Stake DAO Association March 2025 Report

Highlights

  • New staking infrastructure sent to audit
  • Deployed a locker factory
  • Zerolend locker launched
  • Votemarket v2 veBAL and veFXN shipped
  • 2m vlCVX votes delegated

Product (Strategy/Smart contracts/UI/Development)

March retrospective

  • Staking v2 sent to audit
  • Deployed a locker factory
  • Zerolend locker shipped
  • Votemarket v2 for veBAL and veFXN shipped
  • New page for vlCVX delegation, allowing reward forwarding, and managing Votium rewards
  • Yieldnest locker deployed
  • Automated gauge vote replication for on-chain gauge votes

Focus for April

  • Develop the SPECTRA locker
  • Work on Spectra strategies
  • Staking v2 ready to be shipped
  • Launch the Yieldnest locker
  • Automations of new lockers’ maintenance
  • sdANGLE redemption

Business development

March retrospective

Despite the challenging market environment, March was a very successful month in terms of business development.

  • vlCVX vote delegation reached 2m vlCVX making Stake DAO the 7th largest voter on Convex
  • Association received c.$40k of grants (from Binance, Morpho and ZeroLend)
  • Reached 6% of veZERO supply in the first couple of weeks after the Zerolend locker launch
  • Following its repeg, sdPENDLE locker grew by more than 600k sdPENDLE (+66% MoM), going from 900k to 1.5m vePENDLE
  • The sdBAL locker also grew by 20%, exceeding 250k veBAL and 5% of the total veBAL supply
  • Sharp increase in Yearn strategies TVL going to $7.8m from $3.8m (+105% MoM)
  • For the first time in Stake DAO’s history, we passed the symbolic bar of 100 strategies above $100k
  • Challenging markets were not enough to offset the growth in OnlyBoost strategies on Curve, and in overall Stake DAO strategies:
    • Total TVL in strategies: $57.8m (+$9.2m / +19% MoM)
    • Onlyboost TVL: $37.2m (+$5m / +16% MoM)
    • Number of strategies above $1m: 14 (+3 / +27% MoM)
    • Number of strategies above $0.1m: 101 (+25 / +33% MoM)
    • 24.5% of Stake DAO strategies TVL doesn’t come from Curve

Focus for April

  • asdPENDLE launch
  • Keep working on Tetu boost delegation (currently blocked by technical issues on Balancer side)
  • Push the reUSD strategies (main recipient of CRV inflation)
  • Find a way to benefit from TAC’s chain bootstrapping
  • Grow the ZERO locker

Product investment performance tracking

Financials

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

Despite market turmoil, the relative resilience of CRV allowed the treasury to keep a flat performance over the month.

P&L

Revenues and costs for the DAO remained very consistent this month, scoring the same revenues and net profit as for February, despite the challenging market situation. A relative underperformance of the liquid locker division was offset by the strong performance of Stake DAO strategies and treasury management.

Association grant use report


Some exceptional spending (c.$38k coming from annual accounting and recruitment expenses) were offset by the receipt of three grants this month, from Morpho, ZeroLend and Binance.

Legal & governance

March retrospective

  • sdANGLE proposal passed
  • Redemption proposal for old rescued renBTC was passed

Focus for April

  • New proposal to clean the legacy merkel claim infrastructure
  • Managing the PancakeSwap situation
  • Transfer of socials’ accounts and missing legacy Foundation funds to Stake DAO Association
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Congrats for March activity and result!

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