I realized the same governance issues, tribalism, short-termism, replication of tech/mistakes, intransparency over and over since I joined crypto in early 2018. Consequently, I started blockchain-comparison.com to spread quality information and onboard people to crypto. Now, I want to take this one step further with scaleweb3.com, defend the most value-aligned, value-adding, essential Web 3 building blocks and help them grow.

Sidenote: Personally, I see Ethereum as the center and settlement layer of Web 3 and Optimism as a fundamental building block in our envisioned Web 3 stack. The Ethereum ecosystem has quality contributors, some positive-sum, value-aligned projects such as Uniswap and Gitcoin and I would love to become a governance steward that further supports the values with best interests of projects and token/stakeholders in mind.

My view on the Optimistic Vision : I see many parallels to our own ambitions when we started

About us - Blockchain-Comparison.com in 2018. I also love to make the (somewhat flawed) comparison between blockchain ecosystems and new economies and think it’s essential to find key parties early-on which are able to unlock network effects, a sustainable growth of the ecosystem - based on real economic growth - with aligned values (!). Besides that, I was positively surprised to see “impact = profit” as almost all social/public goods should at least be sustainable and I am all in into proving that public goods can capture margins and be positive sum for all value-adding OR benefitting, consuming stakeholders.

My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution: The title is spot-on. You don’t build a complex system from scratch, you rather go there iteratively. I believe in progressive decentralization, think it’s absolutely fair for a core team to take the majority of key decisions early-on but I will definitely work towards a future with core protocols which are hardened, secure, trust-minimized, governance-minimized, yet community-owned.

My skills and areas of expertise: Crypto & Football

My favorite Web3 projects: Ethereum, Bitcoin (though I haven’t transacted on it for 3 years), Zapper (and all of DeFi)