Hey @kyle, thanks for getting this conversation started, and thanks for your patience in my reply! Has been a busy few weeks for us
You did a great job summing up what Flexible Voting is all about. We think being able to participate in both DeFi (with your GTC) and governance at the same time is a compelling use case and we recently received a grant from Aave Grants DAO to add Flexible Voting support to ATokens. We expect the work will be done early next year.
One note I want to add: while depositing tokens in DeFi protocols is one of the use cases we imagine, there are a lot more, and some of them are just as excitingāif not more so. A couple Iām really excited about are Layer 2 voting (bridge your GTC to a rollup, vote from the rollup with low gas fees) and shielded voting (deposit your GTC to a pool and vote privately with ZKPs).
Sure letās chat. Will follow up!
Hey @krrisis, thanks for your thoughts! Iām not quite sure what you mean here regarding Tally and transferring funds. Happy to expand if you have any specific questions. That said, weāve been in touch with the folks at Tally (they rock!) and theyāve signaled their support for the FV mechanism, and even a willingness to support it in their tooling should a DAO request it!
Yep! Thatās exactly right @DisruptionJoe
This is an interesting idea! Since delegations happen inside the GTC contract, not the Governor contract, the only way to add this by default would be to migrate the community to a new version of GTC. That said, with Flexible Voting, you could design a delegate contract that sub-delegated to regular voters, and included configurable expiration by default. In other words, with Flexible Voting you could build an opt-in version of this.
As it stands now anyone can revoke a delegation by re-assigning it at anytime, including to themselves or to no one. So I think this basically exists already. Unless Iām misunderstanding what you mean?
Anyway if anyone else has other questions about either the Governor upgrade or Flexible Voting, please hit me up! Iāll be keeping an eye out for replies