Uniswap's DAO Governance Model

Uniswap governance process, as many other DAOs in crypto, is inspired by Compound. Understanding how Uniswap governance work will give you a good understanding of how many other DAOs operate as they follow a similar recipe. In this video we will review the phases that a proposal has to go through, supporting apps like Discourse and Snapshot, how vote delegation works, commonly used smart contracts and some of the risks and mitigation strategies.

Sections:

0:00 Introduction

2:47 Uniswap governance workflow

9:02 Discourse

12:20 Snapshot

15:48 Example proposal workflow

19:39 Vote delegation

23:54 Tally

26:52 Smart contracts

31:01 Risks & Mitigations

34:02 Summary

Related Links:

- Uniswap governance docs: https://docs.uniswap.org/protocol/concepts/governance/process

- Uniswap app: https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?chain=mainnet

- Uniswap Discourse instance: https://gov.uniswap.org/

- Uniswap Snapshot space: https://snapshot.org/#/uniswap

- Uniswap voting UI: https://app.uniswap.org/#/vote?chain=mainnet

- Discourse: https://www.discourse.org/

- Snapshot: https://snapshot.org/#/

- Tally: https://www.tally.xyz/

- OpenZeppelin: https://openzeppelin.com/

- OpenZeppelin Wizard: https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/wizard

- OpenZeppelin Defender: https://openzeppelin.com/defender/

- OpenZeppelin Governor smart contract docs: https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/governance