TL-DR: Grant the Tholgar team
Context:
The Tholgar team has been contributing to the Paladin ecosystem for more than two years as of now. During this time, the team developed first a warlord autocompounder, and more recently have been contributing technically with Mithras Labs to the development and success of Trevee Protocol.
The Tholgar team has initially been contracted by Sonic and Mithras as part of a larger deal to build a portion of Trevee technical stack. This deal consisted of 3 deliverables :
- Create the core contracts (voting escrow and voter)
- Create an UI to interact with Veda and core contracts
- Create an auto-voter to generate optimized yield on top of trevee’s veNFTs (remaining under Tholgar property/branding)
Aside from these 3 deliverables, Tholgar has contributed to numerous other technical aspects :
- DefiLlama/OBL:
- Regular update of DefiLlama adapters to account for TVL, fees, new strategies…
- Creation of Dune queries for OBL integration for multiple products of the project
- Provide assistance to Mithras for other queries related to OBL
- V2 UI:
- Implementation of the logic
- Creation of indexers/subgraphs and APIs to display information in real time
- Create of a unified router to handle deposits
- Creation of an automated script to distribute gauges at the end of each epochs
- Staking wrappers (wstkscUSD/wstkscETH):
- Creation of the wrapper contract
- Testing of the contract
- Creation of the automated harvester/compounder
- Creation of the API for APY computation
- Points system:
- Generic architecture for points redistribution
- Referral system implementation
- Integration of liquid tokens
- Integration of staking tokens
- Integration of locks
- Custom integrations : Silo, Euler, Spectra, Pendle, Napier, Beefy, Royco, Auto-voter…
- Assisting protocols for integration
- Data validation
- Distribution script
- Maintenance of the system with rules changes throughout the season
- Liquid Locker:
- Design of the contracts
- Implementation of the contracts
- Testing of the contracts
- Creation of automated scripts for votes, rewards harvesting, yield distribution, locks extends…
- Integration in Trevee UI
Rationale:
The additional parts were not enclosed in any deal and were therefore never compensated, so it is for now the property of Tholgar team.
The goal of this proposal is to grant the Tholgar team and obtain in exchange the intellectual property of the additional technical stack.
This proposal is part of the merge between Rings and Paladin and would enable the DAO to have the complete ownership of all the products.
Regarding the grant, it would be composed of two parts :
- 35,000 USDC for the staking wrapper, V2 UI, DefiLlama/OBL and the Liquid Locker, with the following schedule :
- 8,750 USDC once this proposal is accepted
- 8,750 USDC a month after the proposal is accepted
- 8,750 USDC two months after the proposal is accepted
- 8,750 USDC three months after the proposal is accepted
- 70,000 USDC for the points system with two payments :
- 35,000 USDC at the reception of Sonic season 1 GEMS
- 35,000 USDC at the reception of Sonic season 2 GEMS, as long as the points system is maintained and integrations are added until the end the season 2
Means:
- 35,000 USDC, paid over 4 months
- 35,000 USDC, paid at reception of season 1 GEMS
- 35,000 USDC, paid at the end of season 2 (~mid December 2025)
Voting Options:
Yes / No / Abstain