Stake DAO Association January 2025 Report

Highlights

  • 11% of Curve’s inflation going through Stake DAO strategies (ATH)
  • Steady revenues in a lower market environment

Product (Strategy/Smart contracts/UI/Development)

January retrospective

  • Staking v2 specs definition
  • Listapie and Solv IFO
  • Spectra vote rewards automated distribution
  • Brought forward vlCVX vote rewards distributions on Thursdays
  • Fixed several bugs, and developed the automation of processes

Focus for February

  • Zerolend locker finished and audited
  • Develop the SPECTRA locker
  • Start the development of Staking v2
  • Balancer VMv2

Business development

January retrospective

  • Delegation reward program brought 300k vlCVX delegated to stakedao-delegation.eth on the first round
  • Increased share of Aladdin votes for VM bribes
  • ATH share of Curve inflation going through Stake DAO strategies, notably driven by a BD push on the AIOZ/WETH strategy: 10.60%, representing $1m of annual revenues at a CRV price of $0.8
  • Development of the institutional BD, with a partnership with a private traditional fund manager that will use exclusively Stake DAO strategies (test amount of $15k deposited)
  • Reached 200k veBAL
  • Sharp increase in Yearn strategies TVL
  • Flat TVL on Stake DAO’s strategies, but a shift towards more profitable ones:
    • Total TVL in strategies: $54m (-$0.5m / -0.8% MoM)
    • Onlyboost TVL: $38m (+$2m / +6.5% MoM)
    • Number of strategies above $1m: 10 (+1 / +11% MoM)
    • Yearn strategies TVL: $5m (+$1.8m / +55% MoM)

Focus for February

  • Close a second deal with vlCVX vote delegation
  • Prepare the ZeroLend locker launch
  • Partnership with Resolv to push Stake DAO strategies
  • Trying to get Resolv to use Stake DAO strategies for their backing
  • Defend Morpho grant request

Product investment performance tracking

Financials

Stake DAO treasury : https://debank.com/profile/0xf930ebbd05ef8b25b1797b9b2109ddc9b0d43063

The treasury saw a steep decrease this month following the market downturn.

P&L

Steady recurring revenue in January, despite market downturn, explained by a steady growth in all business lines, especially in Onlyboost revenues (+36% MoM) offset by a decrease in treasury revenues.

Association grant use report


Bonus payment explains the increase in R&D / O&M charges in January.

Legal & governance

January retrospective

  • Updated terms and conditions’ and requested approval to connect to the UI
  • H1-25 grant request passed guaranteeing continued support to Stake DAO for the next six months

Focus for February

  • Update privacy and cookie policies
  • Proposal to accept ownership of the ZeroLend locker
  • Transfer of twitter account
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Impressive revenue for January 2025, well balanced across the 3 business lines plus revenue from treasury. The :elephant: is progressing on its 4 pillars. Well done, guys, keep building!

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