Ratification Poll for Special Purpose Fund (MIP55) - July 12, 2021

The Governance Facilitators have placed a ratification poll into the voting system as part of the responsibilities defined in MIP51. This Governance Poll will be active for fourteen days beginning on Monday, July 12 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 Special Purpose Fund (MIP55) being accepted and implemented in the Maker Protocol.

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

A Special Purpose Fund (SPF) is used to fulfill a narrow, specific or temporary objective, where approved funds are locked in escrow, releasable by a minimum of 2/3 signers, where at least 2 signers (called Comptrollers) are mandated actors or community members appointed by mandated actors.

• Funding is only available in Dai.
• A SPF must contain one Point of Contact (from the SPF receiver) and a minimum of two Comptrollers. Comptrollers execute payouts to final recipients based on the completion of milestones stated in the SPF Scope.
• Any SPF requests less than 50,000 Dai can go into a weekly or signal request process, but anything greater than 50,000 Dai must go through the monthly governance cycle.

Please review the links below to inform your position on this proposal before voting.

• Cannonical Proposal Version
• Latest Proposal Version
• Proposal Discussion Thread

Outcomes

This poll implements a Minimum Positive Participation value. The Minimum Positive Participation is currently set to 10,000 MKR.

If the votes for the ‘Yes’ option exceed the votes for the ‘No’ option AND the votes for the ‘Yes’ option exceed 10,000 MKR, then the following actions will be taken:

• The MIP Editors will mark the proposal Accepted and the Governance Facilitators will confirm its passage on the Governance and Risk call on Thursday, July 29.
• Any further work required to implement the proposal will be tasked to the relevant Core Units.

Otherwise, this proposal will be marked as rejected per MIP51.

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Resources

MIP51: Monthly Governance Cycle describes this type of poll and its position and significance within the rest of the governance cycle.

If you are new to voting in the Maker Protocol, please see the voting guide to learn how voting works, and this wallet setup guide to set up your wallet to vote.

Additional information about the Governance process can be found in the Governance section of the MakerDAO community portal.

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To add current and upcoming votes to your calendar, please see the MakerDAO Public Events Calendar.