Protocol Engineering

The Protocol Engineering Core Unit secures a wealth of engineering, security, research and smart contract development experience ensuring that the Maker protocol can safely continue to grow as a DeFi leader.

Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling

SES aims to sustainably grow the Maker Protocol’s moats by removing barriers between decentralized workforce, capital, and work.

Collateral Engineering Services

The Collateral Engineering Services Core Unit aims to operationalize collateral management within the Maker Protocol allowing anyone to onboard collateral while ensuring the stability and security of the ecosystem.

Risk

The Risk Core Unit ensures Maker Protocol can continue to grow safely by having proper risk management parameters and risk mitigation tools applied.

Governance Alpha

Helping to ensure MakerDAO has a consistent and well-run governance process managed by elected facilitators.

Real-World Finance

This Core Unit is designed to pursue Real-World Asset work and more generally helps MakerDAO to take over the traditional finance world.

Growth

The Growth Core Unit aims to grow the available distribution channels for the Maker protocol by intelligently deploying the human and financial capital given by the DAO, increasing the supply and demand of Dai in the global markets. 

Oracles

The Oracles Core Unit handles all of the Oracle needs of the Maker Protocol.

Governance Communications

The Governance Communications Core Unit performs a set of programs that focus on MakerDAO's informational accessibility, stakeholder coordination, and communication practices as a decentralized and public organization.

Dai Foundation

The independent legal entity Dai Foundation has been created to safeguard what cannot be decentralized in Maker DAO, such as ownership of trademarks, domains, software copyrights, etc., which is connected to a real-world centralized governance body.

Strategic Happiness

Strategic Happiness focuses on making people happy and creating a community by Shitposting and sending Airdrops.

Development & UX

Enabling the best-in-class decentralized decision making for the Maker Protocol by providing a meaningful user experience for all governance participants.

Starknet Engineering

This Core Unit opens the door to leveraging StarkNet to keep the Maker protocol attractive to users in the ZK-rollup, Layer 2 domain.

Data Insights

Data Insights Core Unit is responsible for providing free and permissionless datasets based on detailed Maker Protocol history.

Immunefi Security

The overall goal of the Immunefi Security CU is to secure the Maker ecosystem through multiple angles by leveraging its existing and growing security community and expertise. 

Sidestream Auction Services

Improve security, transparency and accessibility of the Maker Protocol by providing and maintaining auction services through open-source development.

Deco Protocol

Deco Fixed Rate Core Unit aims to integrate, manage, and maintain the Deco fixed rate protocol.

Strategic Finance

Providing financial reporting and analysis to assist the DAO in evaluating the financial health of the protocol to enable strategic decision making and allocate capital more effectively.

TechOps

Tech Ops Core Unit provides technical support services to MakerDAO stakeholders and liaison with external service providers while ensuring the effectiveness, reliability and security of the MakerDAO infrastructure layer.

Events

The Events Core Unit handles planning, organization, and execution of MakerDAO branded events.

Content Production

The Content Production core unit is responsible for creating, and supporting the creation of written, audio, and visual content that educates audiences on MakerDAO, promotes the work and culture of the ecosystem, and encourages people to use Dai and the Maker Protocol.

MIP39c2-SP18: Adding Development & UX Core Unit - DUX-001

MIP40c3-SP26: Development & UX Core Unit Budget - DUX-001

MIP40c3-SP27: Development & UX Core Unit MKR Budget - DUX-001

MIP40c3-SP52: Development & UX Core Unit Budget - DUX-001

MIP41c4-SP19: Facilitator Onboarding, Development and User Experience Core Unit

MIP41c4-SP32: Facilitator Onboarding for DUX-001 - 0xdeniz

MIP41c5-SP4: Facilitator Offboarding from DUX-001 - Philip Bain

MIP40c3-SP82: Modify Development & UX Core Unit Budget (DUX-001)

MIP39c3-SP9: Removing DUX-001

**Vision**

Our vision is to provide the best governance user experience following key governing principles such as accessibility, neutrality, and transparency. We want to do so by:

* Facilitating an optimal decision-making process, allowing routine decisions to be executed in a fast and frictionless manner, while complex or controversial decisions are thoughtfully deliberated.
    * Providing easy access to information for governance users by helping them find what they need, when they need it by creating informative data analytics, uncovering insights, and highlighting the impact of voter’s decisions.
    * Surfacing the available options by facilitating discussion and collaboration.
    * Creating a frictionless user experience with simple, fast, available, and intuitive user interfaces.
* Ensuring security not just for the user and their assets, but most importantly, security for the protocol, avoiding governance manipulation and attacks.
    * Ensuring availability of the governance UIs and the required blockchain data.
    * Real-time monitoring of the health and safety of the system.
    * Encouraging safe behavior through the user experience.
    * Encouraging participation to secure the majority of MKR tokens.
* Bringing governance within the industry forward by nurturing a community of Maker enthusiasts and inspiring the broader DeFi space.

**Strategy**

DUX is a product design & development team that builds and maintains products and tools for the Maker ecosystem, with a focus on governance. Users and builders alike use our tools, such as the Governance Portal, to participate in the governance process of Maker.

As an agile product team, our process is based on design thinking and agile methodologies. Through a continuous iterative looping process, putting the community at the heart of what we do, we will work through five stages:

1. Discover
1. Define
1. Design & Develop
1. Deliver
1. Analyse & Reflect

This process allows us to diverge when uncovering problems to solve and discovering new opportunities, and to converge when implementing a possible solution.

Team Size

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