As part of our strategy to develop the DAO, over the past few weeks me and a couple of our ambassadors have been brainstorming some ideas with the amazing team from UMA to assist us with measuring the performance of our DAO and reward our members appropriately.
Now, I am delighted to share the current results of the discussion with all of you. I believe that some of these options could prove to be very powerful to align the interest of DAO members , but as always, I am looking forward to seeing what great discussion comes from this 
About UMA and KPI Options
As stated on their page, UMA is an optimistic oracle which is able to read data on-chain. By using this oracle, the UMA team has created some products specifically for DAOs.
Of the many solutions offered by UMA, this thread will focus mostly on KPI Options, which are synthetic tokens that pay out more rewards when a target is reached before a certain time. Again, you can read more about it in their docs:
Recently, PSP has been approved as a potential collateral , which allows us to use PSP directly to implement within these options. This allows us to utilise our budget’s PSP directly to mint the options. Thanks to this, we can use KPI Options as success indicators for the protocol, and reward users in PSP whenever targets are met.
KPI Option - Monthly Positive Slippage Accrued
Whenever a trade is made on ParaSwap, a price is quoted prior to the actual trade execution. If ParaSwap executes a trade that is better than the initially quoted price, part of the slippage is redistributed to the DAO, with different addresses assigned to every chain.
Due to this being the main external revenue source of the protocol, the positive slippage accrued is a great indicator of protocol success, and one that every DAO member should strive to increase. Because of this, it would serve as a great indicator of success, since, as we work on improving the protocol, this should be reflected positively in increased slippage.
One of the most promising uses of this option would be as a payout token in a future contributors framework. Since pretty much any person working on the DAO seeks to increase this number, it is a flexible measure that we can base our performance on. For example, we could measure the estimated annual revenue of slippage right now, and depending on how much above or below target we are performing, the option could give a varying amount of PSP once it expires.
Next Steps and Implementation
If we were to implement this Slippage option, our main concerns would be success metrics. What specific metrics would we use? What would the rewards be?
Additionally, maybe some other DAO members can think of potential KPI options that could improve the protocol. What other metrics can we quantitively measure that DAO members have a direct impact on? Looking forward to your thoughts!