Atlas Edit Weekly Cycle Proposal - April 21, 2025

The Governance Facilitators have placed an Atlas Edit Weekly Cycle Proposal into the voting system on behalf of Prime Delegate JuliaChang. This Governance Poll will be active for three days beginning on Monday, April 21 at 16:00 UTC.

This is a binary vote.

• You may vote for a single option.
• You should vote for the option which you prefer.
• If you would accept either option, you should vote ‘Abstain’.

Review

The community may vote in this poll to express support or opposition to the following Atlas Edit Weekly Cycle Proposal:

• Atlas Edit Pull Request
• Proposal Discussion Thread

A brief summary of this Atlas Edit has been provided by the Author and is shown below:

Introduce Staking - Introduces staking as a replacement for Activation / Sealing and defines the yUSDS system for funding USDS borrowing against staked SKY. This edit incorporates Rune’s Forum posts Simplifying Seal Engine and Activation (Removing Exit Fee) and SKY Staking and yUSDS - further simplifying activation and sealing.

Outcomes

This poll implements a Minimum Positive Participation value. The Minimum Positive Participation for Atlas Edit Weekly Cycle Proposals is currently set to 20,000 MKR.

If the votes for the ‘Yes’ option exceed the votes for the ‘No’ option AND the votes for the ‘Yes’ option equal or exceed 20,000 MKR, then the following actions will be taken:

• The associated Pull Request will be merged into The Atlas.

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Resources

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