Proposal to add a UST-USDC.e Gauge on Avalanche

Summary

TerraUSD (UST) is an algorithmic, seigniorage-based stablecoin, issued on the Terra blockchain. It has had tremendous growth over the past three months moving from a market cap of 8B to 13.3B. UST. UST can be bridged to Avalanche through the Wormhole bridge. The pool on Avalanche has roughly 2m in liquidity and has 1.4m in daily volume which is quite great utilization in terms of volume/liquidity. UST pools exist on Pangolin and TraderJoe but Curve is a natural fit for concentrating stableswap liquidity. The UST-3CRV pools on mainnet already have gauges and have daily volumes of 30m.

Motivation

As UST’s interchain expansion continues to Avalanche the importance of having thick liquidity on a premier stableswap DEX is critical. Wormhole UST will continue to be integrated with more and more DeFi applications on Avalanche and thus UST-USDC liquidity is vital during this rapid expansion phase. A gauge will help provide incentives on this useful pool and the Terra community pool will allocate a portion of it’s CRV/CVX for this pool.

For

Add Avalanche UST-USDC.e gauge to the controller.

Against

Do not add Avalanche UST-USDC.e gauge to the controller.

Poll

We will create a poll shortly after measuring community feedback.

Update: Instead of the UST-USDC.e pool we will be launching a gauge vote for the UST-USDC-USDT 3pool: Curve.fi. The rest of the proposal still applies!