It's a go! Uniswap Foundation becomes reality after 86M votes in favor
The $74 million plan by two former Uniswap Lab executives for a new Uniswap Foundation has just become reality after their proposal received over 99% of the votes from UNI token holders.
According to the initial proposal, the foundation aims to streamline Uniswap’s Grant Program (UPG) and reduce friction in the protocol’s governance system.
Former Uniswap Labs executive Devin Walsh, now serving as executive director of UF shared the results in a tweet on Aug. 24, noting that the proposal to create the foundation “passed its final vote!”
Last night our proposal to create the Uniswap Foundation passed its final vote!https://t.co/B2VOAeg5is
According to the Uniswap website, the foundation saw more than 86 million, or 99% of total votes in favor of the proposal, with only 770 votes against it. The votes in favor come despite the initial proposal seeing mixed community reaction when it was first announced on Aug. 5.
The voting period started on Aug. 17, and was cut off at 2:19 pm GMT +10 deadline on Aug. 24. The votes were conducted on Uniswap’s app, with voters needing to hold the UNI token in order to vote. For the vote to pass, a threshold of 40 million votes was needed to be cast in favor of the UF.
Walsh said that the UF has already “hit the ground running” on its top priorities, including interviewing "talented, values-aligned candidates" to join the team, scaling up the UPG and "reinvigorating governance."
According to the Uniswap Foundation's job board, employees they're looking to hire include Community Lead, Partnerships Lead, Governance Lead, Grants Analyst and Leads, Communications and Finance Leads, and Developer Relations and Protocol Leads.
But despite the votes being cast heavily in favor of the UF, some on
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