Summary
At Econohmic Labs we believe OHM is the future of decentralized finance and we want to pave the way to this future.
Our plan is to build applications and services that support the growth of the Econohmy.
Our seed round goal is $3.5m. The use of proceeds will be as follows:
1.75m engineering/infra
.5m corporate compliance/legal
.25m marketing/pr
Up to 1m gOHM (Our goal is to consistently be in the top 3 entities of gOHM ownership)
Seed funding will be provided by outside investors currently uninvested in OHM.
The Olympus community basically gets 3 things:
A new active OHM holder
Utilization of OHM and partner protocols
A 2.5m investment in operations and engineering developing tools focused on the utilization of OHM
who
Let OlympusDAO focus on OHM. Econohmic Labs will bring it active utilization.
Our team of founders and advisors are seasoned with over 1B in exits in Web2 and significant experience building regulated businesses. We believe this experience will enable us to build a company off-chain to empower the on-chain economy. Our team consists of 50% engineering / quants and 50% business development/marketing/regulatory/operations professionals. Our founding team and advisors are long time Ohmies with long term conviction in what the project is building. This is not a short term bet for us, but a bet the farm bet over the course of a decade.
Why
An on-chain currency that is a stable, downside-protected asset with inflation protection, that can be used as a unit of account and is backed by a treasury has incredible implications for DeFi and, ultimately, the world at large. We are believers that the story of Olympus has not even begun yet, but as Zeus has said, the game is already won.
The idea of Econohmic Labs is to incubate a variety of business lines that use OHM as its core monetary energy. The first business line will be Econohmic Loans.
How
A traditional c corp business focused on ensuring regulatory compliance with OHM as it’s base collateral leveraging other Olympus partners like Vesta to bring the power of Defi to the real physical world. The goal of this project would be to leverage OHM as a collateral asset and create a cheaper cost of capital in the real world than LIBOR rate capital. We would draw upon a variety of web3 lending protocols to borrow at rates significantly cheaper than the current LIBOR rate. We would then loan this out to institutions (in exchange for collateral) who want a cheaper cost of capital in the real world to generate yield (factoring, community banks, lending platforms). As a matter of practice Econohmic Labs will NOT lend to crypto companies but will only lend to companies focused on other verticals (Retail, Advertising, Medical). The unlock here is bridging defi to the real world which will unlock scale for defi and bring in new capital to the Econohmy. OHM is the real unlock as it enables a native on-chain asset that will grow purchasing power over time, thus enabling significant capital efficiency.
By focusing solely on the Olympus Econohmy, Econohmic Labs is asking the community for matching funds dollar for dollar based on our outside capital raised. By the Olympus community betting on Econohmic Labs, outside capital will be more comfortable making the bet themselves.
For Econohmic Loans, Econohmic Labs is asking for a reserve bond so that we may acquire the initial 1M in OHM without major slippage or price impact. This will also ensure that the 1M goes directly into the Olympus treasury which we view to be a win-win for the community and holders as backing will increase as a result of this buy. As we will not be selling this OHM, these reserve bonds will not create sell pressure.
Econohmic Labs will work with OlympusDAO to always have a subset of reserve bond capacity at market rate discounts (once we are back to a premium and it makes sense for reserve bonds to be running market wide) to continue to funnel outside capital from loan yield into the Olympus treasury. Again the goal here is that this is long term holdings that will be verifiable on chain.
Asks
Designate Econohmic Labs as a partner of OlympusDAO who can get first looks at new products and features launched by OlympusDAO. This does not mean Econohmic Labs will get immediate access but will work collaboratively with the DAO to get access to products where it makes sense in order to create value for all stakeholders (Protocol, Holders, Econohmic Labs, Partner Protocols)
Whitelist Econohmic Labs for a 1M capacity reserve bond for our initial OHM purchase
Commit to ongoing dialogue with Econohmic Labs for an ongoing reserve bond once the 1M bond is exhausted to bring ongoing capital in from Econohmic Labs products. While we understand this is not a firm commitment we have a desire to continue evolving the partnership past this first phase and want the community to be aware and on board.
Polling Period
The polling period begins now and will end on Friday Aug 26th. Afterwards, this OIP will be added to Snapshot for a final vote.