# YIP-54: Formalize Operations Funding

**URL:** <https://gov.yearn.fi/t/yip-54-formalize-operations-funding/7956>\
**Category:** YIPs\
**Tags:** approved, snapshot, yip\
**Created:** [12 November 2020 14:43 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/yip-54-formalize-operations-funding/7956 "2020-11-12T14:43:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![lehnberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@lehnberg](https://gov.yearn.fi/u/lehnberg)\
**Post date:** [13 November 2020 11:15 UTC](https://gov.yearn.fi/t/yip-54-formalize-operations-funding/7956/10 "2020-11-13T11:15:40Z")

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> [@Real\_Big](#):
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> This is a good time to reference the manifesto.

As one of the authors, I’m glad to see it referenced. 🙂

> [@Real\_Big](#):
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> I think if governance decides to move forward with holding contributors accountable, I think its best if the contributors are left out of the whole ordeal entirely. Probably done best behind closed doors and not written down anywhere, wouldn’t want any evidence it ever happened.

In the context of YIP-54 and accountability, _contributors_ are those who would spend funds from the Operations Fund. Being held accountable here, simply means that we track **who** spends **what** , **when** , and **what for** , in a way that’s public and transparent. This could probably have been made clearer in the text, apologies for that.

It seems like a pre-requisite in order for funds to be able to be responsibly managed. If we don’t do this, then how do we know that funds are being used the right way?

I don’t see this contradicting anything written in [How we think about Yearn](http://gov.yearn.fi/t/how-we-think-about-yearn/), requesting to spend funds from the Operations Fund is after all a choice a contributor makes completely voluntarily.

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