Proposed: September 28, 2022
Status: Passed (all 4 proposals)
Beanstalk Farms Committee
Extend the terms of current BFC members.
Quorum is 25% of the Stalk supply participating in the vote, or about 14,461,799 Stalk based on the time of proposal.
There are 4 voting choices, and each represents voting For a BFC member’s proposal. Abstaining from a voting choice while voting For any other choices is equivalent to voting against. Quorum and a majority vote For is required for a BFC member’s proposal to pass.
Voting choices (For)
- Extend austin’s term
- Extend mod323’s term
- Extend Silo Chad’s term
- Extend sweetredbeans’ term
Each current BFC member’s term ends at the end of Q1 2023. A BFC member’s proposal passing extends their term to the end of Q3 2023.
Original BFC proposal: BFCP-A-1
Post-Unpause Q3 contributions
- Continued improving and adding to the Farmers’ Almanac, as well as maintenance;
- Managed several internal processes around Deposit payroll, Unripe Bean distributions, BFBPs, drafting budget BIPs, etc.;
- Organized the Immunefi Bug Bounty program and designed the corresponding governance structure around the Beanstalk Immunefi Committee via BIP-26;
- Spearheaded the process for publishing monthly operations reports for increased transparency around budget usage; and
- Coordinated with Halborn on the upcoming Seraph BIP and its corresponding governance structure.
Plans for Q4
- Continue to add to and maintain the Farmers’ Almanac as Beanstalk is upgraded;
- Support script writing for the upcoming video series of Beanstalk explainers;
- Continue coordinating with Halborn on the upcoming Seraph BIP;
- Research and develop a multistage transition plan back to permissionless governance; and
- Continue doing whatever needs to get done from an operations perspective—much of it which comes up on an ad hoc basis.
Original BFC proposal: BFCP-A-2
Post-Unpause Q3 contributions
- Appeared on seven AMAs/podcast/Twitter Spaces;
- Published articles on multiple media outlets (CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, etc.);
- Hosted weekly class and DAO meetings; and
- Hosted six guests at the Bean Pod.
Plans for Q4
- Publish a video series explaining Beanstalk;
- Cover the launch of the Beanstalk-native AMM on crypto news outlets;
- Continue to host weekly meetings and The Bean Pod;
- Hire a marketing manager; and
- Continue the marketing engagement with TASC.
Original BFC proposal: BFCP-A-3
Post-Unpause Q3 contributions
- Led the UI and Subgraph teams to push Beanstalk-UI versions 2.0.5 through 2.0.22—notable changes included:
- Swap page with multiple swap routes;
- Governance page;
- Pod Market graph;
- vAPYs; and
- Historical charts showing the value of a Farmer’s Deposit, Stalk, and Seeds.
- Initiated the Beanstalk protocol RFC process;
- Grew Beanstalk Farms’ list of contributing engineers to a total of 14 across full-time, part-time and grant contributors, including two new full-time engineering hires (Bean-Sama and ALECKS).
- Served as a coordinator between engineering teams—in Q3 we began hosting weekly engineering all-hands meetings and prioritizing upgrades to the protocol and UI; and
- Initiated an audit of the Beanstalk UI with Halborn.
Plans for Q4
- Complete any necessary improvements to the UI or other infrastructure per Halborn’s recommendation after completion of their frontend audit;
- Open source the UI;
- Continue to coordinate the various engineering teams across on-chain development, middleware, frontend, design, etc.; and
- Implement interfaces for:
- Pod Market V2 (generic pricing curves), likely accompanied by a more advanced Pod Market graph;
- Wells and their associated functionality;
- A Balances page refactor;
- A new Dutch auction for Soil at the beginning of each Season; and
- A Beanstalk-native Fertilizer market.
Original BFC proposal: BFCP-A-4
Post-Unpause Q3 contributions
- Designed the interfaces for the following pages:
- Governance page;
- Silo Token Overview page / education component;
- Forecast page refactor;
- Wells v1;
- Pod Market activity table; and
- vAPYs;
- See Figma for more details!
Plans for Q4
- Reach and maintain feature parity between Beanstalk and Beanstalk UI V2 from a design perspective; and
- Design net new features:
- A Balances page refactor;
- Field conditions component;
- Soil Dutch auction;
- Pod Market V2 (generic pricing curves), likely accompanied by a more advanced Pod Market graph;
- A Beanstalk-native Fertilizer market;
- Explore alternate design systems;
- Define a stronger brand identity;
- Rework bean.money landing page;
- Explore new component systems with a flatter visual interface; and
- Integrate new illustrations into documentation and graphics.