The Hydro team just posted a proposal to deposit 7M ATOM from the community pool into Hydro’s ATOM Inflow vault, where it would be deployed into market-neutral, low-risk DeFi strategies to generate yield.
Importantly, none of the ATOM provided by this proposal would be spent, only the yield that is generated from it. The yield would fund development of a zero-fee, Hub-native ATOM LST, its integration with Hydro’s ATOM Inflow vault, and the migration of Hydro’s contracts to the Hub.
We know this is a big request and a big chunk of the community pool, but the funds can still be used for other initiatives. Hydro will deploy them into DeFi strategies so that they’re actively generating yield rather than sitting idle, but Hub governance keeps the ability to clawback the funds programmatically (without having to rely on the goodwill of the Hydro team or any individual signer) and assign them to a different purpose if it wishes to do so. Custody of the funds will be transferred over to the Atom-Aligned Apps (AAA) organization once it’s formed.
Hydro was purpose-built to act as a vehicle to manage the community pool capital, and over the past year, we’ve deployed 4.3M ATOM across 78 different deployments into nearly every Cosmos DeFi protocol. We’ve been working on this proposal for the past 4 months and processed an enormous amount of feedback from (literally) hundreds of people. A big thank you to everyone who engaged with us on the forum, on Telegram, on Slack, in phone conversations and elsewhere, and anyone who will help us bring active DeFi activity on the Hub for the first time 🤞