This proposal needs 10M votes to progress and can be terminated by the author at any time.
Timelock.setPendingAdmin(0xc4e172459f1e7939d522503b81afaac1014ce6f6)
This proposal lowers the UNI proposal submission threshold from 10M UNI to 2.5M UNI.
Uniswap’s governance system currently has a high threshold of 10M votes for proposal submission. As mentioned in Dharma's earlier proposal, there have been discussions on lowering thresholds to make governance more accessible.
Since that original proposal, the number of delegated votes has increased from ~80M to ~170M, making it much easier to reach the quorum threshold of 40M votes. However, the UNI token price increase over the past 6 months has made the proposal submission threshold extremely difficult to achieve for one individual.
The Fish.vote team has prepared a new proposal in line with Dharma's original motivations: making governance more accessible, while still ensuring that Uniswap governance is not subject to unilateral deleterious actors. We propose a threshold of 2.5m UNI for proposal submission, and keeping the existing 40M quorum threshold. Though this proposal threshold is still quite high, we believe in making small, conservative changes in the right direction.
In order to reduce these thresholds, a new GovernorAlpha
contract is required. We have chosen to use the same smart contract code from Dharma's original proposal with these new values. To that end, we have deployed a new contract which contains the following changes:
proposalThreshold
has been modified from 10_000_000e18
to 2_500_000e18
, i.e. from 1% to 0.25%.__acceptAdmin()
function has been added, allowing the contract to claim ownership over the Timelock
contract once setPendingAdmin
has been executed.timelock
and uni
are now declared as constant
instead of via assignment to storage slots during contract construction, as their values are not modifiable after deployment (and use of immutable
would necessitate a major Solidity version bump and corresponding refactor of already well-audited code).We believe this proposal is a conservative step in the right direction for UNI governance, and one that creates a more accessible governance ecosystem. We hope this is the first of many improvements that Fish.vote can be a part of.