The Governance Facilitator(s) and the Protocol Engineering Core Unit have placed an executive proposal into the voting system. MKR Holders should vote for this proposal if they support the following alterations to the Maker Protocol.

If you are new to voting in the Maker Protocol, please see the voting guide to learn how voting works, and this wallet setup guide to set up your wallet to vote.

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Executive Summary

If this executive proposal passes, the following changes will occur within the Maker Protocol:

• A total of 54,752 DAI will be paid to eight Recognized Delegates as part of the Delegate Compensation Trial, listed in detail below.
• An increase in the threshold required to trigger the Emergency Shutdown Module, from 75,000 MKR to 100,000 MKR, detailed below.
• Parameter changes from the latest proposal from the MakerDAO Open Market Committee including Stability Fee decreases, Aave D3M Target Borrow Rate reduction, Debt Ceiling changes, and GUNIV3DAIUSDC2-A Target Available Debt increase, listed in detail below.
• The DAI budget streams for StarkNet Engineering and Strategic Finance will be replaced. To ensure continuity of funding, a DAI transfer constituting one month of funding will be made to each Core Unit.

Voting for this executive proposal will place your MKR in support of the changes and additions outlined above.

Unless otherwise noted, the changes and additions listed above are subject to the GSM Pause Delay. This means that if this executive proposal passes, the changes and additions listed above will only become active in the Maker Protocol after the GSM Pause Delay has expired. The GSM Pause Delay is currently set to 48 hours.

This executive proposal includes an office-hours modifier that means that it can only be executed between 14:00 and 21:00 UTC, Monday - Friday. This is to ensure that at least some keepers are available to react to unforeseen issues with these changes.

If this executive proposal does not pass within 30 days, then it will expire and can no longer have any effect on the Maker Protocol.

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Proposal Details

Recognized Delegate Compensation Payments - January 2022

As per these successful governance polls (1, 2) and the ongoing trial of delegate compensation, a total of 54,752 DAI will be distributed to eight Recognized Delegates as detailed below if this executive proposal passes.

• 12,000 DAI transferred to FlipFlopFlap Delegate LLC at 0x688d508f3a6B0a377e266405A1583B3316f9A2B3.
• 12,000 DAI transferred to schuppi at 0x89C5d54C979f682F40b73a9FC39F338C88B434c6.
• 12,000 DAI transferred to Feedblack Loops LLC at 0x80882f2A36d49fC46C3c654F7f9cB9a2Bf0423e1.
• 8,620 DAI transferred to MakerMan at 0x9AC6A6B24bCd789Fa59A175c0514f33255e1e6D0.
• 4,807 DAI transferred to monetsupply at 0x4Bd73eeE3d0568Bb7C52DFCad7AD5d47Fff5E2CF
• 3,795 DAI transferred to ACREinvest at 0x5b9C98e8A3D9Db6cd4B4B4C1F92D0A551D06F00D.
• 889 DAI transferred to JustinCase at 0xE070c2dCfcf6C6409202A8a210f71D51dbAe9473.
• 641 DAI transferred to GFX Labs at 0xa6e8772af29b29B9202a073f8E36f447689BEef6.

Details on the breakdown of delegate compensation for the month of January can be found on the MakerDAO forum here.

Emergency Shutdown Module Threshold Increase

As per this governance poll, the following change to the Emergency Shutdown Module (ESM) will be made if this executive proposal passes.

• Raise the threshold to trigger the Emergency Shutdown Module by 25,000 MKR from 75,000 MKR to 100,000 MKR.

For further information, please see the initial Signal Request on the MakerDAO forum here.

Further details about the changes being made to the Emergency Shutdown Module have been posted by the Protocol Engineering Core Unit on the MakerDAO forum here.

MOMC Parameter Changes

As per this governance poll on the latest MakerDAO Open Market Committee proposal, the following parameter changes will be made in the Maker Protocol if this executive proposal passes.

Stability Fee Decreases

• ETH-A Stability Fee will be decreased by 0.25% from 2.5% to 2.25%.
• ETH-B Stability Fee will be decreased by 2.5% from 6.5% to 4%.
• WSTETH-A Stability Fee will be decreased by 0.5% from 3% to 2.5%.
• WBTC-A Stability Fee will be decreased by 0.25% from 4% to 3.75%.
• WBTC-B Stability Fee will be decreased by 2% from 7% to 5%.
• WBTC-C Stability Fee will be decreased by 0.75% from 1.5% to 0.75%.
• UNIV2DAIETH-A Stability Fee will be decreased from 1% from 2% to 1%.
• UNIV2WBTCETH-A Stability Fee will be decreased by 1% from 3% to 2%.
• UNIV2USDCETH-A Stability Fee will be decreased by 1% from 2.5% to 1.5%.
• GUNIV3DAIUSDC2-A Stability Fee will be decreased by 0.25% from 0.5% to 0.25%.
• TUSD-A Stability Fee will be decreased by 1% from 1% to 0%.

DIRECT-AAVEV2-DAI (Aave D3M) Target Borrow Rate Decrease

• DIRECT-AAVEV2-DAI (Aave D3M) Target Borrow Rate (bar) will be decreased by 0.25% from 3.75% to 3.5%.

Maximum Debt Ceiling Changes

• GUNIV3DAIUSDC1-A Maximum Debt Ceiling (line) will be decreased by 400 million DAI from 500 million DAI to 100 million DAI.
• GUNIV3DAIUSDC2-A Maximum Debt Ceiling (line) will be increased by 250 million DAI from 500 million DAI to 750 million DAI.

GUNIV3DAIUSDC2-A Target Available Debt Increase

• GUNIV3DAIUSDC2-A Target Available Debt (gap) will be increased by 40 million DAI from 10 million DAI to 50 million DAI.

Correction of Core Unit Budget Streams

The previous Executive Vote contained errors relating to the DAI budget Streams for the StarkNet Engineering and Strategic Finance Core Units. The error has been detailed by the Protocol Engineering team on the MakerDAO forum here. In order to correct this error, the following changes will occur if this executive proposal passes.

• The currently configured DAI budget streams for the StarkNet Engineering and Strategic Finance Core Units will be cancelled.
• In order to retain access to the first month’s funds during the stream update, we are transferring 42,917 DAI to the StarkNet Engineering Core Unit at 0x6D348f18c88D45243705D4fdEeB6538c6a9191F1. The transfer amount of 42,917 DAI is equivalent to one month of funding under their most recent budget proposal, and will be made by claiming the funds from the canceled stream plus a transfer of the difference between 42,917 DAI and the amount claimed.
• 214,583 DAI will be streamed to the StarkNet Engineering Core Unit at 0x6D348f18c88D45243705D4fdEeB6538c6a9191F1 starting at 2022-03-01 and ending at 2022-07-31 as a result of their most recent budget proposal.
• In order to retain access to the first month’s funds during the stream update, we are transferring 82,417 DAI to the Strategic Finance Core Unit at 0xf737C76D2B358619f7ef696cf3F94548fEcec379. The transfer amount of 82,417 DAI is equivalent to one month of funding under their most recent budget proposal, and will be made by claiming the funds from the canceled stream plus a transfer of the difference between 82,417 DAI and the amount claimed.
• 412,085 DAI will be streamed to the Strategic Finance Core Unit at 0xf737C76D2B358619f7ef696cf3F94548fEcec379 starting at 2022-03-01 and ending at 2022-07-31 as a result of their most recent budget proposal.

Review

Community debate on these topics can be found on the MakerDAO Governance forum. Please review any linked threads to inform your position before voting.

Additionally, these changes may have been discussed further in recent Governance calls. Video for these calls is available to review.

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Resources

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