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# G&R #135 Snippet

Domain team updates, Collateral Onboarding, active discussions and more. All the updates from MakerDAO Governance and Risk Call #135 in this `snippet`

🎉 *New branding* [Forum at a Glance](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/governance-at-a-glance-march-26-april-1-2021-now-forum-at-a-glance/7276)

## Team Updates

### Smart Contracts

- Starting work on collateral evaluations again.
- Deploying PAX-G to Kovan, hopefully addressing fee-charging tokens.
- MIP 22 Liquidations into MIP21 style adapter.
- Liquidations 2.0 close to being done.
- Reviewed ESM replacement, more to come later.
- Optimism L2 delayed their launch and gives us more time for audits.
- Upgradable v1 bridge
- Gov repeater, mechanism for spells on L2
- Participating in token bridge standard design discussions
- Derek submitted [Protocol Engineering](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/mip39c2-sp7-adding-protocol-engineering-core-unit/6831) (formally Smart Contracts) Core Unit to Formal Submission!

### Oracles

- [Lightfeed proposal from DeFiSaver](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/mip10c14-sp7-proposal-appoint-defi-saver-as-a-light-feed/7207), will go up for vote next week.
- ABDK will do audit for SushiJoin adapter this month.
- Revamping Oracle Kovan Deployment to mirror Mainnet feeds
- Targeting May 1st submission for Oracles Core Unit.

### Risk

- Focusing on Liquidations 2.0

### Real-World Finance

- Financial Reports for last month will be posted tomorrow.
- New Silver coming soon! Next Tuesday is final due-diligence.
- [Crypto Banking 101](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/crypto-banking-101/7257) article from the RWF team.

### Operations and Collateral Onboarding

- 🎊 New version of [MIPs Portal](https://mips.makerdao.com/mips/list) is out!
- [Operational Spport Weekly Update](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/operational-support-weekly-update-march-25-30-2021/7275)
- Collateral Onboarding: [Bancor](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/collateral-onboarding-call-29-bancor-wednesday-april-7-18-00-utc/7054) April 7, and [SolidBlock](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/collateral-onboarding-call-30-solidblock-wednesday-april-14-17-00-utc/7052) April 14
- Read all about Core Units of [Core Unit Corner](https://coreunit.makerdao.network/Core-Unit-Corner-f79281d7617b4a61b958c30d3ea768af), including important timelines for submitting.
- [Wanted! Framework for MKR Compensation Working Group - Proposed Core Units Representative](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/wanted-framework-for-mkr-compensation-working-group-proposed-core-units-representative/7265) live for 1 week to submit yourself to be part of this working group.

### MIPs


- Break week! April Governance Cycle begins this upcoming Monday

## Other Presentations and Updates

### Growth Core Unit

- [Nadia's presentation](https://youtu.be/FCPAV83tEqw?t=2601) replay

### Liquidations 2.0 LINK Parameters

- [LINK-A Liquidations 2.0 Parameters](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/link-a-liquidations-2-0-parameters/7180)
- [Presentation replay](https://youtu.be/FCPAV83tEqw?t=4046)