Dune Analytics, a decentralized finance (DeFi) analytics service, has voiced its opposition to a Uniswap (UNI) governance vote for “Group-Enabled A
Dune Analytics, a decentralized finance (DeFi) analytics service, has voiced its opposition to a Uniswap (UNI) governance vote for “Group-Enabled Analytics” that will see fellow analytics supplier Flipside Crypto managing about $25 million price of UNI tokens.
Tweeting on Thursday, Dune highlighted the dearth of neighborhood consideration to the matter whereas additionally stating that grants ought to be given to neighborhood members and to not service suppliers.
Certainly, the governance voting web page for the proposal reveals over 41 million votes in favor, towards 2.5 million in opposition. The vote will finish on Friday, Aug. 20 at 7:05 AM UTC+1.
In line with Dune, funding one single supplier amongst a number of analytics platforms “is mindless.”
“There is no such thing as a sense for @uniswap to fund @flipside’s every day operations with eight full-time workers,” Dune added in its tweet.
The grant itself will see Flipside Crypto obtain $25 million in two annual installments of $15 million and $10 million respectively.
Half of the yield generated by Flipside from the fund will reportedly go in direction of bettering the Uniswap ecosystem within the type of bounties to neighborhood members, in response to the main points shared within the proposal doc.
The opposite 50% of the yield generated by Flipside will likely be used to fund the platform’s operations reminiscent of cost of salaries — a provision that could possibly be construed as a 50% administration price on earnings from a neighborhood grant.
Dune Analytics and Flipside Crypto didn’t instantly reply to Cointelegraph’s request for feedback.
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Dune’s opposition to the proposed $25 million grant to its competitor is the most recent controversy stemming from the obvious centralization of Uniswap’s governance.
Again in July, the DeFi Training Fund got here in for some criticism inside the crypto area for liquidating half of its 1 million UNI token donation amounting to about $10 million on the time.
The DeFi Training Fund did defend its actions stating that the transfer was essential to kickstart its operations.