As a non core hire, I must say that I find the whole process around the DSM to be a little unsatisfactory. A few questions / comments:
1. Do we have a mandate for the DSM?
IIP-118 appears to approve priority hires and “Directional commitment to the DSM and Airdrop”
Was there a follow on vote for the air drop?
Was there a follow on vote for the DSM?
I don’t think there was one for either, but one is happening and the other not…
2. Why is the DSM live for core hires but not other owls?
I understand that compensation was part of the core hire process (and so falls under the core hire process):
However, it seems like all the other owls are being neglected while the gold+ owls build DSM rewards.
Why not start all owls at the same time?
3. Liquidity INDEX is omitted.
I understand the challenges in tracking the number of INDEX held in LP tokens. However, diverse provision pf token liquidity is one of the key signs of health for a protocol. The implementation of the DSM actually, removes community members from being part of the INDEX decentralisation.
I admit I’m biased here, I don’t like centralised liquidity. I much prefer to have many smaller actors providing liquidity than single entities. Using the DSM to ENCOURAGE community member to LP would do a great deal to diversify the breath (and stickyness) of INDEX liquidity.
I’m doubly biased on this point, as I’m currently using > 3,000 INDEX to provide liquidity, and I would plan to increase this to >5,000 INDEX in the near future. With the implementation of the DSM, I would be financially incentivised to remove all my Liquidity from the chain.
Can we design the DSM to encourage INDEX liquidity?