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Delegate Statement

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Public goods are good.

But really, I’ve spent the last 5 years putting my heart and soul into funding public goods as a co-founder of Gitcoin. Over that time, we’ve seen projects like Dune Analytics, Ethers.js, Snapshot, Uniswap, WalletConnect, Yearn, and of course Plasma Group (now Optimism) reach sustainability in a variety of ways that are only possible thanks to Ethereum. While I’m proud of the impact we’ve been able to have, I believe that to scale our work further it is crucial that we do more to dispel the myth that public goods aren’t profitable. Having connected with @optimistprime and others on the Optimism team so much over the years, and worked closely with them via Gitcoin, I’m confident that they will be able to help achieve this goal, both thanks to the sheer talent on their team and their broader values alignment.

My view on the Optimistic Vision:

Public goods are often discussed as goods that are non-excludable and non-rivalrous. I submit that a better framing might be to consider public goods as goods that create positive externalities. In that framing, we can find plenty of examples of projects in Ethereum, including many DAOs, that are critical for the long term sustainability of web3. These projects should be financially rewarded such that they can not only survive, but thrive, and we now have new coordination and incentive mechanisms to ensure that happens in a way that benefits all market participants. In short, I believe in the optimistic vision for the same reason I believe in playing positive-sum games.

My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution:

  1. "This is a “Working” Constitution"

Good governance means working flexibly and adjusting direction not only based on the will of the community but based on learnings that naturally happen as a DAO scales. Huge fan of this approach and especially a fan of the four year limit. Consensus > immutability.

  1. "OP Citizens and OP Holders will equally coexist within the Collective."

Love the idea of checks and balances across different decision-making bodies, and strongly agree with Vitalik here. Although DAO governance is a powerful tool, we need to be careful, just in other democratic systems, to avoid implicit or explicit plutocracy.

  1. "The Optimism Foundation will be a steward of the Optimism Collective and its early governance model."

I strongly agree with the idea of progressive decentralization and believe it’s only natural for Optimism to focus in on the foundation to start and slowly expand its values and goals out to the community. A DAO without direction cannot achieve its goals, and there needs to be a core group that sets the initial conditions for future direction / growth.

My skills and areas of expertise: partnerships, governance design, economic modeling, community building

My favorite Web3 projects: Gitcoin, Optimism, ENS

Let’s create a positive-sum world.

Past Votes

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Season 8/9 Operating Budgets

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Developer Advisory Board Operating Budget

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Grants Council Operating Budget

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Milestones & Metrics Council Operating Budget

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Security Council Operating Budget

Voted for this proposal 4 months ago with 1.33M votes

Anticapture Commission Dissolution Proposal

Voted for this proposal 7 months ago with 1.34M votes

Season 8 and 9: Budget Board Member Ratification

Voted for this proposal 11 months ago with 1.39M votes

Season 7: Chain Delegation Program Amendment

Voted on 2 options in this proposal 11 months ago with 1.39M votes

Developer Advisory Board Foundation Mission Team Elections

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Ed

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Skeletor

Voted on 3 options in this proposal 11 months ago with 1.39M votes

Developer Advisory Board Governance Mission Team Elections

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Will

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Jepsen

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blockdev

Voted on 1 options in this proposal 11 months ago with 1.39M votes

Developer Advisory Board Audit Request Team Elections

noah.eth

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Security Council Elections Cohort B Members

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World Foundation

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Andrey Petrov

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OP Labs

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L2BEAT

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Test in Prod

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Yoav Weiss

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Ink

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Coinbase

Voted on 3 options in this proposal 11 months ago with 1.39M votes

Grants Council GrantNerd Elections

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Brichis

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Jrocki

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mastermojo

Voted on 3 options in this proposal 11 months ago with 1.39M votes

Grants Council Final Reviewer Elections

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MattGov.eth

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Michael

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jackanorak

Voted on 5 options in this proposal 11 months ago with 1.39M votes

Milestones and Metrics Council Reviewer Elections

Voted:

mel.eth (StableLab)

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LauNaMu

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AnthiasLabs

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v3naru_Curia

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Takeshi (Tané)

Voted on 1 options in this proposal 11 months ago with 1.39M votes

Grants Council Operations Elections

Bunnic

Voted on 4 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 1.61M votes

Grants Council Reviewer Elections: Mission Reviewer

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katie

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GFXlabs

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brichis

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habacuc.eth via seedlatam

Voted for this proposal over 1 year ago with 1.61M votes

Upgrade Proposal #9: Fjord Network Upgrade

Voted on 2 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 1.61M votes

Grants Council Reviewer Elections: Milestones and Metrics Reviewer

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v3naru_Curia

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LauNaMu

Voted on 1 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 1.61M votes

Grants Council Reviewer Elections: Audit Reviewer

AnthiasLabs

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