| Parameter Change | Interest Rate Adjustment | Involves an interest rate adjustment that affects depositors and/or borrowers. | link |
| Collateral Parameter Change | Involves a change to an asset’s borrowing power, usually through an increase or reduction of a liquidation threshold or loan-to-value ratio. | link |
| Collateral Asset Cap Adjustment | Involves the increase or reduction of the supply or borrow cap of a collateral asset. | link |
| Gauge Adjustment | Involves the introduction or deprecation of a gauge or gauge adjustments that impact how a project’s emissions allocated to gauges are distributed. | link |
| Other Market or Asset Adjustment | Other standard parameter changes that don’t fall into the aforementioned categories. | link |
| Protocol Parameter Change | Involves the adjustment of a network parameter. | link |
| Oracle Adjustment | Involves oracle-specific parameter changes applied to an oracle that is already in use by a protocol. | link |
| Fee Parameter Change | Involves a pre-existing protocol fee being adjusted or applied to a new market. | link |
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| Treasury Management | Strategic Investment | Involves the use of treasury assets to acquire non-like assets, usually for profit-seeking or runway-preserving purposes. | link |
| Strategic Allocation | Involves the usage or deployment of treasury assets for strategic purposes; the DAO maintains ownership over the assets being deployed | link |
| Strategic Token Swap | Involves a token swap between two projects, usually as part of a partnership. | link |
| Other Treasury Operations | Other standard treasury management-related activities that don’t fall into the aforementioned categories. | link |
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| Treasury Expense | Project Team Funding | Involves the disbursement of treasury assets to the core team or entities formed by the DAO, including subDAOs, workstreams, or councils. | link |
| Service Provider Funding | Involves the disbursement of treasury assets to external service providers, including risk service providers, or projects intending to integrate. | link |
| Insurance Funding | Involves the allocation of treasury assets to an insurance pool, ultimately approving the future disposal of the assets following unforeseen circumstances such as a shortfall or exploit. | link |
| Bug Bounty Program | Involves the introduction of a new incentivized bug bounty program. | link |
| Grant Program | Involves the introduction of a new grants program or a significant grant being rewarded. | link |
| Incentives Program | Involves the introduction of or deprecation of an incentives program funded by the treasury. | link |
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| Protocol Management | Protocol Fee Adjustment | Involves a new fee being applied or adjusted at the protocol level. | link |
| Discontinued Product | Involves the deprecation of a product, service, or contract. | link |
| Fix or Maintenance | Involves standard adjustments to a protocol. | link |
| New Collateral Asset | A new collateral asset or market is being added, introducing a new risk to the protocol. | link |
| New Supported Asset or Market | Involves the introduction of a new asset or market without collateral support. | link |
| Strategic Shift | Involves the formal announcement of a major change in a project’s strategy or roadmap. | link |
| Project Strategy | Miscellaneous events related to protocol management. | link |
| Partnership | Involves the announcement of a strategic partnership that is formally acknowledged on both sides. | link |
| Token Swap or Migration | Involves the migration of a token to a new token contract. | link |
| Network Upgrade | Involves the coordinated upgrade of a blockchain which requires participation from node operators. | link |
| Component Upgrade or Maintenance | Involves an upgrade to a specific existing network or protocol component. | link |
| Governance Update | Involves any changes to a project’s governance contracts, structure, or processes. | link |
| Token Change | Involves significant changes to a token or a token’s utility that’s not a token swap. | link |
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| Team and Operations | Project Team Update | Involves notable updates related to a project’s core team or official working groups. | link |
| Developer Call | A call designed to inform developers about recent or upcoming changes to the protocol. | link |
| New Brand or Rebrand | Involves the introduction of a new brand or the official rebranding of a project. | link |
| Community Call | A call led by community members or primarily designed to inform community members about a protocol’s updates or operational developments. | link |
| Financial Report | Involves the publication of a financial report. | link |
| Governance Call | A call primarily focused on a governance proposal or governance operations. | link |
| Audit Report | Involves the publication of a completed audit report. | link |
| Layoffs or Restructuring | Involves an entity restructuring itself or reducing the size of its workforce. | link |
| Bankruptcy or Deprecation of Project | Involves an entity declaring bankruptcy or formally sunsetting all business operations. | link |
| Geofencing or Censorship | Involves a frontend adjustment restricting access for users in specific locations. | link |
| Token Delegation | Involves the delegation of treasury assets, usually for governance participation purposes. | link |
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| Integration | Network Deployment | Involves the deployment of a pre-existing protocol to a new network. | link |
| New Oracle | Involves a project integrating a new oracle, introducing new oracle risks to the protocol. | link |
| Canonical Token Deployment | Involves a project identifying a bridged version of its native token as “canonical,” usually in an effort to avoid liquidity fragmentation. | link |
| Network Integration | A project adds support for a new network. Generally applies to cross-chain bridges and oracle protocols where a new network integration can be considered relevant to existing network users. | link |
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| Token Supply | Emissions Adjustment | Involves adjustments to a protocol’s emissions rate. | link |
| Supply Lock | Involves the non-programmatic lock of a protocol’s native token. | link |
| Supply Unlock | Involves the non-programmatic unlock of a protocol’s native token. | link |
| Native Token Airdrop | Involves a project airdropping its native token. | link |
| Non-Native Token Airdrop | Involves a project’s users or token holders being eligible to receive an airdrop from an external project. | link |
| Token Mint | Involves the non-programmatic minting of a protocol’s native token. | link |
| Token Burn | Involves the non-programmatic burning of a protocol’s native token. | link |
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| Software Release | Client Release | A new version of a client is released. | link |
| SDK Release | A new version of a software development kit is released. | link |
| Smart Contract Programming Language Release | A new smart contract programming language is released. | link |
| Other Network Component Release | A new version of a network component that doesn’t fall into the other Software Release categories is released. | link |
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| Release | Developer Tooling | New developer tooling is released, usually by a core team. | link |
| New Product | Involves the introduction of an entirely new product or feature that offers new functionality. | link |
| New Token | An entirely new token is being launched. | link |
| User Tooling | New user tooling is released, usually by community contributors. | link |
| Network Mainnet Launch or New Network | Involves the release of an entirely new blockchain. | link |
| Network Testnet Launch or New Testnet | Involves the release of a new dedicated testnet. | link |
| New Client | Involves the release of a brand new client for an existing network. | link |
| New Feature or Module | Involves the release of a brand new client for an existing network. | link |
| Protocol Upgrade | Involves a major upgrade or new version of an existing protocol. | link |
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| Token Listing | Centralized Exchange Spot Listing | A major centralized exchange enables spot trading for an asset for the first time. | link |
| Centralized Exchange Derivatives Listing | A major centralized exchange enables futures trading for an asset for the first time. | link |
| Centralized Exchange Delisting | A major centralized exchange completely removes trading support for an asset. | link |
| Staking Service Listing | A centralized exchange introduces custodial staking support for a listed asset. | link |
| Custody Platform Listing | A custody platform adds support for a new asset. | link |
| Fund or Index Listing | A fund or index adds a new asset or removes an existing one. | link |
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| Security and Hacks | Protocol Exploit | Involves a hack or attack that impacts a protocol’s core contracts, resulting in the loss of funds. | link |
| Frontend Exploit | Involves a frontend being compromised; user funds are only at risk if they interact with the frontend. | link |
| Vulnerability Disclosure | Involves the disclosure of a security-related vulnerability. | link |
| Centralized Exchange Loss of Funds | Involves a centralized exchange losing user or custodial funds. | link |
| Consensus-Related Exploit | Involves a 51% attack or similar attack in which a malicious actor gains control of a network to violate preexisting consensus rules of a network. | link |
| Other Hack or Attack | Involves a security-related exploit that cannot be granularly classified into protocol exploit or frontend exploit. | link |
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| Funding | Equity Funding | Involves the sale of equity in exchange for cash. | link |
| Debt Funding | Involves raising money through borrowing. | link |
| Private Token Sale | Involves the sale of tokens that are exclusively accessible to certain individuals or entities and not to the general public. | link |
| Public Token Sale | Involves a range of public fundraising techniques such as ICOs, IDOs, IEOs, and other similar crowdfunding mechanisms. | link |
| IPO, SPAC, or Direct Listing | Involves the initial public offering of a project or the listing of a project on a stock exchange. | link |
| Mergers and Acquisitions | Involves the merging of two or more entities or the acquisition of one entity by the other. | link |
| Ecosystem Fund | Involves a fund raised for the purposes of financially supporting projects in a specific ecosystem. | link |
| Accelerator Program | Involves a program that provides capital and resources to a select group of startups. | link |
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| Legal and Regulatory | Regulatory or Legal Status Update | Involves the formal classification of an entity’s legal or regulatory status by a governing body. | link |
| Regulatory Notice or Warning | Involves a warning, appeal, or an action that isn’t a direct initiation of legal action. | link |
| New or Updated Legal Entity | Involves the establishment of a separate legal entity, usually for a DAO or core contributors. | link |
| New Regulation or Rules | Involves the creation of new rules and regulatory policies by a governing body. | link |
| Regulatory or Legal Enforcement Action | Involves a regulatory or legal body formally pursuing an enforcement action against an entity. | link |
| New Regulated Financial Instrument | Involves the introduction of a new product that is tradable in traditional financial markets. | link |
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| Performance | Network Congestion | Involves widespread network issues being reported due to abnormally high activity; the network is still operational. | link |
| Blockchain Halt | A network has stopped producing blocks and may require external intervention for block production to resume. | link |
| Node Outage | Involves an event where certain nodes go offline. | link |
| Unstable Network Conditions | Involves degraded network performance. | link |
| Bug Disclosure | Involves the disclosure of a bug that could have negatively impacted the protocol’s performance. | link |
