We're SEEDGov. Since our beginnings in Optimism, we've closely collaborated with the Spanish-speaking community, especially in Latin America, encouraging their active participation in our decisions and voting. As Optimism has evolved, we've reorganized and strengthened our team to adapt to new structures and roles, ensuring effective contributions to the protocol and the community.
What is SEEDGov?
SEEDGov is a dynamic and evolving vertical within the SEED Org ecosystem, dedicated to shaping the future of decentralized governance in the web3 space through active participation, community engagement, decision-making and experimentation. Our approach stands for minimizing governance where appropriate and professionalize it where necessary.
We are the first Latam based Delegate Platform actively engaging in various governance activities. Rooted in community values, we’ve shifted from educational models to a participatory approach, driving a new chapter in how individuals collaborate, coordinate, and decide in the ever-changing landscape of Web3.
Our scope of work across various projects and protocols includes managing grant and allocation programs, designing and implementing governance infrastructure, creating and overseeing incentive programs, and onboarding builders to align with protocol needs.
Our mission and values
We work to make Optimism governance and ecosystem better and offer a valuable point of view according to the following values:
Transparency: we are believers that communication and accounting are the fundamental pillars of any governance. We will encourage and motivate this behavior where it is reasonable to apply it.
Neutrality: any chain, application, and community member should be treated equally without preferences other than the interests of Optimism Collective.
Decentralization: should be present in every aspect of Optimism. We will support any initiative that gradually leads Optimism to operate in 'autopilot' mode, reducing reliance on central entities over time, when appropriate.
Quality over quantity: Expansion is meaningless without results, we are advocates that every action in which the Optimism Collective has an investment grade should be justified and with reasonable prospects of success.
Delegation team
Our team works with specific roles that operate horizontally under the following structure:
Delphine as Coordinator and Delegation Lead
Joxes as Tech Researcher
Pumbi as Governance Analyst
Fehz as Gov Lead of SEEDGov.
How we work
As a professional delegate platform, SEEDGov collaborates with communities and partners to ensure credible representation of all interested in Web3’s future. Since its inception, SEEDGov has advocated for critical thinking through education.
The members selected to be part of our delegation will collaborate both directly and indirectly with other SEEDGov members. Any decisions made by this delegation regarding governance will be thoroughly discussed and communicated to all stakeholders through our discussion channels and properly executed through specialized units.
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Participation in forum discussion threads and daily activities represent the opinions of SEEDGov and collaborators in their efforts to stay up to date with their roles. Our delegation will do its utmost to represent and embody our values to boost Optimism’s governance:
Decentralization: should be present in every aspect of Optimism. We support initiatives that move Optimism towards a more autonomous state, gradually reducing the role of central entities as needed. As the ecosystem matures and becomes more community-driven, we will actively collaborate in creating, refining, and improving governance processes to ensure broader participation and maintain system security.
Community-Led Growth & Sustainability: We'll champion growth, adoption, and innovation in the Optimism ecosystem while ensuring reliability and advocating for its significance in web3.
Security: We will ensure no DAO decisions compromise the protocol’s security or negatively impact users.
We want to honor the exceptional champions whose contributions have left an indelible mark on the history of our delegation (in alphabetical order).
0xBlonde
Ahhsun
CryptoChica
ErikSuazo
Gasm
Habacuc
Jadmat
Netrim
Nicoproducto
Pacha
Top Issues
Treasury management
We believe that the Treasury should allocate its resources towards initiatives that benefit Optimism and public goods around its ecosystem. Expenses must demonstrate productive results in accordance with the optimistic vision.
Grant funding
We champion transparency and prioritize quality over quantity. We support grants that foster the sustainable development of the Optimism ecosystem while endorsing initiatives with accountable funding. We are not interested in “wagmi” projects but those that can do a good job and set realistic goals.
Public goods
Making public goods often lacks proper incentives and can be challenging. As a fundamental part of permissionless and decentralized protocols, they should be funded in a way that not only continuity of the same but incentivizes more contributions. Our approach is to support public goods and transparent and reasonable forms of financing which preserve the open-source ethos.
