Uniswap

Uniswap governance process:

• First, new proposals get discussed on governance forum. This step is off-chain and doesn’t involve ownership of $UNI. We will not cover it here. If you would like to get involved in the discussion, you will need to create an account using your e-mail address.

• Second, temperature check is done on Snapshot

• Third, (assuming successful temperature check), on-chain voting takes place here.

Steps to vote with $UNI:

1. Acquire $UNI (Token contract: 0x1f9840a85d5aF5bf1D1762F925BDADdC4201F984)

2. Go to app.uniswap.org/#/vote and hit “Unlock Voting”

Step 2

• 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!)

Step 3

• Go to Uniswap’s Snapshot page and hit “Join”. Wait for future proposals.

💡TIP: sign up to receive notifications about new Snapshot voting as email alerts here 👉 www.hal.xyz

• When a new proposal is up on Snapshot (new “Active” proposals), read the proposal and vote (Signature txn). This is your vote in temperature check.

Steps 4, 5

Remember that you will NOT be able to vote on Executed/Closed proposals and Active proposals that had a snapshot date before you went through the above steps.

• If this proposal passes the temperature check (Step 5), the same proposal will be up for final on-chain vote on app.uniswap.org/#/vote after a period of time. When this proposal is up (Active), do the following:

Step 6

• Select a proposal you want to vote

• Click on “For” or “Against”

• Hit “Vote” (requires gas)

Aave

• First, new proposals get discussed on governance forum. This step is off-chain and doesn’t involve ownership of $AAVE. We will not cover it here. If you would like to get involved in the discussion, you will need to create an account using your e-mail address.

• Second, temperature check is done on Snapshot

• Third, (assuming successful temperature check), on-chain voting takes place here

Steps to vote with $AAVE:

1. Acquire $AAVE (Token contract: 0x7Fc66500c84A76Ad7e9c93437bFc5Ac33E2DDaE9)

2. Go to app.aave.com/governance/

3. Click on “Delegate”

Steps 2, 3, 4

• A pop-up window ‘Delegate your power’ will appear. Select:

• Assets to delegate = AAVE

• Type of delegation = Voting power

• Recipient address = your own wallet address (ENS works too)

Hit “Delegate” and pay gas.

• Go Aave’s Snapshot page and hit “Join”. Wait for new proposals on Snapshot.

💡TIP: sign up to receive notifications about new Snapshot voting as email alerts here 👉 www.hal.xyz

• When a new proposal is up on Snapshot (look for new “Active” proposals), read the proposal and vote (Signature txn). This is a temperature check.

Remember that you will NOT be able to vote on Executed/Closed proposals and Active proposals that had a snapshot date before you went through the above steps.

Steps 5, 6

• If this proposal passes the Snapshot vote, it will then appear on app.aave.com/governance/

• Click on Active proposal

• Hit YAE or NAE

• Confirm the transaction and pay gas

Curve

Voting with $CRV works different to most of the other DAOs. In order to participate in governance, $CRV holders must lock their tokens for a specified period of time (i.e ‘vote-locking’). Minimum lock time is 1 week and maximum - 4 years. The longer the vote-lock, the higher is your $CRV rewards and the stronger is your voting power over time. With vote-locking, you are giving up your $CRV and receiving $veCRV (vote-escrowed CRV) in return for the duration of the lock.

Vote-locking is irreversible for the duration of the lock, so only lock funds that you won’t need during the time.

Steps to vote with $veCRV:

1. Acquire $CRV (Token contract: 0xD533a949740bb3306d119CC777fa900bA034cd52)

2. Go to dao.curve.fi/locker

3. Enter 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”

Steps 2, 3, 4, 5

• 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 have been vote-locked (i.e. became $veCRV) and for how long

Step 5. Balances are hidden on purpose

• Join Curve’s Snapshot page and wait for a new vote. Similar instructions as for Aave and Uniswap - wait for new Active proposals and vote.

• Wait for new on-chain votes on Curve DAO page. When new proposals appear:

• Click on Open proposal that you want to vote on

• Select Yes or No

• Hit Vote and pay gas

Step 7

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