To help me get up to speed and to hone in on the most important challenges, @0xJMG and I meet once a week and discuss how StableLab can best support Reserve Protocol.
I’m going to be posting our meeting notes here for the sake of transparency, but also to give everyone a chance to chime in, ask questions or add points to our agenda.
The meeting notes will be posted as a reply to this post, feel free to quote and reply or just reply.
In the beginning of collaboration: we keep the 1:1 calls between James and Raphael to accelerate fast answers and decisions. Raphael to post notes in Reserve gov forums afterwards - see here.
Biggest current difficulty: how does governance flow work from RFC (Discourse) to IP (Register.app).
Sync with Reserve engineering (Patrick) on technical details
Raphael to get familiar with Reserve’s Discord Security Audit
Wanted: RFC and IP updates in Discord that are delightful and inviting to use, notification service options?
Create a new Discord category “Governance Alerts”
Break into two Discord channels
Governance RFCs - Integromat for Forums is really good
Governance IPs - Onchain gov alerts are not user friendly
Eng team currently using Hypernative but this solution is currently insufficient
Compound and Olympus have very user friendly gov IP alerts channels - maybe we should mimic this?
Friday weekly recap of governance RFCs and IPs pass or rejected, with forecast of what is coming in next week
James to add RToken community leads (Tom hyUSD, 0xSleepy ETH+, bsdETH) to StableLab<>Reserve telegram
Request status report on “this weeks RFC and IP” activity every Friday, to which StableLab will collate and synthesize into notes published weekly on gov forums
1. 0xSleepy: ETH+, bsdETH, dgnETH
2. Tom Sawyer: hyUSD
3. Griff (for now, wil add rex later): rgUSD
Other open questions to explore (that we did not have time for on April 5):
What emergency DAO actions should be prioritized? Create a debate map around that.
Raphael and Jose will publish upcoming on-chain polls in the gov-alerts channel on Discord manually, until a better solution can be implemented.
There will be no current Telegram notifications to limit implementation and maintenance cost.
Patrick will come on Thursday’s Governance Open Mic to talk about Reserve app development.
Further Discussion
Raphael to publish a thread about emergency action whitelisting, so the discussion around the topic can be used to amplify knowledge throughout the ecosystem about the pros and cons of that.
eleosUSD has a similar collateral basket to other RTokens, efforts need to be made to differentiate.
RSR onchain liquidity in Ethereum and offchain in Binance is decent. On arbitrum there is lower liquidity but a reason for it is the token was recently deployed. Community is engaged in increasing RSR liquidity in Base.
Reserve onchain proposals without prior forum discussion are to be avoided, current cases are due to updates in new projects that do not have depositors yet.
3.4.0 Upgrade code is almost ready, upgrade will be implemented in one go. bsdETH and hyUSD are waiting for the implementation. Wrapped collaterals will get benefitted from the upgrade, but some collateral will need to be unwrapped. The implementation is straightforward, an explanatory text will be provided to aid deployers.
fdUSD is issued by Binance and was created in response to the deprecation of BUSD because of legal issues.
Lift Dollar will generate risk-free yield.
USDM and M0 are currently under construction and just raised funds.
3.4.0 Upgrade is designed to make all current rTokens upgradeable. StableLab is currently working on a list to provide an overview on which rTokens have been upgraded.
LYBS token was deployed without prior communication, founders unknown.
wBTC has changed custody, now has three custodians and some web3 projects have raised concerns about trust assumptions and looked for alternatives to it.
We will try hosting the GovOps call in Twitter Spaces to attract more audience to the calls.
DAI will migrate to USDS and RTokens will need to migrate accordingly.