Topping up Ethereum and Optimism COMP rewards
01Summary
Gauntlet proposes topping up COMP rewards on Ethereum (3,525 COMP) and Optimism (750 COMP) to extend runway from ~14-21 days to ~44-51 days, ensuring continued incentive distributions.
- Type
- treasury allocation
Key changes
- Grant 3,525 COMP to Ethereum reward contract (0x1B0e765F6224C21223AeA2af16c1C46E38885a40)(high)
- Grant 750 COMP to Optimism reward contract (0x6d903f6003cca6255D85CcA4D3B5E5146dC33925)(high)
- Bridge 750 COMP from Ethereum to Optimism via Optimism bridge(high)
Notable concerns
- Ethereum rewards contract has only 14 days of runway remaining before depletion
- Optimism rewards contract has only 21 days of runway remaining before depletion
- Without this top-up, both networks would exhaust incentive distributions within 30 days
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02Description
Topping up Ethereum and Optimism COMP rewards
Simple Summary
Gauntlet recommends adding additional COMP to Optimism and Ethereum reward contracts.
| Chain | Reward Amount |
|---|---|
| Ethereum | 3525 |
| Optimism | 750 |
Analysis
Below is the projected runway in each chain’s rewards contract.
| Chain | Rewards contract COMP token holdings | Remaining days of runway |
|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | 2448 | 14 |
| Optimism | 255 | 21 |
Ethereum and Optimism currently have a runway of less than 30 days. Gauntlet recommends topping up an additional thirty days’ worth of incentives to the listed networks.
More details on this proposal can be found here
03Mismatch analysis
The proposal claims two COMP top-ups: 3525 COMP for Ethereum and 750 COMP for Optimism. The calldata shows exactly these two amounts being granted via _grantComp (3525e18 and 750e18, matching after unit conversion). The Ethereum amount is granted directly to what is presumably the Ethereum rewards contract in a single action. The Optimism amount is granted to an intermediary address on Ethereum, then approved and bridged via the standard L1->L2 bridge (bridgeERC20To) to a recipient on Optimism — this is the standard mechanical pattern needed to move COMP cross-chain, and the description's omission of these bridging mechanics is a reasonable summarization rather than a hidden action, since the net effect (750 COMP arriving on Optimism) matches the stated intent. No amount, direction, or target appears altered from what the prose describes. I could not independently verify that the hard-coded contract addresses are indeed the correct Ethereum/Optimism rewards contracts, but the pattern (Comptroller grant + bridge only for the L2 network) is consistent with standard Compound cross-chain COMP top-up proposals, so I have high confidence this matches the description's intent with no material discrepancy.
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04Actions
- Target
- 0x3d98…cd3b
- Value
- 0 wei
- Function
- _grantComp(address,uint256)
- Arguments
{ "amount": "3525000000000000000000", "recipient": "0x1B0e765F6224C21223AeA2af16c1C46E38885a40" }- Calldata
- Target
- 0x3d98…cd3b
- Value
- 0 wei
- Function
- _grantComp(address,uint256)
- Arguments
{ "amount": "750000000000000000000", "recipient": "0x6d903f6003cca6255D85CcA4D3B5E5146dC33925" }- Calldata
- Target
- 0xc00e…6888
- Value
- 0 wei
- Function
- approve(address,uint256)
- Arguments
{ "amount": "750000000000000000000", "address": "0x99C9fc46f92E8a1c0deC1b1747d010903E884bE1" }- Calldata
- Target
- 0x99c9…4be1
- Value
- 0 wei
- Function
- bridgeERC20To(address,address,address,uint256,uint32,bytes)
- Arguments
{ "_to": "0x443EA0340cb75a160F31A440722dec7b5bc3C2E9", "_amount": "750000000000000000000", "_extraData": "0x", "_localToken": "0xc00e94Cb662C3520282E6f5717214004A7f26888", "_minGasLimit": "200000", "_remoteToken": "0x7e7d4467112689329f7E06571eD0E8CbAd4910eE" }- Calldata
05Tally
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06Voters
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07Forum
- [Gauntlet] Topping up Ethereum and Optimism COMP rewards ↗discourse · high confidence
Arguments for
- Ethereum and Optimism reward contracts face imminent depletion with less than 30 days of runway, requiring immediate top-up to maintain incentive continuity.— Gauntlet
Arguments against
None surfaced.
Notable participants
- GauntletProposer; submitted the recommendation to top up Ethereum and Optimism COMP rewards with specific amounts and runway analysis.
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