Recognized Delegate Payments, Lowering WBTC Stability Fees, and Onboarding wstETH-B - May 11, 2022

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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.


Executive Summary

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

  • A total of 79,647 DAI will be distributed to ten Recognized Delegates, as detailed below.
  • The Stability Fee will be lowered on WBTC-A and WBTC-B Vault Types based on the recommendation of the MakerDAO Open Market Committee, as detailed below.

If this executive proposal passes, the following additions will be made to the Maker Protocol:

  • wstETH-B (Wrapped Lido Staked ETH) will be onboarded to the protocol with the initial parameters detailed below.

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 auction keepers are available to react to unforeseen issues with their bots in the event of early liquidations on new collateral types.

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.


Proposal Details

Recognized Delegate Compensation

As per MIP61: Recognized Delegate Compensation, a total of 79,647 DAI will be distributed to ten Recognized Delegates as itemized below if this executive proposal passes:

Lower WBTC-A and WBTC-B Stability Fees

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

Onboard wstETH-B as a New Vault Type

As per this governance poll, following this recomendation from the Risk Core Unit, wstETH-B will be onboarded to the Maker Protocol with the following parameters, if this executive proposal passes:

Note that this proposed Vault Type was previously discussed as wstETH-C, however, if it is voted to be added to the Maker Protocol it will be added under the wstETH-B ilk name to maintain sequential naming conventions as discussed here.

Initial Vault Parameters

Liquidation Parameters

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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.


Resources

Additional information about the Governance process can be found in the Governance section of the MakerDAO community portal.

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To add current and upcoming votes to your calendar, please see the MakerDAO Public Events Calendar.

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