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# G&R #147 Snippet

Domain team updates, Collateral Onboarding, active discussions, and more. All the updates from MakerDAO Governance and Risk Call #147 in this `snippet` 

## Team Updates

### GovAlpha

- [GovAlpha Weekly Update](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/govalpha-weekly-update-2021-06-24/8944)
- 2 Weekly Polls passed.
- Skipping this week's Friday Executive Vote.
- A couple new team members being onboarded with some starter tasks.
- Delegation date solidifying, reach out to GovAlpha if you are considering becoming a delegate.

### Forum

- [Forum at a Glance: June 18 -24, 2021](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/forum-at-a-glance-june-18-24-2021/8943)

### Protocol Engineering

- SushiJoin: ensuring correct behavior in the event of ES.
- CropJoin: gas optimizations and improved manager contract implementation
- D3M final round of cleanup.
- 1-year expiry added to the vote delegation process.
- Bug with auction demo keeper around gas, causing it to consume max block gas. We worked on a fix for that, PR being merged soon.
- Kurt put together a document defining magnitude and ranges for PSM-USDC quantities?
- Worked on risk scenario analysis for Oracle tail risk; it's not public yet.
- DSR entity-relationship and system modeling with BlockScience.
- Considering pivoting to focus on collateral onboarding short-term.
- Looking into concepts of permissionless versions of institutional Vaults.
- Working on technical analysis around stETH.
- Sam is reviewing gUNI as potential collateral.
- Working on L2 risk framework, a document describing different L2 & scaling solution architectures outlining their risks.
- Optimism bridge almost fully complete. We are testing it along with things like cross-chain votes.
- Arbitrum is finalizing their standard bridge; we are working on creating a Dai version of the bridge.
- Two new team members! Julien Martin and Talbaneth.

### Oracles

- Began production rollout for the *gopher* tool. It’s a pricing tool that we use to get the prices of assets, and it serves as redundancy for an existing tool that we’ve called *sensor*.
- Rolling out a tool called *spire* within the coming weeks, which adds an extra layer of redundancy similar to scuttlebutt. 
- Finding footing on legal structures.
- Figuring out staffing, projects, and internal structure.
- Reviewing oracle code for stETH deployment.

### Risk

- Working on two collateral evaluations: MATIC-POLYGON and stETH, running simulations with reports published soon and available on the dashboard. 
- Risk Dashboard development being worked on addressing labeling for vault owners so that we will have a structure of vault users (if vaults are related, what apps they used to open the vault if they are protected with Defisaver) and so on.
- We added better charts for CEX trading volume for each collateral asset; in addition to aggregated volume, now there are two more charts; aggregation by exchange and trading pairs.

### Real World Finance

- Published [post mortem](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/post-mortem-new-silver-executive-summary-change/8911) the notification issue.
- Begining audits of Centrifuge structure next week.
- Next Centrifuge batch contains four assets.
- Christian worked on solutions on the legal side involving Caymen Islands.
- Three law firms are now working with us in Caymen Islands and internationally.
- Began creating on-chain data [providing more information](https://duneanalytics.com/SebVentures/maker---accounting_1) with Dune Analytics.

### Growth

- [Growth CU weekly update: June 18 - June 24](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/growth-cu-weekly-update-june-18-june-24/8945)
- Had a conversation with Circle involving the Risk CU to access Circle's yield account. 
- Spoke with Syndicate Protocol to provide legal compliance through the DAO.
- New [MakerGrowth](https://twitter.com/MakerGrowth) twitter account.

### Content Production

- [Content Production Bi-Weekly Update: June 10 - June 24, 2021](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/content-production-bi-weekly-update-june-10-june-24-2021/8946)
- New hires, including a video producer and writer.
- Working through our backlog, expect a lot more content from us within the coming weeks.
- Having conversations with CUs regarding the portal, issues involve Gatsby and Github. 
- Outlining storyboards for educational video requests. Reach out if you have any MakerDAO branding to share.
- Looking for another writer, so we are still onboarding new team members. 
- Capybara [won](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/informal-poll-following-up-makerdao-mascot/8305) as the mascot for MakerDAO. 

### Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling

- Approaching the initial budget forecast, we may be posting a budget modification soon increasing our incubation and grants spend.
- Project's sandbox discussion with Nikolaj tomorrow in the weekly SES update.
- Speaking with different CUs to do a side-event in ETHCC.io that Growth CU is leading.
- Working with the Dai Foundation on a MIP Set.
- LexMaker series #2 coming soon
- Call about Liquidations 2.0 coming soon
- Incubation Side
- dTalent is helping reach for talent. Get in touch!
- Development & UX(dUX) core unit will be doing a short demo today.
- NewSilver Call last Friday. Video on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK_E--GlBwU).
- Monachil Collateral Call tomorrow.
- Next Wednesday will have Launch Pod Session with AmaZix Marketing Core Unit.

### MIPs

- [MIPs Update #41](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/weekly-mips-update-41/8892)

![](https://i.imgur.com/TeOIeAx.png)

## Other Presentations and Updates

### Introduction to Development & UX Core Unit

- Prototype for vote delegations is approved.
- Join our [Discord Channel](https://discord.com/invite/k6ygK9Qq) and provide any suggestions or ideas.

### Multiple PSM Discussion

- See fuller summary that will be posted by Tuesday the 29th.
