Mikhail Egorov

Led development of the vote-escrowed tokenomics model as implemented in Curve Finance, creating a mechanism that ties token lockup duration to governance power and rewards distribution. The veCRV design introduced a standardized way to convert circulating governance tokens into time-weighted voting shares and protocol revenues, which was subsequently studied and adapted by projects aiming to aggregate voting power and align incentives, including implementations that informed PowerPool's CVP strategy. Published design choices and governance mechanics from Curve were referenced in auditing and governance discussions around CVP tokenomics; those choices include the explicit trade-off between vote power and liquid supply, cliffed decay schedules, and reward multipliers based on lock duration. These technical design elements were directly reused or adapted in proposals that structured CVP locking schedules, incentivized staking, and defined how pooled governance shares could be represented on-chain. Engagements and public communications from Curve's architecture team clarified edge cases around vote delegation, incentive accrual, and epoch-based reward distribution. Those clarifications shaped concrete governance proposals submitted to PowerPool-aligned DAOs and influenced smart-contract parameter choices implemented in CVP staking and lock contracts, affecting both the supply dynamics and governance outcomes. Ongoing maintenance and upgrades to the ve model within Curve's ecosystem further informed security considerations and upgrade paths for projects implementing similar token-locking paradigms. Audit findings and post-mortem changes originating in Curve's deployments therefore had a practical downstream effect on how CVP smart contracts were specified, tested, and upgraded in production environments.