), [X](https://twitter.com/pooltogether_), [Farcaster, Warpcast Channel](https://warpcast.com/pooltogether), [Mirror](https://pooltogether.mirror.xyz/), [Lens](https://share.lens.xyz/u/pooltogether.lens), [Guild](https://guild.xyz/pooltogether), [Zora](https://zora.co/0x7437ba619ab8bb0eb124b987647a27c95a9cc00f), [Uplink](https://uplink.wtf/pooltogether), [Substack](http://pooltogethercommunity.substack.com/), [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/pooltogether), [Telegram](https://t.me/PoolTogetherTelegram)
### Pooltime App & Toolsuite
We will maintain the user experience through pooltime.app and associated tools.
* Pooltime.xyz and wineth.xyz will be maintained and follow any new deployments.
* The Pooltime API at poolexplorer.xyz will be maintained.
* The Pooltime bots repo which accounts for a majority of prize draws, liquidations, and prize claims will be maintained.
### Proposal Support
We continue to offer assistance to anyone aligned with PoolTogether’s vision and values. If you need help with a proposal, just get in touch with us.
* Copyread RFCs for PTIPs and PTBRs: Provide editorial support for requests for comments and proposals.
* Assist in Bringing Proposals Onchain: Help move proposals through the necessary stages to be implemented onchain.
* Maintain Bridge Liquidity: Work together with Across to ensure bridge liquidity for POOL remains at healthy utilization levels, and manage new POOL deployments if necessary.
## Budget
* $80k from Treasury (15,954.84 przUSDC + 36,605.31 USDC + 27,439.83 DAI)
* 35.52k stMATIC and 0.66865 WETH from Exec Team (~$21k)
Should this proposal pass, it would fund PoolTime with $80k USDC from the treasury and ~$21k in value would be sent from the Executive Team Polygon Safe. With a total budget of $100k for 6 months the exact duration is to be pro-rated by the value of the Executive Team funding at the time of liquidation. For instance at a current valuation of $21k that would be a $1k surplus giving the team 1/100 months of additional funding.
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# PTIP-95: Add Liquidity to the Across HubPool
### Simple Summary
The PoolTogether protocol has started a meaningful rewards campaign that aims to fuel protocol growth over a long timeframe. Due to the increased POOL distribution, recent market conditions, and the appreciation in price, the bridging of POOL has drastically picked up. This has caused the Across HubPool to reach full utilization and put a temporary pause of POOL bridging on Across.
This proposal aims to solve the liquidity problem on Across by moving additional POOL into the Across POOL LP on Mainnet.
### Abstract
This proposal will increase the current protocol-owned liquidity on Across from 
90,550.5 to 290,550.5 by adding 200,000 POOL.
### Motivation
Across has played a big role in the PoolTogether ecosystem as it allows moving POOL across Ethereum L2s instantly and for cheap. The POOL token has seen a big increase in demand. People use it to stake on all chains where the protocol is deployed.
Currently bridging POOL on Across is paused due to full utilization. By topping up the liquidity we can unblock it again to allow POOL holders to frictionlessly transact across chains again. As a bonus, the treasury would currently earn 7.725% on deposited POOL
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### Specification
* Approve 200,000 POOL spending for Across HubPool: `0xc186fA914353c44b2E33eBE05f21846F1048bEda`
* Provide 200,000 POOL as liquidity on Across HubPool: 0xc186fA914353c44b2E33eBE05f21846F1048bEda
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# PTBR-24: Watchman Labs
Start Date November 1st, 2024
Duration of Work 2 months
Budget $13,000 USDC
Summary:
Watchman Labs will drive Prize Pool Contributions (PPC) and thus grow Total Value Locked (TVL), and Total Unique Wallets (TUW) while exploring innovative ways to build with the PoolTogether Protocol.
By engaging with partners and attending events, we aim to enhance PoolTogether's reach, build key partnerships, and ultimately drive lasting growth.
Recent Wins:
Coinbase Onchain Summer NFT Activation resulted in 4.9 million mints, 8.5K smart wallet mints, and led adoption across all Base campaigns by a factor of 3.
In one month, raised $4K+ in Prize Pool Contributions, equivalent to a prize pool contribution of $2.2 million USDC on Base.
Currently in talks with Gnosis for Prize Pool sponsorship.
These successes highlight the potential of strategic collaborations and innovative campaigns. By leveraging similar tactics and relationships, Watchman Labs will drive PoolTogether’s growth in PPC, TVL, and TUW.
Scope of Work
Motivation:
Following the successful launch of V5 and the introduction of permissionless vaults, PoolTogether is poised for significant growth. This proposal seeks to capitalize on that momentum by increasing PPC through strategic partnerships, product innovation and incentives.
Goal:
To grow TVL in the WSTETH/ETH vault to $7 million by December 31 2024 so that we unlock the remaining 92K OP in Bonus Rewards.
Coordinate with Pooltime and G9 Software to launch pooltogether.yearn.space, while finding incentives for current vaults and finding new vaults to feature.
Promote Gnosis Vault Boost and encourage continued and greater investment.
Raise $13,000 in prize pool contributions by developing strategic partnerships, launching campaigns, and drumming up incentives to drive prize pool growth, TVL and new user adoption.
Milestones & Deliverables:
Partnership Development:
Collaborate with key partners like Beefy, Yearn, and other yield sources/chains to expand incentives and reach. Raise $13K in PPC by EOY via direct contribution or vault yield by growing TVL.
Work with Beefy and Lido to reach $7 Million TVL to unlock 92K OP by EOY.
Continue to create solutions and build out reporting for these partners in a continued process of experimentation to keep projects engaged.
PPC Experimentation:
Develop, launch and manage campaigns focused on staking vaults and delegation to grow PPC.
Mint and Win Campaigns: Based off of the success of the Onchain Summer Campaign, pursue Base, Circle, and other partners like Privy to launch a larger campaign.
Loyalty Rewards: Work with partners like Zerion and Rainbow to provide additional rewards to premium users. Laucnh a campaign that contributes at least $1K to a prize pool.
Onchain Action Rewards: Similar to the campaigns above, any onchain action can be rewarded with chances to win. Identify key actions (mint, stake, bet, claim, etc. ) and execute a campaign to reward eligible wallets.
Vault Sponsorship Campaign: Identify juicy vaults and pursue partners (yield sources or token issuers) to deposit big TVL and renounce prizes, thus giving vault depositors more chances to win.
Budget
Amount Token
$13,000 USDC
The total request is $13,000 USDC, payable upfront for two months of work.
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# PTBR-23: Watchman Labs
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Start Date November 1st, 2024
Duration of Work 2 months
Budget $13,000 USDC
Summary:
Watchman Labs will drive Prize Pool Contributions (PPC) and thus grow Total Value Locked (TVL), and Total Unique Wallets (TUW) while exploring innovative ways to build with the PoolTogether Protocol.
By engaging with partners and attending events, we aim to enhance PoolTogether's reach, build key partnerships, and ultimately drive lasting growth.
Recent Wins:
Coinbase Onchain Summer NFT Activation resulted in 4.9 million mints, 8.5K smart wallet mints, and led adoption across all Base campaigns by a factor of 3.
In one month, raised $4K+ in Prize Pool Contributions, equivalent to a prize pool contribution of $2.2 million USDC on Base.
Currently in talks with Gnosis for Prize Pool sponsorship.
These successes highlight the potential of strategic collaborations and innovative campaigns. By leveraging similar tactics and relationships, Watchman Labs will drive PoolTogether’s growth in PPC, TVL, and TUW.
Scope of Work
Motivation:
Following the successful launch of V5 and the introduction of permissionless vaults, PoolTogether is poised for significant growth. This proposal seeks to capitalize on that momentum by increasing PPC through strategic partnerships, product innovation and incentives.
Goal:
To grow TVL in the WSTETH/ETH vault to $7 million by December 31 2024 so that we unlock the remaining 92K OP in Bonus Rewards.
Coordinate with Pooltime and G9 Software to launch pooltogether.yearn.space, while finding incentives for current vaults and finding new vaults to feature.
Promote Gnosis Vault Boost and encourage continued and greater investment.
Raise $13,000 in prize pool contributions by developing strategic partnerships, launching campaigns, and drumming up incentives to drive prize pool growth, TVL and new user adoption.
Milestones & Deliverables:
Partnership Development:
Collaborate with key partners like Beefy, Yearn, and other yield sources/chains to expand incentives and reach. Raise $13K in PPC by EOY via direct contribution or vault yield by growing TVL.
Work with Beefy and Lido to reach $7 Million TVL to unlock 92K OP by EOY.
Continue to create solutions and build out reporting for these partners in a continued process of experimentation to keep projects engaged.
PPC Experimentation:
Develop, launch and manage campaigns focused on staking vaults and delegation to grow PPC.
Mint and Win Campaigns: Based off of the success of the Onchain Summer Campaign, pursue Base, Circle, and other partners like Privy to launch a larger campaign.
Loyalty Rewards: Work with partners like Zerion and Rainbow to provide additional rewards to premium users. Laucnh a campaign that contributes at least $1K to a prize pool.
Onchain Action Rewards: Similar to the campaigns above, any onchain action can be rewarded with chances to win. Identify key actions (mint, stake, bet, claim, etc. ) and execute a campaign to reward eligible wallets.
Vault Sponsorship Campaign: Identify juicy vaults and pursue partners (yield sources or token issuers) to deposit big TVL and renounce prizes, thus giving vault depositors more chances to win.
Budget
Amount Token
$13,000 USDC
The total request is $13,000 USDC, payable upfront for two months of work.
We welcome community feedback on this proposal and look forward to collaborating with PoolTogether stakeholders to drive the next phase of growth.
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Opposed to incentivizing all vaults. If we are going to spend treasury, lets spend it in a calculated manner.
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The proposal would benefit from a clearer focus and strategic direction rather than a rushed implementation. This proposal aims to incentivize all vaults and chains without a targeted growth plan or any analysis of past performance.
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I migrated from V3 before it was cool ;)
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There needs to be a more in depth plan than just propping up the protocol on POOL holders.
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# PTBR-22: POOL Incentives
# PTBR-22: POOL Distribution
| | |
| ------- | ------ |
| Start Date | October 29, 2024 |
| Duration | 6 months |
| Budget | 800,000 POOL |
This proposal will grow PoolTogether by launching POOL incentives across all chains.
# Scope of Work
## Motivation
Many of the current incentives end on October 28 or early in November. We need to continue the incentives to grow and maintain TVL. See the [Rewards app](https://rewards.cabana.fi/). for more detail.
Distributing POOL to depositors will:
- Incentivize deposits
- Distribute ownership to as many people as possible
- Distribute POOL liquidity across chains
## Goal
We will distribute 800,000 POOL across all chains we are deployed to.
## Milestones & Deliverables
### TWAB Rewards
We will create a 6 month long TWAB Reward program that distributes 800,000 POOL across all six chains. Epochs will be weekly, except on Ethereum where it will be monthly.
The POOL will be distributed like so:
|Chain|Portion of Rewards|POOL|
|---|---|---|
|Optimism|55.45%|443,599.77|
|Base|16.89%|135,140.36|
|Arbitrum|0.69%|5,556.26|
|Scroll|0.26%|2,068.02|
|Ethereum|21.99%|175,938.84|
|Gnosis|4.71%|37,696.74|
The following is the vault breakdown:
|Vault|POOL|Effective Bonus APR|
|---|---|---|
|Prize USDC|308,639.43|6.51%|
|Prize WETH|79,406.01|6.72%|
|Prize DAI|32,585.87|7.15%|
|Prize LUSD|13,632.27|8.41%|
|Prize POOL/WETH|10,627.83|9.32%|
|Prize WETH|99,762.64|7.03%|
|Prize USDC|76,499.11|9.59%|
|Prize WETH|3,086.87|11.02%|
|Prize USDC|2,598.55|25.99%|
|Prize wxDAI|37,890.49|6.89%|
|Prize USDC|53,865.22|7.03%|
|Prize WETH|28,348.32|6.91%|
|Prize AERO|17,042.60|7.54%|
|Prize wstETH|14,546.03|7.27%|
|Prize cbETH|6,428.35|8.69%|
|Prize superOETH|3,459.66|15.73%|
|Prize POOL/LUSD|9,415.86|7.85%|
|Prize WETH|2,164.89|15.25%|
## Timeline
We roll this out ASAP and have it last six months.
# Budget
Budget includes USDC for gas.
| |
| --- |
| 800,000 POOL |
| 1000 USDC |
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# PTIP-94: Redirect Yield from PT V3
# PTIP-94: Redirect Yield from PT V3
This proposal will withdraw yield from deprecated PoolTogether V3 vaults, then deploy smart contracts that redirect yield into PoolTogether V5 permanently.
# Abstract
Yield from PoolTogether V3 prize pools will be liquidated using our V5 bots and contributed to the V5 Prize Pool on behalf of the POOL vault. Prizes will grow and POOL stakers will benefit.
# Motivation
There are eleven PoolTogether V3 prize pools that are no longer operating. We have facilitated the migration to V5 with the migration app, but there is still $1.5m+ in TVL.
While not large, the deposits are still generating ~$4k USD per month in yield.
Contributing that yield into the V5 Prize Pool on behalf of the POOL vault is the simplest way to integrate the old code.
# Specification
## Overview
This PTIP will attach a custom V3 Prize Strategy to each V3 Prize Pool. The custom strategy will expose the yield to V5 liquidator bots, which will arbitrage the yield into the V5 Prize Pool.
The yield will be auctioned using a fixed price; this will ensure efficient liquidations as TVL drops and yield diminishes.
## Technical Specification
The proposal will:
1. Install adapters for the USDC, DAI, COMP and UNI V3 Prize Pools.
2. Withdraw the current yield from the USDC and DAI prize pools to the treasury (about $75k USD)
3. Set up the adapters to liquidate yield at a fixed price from now on
USDC - $728k TVL, about $3600 per month in yield.
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DAI - $354k TVL, about $400 per month in yield.
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I look forward to maintaining the awesome apps and infra we've built in the past couple years.
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# PTBR-21: G9 Support
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| ---------------- | ------------- |
| Start Date | Oct 1st, 2024 |
| Duration of Work | 3 months |
| Budget | $41,100 USD |
Generation (G9) Software Inc. is a proud service provider to the PoolTogether protocol.
For this proposal we are offering to host the Cabana apps and provide developer support.
# Scope of Work
## Motivation
The G9 team has been an extremely proud contributor to the PoolTogether protocol. We began research and development on PoolTogether V5 more than a year ago, and in a month we’ll have deployed V5 to six chains. The protocol is fully autonomous and immutable; new assets can be added by anyone, the protocol can be deployed by anyone, and the POOL token plays a critical role. We have achieved all of our goals!
Research and development is complete, so it’s now time for the community to focus on adoption and maintenance of our existing deployments. In an effort to reduce the protocol’s burn rate and extend the runway, G9 will be offering a reduced set of services starting Q4 2024.
## Goal
Our goal is to ensure that PoolTogether continues to thrive. This means continued hosting for the apps, bug fixes, and developer guidance for those wishing to spin up their own apps, bots, vaults, or otherwise.
## Deliverables
### Hosting of Cabana Suite of Apps
G9 will continue to host the Cabana suite of apps at [https://cabana.fi.](https://cabana.fi.)
### Developer Support
G9 will retain developers and have them on call to:
* Fix any issues with the apps or infrastructure to ensure uptime
* Assist the community as needed
* Provide guidance for builders and partners
The developers will be available on Discord and at least one representative will attend the Council calls each week.
# Budget
| Amount | Token |
| ------ | ----- |
| 41,100 | USDC |
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Capital efficiency let's goooooooo
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# PTIP-93: Migrate V3 and V4 Treasury into Mainnet V5
# Summary
With the Launch of V5 on Mainnet the protocol now has the ability to migrate our Treasury that is still in V3 and V4 into the new Mainnet deployment.
# Motivation
The Treasury still holds over 500k in funds that can earn yield and generate prizes. Currently the funds are not earning any yield or are earning it for the older versions. Depositing those funds into the V5 Mainnet deployment allows us to bootsstrap it and provides indirect incentives without spending any new funds directly.
# Details
The Treasury funds can be seen here:
[https://info.pooltogether.com](https://info.pooltogether.com)
We would mainly be moving the 91.4 SPETHWIN, the 116k USDC and the 108k PTaUSDC.
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Very happy to see Geeloko building a team!
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# PTBR-20: susu.club <> PoolTogether
## ( Launch in Ghana & Kenya )
**Start date**: August 23rd, 2024 **Est. Timeline**: 6 months **Budget**: 35,000 $USDC
Susu is a term in Ghana, used to describe Savings and Credit Cooperatives( SACCOs ). It is a common way for people to save money in places where there may not be access to traditional banking.
susu.club is built on top of the PoolTogether protocol and is designed to provide a better experience & security for these kinds of financial services.
susu.club uses account abstraction( gasless smart accounts ) w/ email logins( embedded wallets ) and third party cash on & off ramps to bring SACCOs operations onchain.
Using susu.club members primarily in emerging markets, like Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and more can onramp USDC stablecoins with cash, and magically have it deposited into a special( 50/50 Yield/Prizes ) susu.club \<> PoolTogether USDC vault on Base
# **Scope of Work**
## Motivation( *Why susu.club \<> PoolTogether?* )
susu.club is focused on onboarding non-crypto natives & SACCOs in emerging markets at its start, giving PoolTogether a strong foothold in African countries like Ghana and Kenya. susu.club aims to serve the “unbanked”, change at this level could potentially spark change in the thinking & use of onchain assets in the region, proving why they are better and more practical for fintech applications & systems. Having PoolTogether power this service in Africa, alongside Coinbase Smart Wallet, Privy and Biconomy puts the protocol in a good position to benefit from the growth this user group will see in the coming months and years.
## Goal
> To actively build & reimagine what SACCOs operations could look like onchain w/ susu.club as the model for this experiment. The goal is to provide users the more simple values of DeFi without having to worry about knowing what crypto is…becoming the go to infra provider for simple community savings accounts with a recognizable web2 user experience.
## Milestones & Deliverables
* **Develop GTM for susu.club( Onboarding susu.club Members ).** Create & execute a marketing plan, refine the susu.club brand, and create marketing materials. Run onboarding sessions resulting in the onboarding of 1000 users in 3 months. Make walkthroughs for getting their first funds onboarded & setup on susu.club, show them what they can win, how/when they can claim their rewards. Includes defining an incentive program( deposit $5 get $5 for first 100-500 users? ) and creating strategies to promote the campaign.
* **Onboarding Susu Collectors** Susu collectors are the ‘mobile bankers’ who work for the SACCOs collecting deposits from all their members spread across the local community. It’s a very hectic job that involves walking & standing all day. They may very well be the lifeline of SACCOs operations, the whole chain is impossible to run without them as it stands now! The goal is to design and Run onboarding sessions with 20 susu collectors. Develop business models that attract susu collectors, teach them the basics of PT including prizes and yield, get them setup and ready to act as ‘agents’ in the system, onboarding members to susu.club
* **Community Education, Management & Meetups** Create & Manage WhatsApp groups w/ the two main interest groups, i.e. susu.club members & susu collectors alongside other management from SACCOs. Plan & organize monthly ‘pool party’ meetups creating a better bond and familiarity with the problems, goals & user groups we are building for.
* **Building and Strengthening susu.club mobile app & website** Build out final code needed to allow for claiming bonus rewards, and withdrawing funds to cash, etc. Integrating more third party cash ramps to cover diversified regions & offer more competitive rates and fees for club members. Also in order to provide the best experiences and ease availability to mobile users, will be beginning work on react native expo app deployments for Android and iOS devices & expected to have them live in the respective app stores before the end of the funding period.
* **Apply for Grants** Build relationships w/ & Apply for 3+ grants for future funding from Base, Circle, Biconomy, Moonwell and Optimism. Grants should be aimed at sponsored gas for club members, continuing to fund development & scaling up of susu.club, not to forget incentives for onboarding so the club can grow its audience after this PTBR has ended.
## Team & Timeline
**geeloko**: Development and Operations **TBD**: Design & Community
**Past Ecosystem Contributions**
* [**ethOS x Pooltogether**](https://github.com/Tickether/pooltogether-ethOS-ts)
* [**Pweethy**](https://github.com/Tickether/prize-loans-pt-x-sf-hackathon)
* [**Flip Flop**](https://github.com/Tickether/FlipFlop)
**susu.club Contributions( pre-PTBR )**
* [**Mobile friendly web app to access Pooltogether vault**](https://www.loom.com/share/6fd9fe1008d842b2b2e91a23a9ebf02d)
* [**AA bot for magic Pooltogether deposits**](https://tinyurl.com/aaPrzDep)
* [**AA bot to abstract wETH prizes and auto compound**](https://tinyurl.com/aaPrizeRedirect)
* [**AA bot to airdrop yield fee weekly based on TWAB**](https://tinyurl.com/aaIncentives)
The timeframe of this request is expected to last six months, featuring weekly team updates with the council.
# Budget
Below highlights the general budget for a growing team’s operational expenses & details the budget allocations, including the KPI’s we will be tracking for each of these specified milestones mentioned above
**Team Budget**: 35,000 $USDC
## *Allocation Breakdown*
> **Budget** - 5000 USDC
> **KPI** - Customer Acquisition Cost( CAC )
> **Task** - Sponsors the signup bonuses for first 1000users
> **Budget** - 3000 USDC
> **KPI** - Monthly Active Users( MAUs ) ( Reach 5-10k unique visitors monthly )
> **Task** - Experiment with influencer marketing on non crypto native socials Snapchat & Tik Tok( our target users are not crypto native ) ( team of up to two social marketers )
> **Budget** - 12000 USDC
> **KPI** - Total Volume (TVL) ( 3000-5000$ in initial launch months and projected to grow 10-50% MOM )
> **Task** - Special alliance with susu collectors who will double as community moderators, putting us in a unique position to get organic deposits from the current active user base of IRL susu enterprises( vampire attack deposits ) ( team of up to five susu collectors )
> **Budget** - 15000 USDC
> **KPI** - Mobile Downloads
> **Task** - Designs, Mobile app/Web app development, operations ( team of up to two builders )
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# PTIP-92: Budget for Ethereum Launch Incentives
# Summary
G9 is applying for a budget of 50k POOL to use for incentives for the upcoming PoolTogether V5 Ethereum launch.
# Details
The POOL will be used to create TWAB Rewards for Aave V3 USDC and WETH vaults.
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Geeloko has made some changes to this PTBR and will post an updated version.
Voting against, but in favor of the upcoming one.
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# PTBR-20: susu.club <> PoolTogether
## ( Launch in Ghana & Kenya )
**Start date**: August 14th, 2024 **Est. Timeline**: 6 months **Budget**: 60,000 $USDC
Susu is a term in Ghana, used to describe Savings and Credit Cooperatives( SACCOs ). It is a common way for people to save money in places where there may not be access to traditional banking.
susu.club is built on top of the PoolTogether protocol and is designed to provide a better experience & security for these kinds of financial services.
susu.club uses account abstraction( gasless smart accounts ) w/ email logins( embedded wallets ) and third party cash on & off ramps to bring SACCOs operations onchain.
Using susu.club members primarily in emerging markets, like Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and more can onramp USDC stablecoins with cash, and magically have it deposited into a special( 50/50 Yield/Prizes ) susu.club <> PoolTogether USDC vault on Base
**Scope of Work**
=================
## Motivation( *Why susu.club <> PoolTogether?* )
susu.club is focused on onboarding non-crypto natives & SACCOs in emerging markets at its start, giving PoolTogether a strong foothold in African countries like Ghana and Kenya. susu.club aims to serve the “unbanked”, change at this level could potentially spark change in the thinking & use of onchain assets in the region, proving why they are better and more practical for fintech applications & systems. Having PoolTogether power this service in Africa, alongside Coinbase Smart Wallet, Privy and Biconomy puts the protocol in a good position to benefit from the growth this user group will see in the coming months and years.
## Goal
> To actively build & reimagine what SACCOs operations could look like onchain w/ susu.club as the model for this experiment. The goal is to provide users the more simple values of DeFi without having to worry about knowing what crypto is…becoming the go to infra provider for simple community savings accounts with a recognizable web2 user experience.
## Milestones & Deliverables
* **Develop GTM for susu.club( Onboarding susu.club Members ).**
Create & execute a marketing plan, refine the susu.club brand, and create marketing materials. Run onboarding sessions resulting in the onboarding of 1000 users in 3 months. Make walkthroughs for getting their first funds onboarded & setup on susu.club, show them what they can win, how/when they can claim their rewards. Includes defining an incentive program( deposit $5 get $5 for first 100-500 users? ) and creating strategies to promote the campaign.
* **Onboarding Susu Collectors**
Susu collectors are the ‘mobile bankers’ who work for the SACCOs collecting deposits from all their members spread across the local community. It’s a very hectic job that involves walking & standing all day. They may very well be the lifeline of SACCOs operations, the whole chain is impossible to run without them as it stands now! The goal is to design and Run onboarding sessions with 20 susu collectors. Develop business models that attract susu collectors, teach them the basics of PT including prizes and yield, get them setup and ready to act as ‘agents’ in the system, onboarding members to susu.club
* **Community Education, Management & Meetups**
Create & Manage WhatsApp groups w/ the two main interest groups, i.e. susu.club members & susu collectors alongside other management from SACCOs. Plan & organize monthly ‘pool party’ meetups creating a better bond and familiarity with the problems, goals & user groups we are building for.
* **Building and Strengthening susu.club mobile app & website**
Build out final code needed to allow for claiming bonus rewards, and withdrawing funds to cash, etc. Integrating more third party cash ramps to cover diversified regions & offer more competitive rates and fees for club members. Also in order to provide the best experiences and ease availability to mobile users, will be beginning work on react native expo app deployments for Android and iOS devices & expected to have them live in the respective app stores before the end of the funding period.
* **Apply for Grants**
Build relationships w/ & Apply for 3+ grants for future funding from Base, Circle, Biconomy, Moonwell and Optimism. Grants should be aimed at sponsored gas for club members, continuing to fund development & scaling up of susu.club, not to forget incentives for onboarding so the club can grow its audience after this PTBR has ended.
## Team & Timeline
**geeloko**: Development and Operations **TBD**: Design & Community
**Past Ecosystem Contributions**
* [**ethOS x Pooltogether**](https://github.com/Tickether/pooltogether-ethOS-ts)
* [**Pweethy**](https://github.com/Tickether/prize-loans-pt-x-sf-hackathon)
* [**Flip Flop**](https://github.com/Tickether/FlipFlop)
**susu.club Contributions( pre-PTBR )**
* [**Mobile friendly web app to access Pooltogether vault**](https://www.loom.com/share/6fd9fe1008d842b2b2e91a23a9ebf02d)
* [**AA bot for magic Pooltogether deposits**](https://tinyurl.com/aaPrzDep)
* [**AA bot to abstract wETH prizes and auto compound**](https://tinyurl.com/aaPrizeRedirect)
* [**AA bot to airdrop yield fee weekly based on TWAB**](https://tinyurl.com/aaIncentives)
The timeframe of this request is expected to last six months, featuring weekly team updates with the council.
# Budget
Below highlights the general budget for a growing team & their operational expenses as well as a specified allocation for [**suPrzUSDC**](https://basescan.org/address/0x985c54cdf07703b07f303a3039459d6b1dd7330a#writeContract) Vault Sponsorship( funds will be held in a multisig safe signed by community teams’ selected delegate & return to the treasury at the end of PTBR timeframe )
**Team Budget**: 35,000 $USDC **Vault Sponsor Budget**: 25,000 $USDC
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Let the people bridge \o/
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# PTIP-91: Across Liquidity
# PTIP-91
## Simple Summary
The liquidity on Across is currently quite low and that makes bridging even medium sized amounts for users impossible and/or means long bridging times. With the introduction of przPOOL Vaults and PT becoming more and more MultiChain being able to bridge POOL tokens easily between chains has become an important part of the protocol.
This proposal aims to solve the low liquidity problem on Across by putting more funds into the Across POOL LP on Mainnet and the Across Relayer maintained by the Across Team. 
## Abstract
This proposal will increase the current protocol owned liquidity on Across by 75k from 75k to 150k. Furthermore we will send 25k POOL to the Relayer maintained by Across to increase our Relayer amount from 25k to 50k.
## Motivation
This proposal aims to solve the low liquidity problem on Across by putting more funds into the Across POOL LP on Mainnet and the Across Relayer maintained by the Across Team. Currently the protocol has 75k POOL in the LP and 25k in the Relayer. In Theory anyone can provide liquidity for the LP but most funds are protocol owned right now. The protocol earns fees by providing liquidity and the funds can stay in the treasury after a team has executed the needed transactions. The total POOL staked on Across is currently 104k, utilization is at 98% and APY at 5.5%.
The Across Relayer is needed to facilitate fast transactions and is currently maintained by the Across Team. Funds for the Relayer would be in their custody. The Across Team has been a very experienced and trusted partner in the past and has managed to solve any questions and problems efficiently and fast. Furthermore they are providing the bridge service completely free of charge.
## Specification
* Transfer 25k to Across Relayer eth: 0x428AB2BA90Eba0a4Be7aF34C9Ac451ab061AC010
* Approve 75k POOL Spending for Across HubPool: `0xc186fA914353c44b2E33eBE05f21846F1048bEda`
* Provide 75k liquidity on Across HubPool: `0xc186fA914353c44b2E33eBE05f21846F1048bEda`
## Status
Live:
On chain for voting!
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# PTIP-90: Lesser POOL Distribution on Base
Last proposal ([see PTIP-89](https://www.tally.xyz/gov/pooltogether/proposal/103429462605512475648502997597225737978967376448470547257874741795750914460716)) to distribute POOL to based depositors during the planned grand prize boosting period did not pass. After some discussions with those against the proposal, it seems the main point of contention was the amount of POOL to distribute.
If you agree with this sentiment, consider voting to pass this proposal instead! The amount of POOL proposed to be distributed here has been reduced by 75%, down to 50,000 POOL.
If this proposal passes, the exact same plan of action will take place as described in PTIP-89, but with a diminished amount of POOL tokens.
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przPOOL APRs are going to be insane. We should get POOL into people's hands during this period.
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15% APR of POOL rewards is too big.
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Big prize > everything
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let's boost that base gp!
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This temperature check was decided by 3 people, and the decision to go with 200K POOL over 60 days does not take into account discussions that took place on discord where several people agreed that small POOL drip with chance to win a big prize was the way to go. This proposal will drive POOL below 10 cents and will be the final nail in the coffin for the POOL token. Hopefully the team thinks twice about pushing this one through. I support the other proposal to boost the grand prize, but not this. I broke up with the POOL token a while back but if she can change I might take her back.
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# PTIP-89: POOL Distribution on Base
During a period of grand prize boosting on any given network (until the boost's completion), users of that network may see prize sizes increasing, but will have lesser chances to win prizes. See [PTIP-88](https://www.tally.xyz/gov/pooltogether/proposal/112658853953675115744900431708986565347040787660688975088630947212802928014941) or the [forum discussion](https://gov.pooltogether.com/t/rfc-pooltogether-growth-plan/3279) for more details on grand prize boosting.
Winning prizes are the bread and butter of PoolTogether, and so during this period we propose distributing POOL to users on Base using our existing rewards infrastructure. We've held a [snapshot vote](https://snapshot.org/#/pooltogether.eth/proposal/0x2c84de6b99fc05a27fa1472807475d54032d46c91473d5a7a520286cacc110f1) to determine what amount of POOL everyone seemed most comfortable with, reaching a majority consensus of 200k.
### The Plan
POOL rewards would be designated to each yield-generating prize vault on Base relative to their prize pool contributions (PPCs). This means that whichever prize vault contributes the most to growing the prizes, gets the most rewards!
The duration of these rewards would correspond to the grand prize boosting period. Pending the successful passing of PTBR-20, this would currently correspond to 2 months.
### Custody Details
This proposal directs the POOL tokens to a multisig controlled by Generation Software. These tokens would have to be bridged to Base, where they can then be split between our many prize vaults for distribution.
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# PTIP-88: Grand Prize Boosting on Base
It's time for some big prizes...
We've been running with the assumption that there is a circular relationship between big prizes and more people saving money with PoolTogether. We've seen a bit of this with previous protocol version, but it's time to ***really*** put it to the test.
Over the past month we've had an active [discussion](https://gov.pooltogether.com/t/rfc-pooltogether-growth-plan/3279) on *how* to make this happen. Some details and projections of using the "GP Booster" contract were shared which I'll shortly comment on further below. More recently we've held a [snapshot vote](https://snapshot.org/#/pooltogether.eth/proposal/0xc1201ac197f43d500bd6588f56eb3613b780b86240cb39a719a18666a991aea7) on *where* to make this happen. We've chosen Base.
### How It Works
The ETH requested through this proposal would be linearly contributed to the prize pool on Base throughout a period of 2 months. While somewhat dependent on probability, recent estimates and onchain experiments show approximately ~70% of this value would increase the prize pool's grand prize tier (keeping in mind that half of this goes towards the next grand prize and the rest to following grand prizes). The other ~30% would increase other prize tiers' sizes as well as increase the chances of POOL stakers (przPOOL depositors) to win prizes.
Throughout this 2 month period the "GP Booster" contract itself will have a very high chance of winning prizes, in which case it instantly re-contributes the prize amount back into the prize pool. It is prevented from winning the grand prize. During this period, while prizes may be larger, the fact that users may not win as often points to the need for some temporary drip. Another proposal alongside this one will be posted to address this.
### Some Projections
With these estimates in mind it is expected that the next grand prize on Base would grow by approximately ~21 ETH. At current ETH prices, this is $70k. This amount does not take into consideration the 0.68 ETH ($2.2k) already in the Base prize pool's grand prize as well as any natural growth of deposits/yield during this 2 month period.
### Custody Details
This proposal directs the funds for this boosting to a multisig controlled by Generation Software. These funds would then be swapped for WETH, bridged to Base, and a "GP Booster" contract would have to be setup where these funds could finally be deposited.
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I'm part of the team, so I'll abstain
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# PTBR-19: Pooltime
# \[RFC] PTBR-19: Pooltime
**Start date**: July 1st, 2024
**Est. Timeline**: 6 months
**Budget**: 140,000 $USDC
Pooltime is a team of dedicated long-time contributors who have been meaningfully involved in all layers of the PoolTogether universe. We have a track record of serving the community’s needs while adapting accordingly.
The team consists of two full-time and two part-time contributors: Tjark, underthesea, Lonser & Shivansh. We are asking the PoolTogether community for a six-month budget extension to sustain our work for Q3 and Q4.
## Scope of Work
### Motivation
The Pooltime team is obsessed with the vision of onchain prize savings. For us, PoolTogether is one of the very few protocols on the brink of proving true positive-sum financial applications are possible. We’re here to ultimately help PoolTogether in its transition to becoming a true public good.
With the relaunch of PoolTogether V5, we entered a transformative phase for the protocol and its community. PoolTogether is finally at a point where it can scale. We’re ready to focus on highlighting the different parts of the system and the builders who are building on top of it.
### Goal
Our goal is to keep this community fun. It should be fun being a Pooler. Members should be proud to be a part of the community and to contribute to making PoolTogether what it is.
We want to bring the excitement for the PoolTogether vision back by setting positive examples and empowering members of the community to achieve their goals.
## Milestones & Deliverables
In our pursuit to promote PoolTogether, we’ve often been too quiet about our own achievements as a team. We acknowledge that this creates a difficult setting. Going on from here we strive to build more in the open and ensure no single improvement or milestone goes uncelebrated by providing regular updates on the forum.
### Community Building
We act as a bridge between the protocol, brand, community, builders, and lurkers. This community needs care and safe spaces to get together and align. We are dedicated to responsibly maintaining, nurturing, and safekeeping our community spaces, providing a secure and inclusive environment for anyone who wants to engage with the PoolTogether ecosystem.
* **Maintain spaces for the community**: Ensure the upkeep and security of community spaces across various platforms.
* **Host weekly Community Calls**: Organize and facilitate weekly calls to engage community members and discuss protocol updates.
* **Manage delegation budget**: Administer a $100,000 budget to support growth and community initiatives.
* **Sustain a level playing field**: Enforce the community code of conduct to maintain fairness and inclusivity.
* **Create a space for knowledge transfer**: Members of our team have been around since the PoolTogether stoneage. We are looking to open-source our knowledge by creating a space to drop PoolTogether knowledge bombs.
### Social Media Management
We lead PoolTogether’s brand efforts across various social media platforms, keeping the community informed and providing ways to get engaged. We’re constantly monitoring any mentions of PoolTogether and related keywords and engage accordingly. 
* **Amplify protocol updates and collaborations**: Share updates, collaboration news, and success stories to keep the community informed and excited.
* **Interact with users**: Engage with user-generated content, cross-post inspiring stories, and highlight key community members and integrators.
* **Announce major enhancements**: Celebrate winners and announce new features and protocol improvements.
* **Share Interesting stats**: Provide regular updates on key metrics, such as prize distributions and participation statistics.
* **Remind about opportunities**: Keep the community informed about current opportunities, such as reward programs and upcoming campaigns.
* **Create a multi-part content series**: Develop a series of articles to educate about prize savings with PoolTogether.
Handles and spaces we oversee for the PoolTogether community:
* [Discord](https://pooltogether.com/discord)
* [X (formerly Twitter)](https://twitter.com/pooltogether_)
* [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/pooltogether)
* [Lens](https://share.lens.xyz/u/pooltogether.lens)
* [Mirror](https://pooltogether.mirror.xyz/)
* [Guild](https://guild.xyz/pooltogether)
* [Zora](https://zora.co/0x7437ba619ab8bb0eb124b987647a27c95a9cc00f)
* [Uplink](https://uplink.wtf/pooltogether)
* [Warpcast Channel](https://warpcast.com/pooltogether)
* [Substack](http://pooltogethercommunity.substack.com/)
* [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/pooltogether)
* [Telegram 1](https://t.me/PoolTogetherTelegram)
### Pooltime App & Toolsuite
We are enhancing the user experience through pooltime.app and associated tools.
* **Upgrade landing page**: Develop an intuitive landing page to welcome new and existing users.
* **Optimize for mobile friendliness**: Ensure the app and tools are optimized for mobile use.
* **Improve monitoring**: The Pooltime API allows to easily tap into PoolTogether data. We are looking to set up additional public monitoring events in #pooly-bot.
* **Innovate on prize hooks**: Integrate features leveraging prize hooks to run engagement experiments and showcase possibilities of protocol tech.
* **Gas-free transactions**: Explore options to make the Pooltime app gas-free.
* **Smart wallet integration**: Investigate the integration of smart wallets for a more seamless user experience.
### Pool For Good
We aim to leverage the protocol for social impact by creating and promoting “Pool For Good” as PoolTogether’s charitable arm. The community has already shown [clear support for the idea](https://gov.pooltogether.com/t/rfc-new-vault-with-charitable-component/3269) and we are ready to execute the foundation work.
* **Set up Charity Prize Vault**: Establish a prize vault dedicated to charitable causes.
* **Inject OP Incentives**: Provide Optimism (OP) incentives to encourage participation.
* **Create Social Media Posts and Blog Articles**: Promote the charity vault through various content channels.
* **Create Documentation**: Develop comprehensive documentation to support the charity prize vault initiative.
* **Develop Front End**: Develop an interface to interact with and display information about Pool for Good.
### Contributor Fund
We plan to support builders and contributors by providing funding and resources to encourage involvement and innovation within the PoolTogether ecosystem. We have bootstrapped the contributor fund with $17k, which we are planning to put into action soon.
* **Create Documentation**: Develop detailed guidelines and documentation for accessing the contributor fund.
* **Distribute Funds**: Allocate funds to contributors to support their projects and initiatives.
### Proposal Support
Anyone should feel empowered to engage in shaping PoolTogether. We continue to offer assistance to anyone aligned with PoolTogether’s vision and values.
* Copyread RFCs for PTIPs and PTBRs: Provide editorial support for requests for comments and proposals.
* Provide $POOL Delegations: Allocate $POOL tokens to support proposal creation.
* Assist in Bringing Proposals Onchain: Help move proposals through the necessary stages to be implemented onchain.
### Budget
* Total Requested: $140,000
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There is some good stuff in the PTBR, but voting no as a signal after the whale vote because I think hammering it through with the whale account is not the way to go, would have probably voted abstain otherwise.
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Funds needed for these task items have already been released.
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More refinement needed. Push all in on growing this thing to maximize the value POOL can bring in. Spending all the treasury on salaries and flooding the market with POOL is not the solution in my opinion.
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Imagine the central bank making a proposal like this
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# PTBR 18: PoolTogether <> G9 Software Inc.
# PTBR 18: PoolTogether <> G9 Software Inc.
| Start Date | July 1st, 2024 |
| ------------- | -------------- |
| Est. Timeline | 3 months |
[Original Forum Discussion](https://gov.pooltogether.com/t/ptbr-18-pooltogether-g9-software-inc/3273/1 "PTBR-18 Forum Discussion")
Generation (G9) Software Inc. is a proud service provider to the PoolTogether protocol. In our previous budget request we helped relaunch PoolTogether V5 across major Ethereum L2s.
For this scope of work, we aim to build upon the new V5 deployment with new chains, vaults, partnerships, and marketing campaigns.
# Scope of Work
## Motivation
We launched PoolTogether V5. Now it's time to build on it.
PoolTogether is live on Optimism, Base, Arbitrum, and will be deployed to Ethereum by the end of Q2. Each deployment can be permissionlessly extended by anyone.
However, in order for a fully decentralized and permissionless system to grow it must be easy and valuable for anyone to build on. We must continue to develop partnerships, improve tooling for builders, and design incentives such that the protocol is well positioned to grow and operate in perpetuity.
## Goals
Our primary goal is protocol growth. We measure growth based on prize pool contributions (PPC) and total unique wallets (TUW). Our current PPC is ~$1000 USD per day, and we have ~1000 active accounts. Our goal is to 5x both of those numbers by the end of Q3 2024.
The prize pool contribution is the amount of Ether contributed to the prize pool in a given timeframe. This is a direct measure of the volume of funds flowing *into* prizes. For example, our current daily PPC is ~0.38 Ether, or approximately $1000 USD.
We can achieve high PPC with high TVL, high APR, or through other means such as vault boosts. Focusing on PPC allows us to find creative means to improve this metric rather than obsess over TVL.
Total unique wallets is also an important metric for us; it serves as a signal indicating the reach of the protocol. Historically, PoolTogether has had a high number of users with conservative balances of $100-$1000 USD. While it's not our most important measure, it's essential for us to track TUW for efforts such as partnerships.
## Strategy
We believe we can achieve growth by working on three fronts: incentives, partnerships, and user experience.
Our PoolTogether flywheel thesis is that large prizes will attract deposits, which lead to larger prizes. However, this is a catch-22: we need deposits for prizes, but we need prizes to attract deposits. This tells us that incentives are required to bootstrap the protocol. We must continue to push for incentives and favour partners with incentives whenever possible. Fortunately, prize liquidity is sticky in V5, so even if mercenary capital leaves abruptly the grand prize will take months to disburse.
Strong partnerships are key to a successful protocol. We believe that building relationships with proactive partners will allow us to increase our profile and reach new communities. We can bring these communities more TVL in a fun, gamified package. Partners will unlock new abilities for us.
It's important to make PoolTogether as easy to use as possible. This is a unique product, and V5 is significantly more powerful than prior versions. We need to lead and showcase what it can do. For users, we need to make our interface as intuitive and fun as possible. For builders we need to make integrations a snap. Simple ideas spread; and the more brain trust we have the stronger we will be.
## Milestones and Deliverables
### New Chains
We can reach new users, partners, and integrations by deploying to more chains. We will deploy PoolTogether to **at least two new chains**. We are currently evaluating a number of chains, and will prioritize them based on the potential for growth and partnerships. We need to be opportunistic!
Our short list of chains are:
* Polygon
* Gnosis
* Scroll
* zkSync
* Blast
* Zerion
* Worldchain
* Linea
Each new chain deployment will need to be bootstrapped, so we will be creating a separate budget for Ether to bootstrap prizes.
### New Yield Sources
We will continue to research and add yield source integrations to the Vault Factory app, allowing anyone to safely and securely spin up new vaults with new yield sources. We will prioritize integrations that we deem to be the most impactful in terms of supported assets, incentives, and security stance.
We aim to execute on the highest impact partnerships and chains, while also supporting the overall ecosystem efforts (improving developer tooling, and docs, etc).
To achieve this we need to actively seek out and support the most impactful partnerships and new distribution channels.
And we need to make the builder experience as easy as possible; with great documentation, tooling, and playbooks describing what can be done with PoolTogether.
We need to do all this while maximizing the safety of the protocol.
### NFT Sweepstakes
We will build a first-class NFT Sweepstakes feature. This feature will allow anyone to give NFT holders a chance to win prizes. Sweepstakes will allow people to use PoolTogether in a whole new way, and offers a rich new surface area to explore in terms of distribution.
We are running marketing campaigns that leverage an early version of sweepstakes with imToken and Exodus.
[imToken Campaign Tweet](https://x.com/imTokenOfficial/status/1800120575727411395)
A first-class implementation will feature the ability to self-serve the integration and be accessible through the Cabana interface.
### POOL Staking Improvements
We will create a new staking section of the user interface that highlights the POOL vaults and communicates their unique value proposition. This will educate users on the utility of the POOL token.
The przPOOL vaults are currently being displayed like any other vault; but they operate in a very different way. The behaviour of the POOL vaults needs to be communicated more clearly to the end-user, so that they can see how the vaults behave reflexively to the prize volume. Doing this effectively will have a significant impact on the strength of POOL, as it helps people understand the benefits of staking their POOL
### Apply for Grants
In Q2 Generation, in collaboration with Pooltime, submitted a grant application which led to the procurement of 120,000 OP tokens that will be used to incentivize vaults. We also collaborated with Sherlock and won a grant of 75,000 OP to fund an additional security audit. We see many opportunities across ARB, BASE, OP and other chains to secure incentives for the protocol.
We will continue to apply for grants to fund protocol improvements and incentives.
It's important to note that G9 received grants that came to nearly our last budget. Our goal is to bring in more value for the protocol than we cost.
### PoolTogether Classic
We will explore a streamlined interface that abstracts away all the complexity in Cabana and deliver to users the most simple and clear prize savings experience possible.
### Documentation & Support
G9 will continue to improve the PoolTogether documentation, write tutorials, and provide support for PT builders in Discord.
### Open Source SDKs and Development Tools
G9 will build open source SDKs and tools to make development easier. These deliverables will be largely driven by partner and builder needs, so that we can be adaptive about how we can improve tooling.
### Hosting & Maintenance
We will also continue to host the Cabana suite of apps along with providing maintenance and making minor improvements. G9 will continue to host the Cabana suite so that builders have a no-code way to interact with vaults.
# Budget
| Description | Cost |
| ------------------------- | ------------ |
| Operations | $266,000 USD |
| Chain prize bootstrapping | 8 Ether |
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# Disable POOL Minting
# Disable POOL Minting
As per the [POOL Endgame Discussion](https://gov.pooltogether.com/t/pool-endgame/3260). Everyone agreed to disable minting new POOL.
## Background
The POOL supply is still unbounded in two ways: the first is the POOL held by the treasury, the second is that governance holds the ability to mint POOL.
The treasury holds 46% of the supply of POOL, which means that governance has the ability to nearly double the circulating supply of POOL. That’s a huge dilution risk to holders, and there is currently no plan to leverage those assets. It’s highly unpredictable what could happen.
Governance has the ability to mint up to 2% of the total supply every year. Given how much POOL is in the treasury, I don’t see a foreseeable need to mint new POOL. There is an immense amount of POOL in the treasury; we can safely remove the ability to mint and lock in our current total supply to an even 10m POOL.
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