The Governance Facilitators have placed a ratification poll into the voting system as part of the responsibilities defined in MIP51. This Governance Poll will be active for fourteen days beginning on Monday, February 13 at 16:00 UTC.

This is a binary vote.

• You may vote for a single option.
• You should vote for the option which you prefer.
• If you would accept either option, you should vote 'Abstain'.

Review

The community may vote in this poll to express support or opposition to MIP95 being accepted and implemented in the Maker Protocol.

A brief summary of this proposal has been provided by the MIP Author and is shown below:

Cogent Bank is an FDIC regulated Florida bank with $1.2B of assets and a $28M legal lending limit. Cogent proposes participating $100M of loans to MakerDAO’s existing RWA Master Participation Trust using the same Participation Agreement with the same exact terms as MakerDAO’s deal with Huntingdon Valley Bank. Cogent and MaxStability will pay MakerDAO’s legal fees. This transaction is an opportunity for MakerDAO to reinforce its strategic value for community banks by doubling Cogent’s capacity to originate loans to existing and new customers

Please review the links below to inform your position on this proposal before voting.

• Canonical Proposal Version
• Latest Proposal Version
• Proposal Discussion Thread

Outcomes

This poll implements a Minimum Positive Participation value. The Minimum Positive Participation is currently set to 10,000 MKR.

If the votes for the 'Yes' option exceed the votes for the 'No' option AND the votes for the 'Yes' option exceed 10,000 MKR, then the following actions will be taken:

• The MIP Editors will mark the proposal Accepted and the Governance Facilitators will confirm its passage on the Governance and Risk call on Thursday, March 2.
• Any further work required to implement the proposal will be tasked to the relevant Core Units.

Otherwise, this proposal will be marked as rejected per MIP51.

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Resources

MIP51: Monthly Governance Cycle describes this type of poll and its position and significance within the rest of the governance cycle.

If you are new to voting in the Maker Protocol, please see the voting guide to learn how voting works.

Additional information about the Governance process can be found in the Maker Operational Manual.

To participate in future Governance calls, please join us every Thursday at 17:00 UTC.

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