Arbitrum DAO - Ecosystem Incentives contd.
STIP Backfund - Returned and Unallocated Funds The STIP Backfund allocated incentive funding to 26 protocols - of those, 7 protocols either returned unused funds or did not draw down on their entire funding. Protocols therefore either returned unused funds, or did not claim their requested ARB before the program closed.
Difference - Requested vs. Used
Actual ARB Used
Reason for Difference
ARB Requested ARB Received ARB Returned
Stargate
2,000,000
-
-
-
2,000,000 Not Passing KYC
Wormhole
1,800,000
771,429
690,433
80,996
1,719,004 Not Requiring Full Allocation
Synapse
2,000,000
2,000,000
753,316
1,246,684
753,316 Misuse of Funds -See Below
Funding Deferred to STIP Bridge
Shell
750,000
-
-
-
750,000
WOOFi
1,000,000
1,000,000
152,529
847,471
152,529 Not Requiring Full Allocation 15,200 Not Requiring Full Allocation 3,000 Not Requiring Full Allocation 2,039 Not Requiring Full Allocation
Tide
80,000
80,000
15,200
64,800
unshETH
375,000
375,000
3,000
372,000
Magpie
1,250,000
1,250,000
2,039
1,247,961
Furucombo
59,500
59,500
47,870
11,631
47,870 Misuse of Funds -See Below
Program Totals (i.e. all protocols)
21,312,500
17,533,929
1,664,387
15,869,543
5,442,958
Misuse of Funds - Furucombo
Throughout the STIP and STIP Backfund programs, 56 protocols received funding. Various protocols were flagged by Blockworks as having either misused or retaining leftover funds. The Arbitrum Foundation contacted these protocols and asked them to return their unused funds - all of them complied without delay, apart from 1 protocol: Furucombo.
It appears that Furucombo violated the rules of the STIP by: - not publishing a final STIP report;
- sending their ARB funding to a Kraken account, making it unclear how the incentives were spent; and - freezing incentives towards traders, with users claiming they received significantly fewer rewards than expected
Post DAO-wide discussions and follow-ups from the Arbitrum Foundation, Furucombo subsequently returned their unspent funding of 47.9k ARB to the STIP multisig wallet (on 22 July 2024). The DAO voted on the next steps to take relating to this misuse of funds and decided to ban Furucombo from the Arbitrum DAO from 26 July 2024 onwards.
Misuse of Funds - Synapse
Post receiving their STIP Backfund allocation of 2M ARB, 750k ARB was transferred to 3 wallet addresses. These addresses delegated their ARB to a co-founder of Synapse Labs. Concerns were raised that STIP funding was being used by this protocol to influence governance processes as the delegated ARB could be used to vote on proposals etc. Synapse responded to these allegations and outlined the use of the ARB and that, although delegated to a co-founder, the delegated ARB had not been used for any governance voting processes. Post discussion on the forum, Synapse returned the 750k ARB, as well as 3.3k ARB that had not been allocated towards incentives. Note that: - the 3.3k ARB was returned from Synapse's distribution address to the STIP mulstisig wallet and not from the address that initially received funding - it has been included in the amounts returned above; and - the 750k ARB was returned directly to the DAO's treasury wallet and not to the STIP multisig wallet - it is included in the figures above but in the Token Flow Report (page 33), it comes through under 'Other Transactions' in the DAO Treasury Wallet. 19
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