[DIP - Cycle 1 - March 2025] ParaSwap/Velora Delegate Incentives Program - March 2025 Results

March 2025 Participants

For the March 2025 iteration of the program, there are 9 participating delegates. You can see the first application results here.


Parameters Breakdown

The specifications, parameters, formulas and calculation method can be found here.

Participation Rate

During the last 90 days, 5 proposals have been submitted to vote with a closing date until 31st March 2025:

1- PIP-57 - PIP Lifecycle Improvements

2.- [GRANT REQUEST] OAK Research Grant Proposal

3.- PEP-08: Upgrade Module End-of-Life Strategy

4.- PIP-58 - ParaSwap Delegate Incentives Program - Cycle 1

5.- PIP-59: Proposal for Returning 40.203 wETH to Bybit (After 10% Bounty Deduction)

It is important to note that only those proposals that ended between 01 January and 31 March were counted.

Snapshot Voting

From these 5 proposals, 2 of them were closed in the course of March:

4.- PIP-58 - ParaSwap Delegate Incentives Program - Cycle 1

5.- PIP-59: Proposal for Returning 40.203 wETH to Bybit (After 10% Bounty Deduction)

It is important to note that only those proposals that ended beetween 01 al 31 March were counted.

Communicating Rationale

Vote justification for the above-mentioned month’s proposals.

It is important to note that only rationales posted in each Delegate Threads within seven days after the end of each vote this month were counted.

Delegates’ Feedback

We have analysed each delegate’s activity and participation performance, not only in the forum, but also in the delegates’ telegram group, as well as contributions to the PGWG, all based on the specified parameters, which are evaluated, detailed and reported in the corresponding spreadsheet.

March results

You can see the dashboard with the results and the detail of each parameter according to the activity of each delegate in this public spreadsheet: DIP - March 2025 - Dashboard

Of all 9 delegates participating in this first DIP stage, 8 were eligible to receive compensation.

  • Tier 1: 4 delegates (44.44%)
  • Tier 2: 4 delegates (44.44%)
  • Tier 3: O delegates (0.00%)
  • Out of tiers: 1 delegate (11.11%)

The price of the PSP token at the time of publishing this post, according to CoinGeko, is $0.0172

Price set on April 4 approximately 5:45 pm UTC

Delegate TIER P USD P PSP
Citizen42 1 2,500.00 145,349
PGov 2 2,000.00 116,279
Jameskbh 1 2,500.00 145,349
Ignas 1 2,500.00 145,349
Mehdi 1 2,500.00 145,349
Boardroom 2 2,000.00 116,279
Arana Digital 2 2,000.00 116,279
Avantgarde 2 2,000.00 116,279
Curia - 0.00 0

The total cost destined for the DIP this month will be $18,000 equivalent to 1.046,512 PSP.

The total cost accumulated destined for the DIP since the start of the Cycle 1 in March 2025 is $18,000, for a total accumulated so far of 1.046,512 PSP.

Payments

According to the provisions, compensation are denominated in USD and will be made in PSP tokens - or in the future new token it may eventually migrate to in accordance with Project Miro - on a monthly basis but with a 30-day vesting.

Based on this, payments will be executed to each eligible delegation wallet within the first five days of May.

We suggest and encourage delegates to put the amount of compensation to receive into sePSP2 staking, which will benefit the protocol and the price of the token, as well as benefiting the delegate by receiving rewards in ETH and increasing their voting power.

Reminder

Delegates who do not participate from March will have the opportunity to apply for the program in the application thread we will open at the beginning of month 4 - June 2025 - and will remain open until the end of the program, allowing delegates to apply at any time as long as they meet the eligibility requirements.

We track the participation of all delegates presented in the forum and publish the data in the DIP spreadsheet so that each non-participating delegate can monitor their participation metrics.

So keep participating and stay engaged!

Program Refinement

In this first month of the DIP, we have identified some inconsistencies that we aim to address in order to refine it. We are currently evaluating potential improvements. Our goal is to refine the program to better fulfill its primary objective: incentivising high-quality participation and ensuring that delegates are fairly compensated based on the quality of their contributions.

Accordingly, we will make use of the faculties and responsibilities that have been granted to us in our role as Program Manager:

We will post an update in this thread once the transfers have been made.

Thanks!

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I’d also like to propose counting delegate ParaSwap promotions on social media as part of their contributions, similar to how @Ignas’s tweet drew significant attention to the DAO.

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What you’re suggesting is interesting, but we see two main issues:

  • First, the DIP is designed to assess and value a delegate’s governance activity — that is, their participation in governance-specific actions. While promotional efforts on Twitter are helpful and appreciated, they don’t directly reflect governance participation.
  • Second, from an operational point of view, it’s quite complex to continuously monitor all delegates’ Twitter accounts to identify posts related to ParaSwap/Velora. This becomes even more challenging when some delegates use their accounts for personal or unrelated content, making it hard to determine which posts are about the protocol or the DAO. This is not the case in governance spaces like the forum, where the delegate’s activity is clearly focused on their governance role.

That said, we’re not dismissing the idea and will explore ways it could potentially be implemented.

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After speaking with @SEEDGov, I am requesting to receive the DIP at the following address for purposes of transparency and accountability.

The mentioned address is also used to receive $ARB DIP.

In summary:

  • Delegation address: 0x5F367BF126FDa56D88BA88a8978D5496c66B3569

  • Receiver of DIP address: 0x6824Ed2542C728309B83CC450ACe1C7857968244

I also Edit My Delegation Thread with the Information above.

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  1. I would argue that the promotion was effective and increased governance participation, although the topic itself was subjective, debatable, and covered by multiple media outlets.

  2. You don’t need to monitor delegates’ activities outside of this platform. Delegates can share proof of their other contributions in their delegation thread. As the DIP manager, you can assess their promotion efforts and ratify them based on the quality of content, engagement, and effectiveness in boosting governance participation.

Anyway, that’s my opinion. Of course, you have more experience with this, and the idea can be explored further and finalized in the next version of the DIP.

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For the sake of transparency, we are disclosing that our voting wallet will be different from our receiving wallet for the DIP.

Voting wallet: 0x0579A616689f7ed748dC07692A3F150D44b0CA09

DIP Wallet: 0xBC39648030c8169b4281FD522506C2bC768160cB

—Arana team

Likewise, Avantgarde also operates a different wallet for the DIP and similar payments from elsewhere. Sharing here for transparency:

DIP address: 0x29f387aDe2a5AE3C93DEFd52f2a5fA535CAb666e
Gov address: 0xb49f8b8613be240213c1827e2e576044ffec7948

March 2025 DIP Payments

Payments have been made to the delegates corresponding to the DIP March 2025 Results:

Delegate Wallet PSP Amount
Citizen42 0x3070f20f86fDa706Ac380F5060D256028a46eC29 145,349 Delegation wallet
PGov 0x3FB19771947072629C8EEE7995a2eF23B72d4C8A 116,279 Delegation wallet
Jameskbh 0x714D8b5874b3a6a69f289f4e857F4C9670074296 145,349 Delegation wallet
Ignas 0x3DDC7d25c7a1dc381443e491Bbf1Caa8928A05B0 145,349 Delegation wallet
Mehdi 0x6824Ed2542C728309B83CC450ACe1C7857968244 145,349 DIP wallet
Boardroom / Proxy 0x6De8448e7d5f58af394CC9540ABe703d0c955dFd 116,279 Delegation wallet
Arana Digital 0xBC39648030c8169b4281FD522506C2bC768160cB 116,279 DIP wallet
Avantgarde 0x29f387aDe2a5AE3C93DEFd52f2a5fA535CAb666e 116,279 DIP wallet
TOTAL 1,046,512

You can see the Full Tx Data Here

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After talking with @SEEDGov team, in the interest of full transparency, we use separate wallets for governance voting and for receiving funds under the Delegate Incentive Program (DIP).

  • Voting wallet: 0x17296956b4E07Ff8931E4ff4eA06709FaB70b879
  • DIP wallet: 0x83009515FfC2c91dc1E3780d25204e5d558906fe
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