Hey Dan - Ken just added a lot more info about UGP and how we want to improve it as a comment below, and I’m about to add that to the Addendum of the Proposal as well for the Consensus Check. UGP won’t be sunset, it will operate under the UF and scale up its resources and team.
As for the kinds of ambitious projects we would now be excited to fund? Listing many below, but we’re just as excited to be blown away by new ideas the community dreams up.
- Novel incentive programs, like a developer mining program to incentivize third-party integrations with the protocol to strengthen its network effects (spoke about this a bit in my reply to Ashleigh)
- The extensive R&D and engineering work required to design, build, test, and deploy future versions of Uniswap. And of course, associated developer documentation, tooling, and support.
- New smart contract primitives improving Uniswap stakeholder experience. A recent example of this would be The Franchiser, whose audit was coordinated by UGP. The Franchiser for the first time allows for partial delegation and re-delegation of Compound-style voting tokens like UNI.
- New independent grant-making organizations, for instance, managed by University blockchain clubs, and focused on regions around the world like South America, Southeast Asia, Africa, and more.
- Grants to write versions of Uniswap in new languages to deploy on other chains (I.e. in Cairo for Starknet, in Rust for Solana, etc.)
- More middleware, including an open source streaming data platform for Uniswap pricing, trading, pool, and other data.
- More advanced tooling (ie 1-click position changes and fee collection), improved UI/UX, and more education for liquidity providers. Ditto for liquidity mining.
- An pro trader interface that offers a familiar UI/UX to the most popular centralized exchanges, like FTX and Binance
- On-site hackathon support at events around the world to work hand in hand with hacker teams