Be a DAO Voter and Get Juicy Airdrops 🪂🤑

December 11th, 2022

🔎 What are DAOs?

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is an emerging form of legal structure with no central governing body and whose members share a common goal to act in the entity's best interest. Popularized through cryptocurrency enthusiasts and blockchain technology, DAOs make decisions in a bottoms-up management approach.

🔰 What are DAO Voters?

DAO Voters are members who can decide on proposals and vote for/against them. For example, if you’re a Uniswap DAO Voter, you can vote on Uniswap proposals.

Some recent examples:

Paladin $PAL to $UNI, $COMP, $AAVE, $CRV voters
Optimism $OP multiplier for Snapshot voters
Voltz_xyz airdropped Voltz NFT to $UNI voters
Velodrome $VELO to CRV voters
EllipsisFi $EPS to CRV voters

And the list goes on…

🥇 How to be a DAO Voter?

To be a DAO Voter, we need to hold the governance token of the project and delegate voting power.

Here are some of the important protocols we should be a DAO Voter:

⚡ Uniswap:

Get some $UNI token on ETH Mainnet (No minimum amount)
You can buy on Uniswap, Sushiswap or any other DEX
Now go to app.uniswap.org/#/vote and hit “Unlock Voting”
A pop-up window will appear. Hit on “Self Delegate”. You should then be able to see your tokens as “Self-delegated”. You will now be able to vote on FUTURE proposals (not past and not current ones!)

✅ Now vote here:

On-chain: https://app.uniswap.org/#/vote

Off-chain: https://snapshot.org/#/uniswap

⚡ Stargate Finance:

Buy some $STG Token (Can be done on any chain, like BSC, ETH etc.)
Now stake your $STG here: https://stargate.finance/stake
Once you stake the token, you get the voting power.

✅ Now vote here: https://snapshot.org/#/stgdao.eth

⚡ Aave:

Get some $AAVE token on ETH Mainnet (No minimum amount)
You can buy on Uniswap, Sushiswap or any other DEX
Go to app.aave.com/governance/

Click on “Delegate” > Enter Wallet Address > Delegate

You can delegate your voting power to someone else as well. If your delegator votes, you'll be counted as a voter.

If you want, you can delegate to me. I barely miss any votes.

My delegation address: pranjalbora.eth

✅ Now vote here:

On-chain: https://app.aave.com/governance/

Off-chain: https://snapshot.org/#/aave.eth

If you delegate to me, you don’t need to follow this step.

⚡ Curve:

Steps to vote with $CRV:

Get some $CRV Token on ETH Mainnet (No minimum amount)
Go to dao.curve.fi/locker
Enter the amount of $CRV that you want to vote-lock (this will become your voting power as $veCRV). If you want to vote-lock all of your $CRV, simply hit on “Max”
Select the time period you want to vote-lock your $CRV for. We went for a maximum period (4 years) as it would accrue the maximum voting power over time.

Note that you will NOT be able to reverse this step and will NOT be able to sell your $CRV for 4 years.

Hit “Create lock” (requires gas). You will then see a confirmation screen showing how many $CRV has been vote-locked (i.e. became $veCRV) and for how long.