Karpatkey: GnosisDAO Monthly Report - November 2024
Introduction
In November, the main focus was to optimise liquidity and strengthen the Gnosis Chain DeFi Ecosystem. Gnosis Chain reached $532.94m in monthly volume (Defillama), which is up by 182.14% from the previous month and the highest month yet.
Summary
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Financial Results: The total treasury size has increased from $628 million to $814 million in the past month.
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Breakdown of Results:
- DeFi Results: $730k
- Operations Results: -$9.15M (includes $6.7m sent to GnosisVC and $600k OTC buyback)
- Change in Market Value: $195M
- Fees to karpatkey: $250.360, of which $166.667 correspond to management fees, and $83.693 to performance fee
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Monthly reports here.
Treasury Operations & Ecosystem Development
- $6.7m deposited into GnosisVC accounts following GIP-102.
- Sold $5m worth of ETH for USDC at an average price of $3,500.
- Withdrew liquidity from Arrakis and Balancer V2, and created liquidity on Uniswap V3.
- Gnosis Chain experienced an increase in trading volumes with a large portion generated from liquidity pools on Uniswap V3 (Volume/TVL ratio 1.5).
- Launched wstETH/sDAI and wstETH/GNO Uniswap V3 pools on Gnosis Chain.
- Snapshot proposal submitted to deploy Stargate protocol to Gnosis Chain.
Ongoing Operations
- Distribute Curve pool and CoW solver incentives.
- Distribute Gnosis Pay cashback rewards following GIP-110. Dune Dashboard here.
- Treasury evaluation and reallocation of capital for improved yield.
- Rebalancing pools and optimising liquidity.
GNO
Buybacks
- Two OTC deals took place with one of our largest sellers:
- 600,000 USDC was used to purchase 2,299.82 GNO at an average price of $260.89.
- 220k USDC was used to purchase 829.46 GNO at an average price of $265.09.
- The 2M SAFE TWAP ended and a new 2-week TWAP for a further 682k SAFE was created.
- TWAP using wstETH reactivated with 800 wstETH.
Tech Overview
- Completed audit and deployment of Roles v2.
- Smart contract audits for CoW AMM LP Depositor Safe Module completed.
- GnosisDAO and GnosisLTD Disassembler Audits completed.
Governance
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GIP-116: Should the DAO perform the following treasury operations?
- This has passed and there has been a call to action for 5aFe Safe to execute the payload.
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GIP-115: SafeBoost on Gnosis Chain
- An initiative from the Safe DAO <> Gnosis DAO joint treasury. This proposal has passed. The goal is to boost Safe user onchain interactions on Gnosis Chain and grow the number of SAFE token holders on Gnosis Chain.