Avantgarde Finance Delegate Platform

Delegation Pitch
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Delegate Address: avantgardefi.eth (0xb49f8b8613be240213c1827e2e576044ffec7948)
Email: governance@avantgarde.finance
Website: https://avantgarde.finance/
Twitter: https://x.com/avantgardefi
Governance Lead: @justErik

About us

Avantgarde is a crypto native asset management, advisory and research firm, specialising in asset liability management, R&D, special situations, risk monitoring and on-chain diversification strategies. Avantgarde has conducted work for leading protocols including Uniswap, The Graph, Arbitrum, Nexus Mutual, Paraswap, Enzyme and others. DAOs leverage Avantgarde’s combined expertise in protocol development and asset management for developing strategies to improve treasury sustainability.

Why Avantgarde?

Avantgarde has been active in the Uniswap ecosystem for several years, participating in initiatives such as the Uniswap Bridge Assessment Committee and contributing with R&D to various proposals in line with our expertise.

The core team behind Avantgarde brings a wealth of experience from reputable TradFi firms such as Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and Barclays; and have been involved in DeFi since as early as 2016, most notably building the on-chain asset management protocol Enzyme, which went live on mainnet in 2019 and boasts a very robust track record without a single major protocol incident since.

With this experience and expertise, we at Avantgarde aim to help steer the Uniswap DAO to financial sustainability and community-driven growth, cementing the Uniswap protocol as the leading DEX across DeFi.

Past contributions to Uniswap ecosystem and/or demonstrated protocol knowledge:

  • Active delegate over the last 3 years
  • Selected as part of the Uniswap cross-chain bridge committee providing research & advice to delegates: results
  • Attended and participated in major governance meetings in NYC and Brussels
  • Integrated Uniswap into other DeFi protocols and active Uniswap pool manager, see e.g. Enzyme

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest:

Avantgarde is actively contributing to a number of chains across the wider Ethereum ecosystem, though none can be said to be a direct competitor to Uniswap.

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Proposal to active 2, 3, 4 bps fee-tiers on Base

We voted FOR to support the bps fee tiers as we don’t see the harm in experimenting with LP flexibility for sake of staying competitive and try to gain back market share from Aerodrome. If anything, the initiative could be seen as a seemingly relatively risk-free way to assess such a fee structure and its impact on important metrics like trading volume, market share, revenue etc and serve to inform similar initiatives in the future.

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Uniswap Accountability S3 Renewal and Rebalance

We’ve voted FOR the renewal and rebalance of the UAC, as we see the committee filling a critical function for the DAO’s operations and, as far as we can tell, the members have done a good job in both managing their responsibilities as well as shouldered extra, unanticipated work when needed.

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Forse Analytics for Uniswap Revitalization and Growth Program

After some thought, we’ve voted FOR the proposal. While we agree with some of the other delegates that a few minor specifics around the deliverables could’ve been clarified before this went to a vote, these can be ironed out by the time the Accountability Committee signs off on the initiative. StableLab have been active contributors to Uniswap governance and seems fit to carry this out. The idea itself makes sense: if we can better understand the effectiveness of the Uniswap Revitalization and Growth Program, the proposed analysis can provide valuable insights and help the DAO make more informed decisions going forward.