I originally attempted to post this proposal on the Compound Governance Forum, however after over 22 hours, it is still "awaiting approval" from the Compound team
As a project based around “community driven governance,” I find it concerning I am being censored in this manner
For the sake of transparency and due the urgent nature of the matter, I am posting this proposal on my own Medium page so the $COMP community can decide for themselves if this is the path they want to take.
An open mind is all I ask
Had a good discussion in the @compoundfinance discord and essentially concluded this manipulation was a mixture of two issues
Lack of adequate market coverage -> Can be solved using @chainlink Price Feeds
Too much $DAI debt -> Can be solved by adjusting borrowing parameters
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I think he's misconstruing what Sergey is saying about market coverage and not providing the full context on oracle security and the Uniswap TWAP
Thread for context below 👇
2/ Sergey was emphasizing the importance of proper market coverage
This does not mean taking a simple median or mean across exchanges
But instead aggregating data from all trading environments by taking into account liqudity, volume, time and other differences across exchanges
3/ Market coverage is important because it ensures price data reflects the true global market-wide price and not just that of one or a small number of exchanges
Chainlink covers this topic of market coverage and data quality extensively in this blog post blog.chain.link/the-importance…
1/ "The goal is to transition to an active piece of IT infrastructure, empowering the document to communicate with external resources such as data feeds, payments infrastructure, ERP, and CRM systems" -@tgonser, founder of @DocuSign
3/ Tom understands the value of smart contracts and the importance of secure oracles to connect these contracts to real world data, events, and payments
Take a listen for yourself
In fact, DocuSign has been interested in smart contracts since 2015
1/ Creating Definitive Truth, a thread giving insight on Sergey's recent presentation at #SmartCon 2020 covering how @Chainlink generates definitive truth about the real world, the acquisition of deco.works from @Cornell, and much more
2/ Chainlink oracle networks operate at the speed and latency they do because of the limitations of Ethereum L1, not because of any limitations of Chainlink
Ethereum L1 is simply where all the demand for external data currently is
I've just exited all my yield farms, the risk adjusted returns just aren't there anymore
For good yield you now have to deposit into pool2 (lol no thanks), be the first to hear about a new crop and ape in (rugpull risk), or stick with pool1 for a measly 100% APY (not worth IL)
It was inevitable that these foodcoin ponzis would come to an end, however if you know how to play these games right (as I've taught), you should be well in the green by now anyways
I'll still be on the lookout for new crops, but as things die down, lower your risk, not raise it
As time goes on and yield continues to drop, the rugpull risk will continue to rise, lowering risk adjusted returns even further
Find out who the suckers are, because if you don't, you're probably the sucker who will get left holding the bags