Tally Uniswap Communication thread

[dennisonb]

Happy New Year!

Dennison from Tally.xyz here. This will be our official thread that we will use to update the Uniswap DAO about our roadmap, milestones, and goals for the Uniswap DAO as laid out in the Tally Service Agreement Proposal.

This thread can be used to ask questions, suggest features, and generally communicate with Tally in a central spot. This thread ideally should not be used for support requests as we have set up Intercom to help track support requests and issues.

Key info:

Tally API Status + Uptime: https://status.tally.xyz/

To report bugs, the official communication channel is Intercom. This tool will allow us to more effectively track support times and organize our incident response.

Intercom can be found in the lower right-hand side of the Tally website.

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Accountability

Quarterly report
Detailing key achievements, including uptime metrics, notes from Community Calls, support metrics, as well as enhancements to the Uniswap DAO’s governance on Tally.

Tally usage
We will continue to track the number of proposals and % of votes per proposal made on Tally and report on those to the DAO.

Roadmap feature usage and requests
As we roll out new features, we will track usage of those features as well as maintain a forum thread in Uniswap where folks can offer feature suggestions.
(We’ve already requested the foundation create a Service Providers Thread where we can report.)

Monthly office hours
An open feedback session for Uniswap DAO contributors to suggest new features and contribute to our roadmap. We’re going to ask the foundation if this could go before or after the community call, but we’re open.

Uptime and availability

• System uptime: 99% monthly uptime, ensuring the system is accessible with minimal disruptions.
• Scheduled downtime: Maximum of 2% monthly allowance for scheduled maintenance, communicated in advance.

Response and resolution time
For the response time to count, the report needs to be made through Intercom so we can properly track resolution time. (Obviously, you can still reach out via Telegram.)

• Incident response time: Initial response within 4 hours for high-priority incidents (e.g., outages) during work hours in the United States, and 24 hours for incidents outside of working hours and low-priority issues.
• Resolution time: Resolution or workaround within 8 hours for high-priority incidents (e.g., outages) during working hours in the United States, and 24 hours for incidents outside of working hours.

Maintenance and support

• Bug resolution: Resolution of non-critical bugs within 5 business days and critical bugs within 1 business day. For bugs that are not possible to resolve in this time frame, a post-mortem analysis will be shared with the DAO following resolution.
• Regular maintenance updates: Regular monthly maintenance updates, including minor upgrades, patches, and performance improvements.

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Tally Feature Roadmap (Q1/Q2)

Here is a list of features Tally is working on for its Q1/Q2 roadmap. We’re excited to bring these services and features to the Uniswap Community. We will be holding regular office hours to speak with community members about other features or needs they have.

• UniStaker: We will operate a UniStaker interface, and if staking passes, we will work with the community to make it a success.

• Gasless Voting: The previous gasless voting service in Uniswap (Uni.vote) has shut down. We will operate a gas-free voting relayer for the Uniswap DAO. This would allow delegates and voters to participate in Uniswap without spending their own ETH. We will reach out to the foundation and UAC about steps to fund the relayer. This service would be operated as part of the service agreement but requires regularly topping up with ETH to cover relayer gas. Learn more about Tally Relay.

• Forum Bot: The Tally Forum Bot connects to the forum and updates the community automatically on changes in proposal statuses.

• Optimistic Governance: We expect to have Optimistic Governance support by the end of Q2. This has been a frequent request by members and delegates of the Uniswap DAO community. This tool can be used for creating more efficient working groups and communities by allowing proposals to pass optimistically while leaving the DAO the ability to veto a proposal. The DAO can start considering where they might want to implement this new Tally feature.

• Integrating the UAC onto Tally: While we plan to tackle the body of this feature in Q3/Q4, we will start integration in Q2 with some early features supporting the UAC on the Uniswap DAO page.

As members and participants in Uniswap since the inception of the DAO, we are really excited to get started on what is shaping up to be a very exciting 2025!

[dennisonb]

Update: For Support requests, we can also accept support inbound at: support@tally.xyz
We monitor this quarter to see which tool is more effective.

[dennisonb]

Uniswap DAO members have spent over $300k in gas fees participating in the DAO.

But no more! The Relayer for Gasless Delegation and Voting is live. So token holder and delegates can delegate and vote at no cost to themselves.

Users can see this when they go to delegate or vote. The minimum threshold (spam prevention) for using this features is 10UNI.

[Doo_StableLab]

@dennisonb

But no more! The Relayer for Gasless Delegation and Voting is live. So token holder and delegates can delegate and vote at no cost to themselves.

Excited to try it in next votings!

[kfx]

Just for the record, I’ve been in talks with Dennison about getting Tally’s support for a checkbox that would indicate agreement to the Uniswap DAO Principles (and a link to the principles and place where the delegate has disclosed their conflicts of interest).

Support would be much appreciated, as that would allow to include agreeing to the principles as requisite for delegate rewards program, treasury delegation program, etc.

[dennisonb]

Yeah it’s definitely in our list!

[dennisonb]

Tally Q1 2025 Update:

Hello folks! It’s been the first quarter of the Tally <> Uniswap service agreement and want to share our updates.

We’ve held monthly office hours (I see you @Sinkas !) where we have had a chance to speak with delegates about our work. Generally the session has been free flowing and lots of freeform discussion around governance, Uniswap, features on Tally and crypto in general. If it wasn’t so early in the day EST time, I’d say it would be a great time to grab a beer and hang out!

Product Improvements:

UniChain Support is live on Tally!

This wasn’t planned on our roadmap but with UniChain going live we moved quickly to support it on Launch. This means people can now deploy DAOs and connect them to Tally to operate them. For future quarters we’re thinking about what sort of tooling we could build to make the process of launching even simpler for teams.
https://x.com/tallyxyz/status/1901676876374196434

Gasless Voting + (also delegation)

We turned on this feature this quarter and we’ve gotten good feedback that people enjoy the feature.

Preliminary analysis suggests that this feature has been a big success. Looking at Etherscan we can see that there have been about 194 votes cast via signature (the method the relayer users) in the past quarter. Prior to turning on Tally Gasless voting, the next most recent vote via signature was over two years prior. Huge uptake!

We’re working on coming up with a better way to track this kind of usage, so hopefully next quarter we’ll be able to show a bit more of a detailed breakdown across voting types.

Social Layer Analytics (Tallylitics)

http://www.tallylitics.xyz/public/dashboard/f518fef1-a977-4590-a95d-82c4eb04e08e
(ping me if it doesn’t load- I can prepare a PDF version)

This dashboard allows the DAO to explore the off chain social layer of the Uniswap DAO. It tracks forum participants, media, token price, proposals and more. We’ll be expanding this as we get feedback over the next couple quarters. Let us know if there are any ideas about what else we can be tracking. Some feedback we’ve gotten is tracking telegram, adding he ability to set custom date ranges and more. Currently we’re unsure of whether or not we will integrate it with the main Tally product, but thats something we’re considering as well.

UniStaker

While staking isn’t live yet in Uniswap we have worked on an updated advanced staking interface for when it goes live. Some features that will be built into our advanced staking interface:

• Users can have multiple staked positions
• Each position can have its own delegate

This opens up the usage of UniStaker as tool for partial delegation as well, and excited additional feature.

Tally Analytics:

Live Dashboard for Q1 2025 (Highlight: $138m transferred on Tally!), some interesting trends have emerged, a high level of (most likely) programatic spam voting is visible on the last three proposals. Perhaps airdrop farming from participants hopeful of some sort of future airdrop.

Explore the Tally reporting docs metabase:
https://tally.metabaseapp.com/public/dashboard/660d3c49-e8cd-47a8-bd07-de6a273eb35e

We’re working on a better way to break down reporting data regarding our metrics, we are going to prioritize this for Q2.

System stats for the Quarter (no downtime!)
https://status.tally.xyz/

Support:

We had two issues we worked on this quarter:

• Correct quorum reporting for Uniswap to include only ‘Yes’ votes (Resolved same day it was reported)
• Delegate reported some instances of failed voting transactions (Transient error we could not reproduce)

Community Call Summaries:

January

February

March

In general, we are reconsidering community call summaries. The feedback from delegates in office hours has been this is not a very helpful or useful for the community. The foundation already does a good job making them available on the forum and there isn’t a demand for a transcribed version.

Looking forward:

In Q2 we are re-evaluating some of our deliverables based on feedback we’ve received this quarter. We haven’t made a decision yet but we are considering some alternatives to Optimistic Governance (for example, more robust safe Multisig support, and security sprint in light of the recent SAFE hack). In general we expect the roadmap as detailed in this forum thread will be a bit flexible to remain nimble and responsive to DAO needs. But we will keep the community informed!

Thank you everyone!

[kpk]

Thank you @dennisonb for the update! The Social Layer Analytics dashboard provides valuable insights that could greatly inform future iterations of programs assessing delegate engagement and their contributions to the DAO.

[cliffton]

Tally Q2 2025 Update:

Hello everyone! Taking over these updates from @dennison moving forward - by way of a quick intro, Cliff here, and I recently joined Tally as Head of Strategy, and was previously leading governance in Arbitrum and dYdX.

Q2 of the Tally <> Uniswap service agreement has officially concluded, and we wanted to share our updates.

Seatbelt Integration

Our headline in Q2 is the successful launch of Seatbelt inside Tally’s Uniswap proposal pages! Seatbelt is the security-simulation framework co-developed by Uniswap Labs and ScopeLift that runs:

• a full Tenderly replay of every live proposal,
• checks contract verification,
• decodes calldata,
• runs Slither static-analysis, and
• produces a human-readable report.

Since June 21, 2025 every Uniswap proposal on Tally now carries a “Security Report” tab that exposes this information directly in the UI, and is archived in the Uniswap Foundation fork of the seatbelt repository. The integration draws on the original Uniswap Labs specification and ScopeLift’s technical blueprint for cross-DAO simulations.

In practice, delegates no longer need to open GitHub or Tenderly to understand what a proposal will do; the full state-diff, external-call trace, and any Slither warnings are visible alongside the “Discussion” and “Transactions” panels before a vote is cast.

Read the in-depth announcement here!

Analytics

The public Tallylitics dashboard and the Tally Analytics metabase dashboard shows that forum engagement declined slightly in Q2, which could be attributed to a lighter on-chain calendar.

• Roughly the same number of unique posters contributed as in Q1, and the 2 most-visited discussion threads centred on the DUNA wrapper and fee-switch design.

• Internal analytics from our Metabase dashboard register nine new proposals and 815 unique voting wallets between 1 April and 30 June, a single-digit percentage dip from Q1 that tracks the broader market’s quieter spring. Signature or gas-relayed ballots continue to represent about one-fifth of all votes, suggesting that UX improvements made earlier in the year have retained users.

On the reliability front, Tally recorded a 100 % application and API availability for the period, and a 99.984% uptime for custom domains. Specifically,

• The Tally API experienced issues for 3 seconds on Jun 12, 2025 at 08:10pm CEST due to a severe Google Cloud outage, and
• Custom Domains were down on 2 occasions - the first on April 29, 2025 for 13 minutes, and the second on Jun 2, 2025 for 6 minutes. The Uniswap DAO, Uniswap Foundation, and the Uniswap Accountability Committee (UAC) did not surface any issues during these outages.

UAC page

We started building out the UAC page to increase visibility on Tally in Q2, but got feedback during the process that we should find a way to do it in a more privacy preserving way. At the moment, we’ve paused work on it while we reassess next steps forward.

Monthly Office Hours

Community engagement through live calls has not met expectations, and attendance has averaged fewer than ten participants. As flagged by @dennison in the Q1 update, the feedback from delegates in office hours has been that this is not very helpful or useful for the community. The foundation already does a good job making them available on the forum and there isn’t a demand for a transcribed version.

To ensure responsiveness without imposing on delegates’ calendars, we will instead commit to a first reply within 2 business days to any question posted in the Tally Uniswap Communication Thread. If the UAC or wider DAO still prefers monthly calls we are, of course, happy to continue hosting them.

Looking ahead - Q3 and Q4

Looking ahead to the second half of 2025 we are likely going to be working 2 streams of work, and will work closely with the UF and UAC on priority setting.

• Extending Seatbelt support for L2 transactions.
• Supporting the DUNA and fee switch implementations.

During July we will solicit priorities from the Foundation, the UAC, and top delegates, and the resulting Q3-Q4 roadmap, with concrete milestones will be posted in this same thread.

As always, we welcome feedback and stand ready to iterate!

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As a cool callout, Tally shipped clarity.tally.xyz, a free regulatory-intelligence hub that tracks the CLARITY Act and other U.S. rule-makings in real time to help Uniswap contributors stay ahead of the policy curve. We’d love for the Uniswap community to have try this AI tool out, and are looking forward to getting feedback on whether this is useful, and how we can improve this moving forward!

[SEEDGov]

@cliffton

Analytics

The public Tallylitics dashboard

Great contribution with Tallylitics!
We have a few questions about it:

How do you define or evaluate the concept of “Forum Post Quality”? Since post quality is inherently subjective, we’re curious to understand how you’ve automated its assessment in an objective way.

And related to that, in the “Users” section, how do you establish or measure all the listed attributes—such as quality, relevance, logical reasoning, constructiveness, persuasiveness, etc.? These are also quite subjective concepts, so we’re interested in learning what criteria or methodology you used to quantify and score them.

[cliffton]

Thank you for the question and sorry for the late reply here!

On Forum Post Quality

For each forum thread, Tallylitics combines 3 objective signals into a single Post Quality score.

1. Engagement: Unique views, likes, and reply depth captured at 30- and 90-day marks to gauge whether interest is sustained.

2. Signal-to-action: A thread gains additional weight if the discussion advances to an offchain vote on Snapshot, and subsequently an onchain proposal on Tally. Progression in the governance lifecycle is a key indicator of initial forum post quality.

3. Adjustments for recency bias - This keeps newer or still-active conversations from being crowded out by older, marquee forum threads. These inputs are pure counts taken from Discourse, Snapshot, and on-chain data, and no manual judgment enters the calculation.

On Users

User scores are primarily determined based on the quality of the users’s post(s). This is essentially the median post quality across everything that user has written, from likes, views, replies, replies from proposal author, time between last posted comment and post creation date, etc. These are all available through the Discourse API, which the metabase query reads from.

Other factors include:

1. Frequency of quality replies
2. Frequency of creating new posts
3. Proposal creation on Snapshot and Tally

We agree that quality, relevance, logical reasoning, constructiveness, persuasiveness are all ultimately subjective, and are happy to work with @SEEDGov refine the weightings to better represent these metrics to the DAO.