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Pool News #41: Early Access to PoolTogether V5, Audits en Masse, Perks for Poolers, Governance Upgrades & Community Wins

Hey to all Poolers, Swimmers, and (future-)Winners,

We’re here to start your week on a positive note. The pool is heating up again to ensure you all enjoy a good extended Onchain Summer. 🏆

In this issue of Pool News:

• Early Access to V5

• Audits en masse

• Perks for Poolers

• Governance Upgrades

• Community Wins

… and more! Let’s dive right in!

A wild birb appears

A new hyperstructure is upon us! The private beta for PoolTogether V5 is now only 3 more days away. The core community is invited to participate in this 4 week-long phase ahead of the pubic launch! Anyone holding either of the following can join:

• 1000+ POOL

• 1000+ PTUSDC

• A Pooly or Pfer NFT

• A PoolTogether GitPOAP or PoolyCon POAP

To begin the onboarding process and get access, type -privatebeta on the PoolTogether Discord server. A 🔑 will be dropped in the secret #private-beta channel once the private beta phase begins.

There are some perks for the early testers:

Delegations 🏆
A total of $300,000 in delegations goes out to 50 lucky Poolers who sign up via Spect. The winners will be announced shortly after the beta launch.

Vault Boosts 🏊💨
The USDC and wETH vaults get a yield boost of $3,000 over the full four weeks. Boosted vaults mean bigger prizes for all! Thanks to PoolGrants for sponsoring this effort.

Audits are in 🔒

The PoolTogether protocol has been live for more than four years. One thing has been true since the beginning: the protocol remains no loss. To ensure this tradition goes on the V5 code has undergone four audits with two major security firms in the space: Code4rena and Macro Security.

A massive shoutout to all Code4rena judges, scouts & wardens, who just raked in an additional 155 prizes (>$145K). You can find the awards for the audits here: 1, 2, 3 (still TBA).

Governor Bravo 👏

Following the onchain vote of PTIP-88, the PoolTogether governance contracts have successfully been upgraded. The upgrade replaced our previous Governor Alpha contract with an OpenZeppelin variant of Governor Bravo, along with ScopeLift’s Flexible Voting extension. All future proposals will route through the new Governor contract, deployed at 0x8a907De47E00830a2b742db65e938a3ea1070A2E.

The new contract is already live on PoolTogether’s Tally front end. You can still browse all previous proposals here.

Dive into governance on gov.pooltogether.com

Community Wins 🏆✨

• Bravo, Governors: We’re celebrating the Governor Upgrade with gasless delegations on Tally. Check if you qualify.

• Subdomains for all: Let’s go, birbs! Pooly NFT holders can now claim a free & gasless pooltogether.eth subdomain.

• The secret to scaling Ethereum is open source: This article brings you up to speed with Bedrock & the OP stack, and Optimism’s Law of Chains. 👍 for Thumbs Up Finance!

• It’s Pooltime: Community-turtle underthesea released an MVP for an alternative front end to the PoolTogether V5 smart contracts. Check it out on pooltime.app.

• Check your backpack: The first round of PoolTogether membership credentials has been distributed via Disco.xyz

• Podcast Highlights: The PoolTogether Community Podcast has been going on for >73 episodes. If you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing every week it’s your lucky day! Denicio del Toro is releasing highlights for each episode on the new PoolTogether Community Youtube channel. Subscribe today!

Stay wavy, Poolers! 🌊🏆

Thanks for reading, Poolers! See you on Discord, Twitter, or Lens.

PS: Don’t forget to reserve your early access for the private beta & sign up for a delegation boost here. 👋