Delegate Commitments [OLD]

[Kevin-IzzRite]

Name : Kwenta DAO (Represented by Elite Council)

Address or ENS: 0x38E77E487518851f47e8470433D69F3119304D7C

Discord username: Kevin #6969, Andrew | Kwenta (10x)#3709, Burt Rock | Kwenta ▣#7445, tee_bee#4949, platschi#6302, JVK#6935

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): https://twitter.com/Kwenta_io

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: As one of the earliest supporters of the Optimism ecosystem, Kwenta’s is well positioned and incentivized to make decisions that fosters the growth and adoption of the Optimism protocol.

My view on the Optimistic Vision : Although Kwenta operates with a higher degree of utilitarian principles, we are a protocol pioneering true decentralization for a user-facing product; this unwavering dedication to decentralization is in complete alignment with the ultimate goal of the Optimistic Vision which is to empower users to control the tools they use.

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

1. This is a “working” constitution: As we navigate through a constantly changing world, it is important for our blockchain governance to be flexible and adaptable to reflect the evolving nature of human behavior and lifestyles. To achieve this, we must embrace innovation and continually seek out new ways to improve and refine our framework.
2. OP Citizens and OP Holders will equally coexist within the Collective: In order to ensure the success of our governance model, it is essential that we align short-term incentives with long-term visions. We are excited to explore the potential of the bicameral model, as exemplified by Sparta, through the experimentation of OP Governance and OP citizenship. By balancing the needs of the present with a clear understanding of our ultimate goals, we can make informed decisions that move us towards a brighter future.
3. The Optimism Foundation will be a steward of the Optimism Collective and its early governance model: We believe in progressive decentralization and welcome the OP Foundation as early leaders in the OP Collectives governance model.

My Web3 interests: DeFi, DAOs, Governance, Zero knowledge, Data and analytics.

Languages I speak and write: EN, TH

My skills and areas of expertise: The Kwenta community specializes in derivatives trading, DAO architecture, incentives systems, smart contract development, web 3 native frontend development, and decentralized community development.
My favorite Web3 projects: Synthetix, Lyra, Thales, dHEDGE, Optimism, The Graph, Chainlink, Pyth, Aelin, Uniswap, Velodrome, and Hop.

[ksett]

Delegate Commitment

Name : Lyra Protocol

Address or ENS:0x2f30c18491435cb8bf24047d3398167ac327f750

Discord username : ksett _/#8710

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): https://twitter.com/ksett13/status/1612513068784705553?s=20&t=2ZF4fBwoDVD6XfsdoMQRzg

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

Collaboration with OP governance ensures long-term alignment between the Lyra Protocol and the Optimistic Vision. Optimism’s technology and scaling solution is essential to the mass adoption of Decentralized finance and it is something I aim to support and contribute to. Decentralized governance requires participation from interested parties to share and collaborate on a collective vision.

My view on the Optimistic Vision 2:

The Optimistic Vision is a revolutionary step towards decentralized coordination that leverages the strengths of Defi communities. The shift towards public goods in cyberspace is a monumental change in the way we have thought about cooperation and alignment in the past.

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

1. The flexibility of a working Constitution will be paramount to the success of this governance experiment. It is important to understand that the ability to change course will be the key to a successful governance structure that can keep pace with the continually changing Defi landscape.
2. A Bicameral governance structure with proper checks and balances is absolutely necessary at this scale to ensure interest alignment.
3. I believe the Optimism Foundation is necessary to support Optimism’s infrastructure at this time. I hope that a day will come where the DAO is self-sufficient enough to not require a physical entity but we are not there yet.

My Web3 interests: DeFi, Governance, DAOs, Economics

Languages I speak and write: en

My skills and areas of expertise: Defi, Trading, Partnerships

My favorite Web3 projects: Lyra, Synthetix, Polynomial, dHEDGE, Brahma

[matoken.eth]

Name: ENS

Address or ENS: 0x9C8984a1b26Ea82fFcC7a4Ef058b303A85b7fA25

Discord username: makoto#2771

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): Tally | Makoto Inoue ( matoken.eth )

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I would like to participate the DAO governance representing ENS

My view on the Optimistic Vision 141: ENS being the one of the successful example of public goods generating sustainable income, I share the same vision that public goods can be profitable. By being the delegate of OP, I would like to contribute to the discussion of how public good funding.

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

1. Agree, 2) Agree 3) Agree 4) Agree 5) Agree

My Web3 interests: BridgesData and analytics,Identity,Wallets,Zero knowledge

Languages I speak and write: En, ja

My skills and areas of expertise: Solidity, js, sql, illustration

My favorite Web3 projects: POAP, ENS

[Code4rena]

Name: Code4rena team

Address or ENS: 0xC2bc2F890067C511215f9463a064221577a53E10

Discord username: vee | C4#6243, Etherean#7284

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): tweet, tally profile

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

Code4rena is an open organization with a mission to make the crypto space more secure. We feel deeply aligned with the Optimism vision. Governing an open organization in an effective way is not easy. We know from our own experience. Optimism has worked with tremendous commitment towards creating an effective governance model. We are keen to share what we have learned from past successes and pitfalls alongside our expertise on security in order to help develop and drive growth to the entire ecosystem.

My view on the Optimistic Vision 138:

• impact=profit. We are in a unique position in history where we have the chance to disrupt existing norms around growth and profit and Optimism has the potential to become one of the main players driving change.
• Value-aligned. Code4rena’s model was built on the notion that security is a collaborative, community effort. Code4rena pioneered new mechanisms in the security auditing space that have led to more efficient timeframes, and higher coverage making us one of the biggest security communities on Ethereum. We’re proud of the resources we’ve been able to create for security researchers and developers making it clear that impact=profit.

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

1. Honest and logical. We are all sailing in uncharted territories where there are no fixed solutions and definite answers. Introducing a working constitution with room for experimentation is in our opinion one of Optimism’s biggest strengths. It takes time, self-organization, feedback, a humble mentality, and commitment to run an initiative like this and shows a long-term commitment and vision.
2. Introducing the widely used and tested bicameral governance system is a good step towards effective governance and balance between tactics and strategy. We are excited to see and potentially help come up with upgraded iterations of this model based on feedback and observations so far.
3. We firmly believe in one innovation at a time. Systems take a long time to mature, especially in rapidly moving environments, for this reason, the involvement of the Foundation is necessary.

My Web3 interests:

DAOs, Developer tools, Governance, Infrastructure, Privacy, Security, Social impact

Languages I speak and write:

En, fr, de, el, sp

My skills and areas of expertise:

Our team has a wide and diverse background in areas such as security, mechanism design, governance, management and politics.

My favorite Web3 projects:

Pooltogether
Foundation
Juicebox

[simocach]

I love this Commitments and you’ll have my full support.
I’m part of OPTIMOSM

[zcf]

Name: Charlie Feng

Address or ENS: cfeng.eth

Discord username: zcf#9299

Verification: https://twitter.com/charliecfeng/status/1612940955660816384?s=20

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

First and foremost, I find the Optimistic Vision to be inspiring in its desire to coordinate and organize communities. As someone who’s a long-time startup operator, I find the mission to dispel the myth of public goods vs. profitability to be a cause I’d like to support.

As someone building governance tooling for Optimism (Agora), I am both deeply interested in helping improve the governance experience as a whole and also sharing our learnings and experiences to support other projects and builders.

From a practical perspective, we bring forth a group of builders and operators with deep operational, financial and product experience across both web3 and TradFi.

My view on the Optimistic Vision:

Public goods are often the backbones of most of our favorite tools on the internet. Yet they’re woefully underfunded, undersupported, and understaffed. The fact that Optimism wants to change this is inspiring, and I’d like to do my part in contributing to this mission.

I deeply believe in the phrase: “show me the incentives, and I will show you the result”, and I believe if Optimism is successful, it can greatly improve the incentive dynamics of how builders and participants behave in the web3 ecosystem.

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

1. Agreed – Permanent structures often have unintended consequences. So I like the explicit framing of this as an experiment with an expiry date. However, I would add that it’s also important to strike a balance between exploratory vs. doubling down for results (which often requires executing consistently over a longer period of time). I believe the key here lies in the time-frame of each objective.
2. Agreed – While this balance of short-term vs. long-term is crucial. I think it’s one of those “easy to say, hard to execute” statements. Incentives will ultimately drive this behavior and I’ve seen it corrupted time and time again in organizations, which I think ties nicely into #3.
3. Agreed – I’m supportive because I think the role of the Foundation is crucial especially at the early stages of kickstarting a flywheel. As the ecosystem grows, the jobs to be done that the Foundation initially takes on does not disappear, but rather decentralizes into other stewards among the community.

My Web3 interests:
Accessibility, DAOs, Governance, Economics, Legal

Languages I speak and write: en, zh

My skills and areas of expertise: fintech, operations, alternative debt/capital markets, risk management. Among the team, we have expertise in smart contracts, product/design, governance, DeFi.

My favorite Web3 projects:
Uniswap, ENS, Compound

Lastly, as builders of Agora (proposal) and to our commitment of building governance tooling as a neutral party, we plan to keep our voting power below 2% of voting supply as to remain a neutral party.

[hop-protocol]

Name: Hop Protocol

This delegate commitment is placeholder and will be updated by Hop DAO’s Optimism representative once a representative has been elected.

Address or ENS: 0xDC01EA5b6B48187F5Aa1e422E90Dc01d03217B76

Discord username: TBD

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): TBD

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: TBD

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: TBD

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: TBD

My view on the Optimistic Vision : TBD

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

My Web3 interests: TBD

Languages I speak and write: TBD

[rubicon]

Name: Rubicon Team

Address or ENS:
delegate.rubicon.eth (0xaa31CB426e2C83cDa9C850874D166d7fcA836B14)

Discord username(s):
forrest#6764, denver#8815, benjamin | rubicon.finance#3427

Verification (Tally profile or tweet):

Rubicon

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process:
Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment:
Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
Rubicon was one of the first protocols to launch on Optimism. Our team believes in not only in the underlying technology but also in the values and ethics embedded into it. Optimism and the OP Stack are set to play an important role in scaling Ethereum to the world, and we want to play an active role in steering the Collective toward this goal.

My view on the Optimistic Vision :
Trying to make true public goods profitable is an ambitious goal, yet Optimism is already making an impressive amount of progress! Our team is looking forward to the next round of RPGF, and we believe these processes will continue maturing and fund more than just developer tools. We can’t wait to go to the first park funded by RPGF!

My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution:
1: It is very early in the history of decentralized governance, so it’s important that documents and processes are not too rigid. We love that Optimism not only encourages but enshrines experimentation into its Constitution. The Collective has already seen some great governance experiments, and some not-so-great ones. What’s important is that the community was critical and introspective afterward and made changes when necessary.

2: We look forward to the upcoming introduction of OP Citizens! Bicameral governance is underexplored in this space, and we think Citizens will bring a healthy balance to the current token-voting process. The Collective will surely come out stronger from any conflicts between the Citizen and Token Houses!

3: Our view is that the Foundation has been a good steward of the Collective. We only ask for continued transparency and regular reporting, the recap/feedback posts from Foundation members are important discussions that drive this community forward.

My Web3 interests:
DeFi, Developer Tools, Privacy, Wallets

Languages I speak and write:
en

[cshg]

Name: Chris | LI.FI

Address or ENS: chrishg.eth

Discord username: Chris | LI.FI

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): Tally | chrishg.eth

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

With LI.FI’s OP Governance Proposal we’ve experienced the governance decision process first hand and have seen its rough edges but also its potential. Personally I enjoy witnessing different forms of collective decision making, iteration on that and innovating how these can best serve the actual goals they are aiming for. Especially with many outside stakeholders incentives play a crucial role here and being able to contribute to these decisions and later on the processes around them is something which I’m personally excited to be part of.

My view on the Optimistic Vision 135:

The optimistic perspective to use digital democratic governance as a trial ground to experiment with collective decision making and adequate incentives deeply resonates with my personal ideas of innovation. It will be fascinating to observe how the alignment of decision structures to be iterated on and impact=profit incentives can lead to outcomes ultimately more beneficial to the public and all stakeholders.

This will be particularly groundbreaking once the ideas and learnings generated in this process can extend beyond just within the ecosystem but can be applied on a broader spectrum exceeding the borders of the digital realms.

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

1. I strongly believe in iteration and constant improvement based on hypotheses, prototypes and subsequent feedback. After a long enough time-period there will hopefully be a solid enough foundation to establish a more permanent constitution. Still that one should be open for adaptation at certain time intervals.
2. Balance of power is essential to prevent few stakeholders from having too much influence on decisions (e.g. large OP holders) and therefore undermining an unbiased governance process having resilience against manipulation and nepotism.
3. It makes sense to still have the OP foundation as steward for now, as long as over the long-term more decentralization will be pursued.

My Web3 interests: Bridges, Governance, Infrastructure, Privacy, Security

Languages I speak and write: en, de

My skills and areas of expertise: Consensus, Governance, Bridges, Leadership, Group Dynamics, Research, Programming

My favorite Web3 projects: LI.FI, Etherscan, Gitcoin

[Nested]

Name: Nested

Address or ENS: oeth:0x07963001638c2e8283Ef7F3dABF4242Eaf5d4F79 - it’s a Safe; it only supports the Optimism network.

Discord username: Rudy | Nested#0470 & Aylo#6248

Verification (Tally profile or tweet):

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes, we have read and understood.

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes, we understand this responsibility.

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

We are building the best user experience on top of DeFi protocols to be sure we will be able to acquire and retain newcomers - who won’t be comfortable with the new vocabulary, habits, and obstacles they will encounter by entering this market.

Optimism is important to provide a similar user experience that newcomers are accustomed to on centralized exchanges like Binance/Coinbase or platforms like Etoro/Robinhood because transactions are cheap and instantaneous.

Also, Optimism is the Synthetix playground that powers synthetic assets. Synthetix could have a central place in making DeFi mainstream as it offers the infrastructure to provide a “cross-chain experience” (like sSOL-sAVAX), massive liquidity without price impact/slippage, and real-world assets.

My view on the Optimistic Vision:

impact=profit — the principle that positive impact to the collective should be rewarded with profit to the individual.

This sentence is the most significant. The initial crypto vision is to positively impact the world rather than an individual. Satoshi is the best example.

During all previous bull markets, most market actors tend to forget this mutual value on which we all should be focused.

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

Yes, Yes & Yes.

My Web3 interests:

Accessibility, DeFi, Infrastructure, Social impact, Wallets.

Languages I speak and write:
English
French

My skills and areas of expertise: [optional]

Everything we use on our dApp, composability, communication, and writing.

[horsemcgee]

Name: Kyle C

Address or ENS: 0x9eE69759585aa3A9379b066F3caecbbD62420f9d

Discord username: horsemcgee#2673

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): Tally

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: As a long time Web3 participant, I’ve always wanted to play an active part in DAO governance and experience firsthand how an established DAO operates. My career interests tie closely with Web3 and I hope that commitment to the collective will yield the experience so that I may contribute to providing public goods in the near future.

My view on the Optimistic Vision: impact = profit is a mantra that is slowly being adopted in the physical world, it is akin to pay for performance. Far too many open source or free projects do not receive adequate funding to survive - how many times have we seen Wikipedia ask for a $1 donation from its users? The Optimistic Vision doesn’t just provide a means for creators and innovators to survive, it gives them a means to pursue their creativity.

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

1. Yes, we live and learn, so too should the Constitution. Curious to know what factors went into the decision on the length of time for which it is in effect.
2. Yes
3. Yes - though I question how long the Foundation should hold this authority for in an effort to promote decentralization.

My Web3 interests: DeFi, data and analytics, identity, DAOs, gaming

Languages I speak and write: English

My skills and areas of expertise: data and analytics, financial markets

My favorite Web3 projects: Uniswap, Squeeth, PanOptic

[ethan0]

Name: Pika Protocol

Address or ENS: 0xC70ABe97baF38782Fa479b23311b611D0e82076b

Discord username: Ethan0#1281

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): Tally

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
Pika Protocol was one of the first few protocols to launch on Optimism and being part of OP governance ensures the long term alignment between Pika and Optimism. The scaling technology of Optimism plays an important role in our success and we are excited to participate in the decentralized governance to drive the Optimism protocol towards its goals.

My view on the Optimistic Vision :
The Optimistic Vision is an innovative step towards the digital democratic governance. The retroactive incentives for public goods bring a big change to how the traditional collaboration works. I’m inspired by the ambition of extending beyond crypto and cyberspace to impact the physical world for human needs at scale.

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

1. As this is a fast-moving space and this is an entirely new experiment, being flexible and adaptable is important to achieve the long-term success.
2. The coexistence of OP Citizens and OP holders brings balance between short-term and long-term incentives. It is an innovative improvement to the simple token based governance model and could lead to better decisions made by the governance.
3. I believe the early leaders are essential for this experiments and hope the model is moving towards full dencentralization over time.

My Web3 interests: DeFi, NFTs, Wallets, Infrastructure, Zero knowledge

Languages I speak and write: En(English)

My skills and areas of expertise: Programming and DeFi

My favorite Web3 projects: Pika Protocol, Uniswap, Optimism

[Justin_Stables]

Name: Lido DAO

This delegate commitment is placeholder and will be updated by Lido DAO’s Optimism representative once a representative has been selected.

Address or ENS: TBD

Discord username: TBD

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): TBD

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: TBD

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: TBD

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: TBD

My view on the Optimistic Vision : TBD

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

My Web3 interests: TBD

Languages I speak and write: TBD

[protocol.mirror.xyz]

Name: Mirror

Address or ENS: protocol.mirror.xyz

Discord username: cf#7928

Verification: Tally

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes.

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes.

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Mirror has been a project driven by collaboration with the web3 community since its inception. Hundreds of products and protocols have launched and continue to build and engage their communities through our platform. Mirror wants to be a delegate because Optimism’s vision aligns with ours. We are a voice with all the expertise to continue collaborating and building the space beyond our platform.

My view on the Optimistic Vision: We align with the Optimistic Vision. Public goods are crucial for a healthy ecosystem. We are thrilled to be part of figuring out how to govern and coordinate effectively.

My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution: 1. We agree that the constitution needs to be tuned through experimentation. A Bedrock Constitution sounds like a very interesting idea; however, even a permanent constitution will likely require a mechanism for amendments as we don’t know how cyberspace will evolve. We are excited that a new governance mechanism will be implemented, and we’re moving beyond coin voting. We look forward to seeing the Optimism Foundation’s performance and expect transparency and clear steps toward decentralization.

My Web3 interests: Writing, DAOs, Governance

Languages I speak and write: English, Spanish

[ken]

Name: Ken (on behalf of Uniswap Community Delegates)

Address or ENS: 0xE36E5aFD431bbFd23598d2C37b018D2Bde5eB5e1 (Uniswap Community Delegates multisig to be established through governance)

Discord username: ken ng#3190

Verification: Tally

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Uniswap and Optimism have always had a strong working relationship, both as protocols and as communities growing together. We’ve supported DeFi projects on Optimism and continue to support user growth through grants and research as a values aligned project living on Optimism. As delegates, we’d be excited to continue learning from each other, sharing best practices from Uniswap governance and continuing to support the flourishing DeFi ecosystem with LM and more novel incentive programs. The Uniswap Community Delegates will have voices from a group of stakeholders that share a vested interest in both protocols’ successes, including the Uniswap Foundation and other existing Uniswap/Optimism delegates who may not have a voice yet and others that want to have a greater platform to identify areas for growth.

My view on the Optimistic Vision: Both Uniswap and Optimism were grant funded projects that I have personally been involved with, and as a group we understand deeply the fundamental importance of supporting public goods. We believe the surface area for how to best support public goods is still underexplored and we not only agree with the Optimistic Vision, but want use this platform to leverage both communities to identify, govern, and rapidly iterate on novel resource allocation models.

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

1. As decentralized governance continues to be explored, we agree that an evolving Working Constitution is the right path forward. This is something Uniswap delegates have discussed at length and are learning so much from what Optimism has already done. Establishing a Bedrock Constitution will set a new precedent for how these types of institutions can continue to grow with greater oversight and ensure committed parties create amendments to adapt to our growing ecosystems, within and on top of Optimism.
2. The Uniswap governance process was established early but continues to improve based on the input of our own delegates. Seeing how active Optimism governance due to the bicameral governance system is something to aspire to. We’re excited for the shared learnings that can be adopted for both governance systems with a rapidly growing ecosystem through experimentation, especially when thinking about “proper” impact measures.
3. Speaking on behalf of the Uniswap Foundation, we have worked closely with members of the Optimism Foundation since our inception. As our protocols grow together, we would want to share all that we’ve learned from our community of users, developers, and delegates so that others can leverage best practices where helpful. The OF has been extremely receptive to experimentation and we’re excited to see what else we can do together with more community input!

My Web3 interests: Developer tools, Governance, Infrastructure

Languages I speak and write: English, Chinese, Spanish

[ewokafloka]

Application

Name: 0x Protocol Community Delegates

Address or ENS: 0xD1c5980984bdbb0061B842fa81B3D38859850c39

Discord username: ewokafloka#4296, nikita#4377

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): Tally

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

As active participants in 0x Protocol’s governance (which itself is continually changing), we are excited about this unique opportunity for immersive learning and giving back, which ideally helps the Optimism Collective on its governance journey, while also leveling up the value we bring back to our “native” community. It’s inspiring to see all of the experimentation happening across the ecosystem — Optimism’s dual house structure and working constitution are particularly ambitious and interesting to us, in addition to this new experiment in “visiting delegation” that leverages idle OP to create new value.

My view on the Optimistic Vision:

We share the vision that web3 will enable new economic models built on decentralized public goods that benefit the communities that create, maintain, and govern them — thus dispelling the myth that public goods cannot be profitable. As a public good itself, 0x Protocol builds under a similar vision of serving as a propellant for growth within the larger blockchain economy that leads to a virtuous cycle of impact-driven expansion.

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

1. These are still very much the early days of the blockchain ecosystem, and we expect that new paradigms will emerge that will make change necessary — we think that it is a very sensible approach to have an iterative working constitution that supports experimentation and innovation before ossifying to a bedrock constitution.

2. We agree that a thoughtful, incentive-based system of checks and balances is fundamental to ensuring the integrity and legitimacy of a sustainable governance structure.

3. Tying in with the first point of this being a period of many changes, we concur with the need for the Optimism Foundation to fulfill the role of prime mover for governance experimentation and support its stewardship of the Optimism Collective in its early forms.

My Web3 interests: DAOs, Developer tools, Governance, Infrastructure, Privacy

Languages I speak and write: en

My skills and areas of expertise: Consensus, Governance, Research, Community

[Souvlaki]

Name: Beethoven X Team

Address or ENS: 0x2a185c8a3c63d7bfe63ad5d950244ffe9d0a4b60

Discord username: solarcurve#5075, danielmk#2619, souvlaki#2697, naly#3082, JediRasta#1314

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): Tally | 0x2a18...4b60

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

We are confident we can build an optimal solution for sustainable DeFi liquidity provision on the network with the scope for scalable, innovative growth that is highly competitive.

But, beyond the technical prowess, the Beethoven X community champions a more than “just tech” philosophy. We bring with us an evolved ecosystem that merges creativity, technology, community, product and social impact into a sophisticated conglomeration that aims to cultivate the best possible environment for the ecosystem users to thrive.

With a focus on the wider social, behavioral, educational and collective picture, evidenced by in-depth social science studies, we celebrate the people in our communities and strive to create a place optimal for growth and development. As such, Beethoven X would be honored to play a part and complement the sophisticated ideologies associated with the Optimism collective.

My view on the Optimistic Vision :

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

1. Imagine a world where political systems, governance structures and policies are rooted in collective liberation, social justice and compassion. Imagine a world where governance is continuously iterated upon and adapted towards systems that benefit all.

2. Imagine a world where individuals, collectives and communities challenge the social constructs of our time to rebuild a system that serves us all. Imagine a world where the vision of the community and the individual are one. To thrive, to flourish, to blossom.

3. Imagine a collective that believes wholeheartedly in the progression and growth of the ecosystem while understanding the necessity for decentralization. Imagine a world where the foundation aids in the creation of a system but slowly steps back to allow beauty to flourish.

A world beyond finance, where innovation meets imagination.

Imagination lies at the core of DeFi. The following articles closely intertwine with our dreams for a collective, social, adaptable and flourishing world of finance.

My Web3 interests: DeFi, DAOs, Governance, Social Impact and Identity

Languages I speak and write: en, wo, afr

My skills and areas of expertise: The Beethoven X team has experience across software engineering, social science, marketing and finance.

My favorite Web3 projects: Balancer, Gnosis, Gitcoin

[hosssein221071]

@morainweckv
vision and collective…

[Socket_Team]

Name: Socket Team

Address or ENS: 0x6FD2bd90D50eDEe139103454116F252f6F5eC928

Discord username: sriram#3026 & Shrey#0749

Verification(Tally profile or tweet): TBA

We have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process:

Yes, we have read it and understood.

We understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment:

Yes, we understand

Our reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

Socket has been live on Optimism since November ‘21 & one of the first few chains we launched on. We share a similar vision with Optimism Foundation that the next billion users will experience all of web3 on L2s, and have been working to solve one of the key pieces to enable this vision by collaborating with the top Optimism apps including Synthetix, Lyra, Polynomial, Premia among others.

We believe to catalyse the growth of Optimism & push it to the centre of all L2 innovation, current protocols have a huge role to play. With this delegation Socket aims to work with Optimism ecosystem to make sure the voice of protocols is represented in the forums. We also intend to work closely with the Collective & ecosystem to ensure cooperation on long-term initiatives that can cement Optimism as the leading L2 in the space!

Our view on the Optimistic Vision 1:

The public-goods centric vision and the multiple steps taken by Optimism Collective does to make it a reality is highly commendable & has helped to steward the whole space. We ourselves have public goods offerings as part of our suite including Socketscan, Refuel that aim to create positive-sum impact for both users & protocols in the space! Another great plus of the Vision is the thought of having governance baked in thus encouraging a diverse representation of views/stakeholders.

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

1. Strongly agree with the flexibility aspect is ideal since it’s still early days to define what good governance structures should look like
2. We are also a big fan of the idea of dual stakeholders, Citizens & Token holders that ensures the balance of power while retaining ability to work on long-term initiatives

Our Web3 interests:
DeFi, Wallets,Gaming, NFTs & Infrastructure

Languages we speak and write:
English

[MaxPower]

Name: LayerZero Labs

Address or ENS: 0xA3Ebc4a674AC613F797B45B4BDc1c1dDAb13836a

Discord username: MaxPower#1280, lz.Primo() #4931

Verification (Tally profile or tweet): https://www.tally.xyz/profile/0xa3ebc4a674ac613f797b45b4bdc1c1ddab13836a

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes

I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: We would like to actively contribute to the governance of Optimisim the help build the future of blockchains and an omnichain world.

My view on the [Optimistic Vision 145]: We believe Optimistic Vision 145 should be the defining view of many decentralized protocols. Expanding the reach and power of the mass of individuals that make up an ecosystem in both terms of ownership and participation. The goal to achieve a more equitable outcome for all stakeholders and provide back to the community via public goods and the advancement of the ecosystem is one of the highest order and we’re honored to take part in it.

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

1. Agreed. Continual experimentation and iteration is key to building a sustainable governance model that grows alongside Optimism.

2. Agreed. Effective implementation of this is extremely challenging but the goal is noble and absolutely worthwhile to strive to achieve. We look forward to helping with that goal.

3. Agreed. The march towards decentralization will be the true test of Optimism’s ultimate success over time, the commitment to such is hugely important.

My Web3 interests: Bridges, Messaging, Infrastructure, Security, Developer tools

Languages I speak and write: English

My skills and areas of expertise: Messaging protocols, DeFi, Bridges, Game theory, Research

My favorite Web3 projects: LayerZero, Stargate, Gnosis Safe