Proposal to Transfer USDC and GMX to GMX-Solana for Initial Liquidity Provision

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Summary

This proposal outlines a plan to establish a bridge for transferring GMX and USDC from the GMX DAO treasury to GMX-Solana to support GMX-Solana liquidity with initial liquidity.

The GMX DAO is requested to allocate and retain for at least two years $50,000 in USDC and $50,000 worth of GMX from its treasury to seed the GMX-USDC pool. This initiative will expand GMX’s cross-chain presence, improving accessibility and deepening liquidity for GMX-Solana.

Motivation

After nearly seven months of continuous development for GMX-Solana and the audit in place, GMX-Solana is approaching closer to launch, offering GMX a significant opportunity to expand into the Solana ecosystem. To support this integration, liquidity seeding efforts on GMX-Solana’s GLV: GMX-USDC pool will help establish initial liquidity and help promote ecosystem growth for GMX on Solana. Providing $50,000 in USDC and $50,000 in $GMX to the GMX-Solana GLV: GMX-USDC pool will build robust liquidity, building a more accessible and liquid market for users on Solana. This early support is crucial to driving protocol adoption for GMX-Solana, enhancing trading and liquidity options on Solana, and ultimately solidifying GMX’s position within the Solana ecosystem.

Specification

  1. Bridge Setup:
  • Establish a secure and efficient bridge for GMX between Arbitrum, Avalanche, and Solana.
  • Collaborate with reliable bridging solutions like Wormhole and Layerzero to enable seamless transfers, ensuring low latency and high security.
  • GMX Solana will utilize the bridged token standard decided by the GMX DAO
  1. Liquidity Provision:
  • Allocate $50,000 USDC and $50,000 worth of GMX to seed the initial liquidity for the GMX-Solana GLV: GMX-USDC pool.
  • This provision will create a robust liquidity base, facilitating efficient trades and attracting Solana-based users to GMX.
  1. Funding Allocation:
  • The funds will be held in the GLV: GMX-USDC vault on Solana.
  • GMX DAO will oversee and periodically review liquidity performance, ensuring alignment with GMX’s liquidity objectives.

Conclusion

This proposal offers a strategic approach to broadening GMX’s multi-chain presence, increasing accessibility for Solana-based users, and strengthening the DAO’s long-term growth objectives. By establishing a reliable bridge and seeding liquidity on GMX- Solana, the GMX DAO will drive protocol adoption for GMX- Solana and build a strong liquidity foundation in the Solana ecosystem for GMX.

Action Requested: Approval for the bridge setup and allocation of $50,000 in USDC and $50,000 in $GMX for the Solana: GMX-USDC liquidity pool.

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absolutely in favour.
liquidity is the blood of perps, and this way, GMX can help ensure the SOLANA project would be a success from day 1.

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In full support. Another great proposal.

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Definitely agree with helping to bootstrap the liquidity on GMX_Solana in this crucial initial phase.

I think there’s an rgument to be made that 50K of USDC and GMX may be on the low side, even…?

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The larger, the better. If it’s even larger, the balanced pool mechanism might allow us to migrate liquidity from Uniswap (where assets are fully controlled by the GMX DAO). However, considering the technical costs associated with migrating liquidity from Uniswap, we may choose the simplest option: having direct support from the GMX Treasury. This would involve only the movement of funds, essentially meaning that the GMX DAO would be “purchasing” some GLV without incurring technical expenses.

The objective of this proposal is not the liquidity amount itself—whether it’s 100k or 1m. The key is for GMX to complete this process and bridge $GMX to Solana, enabling future buybacks by GMX-Solana to proceed as planned.

The buyback mechanism for GMX-Solana differs from that of GMX. Currently, the initial plan is for the GMSOL Treasury to convert all collected fees into USDC, which will then be injected into the GLV:GMX-USDC pool. The incentive created by price impact will encourage arbitrage funds to transfer GMX from Arbitrum or other sources into the GLV:GMX-USDC pool. This will automatically result in a 50:50 GMX:USDC configuration in the GMSOL Treasury. Meanwhile, the GLV:GMX-USDC pool will continue receiving fund injections, allowing it to provide liquidity to the entire market from Day One, further expanding $GMX’s use cases.

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maybe DAO can move GMX-ETH (or USDC) LP from arbitrum to solana.
I believe this seeding of liquidity in solana also generate extra income/fees for GMX-DAO.
let GMX-solana starts off smoothly, earns some fee for the DAO… win-win.

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Full support from my end, but agree with Jonezee that the amount should be slightly increased to either 100k or 150k for both GMX and USDC amounts.

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Hola a todos tengo una duda esos 50,000 me los AM asignado ?

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i am for this proposal and agree with tano’s amounts of 100k+ on each side

if the dao has any GLP or GM pools, id start there

moving capital thats in the uniswap pool is a big move to say the least, would like further examination on that, we talked about it in the forum post around listing gmx gm pool, unlocking POL a bit more, because we have such a large set of markets for gmx across exchanges and dexes

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@brawlaphant yes. i support unlocking POL more
providing liquidity in solana with the existing POL =)

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In support of this proposal, but echo the sentiment that the requested amount is perhaps on the low side.

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