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# August 18 - 24, 2022

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Welcome to the one-stop shop for everything discussed on the MakerDAO forum.

*Summaries reflect our views of the most meaningful activities in MakerDAO. Disagree? Think something should be added? Leave a reply or send a PM.*

*Authors: @nothsa* 

###### Online PDF Version available [here.](https://pdfhost.io/v/JZtMdNK1N_Forum_at_a_Glance_August_18_24_2022)

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## Three-Point Summary

‘What is the most relevant information on the forums this week for MKR and Dai holders?’

**1.** The Protocol Engineering Core Unit team released a [roadmap](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/layer-2-roadmap-history-and-future/17310) covering progress and plans for expanding Maker to L2 blockchains like Optimism and StarkNet.
**2.** In Delegate news, Jason Yanowitz submitted his [Delegate Platform](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/jason-yanowitz-delegate-platform/17408), @yano + @Matt_NZ participated in [Meet Your Delegate #18](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/meet-your-delegate-18-yano-matt-nz/17410) on Monday, and [Delegate Office Hours](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/delegate-office-hours-8-includes-poll-for-discussion-topic/17406) will be taking place on Thursday, as usual.
**3.** @TRUEMAKER [shared](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/brainstorming-product-features-ideas-for-organic-dai-growth/17335) some interesting ideas for using the bear market to build out tools for attracting more demand for DAI.

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## News and Announcements

##### Governance ▼

> [**Jason Yanowitz Delegate Platform**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/jason-yanowitz-delegate-platform/17408)

Jason Yanowitz (@yano) published his Delegate Platform on Monday. Jason is the founder of crypto media website [Blockworks](http://blockworks.co/) and hosts the [Empire podcast](https://blockworks.co/podcasts/empire/). 

His core values include:

* Maker is a B2B (or DAO-to-DAO) platform that can serve as the backbone of DeFi
* Maker should focus on expanding DAI’s market share by building connections with more protocols, both inside and outside of Ethereum
* Maker must improve its governance and incentives by balancing pragmatic governance with the pressing need for long-term decentralization

***Key Info***
Name: Jason Yanowitz
Forum: [@Yano](https://forum.makerdao.com/u/yano)
Discord: Yano#4805
Website: [blockworks.co](http://blockworks.co)

> [**Meet Your Delegate #18 - @Yano + @Matt_NZ**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/meet-your-delegate-18-yano-matt-nz/17410)

The latest Meet Your Delegate session took place Wednesday, this time featuring new Delegate candidates [@Matt_NZ](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/frontier-research-delegate-platform/17298) and [@Yano](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/jason-yanowitz-delegate-platform/17408).

https://youtu.be/nUkjsG1VUzg

> [**Delegate Office Hours #8 - Includes Poll for discussion topic**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/delegate-office-hours-8-includes-poll-for-discussion-topic/17406)

The next Delegate Office Hours will be held today at 4pm UTC.

[MIP55c3-SP8: Legal Work on MIP65 Special Purpose Fund](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/mip55c3-sp8-legal-work-on-mip65-special-purpose-fund/17280) is currently leading the weekly topic poll, but not many voters have turned out yet.

![](https://i.imgur.com/bT81ZuR.png)

[Zoom](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88286550832?pwd=dWQzQi9tYlNyemJJS2Nrd2NUdTBoZz09)
Meeting ID: 882 8655 0832
Passcode: 690611

> [**Offboarding MIP7c3-SP4 Domain Team Mandated Actors**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/offboarding-mip7c3-sp4-domain-team-mandated-actors/17390)

This post announces the resignation of Mandated Actors Brian McMichael (@brianmcmichael) and Chris Mooney (@cmooney) as smart contract domain team members in their roles as Mandated Actors. They will continue to contribute to the Protocol Engineering Core Unit as contributors and advisors.

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## Active Discussions

> **6s - Arranger Perspective - [Part 1](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/6s-arranger-perspective-part-1/17322), [Part 2](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/6s-arranger-perspective-part-2/17367), [Part 3](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/6s-arranger-perspective-part-3/17417)**

The 6s Capital team published a three-part series sharing their perspective on what it means to take on an "Arranger" role at MakerDAO.

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

As an Arranger, 6s aims to serve as a "transaction engineer" to help cement new Real World Asset (RWA) deals, rather than as a standard "deal closer" following a rigid checklist. This means iterating on different implementations until a satisfactory solution is found and collaborating fruitfully with other DAO contributors.

> [**Endgame Plan v3 complete overview**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/endgame-plan-v3-complete-overview/17427)

@rune published a very extensive thread covering his latest version of the Endgame Plan, which has been in discussion throughout the last several weeks during the bi-weekly [DVC Calls.](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLzkWCj8ywWMJ8ImSqKaYf-87Mx7gOkaF)

The thread examines topics such as Meta, Meta Engineering, MetaDAOs and MetaDAO tokens, EtherDAI, various collaterals, and much more.

> [**Layer 2 Roadmap - History and Future**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/layer-2-roadmap-history-and-future/17310)

Protocol Engineering Core Unit (PECU) Facilitator @Derek published a Layer 2 (L2) roadmap outlining the team's  progress and future plans for implementing Maker products on L2 solutions.

PECU's primary near-term goal is to finalize work on the L2 → L1 fast withdrawals project, which will enable L2 users to withdraw DAI from L2s to the mainnet Ethereum chain much faster than is possible by default. This feature is expected to be finalized by the end of the month for Optimism and Arbitrum and by the end of September for StarkNet.

Once fast withdrawals are enabled, next steps include:

* Full teleport: Fast withdrawals between L2s
* Minting DAI on L2s
* Extending multi-collateral DAI to other L2 collateral types

> [**Who Speaks for DAI Holders?**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/who-speaks-for-dai-holders/17411)

@Eumenes made a post asking a series of questions focused around one big question: Who speaks for DAI holders?

Some of the questions include:

* How big is the demand DAI market?
* What is its revenue potential?
* Why do demand DAI holders own DAI?
* Can Maker better focus on both understanding and meeting the needs of this key segment of DAI holders?

Check out the full post for @Eumenes' explorations of these questions and some interesting comments from the community.

> [**[Brainstorming] Product features & ideas for organic DAI growth**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/brainstorming-product-features-ideas-for-organic-dai-growth/17335)

@TRUEMAKER shared some ideas for boosting organic DAI growth during the bear market:

* Hybrid crypto-backed vaults: Stacking coins
    * This idea involves allowing users to borrow DAI by stacking staked and unstaked ETH with wBTC in a single vault.
* Free-vault opening: Cover gas fees
    * This idea aims to boost DAI adoption by introducing no-fee borrowing.
* Governance Polls: DAI gas fees
    * This idea involves allowing gas fees for governance-related activities to be paid for with DAI.

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## Seeking Consensus

‘Yo, do you even signal?’

>[**MKR Pro-Rata Vesting Community Sentiment Poll**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/signal-request-mkr-pro-rata-vesting-community-sentiment-poll/17350)


They are seeking approval for this pro-rata distribution of MKR tokens. This approval will serve as an indication to GovAlpha/RWF-001 Facilitator to proceed with the necessary spells for the distribution of 73.32 MKR to teej’s ethereum wallet and of 48.1 MKR to eumenes ethereum wallet.

##### Signal expires on **September 2nd.**

###### Current Vote Breakdown:
![](https://i.imgur.com/Ng4Px2r.png)

> [**Changing USDC-PSM fees**](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/signal-request-changing-usdc-psm-fees/17304)

As USDC-PSMs continue to operate without fees, @ultraschuppi expresses his concerns. Setting Stability Fees to 0% has been signaled in October 2021 to encourage vault holders to mint DAI from crypto collateral, but it hasn’t helped the stablecoin ratio, instead cutting deeper into our revenues. However, if we were to soft-peg to USD, vault holders might have an opportunity to achieve arbitrage gains, increasing their utilization. 

In response, ultraschuppi proposes to increase both the 'tin' and the 'tout' on the USDC-PSM and asks the community what BPs should these parameters should be set at.

##### Signal expires on **September 2nd.**

###### Current Vote Breakdown:
![](https://i.imgur.com/lzOzcCv.png)

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

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## Ongoing Initiatives

‘Oh my god, this is taking ages; why can’t things be simple?’

[Maker Operational Manual](https://manual.makerdao.com/) - GovAlpha Core Unit releases the launch of the Maker Operational Manual and invites all members and Core Units to reach out if they wish to provide any help or documentation to add to the Manual.

[Recognized Delegate Requirements](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/recognised-delegate-requirements/9421) - LongForWisdom writes a detailed overview of the current requirements and application system to become a delegate in the Maker community. Check out this [thread](https://forum.makerdao.com/search?expanded=true&q=%40LongForWisdom%20%23governance%3Adelegates) for more posts related to delegation.

[Where to Find Opportunities at MakerDAO](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/where-to-find-opportunities-at-makerdao/10076) and [Open positions at MakerDAO](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/open-positions-at-makerdao/12197) - Looking for job opportunities at MakerDAO? Perfect! Davidutro and manomad set up individual threads containing resources to help find available job listings and hiring practices. *Please comment on the thread if anybody has additional information on unique hiring practices or job listings.*

[Collateral Calls - Calling all Projects!](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/collateral-calls-calling-all-projects/3715) - Juan sets up a signup thread for projects wishing to present on the bi-weekly collateral call. Know any potential collateral partners that want to present? Refer them here.

[Collateral Status Index](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PDf_CzhGa7mLuOUfX6Bz3WrnCjDRhIjmu-vDZMMw4Qc/edit#gid=1077340672) - Confused about the current status of the various collateral types discussed recently? Check out this sheet to determine the status and current position within the onboarding process.

[Weekly MIPs Updates](https://forum.makerdao.com/tag/mips-update) - blimpa brings the latest updates in MIPs.

[The Official Welcome Thread](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/the-official-welcome-thread/771/4) - A thread for welcomes and introductions. Not strictly governance, but if anyone new or old wants to introduce themselves, now is your chance!

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## Help Wanted

‘Oh %#\$?, we need a doodad, and we need it now.’

> We could always use help reviewing [MIPs in the Request for Comment phase](https://forum.makerdao.com/tag/rfc).
