BIP-33: Beanstalk Farms H1 2023 Budget

Proposer

Beanstalk Farms

Proposer Wallet: 0x4fe7788deb22c548e57c4e95a365600ed377265b

Summary

• Mint 400,000 Beans to fund Beanstalk Farms to retain, grow and support a group of core contributors to Beanstalk through the end of Q1 2023;
• Mint 950,000 Beans to fund Beanstalk Farms through the end of Q2 2023;
• Mint 500,000 Beans to the Audit Fund; and
• Maintain the DAO's ability to withhold Beanstalk Farms' Q2 funding after the end of Q1 with an appropriate goverance structure.

Links

• BIP-33 GitHub PR
• Safe Transaction
• GitHub Commit Hash: c94cf7aecab5175f5697ca2a1494a7df75713bc2

Introduction

Beanstalk Farms is an independent decentralized development organization of core contributors working on Beanstalk. Beanstalk Farms has historically been funded by the Beanstalk DAO and proposed quarterly budget BIPs that mint Beans to cover operating expenses and compensate contributors.

In response to the Q1 budget BIP failing to reach quorum, Beanstalk Farms redesigned the budget to cover the first half of 2023 (as opposed to just Q1) to enable core contributors to work towards the following goals:

• Decentralized development: continue to develop a diverse organization without any single points of failure or dependence.
• Focus and flexibility: deliver high quality output in a timely fashion, while maintaining the flexibility to fund and support a wide variety of unique opportunities related to Beanstalk.
• Attracting high quality talent: continue to attract and retain high quality talent, which is critical to the success of Beanstalk.

Q4 2022 Spending and Output

At the beginning of Q4 on October 1, 2022, the Beanstalk Farms Multisig (BFM) held 160,702 Beans and 190,094 USDC.

The Q4 2022 Beanstalk Farms budget of 1,000,000 additional Beans was minted per BIP-25 on October 5, 2022 to fund protocol development and support initiatives.

As of December 31, 2022, the BFM had 419,577 Beans and 139,407 USDC, resulting in a quarterly spend of 741,125 Beans and 50,687 USDC. As of January 31, 2023, the balances in the BFM were 203,194 Beans and 139,012 USDC.

Beanstalk Farms monthly operations reports:

• October 2022
• November 2022
• December 2022
• January 2023

Q4 2022 Output

See the Arweave upload of BIP-33 to read the full description of Beanstalk Farms' Q4 2022 output.

Current Organization

Anticipated H1 2023 Hiring

In order to execute on Beanstalk Farms' ambitious on-chain ecosystem roadmap, there is significant development work to be done at the protocol level and from a tooling perspective, both for developers and for users. In order to get there in H1 2023, Beanstalk Farms intends to additionally hire (at least):

• 1 full-time Solidity Engineer, who will help build much of the tech in the on-chain roadmap;
• 1 full-time Subgraph Engineer, who will focus maintaining and upgrading fully-featured subgraphs for Beanstalk, the Bean token, Wells, etc.; and
• 3 full-time Full Stack Engineers, who will focus on upgrading the Beanstalk UI and building other interfaces to maintain feature parity with all on-chain ecosystem development, including Wells.

Anticipated H1 2023 Output

Security

• Continue coordinating with Immunefi whitehats, the BIC, the BCM and Halborn to respond to issues surfaced in bug reports;
• Seek to engage at least one more audit firm to continuously audit Beanstalk in addition to Halborn;
• Seek to set up audit competitions for new BIPs via Code4rena;
• Continue coordinating with Halborn on BIP audits and improve Beanstalk documentation to better set Halborn and future auditors for success; and
• Establish community standards for timelines around publishing new code.

On-chain Development

See this page for a detailed on-chain roadmap.

• Release NatSpec documentation for all functions within Beanstalk, supporting the ability of developers, auditors and whitehats to better and more quickly understand Beanstalk;
• Standardize Beanstalk’s suite of testing utilities for usage across the ecosystem (i.e., with the Root token);
• Implement a generalized permit system within Beanstalk (i.e., Tractor);
• Deploy a BEAN:ETH Well on the Beanstalk-native zero fee AMM;
• Implement time-weighted average Bean seigniorage distribution in the Silo and bring the Withdrawal timer down to zero;
• Make Stalk and Seeds liquid;
• Implement variable Seeds per BDV rewards for assets on the Deposit Whitelist;
• Facilitate the distribution of external yield from Depositors' non-Bean-yielding assets;
• Implement a Stalk Gauge System that allows Stalkholders to approve Stalk and Seed rewards for various Deposited assets without the need for a BIP;
• Create ERC standards for Deposits and Pods;
• Implement various additional Well functions (such as Curve V2);
• Continue assisting Root, Paradox and other third parties building on the Beanstalk ecosystem;
• Explore and implement the beginning stages of a suitable on-chain governance structure; and
• Explore possible implementations of downside reflexivity for Temperature changes.

Middleware

• Reach feature parity between the Bean and Beanstalk subgraphs and Beanstalk;
• Build a subgraph to index on-chain Well data;
• Continue development on the Beanstalk SDK (first migrating all existing UI functionality into the SDK, and then extending the SDK’s capabilities related to composing transactions);
• Begin development of various ecosystem SDKs on top of Pipeline, Tractor and Wells; and
• Continue to build and maintain various ecosystem bots as Beanstalk, Root, etc. are upgraded and the Beanstalk ecosystem expands.

Frontend + Design

• Launch a generalized UI for Wells in tandem with its on-chain deployment;
• Refactor the UI to condense the Withdraw and Claim steps into one step after the Withdrawal timer is reduced to zero;
• Reach and maintain feature parity between Beanstalk and the Beanstalk UI, including:
  • A Pod Market V2 UI;
  • Dutch auction functionality in the Field;
  • Generalized flows for "Claim/Harvest/Rinse/Plant and do X" (e.g., Rinse and Deposit);
  • Support for transferToken with multiple recipient addresses from Farm or Circulating balances;
  • Support for "Claim All" functionality (Rinse, Harvest and Plant);
  • A total debt level chart to the Analytics page;
  • A Barn Raise BeaNFTs to the site;
• Design and build other interfaces to maintain feature parity with all on-chain ecosystem development, including Wells; and
• Begin development of a Beanstalk-native transaction analysis platform (i.e., Beanscan).

Content, Community and Marketing

• Continue to engage the community on Discord, Twitter and YouTube;
• Release two new educational videos about Beanstalk;
• Continue writing the Bi-Weekly Bean and publish a blog post every month;
• Continue managing the community grant program;
• Continue hosting weekly community calls; and
• Continue to release monthly operations reports to increase financial and operational transparency of Beanstalk Farms.

Budget

Q1 2023

We propose a total of 400,000 Beans are minted to fund Beanstalk Farms through the end of Q1 2023. Combined with funds unspent at the end of Q4 2022, this results in a total available Q1 2023 budget of 819,575 Beans and 139,407 USDC.

Beanstalk Farms is spending approximately 260,000 Beans worth of value per month based on a Q4 2022 average. The Q1 budget, as illustrated below, focuses on fulfilling ongoing operational requirements and does not provide a surplus of funds.

Q2 2023

We also propose a total of 950,000 Beans are minted to fund Beanstalk Farms through the end of Q2 2023, in line with a run rate of 260,000 Beans per month (780,000 Beans per quarter) plus 170,000 Beans primarily intended to enable Beanstalk Farms to hire 3-4 more engineers—see Anticipated H1 2023 Hiring. It is better to have budget Beans that can be rolled over into the following quarter’s budget than to not have enough Beans to fund important initiatives. A larger budget also allows Beanstalk Farms to offer development grants to fund various projects in the ecosystem.

Minting the Q2 budget in advance reduces the friction involved in funding Beanstalk Farms. A suitable governance structure will still allow the DAO the opportunity to withhold Q2 funding at its discretion—see Governance.

Audit Fund

We propose a total of 500,000 Beans are minted to create the Audit Fund. The Audit Fund will be solely dedicated to funding audits of Beanstalk and Beanstalk ecosystem code. The Audit Fund is expected to be used to cover future Halborn audits, a Code4rena audit competition and to potentially engage another smart contract auditing firm.

The Audit Fund will be custodied by the BFM. All spending from the Audit Fund will require approval through a Beanstalk Farms Budget Proposal (BFBP), and the balance of the Audit Fund will be reported in the Beanstalk Farms Operations Reports.

Custody

The funds for Beanstalk Farms budget and the Audit Fund will be custodied by the BFM wallet with keys held by various community members and Publius. We propose the following signers and backup signers for the BFM:

BFM Signers (all current signers)

• Publius
• Silo Chad
• guy
• sweetredbeans
• mod323
• aloceros
• Cujo

The following serve as backup signers for the BFM, in no particular order:

• Al Bean
• CanadianBennett
• MrMochi

Governance

Beanstalk Farms will continue to utilize the processes for Beanstalk Farms Committee Proposals (BFCP) and Beanstalk Farms Budget Proposals (BFBP), per the processes outlined in BFP-81 and amended in BIP-25. The Beanstalk Farms Committee (BFC) is responsible for oversight of other Beanstalk Farms contributors.

We propose that the minimum threshold for which a BFBP-C is required be changed from transactions valued at >10,000 Beans or USDC to transactions valued at >25,000 Beans or USDC.

We propose that the BFM be able to vote on governance proposals using its Stalk at the discretion of the BFC. The BFM will not vote on BFCPs due to the conflict of interest. Note that not all budget Beans are Deposited—see Incentive Alignment.

We propose that the DAO can propose a BOP to disallow Beanstalk Farms from using the 950,000 Beans minted for use in Q2 upon the completion of Q1 (end of March 2023). This preserves the DAO's ability to withhold funding on a quarterly cadence, but reduces the friction involved with funding Beanstalk Farms by minting the Q2 budget upfront. If such a BOP were proposed and approved by the DAO, Beanstalk Farms will burn the 950,000 Beans minted for Q2.

Responsibilities

See the Arweave upload of BIP-33 to read the full Responsibilities section.

BFC members will make every effort to attend DAO meetings regularly and address any questions that arise, but otherwise do not have a duty to respond to specific inquiries within a certain time frame. Ultimately, the BFC and contributors are accountable to the DAO through the selection of BFC members by the DAO in governance.

Initial Allocations

Each new Beanstalk Farms contributor must have a new individual Snapshot proposal, either via BFCP-A or BFBP-A, utilizing the above processes. Current contributors will only require a Snapshot proposal if their pay rate has increased or role/commitment has significantly changed since the terms of the proposal in effect.

A budget of 15,000 Beans per month will be allocated to the community grant program to reward creators of new Beanstalk-related content that focuses on Beanstalk and its role in the broader DeFi ecosystem. Unused Beans in a month will not roll over to subsequent months, including the unused Beans rolled over to date.

Incentive Alignment / Competitive Pay

See the Arweave upload of BIP-33 to read the full Incentive Alignment and Competitive Pay sections.

Contract Changes

None.

Beans Minted

The init function on the InitMint contract at 0x077495925c17230E5e8951443d547ECdbB4925Bb is called.

We propose a total of 1,850,000 Beans are minted for the budget and the Audit Fund to the BFM address (0x21DE18B6A8f78eDe6D16C50A167f6B222DC08DF7) upon the execution of BIP-33.

Effective

Immediately upon commitment.