QiDao Weekly Updates — Week 16 (8/16–8/22/2021)
2 min readAug 25, 2021
Recent Announcements
- Qi staked 4,044,255 (19% of circulating supply)
- 5,966 addresses holding Qi (2.5% week-to-week increase)
- QiDao Improvement Proposals: We have opened up Discord discussions around the upcoming QIPs: AMMs, LPs, and incentives
- Product enhancement: Added Qi from Adamant, Pickle, Beefy, and Qi-Quick pairs to Qi Powah
- Decreased liquidation ratios (130% for CRV, WETH, AAVE, LINK & 135% for camToken vaults)
- Increased Debt ceiling of camWMATIC, camWETH and LINK by 1m MAI each
- Quickswap Fireside Chat with Tyler
- Partnered with Gelato to automate the compounding of Aave market yield tokens
- Collateral Vaults queued to launch: Sushi — In talks with Sushi about possibly adding xSushi, WBTC — Testing is complete. Will announce Launch in week 17.
Upcoming Activities
- Fireside chat with Fernando Martinelli, CEO of Balancer
- QIP 20 — Live now: Choosing AMMs
- Upcoming: Stable pair QIP
- Upcoming: Qi pair QIP
- Upcoming: Liquidity mining incentives QIP
Things in the works
- Improvements to app site UI
- Vault incentives
- Paid marketing ads
Most Recent Fireside Chats
- Index Coop Core Contributors
- Balancer Labs Baller
- Bobby Goodlatte
- Beefy Finance Head of Marketing
- UMA Growth Strategist
- DODO C-Founder and CMO
- ChainLinkGod
- Gnosis Safe Business Development
- Quickswap — Tyler
You can find them all on our YouTube channel
Community growth
- Lao Zi Twitter: 4,613 followers (1.6% increase)
- QiDao Protocol Twitter: 1,755 Followers (19% increase)
- Telegram: 1,524 members (increase 0.5%)
- Discord: 3,538 members (increase 2.5%)
- Youtube: 292 subscribers (increase 2.8%)
Community shoutouts
- Royalaid for completing the bounty helping to include Adamant, Pickle and Beefy Qi in the Qi Powah
- 0xAdi for connecting us to instadapp
Asks for the the community
- **Big push is marketing. Please help where you can by sharing and liking content & tweets. Feel free to share marketing ideas on our community suggestions channel on Discord.
- Vote — The next few weeks will be important in crafting the future of QiDao. We have enabled the Qi Powah boost to give you more voting power.
- Partnerships — If you think of partnerships that can help with the following please suggest them or introduce us: Increase use cases of MAI, Help MAI peg, Increase protocol value, Increase community growth, Fireside chat guests, Retweet and tag us on Twitter.
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