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Balancer is voting on unwinding the Timeless ve8020 BAL grant (BIP-925) and deciding the next phase of rescued funds distribution from the November 2025 attacks (BIP-923), both ending in 4 days. GnosisDAO is actively considering banning Citrullin from governance and communication channels (GIP-156), with voting concluding in 2 days.
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Protocols are increasingly grappling with legacy fund recovery and reallocation, governance enforcement, and treasury optimization as key operational priorities.
This period highlights three dominant themes: (1) multiple protocols (Balancer, Nouns DAO, Gitcoin) are actively managing legacy funds through recovery, reallocation, or cancellation of outdated streams, reflecting maturing treasury oversight; (2) governance enforcement mechanisms are being stress-tested, as seen in Gnosis' ban proposal and Balancer's grant unwind, indicating heightened accountability demands; (3) treasury management is bifurcating between conservative strategies (Gitcoin's stable conversion) and experimental deployments (Sky's parallelized allocation system), revealing divergent risk postures.
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Summary Recover unclaimed $BAL and $LDO incentives still sitting in Balancer’s pre-veBAL MerkleRedeem liquidity-mining contracts (~364k BAL and ~350k LDO respectively), and transfer recovered tokens to the BizDev Safe for redeployment as user incentives at BizDev’s discretion. # Background Before veBAL, Balancer distributed liquidity-mining rewards via weekly MerkleRedeem contracts (erc20-redeemable): an owner published a merkle root every...
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Closing in 4 days - Category: protocol_upgrade
TL;DR This seeks funding for DAO operations for H2 2026 in an amount of $1,262,951. Read more @ https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/proposal-gitcoin-dao-2026-budget-request-second-tranche-revised-and-expanded/25353