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Delegate Statement

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: We are Optimism’s preeminent native decentralized exchange and have been working since day one to use every lever available to us to help guide Optimism to success. The nature of our work gives us a perspective on building on Optimism that few teams or individuals can match, and being delegates will enable us to channel this insight toward policies that we believe will enable Optimism to meet its objectives.

My view on the Optimistic Vision : The core principles underlying the Vision are foundational to our protocol.

Velodrome is a public good: we raised no money, gave virtually all of our votepower away to ecosystem protocols, OP Labs, prospective users, and Optimism airdroppees, and are laying out initiative after initiative intended to broaden stakeholdership of our protocol and of Optimism more generally. We structured Velodrome to allow anyone seeking to build to bootstrap funding without appealing directly to private capital and for veVELO lockers to benefit from economic activity in the ecosystem.

Why did we do this? We believe that the promise of decentralized finance is not to enrich the few but to freely provide accessible technology facilitating economic activity: a financial Internet, in effect. Optimism is in our view the first true broad-based attempt to make this a reality, and we believe it’s our job to help shepherd this project in its early but critical days.

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

The fact that we as a protocol are now being offered votepower is testament to Optimism’s commitment to experimentation, continuous improvement, and broadening notions of representation. And now that we’re joining the efforts, we recognize we won’t get everything right at the start — but ensuring that every major player shares these core values and commits to putting in the effort will get us to the right place. We’ve observed a lot of difficulty and confusion that result from imperfect delegation practices and the ‘one token, one vote’ construction. Our view here follows from the first point, which is that finding new ways to enfranchise committed players will help us as a community move beyond the first generation of governance structures in organizations. We look forward to seeing the first public implementation of Citizen House. From the start, we have worked closely with the Optimism Foundation and love having them as partners. We’re also deeply cognizant of their desire to decentralize as much as possible and the challenge they’ve faced walking the tightrope between being active stewards and allowing governance to do its thing. The Protocol Delegation Program is an example of the kind of care they’re showing in helping the organization mature, and we’re thrilled to be expanding our partnership to this domain.

My skills and areas of expertise: Our core team has work backgrounds spanning diverse areas of investment management, professional services, academia, and software engineering.

My favorite Web3 projects: Curve, Gitcoin

Past Votes

Voted for this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Season 7: Chain Delegation Program Amendment

Voted on 3 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Milestones and Metrics Council Reviewer Elections

Voted:

mel.eth (StableLab)

,

v3naru_Curia

,

Takeshi (Tané)

Voted on 4 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Grants Council Final Reviewer Elections

MattGov.eth

GFX Lab

Michael

jackanorak

Voted on 3 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Grants Council GrantNerd Elections

Voted:

Brichis

,

Jrocki

,

mastermojo

Voted on 2 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Developer Advisory Board Audit Request Team Elections

Voted:

noah.eth

,

gjaldon

Voted on 3 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Developer Advisory Board Governance Mission Team Elections

Voted:

Will

,

Jepsen

,

blockdev

Voted on 2 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Developer Advisory Board Foundation Mission Team Elections

Voted:

Ed

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Skeletor

Voted on 6 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Security Council Elections Cohort B Members

World Foundation

OP Labs

L2BEAT

Test in Prod

Ink

Coinbase

Voted on 1 options in this proposal over 1 year ago with 143K votes

Grants Council Operations Elections

Bunnic

Voted for this proposal about 3 years ago with 441K votes

Intent 2 Budget Proposal 2

over 3 years ago with 430K votes

Intent #4, 3M OP

over 3 years ago with 430K votes

Intent #1, 1M OP

over 3 years ago with 430K votes

Intent #3, 1M OP

Voted for this proposal over 3 years ago with 411K votes

Intent #3 Budget Proposal

Voted for this proposal over 3 years ago with 411K votes

Intent #4 Budget Proposal

Voted for this proposal over 3 years ago with 411K votes

Intent #2 - Council Intent Budget Proposal

Voted for this proposal over 3 years ago with 411K votes

Intent #1 Budget Proposal

Voted for this proposal over 3 years ago with 411K votes

Protocol Delegation Program Renewal

Voted for this proposal over 3 years ago with 394K votes

Delegate Suspension: Fractal Visions

Voted for this proposal over 3 years ago with 394K votes

Upgrade Proposal: Bedrock

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Voting Power	Delegated on	From	Txn Hash
0.421 OP	2024/12/14	0x00...dfd8	View
0.133 OP	2023/09/16	0x01...2386	View
3.255 OP	2023/07/03	0x02...d795	View
0.003 OP	2023/01/12	0x03...491d	View
10 OP	2023/08/30	0x03...bd56	View
0.377 OP	2023/07/01	0x03...52ba	View
0.131 OP	2023/06/16	0x03...b1a3	View
23.131 OP	2023/01/05	0x03...7f0c	View
3.431 OP	2023/08/21	0x05...6732	View
1.764 OP	2023/05/25	0x06...1b6f	View
5.026 OP	2023/03/12	0x06...b3dc	View
0.056 OP	2023/01/28	0x07...1950	View
0.567 OP	2023/01/14	0x08...c3cb	View
0.13 OP	2023/06/16	0x08...83fb	View
0.894 OP	2022/12/29	0x08...2417	View
1 OP	2023/08/24	0x09...88e5	View
11.79 OP	2023/09/07	0x09...24f6	View
1 OP	2023/08/23	0x0a...3126	View
2 OP	2023/01/06	0x0b...96f0	View
0.076 OP	2022/12/16	0x0c...3515	View

Voting Power	Delegated on	From	Txn Hash
0.421 OP	2024/12/14	0x00...dfd8	View
0.133 OP	2023/09/16	0x01...2386	View
3.255 OP	2023/07/03	0x02...d795	View
0.003 OP	2023/01/12	0x03...491d	View
10 OP	2023/08/30	0x03...bd56	View
0.377 OP	2023/07/01	0x03...52ba	View
0.131 OP	2023/06/16	0x03...b1a3	View
23.131 OP	2023/01/05	0x03...7f0c	View
3.431 OP	2023/08/21	0x05...6732	View
1.764 OP	2023/05/25	0x06...1b6f	View
5.026 OP	2023/03/12	0x06...b3dc	View
0.056 OP	2023/01/28	0x07...1950	View
0.567 OP	2023/01/14	0x08...c3cb	View
0.13 OP	2023/06/16	0x08...83fb	View
0.894 OP	2022/12/29	0x08...2417	View
1 OP	2023/08/24	0x09...88e5	View
11.79 OP	2023/09/07	0x09...24f6	View
1 OP	2023/08/23	0x0a...3126	View
2 OP	2023/01/06	0x0b...96f0	View
0.076 OP	2022/12/16	0x0c...3515	View