[BIP-172] Enable SPHERE/wMATIC Gauge w/ a 2% Emissions Cap (Polygon)

PR with multisig payload

Summary:

To enable SPHERE/wMATIC gauge on Balancer and incentivise Sphere Liquidity on Balancer

References/Useful links:

Links:
Website
Documentation

Protocol Description:

Sphere Finance serves as the central hub for governance in an ecosystem designed for liquidity providers. The $SPHERE token symbolizes the governance held by the treasury. Our focus is on developing protocols and solutions, making investments, and creating benefits for those who hold our token.

Motivation:

The purpose of this proposal is to incorporate a veBAL gauge into the SPHERE/WMATIC 80/20 weighted pool in order to enhance liquidity through BAL incentives. Upon being approved, we plan to participate in the Balancer Wars and offer incentives to $veBAL holders to increase liquidity for our token. We have recently moved our liquidity to Balancer and have observed a significant volume of over $200,000 on the first day. Our goal is to encourage more volume for our token, ultimately contributing to the overall volume of Balancer

Specifications:

  1. Governance: Our funds are held on a 4/8 multisig. All individuals are doxxed internally as well as to third parties to ensure safety of liquidity. Multisig holders are elected members by the community, publicly doxxed members and team members that are doxxed to afromentioned public entities.

  2. Oracles: None

  3. Audits: We’ve had a public peer review of our contract by our developers of our community, as well as, additional audits (can be found in the docs).

  4. Centralization vectors: Two functions within the protocol: RescueToken and ClearStuckBalance, each to withdraw tokens from the $SPHERE token contract. The token implementation can be upgraded upon multisig agreement and a 48 hour timelock.

  5. Market History: We have launched as a rebasing token back in March of 2022 and have since pivoted into a deflationary token, with real yield being shared towards our holders.

  6. Value: Our conviction is that 80/20 ve tokenomics provide a superior solution compared to any other ve token approach, and we are eager to implement this solution on Balancer, with the goal of providing value to both parties. Balancer will become our primary liquidity sink for Sphere.

I apologise for the lack of URLs. I am only allowed to post two links since I am a new user. Will try to update them if necessary.

Specification

The DAO Multisig 0x10A19e7eE7d7F8a52822f6817de8ea18204F2e4f will interact with the AuthorizerAdaptor at 0x8F42aDBbA1B16EaAE3BB5754915E0D06059aDd75 and call performAction with the GaugeController at 0xC128468b7Ce63eA702C1f104D55A2566b13D3ABD for the target(address) argument and using 0x3a04f900 followed by the gauge address 0x90437a1D2F6C0935Dd6056f07f05C068f2A507F9 and the corresponding gauge type for the data(bytes) argument.

data(bytes) :
0x3a04f90000000000000000000000000090437a1d2f6c0935dd6056f07f05c068f2a507f90000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003

Apologies for the double-posting. I am currently restrained from adding multiple links in one post.

I would still like to provide a few links as they have had been requested in the template:

  1. GitHub
  2. Sphere Ecosystem
  3. PolygonRootGauge | Address 0x90437a1d2f6c0935dd6056f07f05c068f2a507f9 | Etherscan
  4. Vyper_contract | Address 0xfb0243ffdc5309a4ec13b9de9111da02294b2571 | PolygonScan

Thank you!

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Its great to see more and more projects move towards the 80/20 model as it has a lot less IL and makes a lot more sense than a 50/50 pool for those who are bullish on the governance token.

Sphere Finance has been building on Polygon for > 1 year now and have a very strong and loyal community. I am also part of the 4/8 multisig and am in support of this proposal :raised_hands: :raised_hands:

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https://snapshot.org/#/balancer.eth/proposal/0x9bff0b2856a578d2eb43fd32eee097ace67886d21cac094957041af417dccf2e

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