Short Term Treasury Diversification

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Treasury survey, part 1

Treasury Questionnaire

I have been pondering the goals of the treasury and have come to draft two main principles. I wanted to share these principles with the broader community for feedback, and also to pose a number of questions for which I’m hoping the community can give some direction on how we’re thinking about our holdings and how to use them. Treasury Principles Maintain Strong Purchasing Power: Accrue profits (streaming fee for now - expenses) Retain Index reserves (to fund future growth) Fiscal Responsibil…

Treasury survey, part 2

Treasury Questionnaire pt 2

Part 2 of the Treasury Questionnaire seeks to distill learnings on how the community is leaning from the initial questionnaire and to further clarify several key questions. Question 1: [image] The overwhelming consensus seems to be that the community believes payment for contributions should come from $INDEX reserves. Question 2: [image] 75% of respondents believe that we should hedge between 10-30% of the treasury’s $INDEX holdings. The weighted average vote is 15.5% This begs, the qu…

Smart Treasury proposal

Adopt a Smart Treasury

Summary Propose the Index Coop deploys a ‘Smart Treasury’ Balancer pool to resolve a number of key questions around our treasury and tokenomics while improving the value proposition of holding INDEX. The proposal recommends we begin with an experimental amount of liquidity to allow for data capture and learning, before scaling it up to become a larger part of our treasury if successful. Motivation There are a number of open questions within the Coop at the moment relating to the use of our tr…

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