Governance Council Notes | April 6

Forge Launch

• Launches on Monday
• Funded by Community proposal
• Partners with Stride to feature stEVMOS as a base pair
• First DEX to utilize liquid staked tokens (LSD) as a base token
• Try now at https://testnet.forge.trade

Benefits for Evmos Community

• No need to choose between staking yield and participating in liquidity pools
• Promotes growth of liquidity in Evmos DeFi

Incentives and Partnerships

• Stride provides incentives to liquidity pools on Forge
• No license from Uniswap required

Development Updates

• Orbital Apes team in final phases of development
• Public launch on April 10
• Building partnerships and infrastructure

Fees

• No swap fees
• LP fees go to liquidity providers
• Cheapest DEX in Cosmos

Future Improvements and Funding

• Support for new teams and products
• Funding for future development and improvements

Juno DAO to Evmos DAO Token Swap

• Ready to go on chain next week
• Marriage of two different protocols, communities, and philosophies
• https://commonwealth.im/evmos/discussion/10453-evmos-juno-community-pool-token-swap

Treasury stEVMOS/EVMOS Liquidity Pool on Forge

• 1 million Evmos from Community Pool
• Provide liquidity to the stEVMOS/EVMOS pair
• Incentivizes developers, tutorial writers, bloggers, marketers, and bug bounty hunters
• https://commonwealth.im/evmos/discussion/11009-treasury-stevmosevmos-liquidity-pool-on-forge

Funding for Interchain Info

• Request for 1% of Community Pool or $20,000 cap across chains
• $20,000 from Evmos
• Half for Evmos content incentives program
• Half for dashboard development
• Aim to make Interchain more accessible and user-friendly

Content Incentives and Team

• Funds to be stretched as much as possible
• Encourage improvement before paying out incentives
• Core team members: Timmy and Ed