What is the Orca operating team proposing?
This is a proposal regarding the Orca Treasury. For more information on the current balance of the Orca Treasury, please refer to the just published Orca Treasury Report #2.
While the Orca Governance Council gets up to speed, and while we formalize the DAO structure with Council governance, the Orca operating team would like to move forward with converting the current fees generated for the Orca Treasury from various LP tokens to a mix of USDC and SOL.
The operating team would like to receive Orca community’s endorsement for the operating team to use their best judgment to convert the treasury, acting on the best interest of the Orca DAO and based on recommendations from the Council. The conversion parameter is proposed below and can be updated based on community feedback.
The terms outlined in this document will be reevaluated with the Orca Governance Council, three months after the potential passing of this proposal. The Orca community will be informed of the outcome of this reevaluation.
Why, and why now?
With the Orca Governance Council formed and its first meetings taking place, we are excited to welcome a new era of the Orca protocol. In this new era, treasury management will become a key topic for both the council and the Orca community. Among others, possible discussion items around treasury management may involve ways to preserve value for the Orca Treasury, or ways to allocate from the Orca treasury to the DAO’s future grants and working groups. In order for these discussions to take place, it’s important for the Orca Treasury to be monitored and managed on a regular basis.
Previously, Orca’s operating team had made conversions for the Orca Climate Fund only, with the intention of proposing the conversion of Orca Treasury (which is accumulated by trade fees incurred when users trade using orca.so) after Orca Governance Council is officially in place. However, in light of recent industry events causing an ecosystem-wide decrease in token values, the Orca Treasury, which is made up of LP tokens composed of assets listed on Orca.so, is also decreasing in overall value. The operating team feels that the discussion of treasury conversion should happen promptly, which is why it has aligned with the Orca Governance Council that this forum post and subsequent on-chain proposal will take place simultaneously with the Orca Governance Council getting onboarded.
What is the community voting on?
The community is voting for the operating team to use their best judgment to convert the Orca Treasury for the next three months. Details proposed in the section below.
This forum post will stay active for seven days (from Dec 6, 2022 to Dec 12, 2022), during which time the community is encouraged to share their input on the specifics of this proposal, and the operating team will read and review. By Dec 14, 2022, the operating team will share an updated version of the section “What happens if the vote passes?” below, incorporating forum feedback (if any). This proposal will then move to an on-chain vote by Dec 16, 2022.
What happens if the vote passes?
If the vote passes, the Orca team will begin converting fees accrued to the protocol into USDC and SOL. The conversion ratio will be 80% USDC + 20% SOL for the Orca Treasury and 100% USDC for the Climate Fund (formerly known as the Impact Fund). These conversions may be initiated manually or on an automated schedule, with the initial conversions expected to be completed by the end of December 2022.
Between the start of the conversion and the end of the three-month period, the operating team may decide, based on market volatility, to change the conversion ratio as indicated in the first paragraph of this section. This should also be conducted after notifying the community and the Orca Governance Council via making a post to this forum proposal. However, in the interest of responding swiftly to market conditions, there will not be a signaling and discussing period.
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