Disclaimer: I’m the author of Uniclient, open source script to monitor Uniswap pool, written in early 2019 and articles explaining Uniswap, so I acknowledge I have a vested interest in this proposal.
UNI drop rewarded Uniswap users and Uniswap liquidity providers, especially those who were active during the early days. However, I feel that some people which contributed a lot to the Uniswap success were left aside: software developers and content creators.
People who wrote code (and made it public for free) to interact with and analyse Uniswap, writers spreading the word about Uniswap, when whole idea of AMM exchanges should be offered some UNI for their work.
I don’t have any concrete proposal, but I think at least some of those contributions should be included in UNI distribution. I’d like to open a discussion if and how this should be done.
PS. Perhaps also some fund should be created for content/software creators in the future.
I agree with your idea, content creators should get the reward they deserve. There may be special programs for content creators available and some allocations will have to be made available. The system is like a campaign to create the best content and select only a few of the best.
For software developers, maybe they can volunteer or they can follow the Bug bounty provided by Uniswap.
This sounds like something that will be handled by governance through the community treasury in the future rather than an airdrop. From the announcement blog:
With 15 % of tokens already available to be claimed by historical users and liquidity providers, the governance treasury will retain 43% [430,000,000 UNI] of UNI supply to distribute on an ongoing basis through contributor grants, community initiatives, liquidity mining , and other programs.
UNI will vest to the governance treasury on a continuous basis according to the following schedule. Governance will have access to vested UNI starting October 18 2020 12:00am UTC.
I fully agree, it’s not even possible to just airdrop it like that, since we don’t know who did what and when. Anyway I wanted to point it out, that some contributions were unaccounted for. From my personal point of view, putting some ETH into pools was much smaller investment than investment of time and effort to write code and article explaining how Uniswap works.
there are still a lot of token allocations to claim. waiting for new programs besides the Luqudity Mining program. Content Creation or something like that will probably be announced soon. Just waiting for the latest information from the team.
I agree. But I alsow think that anyone with a beter writen code (eveng if same function) deserves a reward eaterway’s. These way It’s easier later when/if something need’s to be fixed our updated. Many people write code’s like there is a war going on there (joke).
(joke).