First of all, I’d like to thank you for this opportunity to:
- Be more involved in the ecosystem, not just as an artist and creator.
- Connect and learn more about what, who, and how we need to approach the global expansion of the superchain.
I’d also like to share a brief, honest, and simple description of my voting process:
First, I was randomly selected as an invited voter after seeing a post from the Optimism account on Warpcast. After two straightforward and enjoyable Zoom meetings, we learned about the requirements and tools for the voting process.
As an invited voter, I was assigned one of three categories and given an adjustable budget for my task. My category was Governance Leadership, with a dynamic budget ranging from 1.1M to 3.5M OP. I chose a budget of 2.7M OP to allocate as follows:
- 40% to Governance Infrastructure & Tooling
- 30% to Governance Analytics
- 30% to Governance Leadership (my assigned voting category, covering 20 projects)
I delegated the other two categories to different users with voting power in those areas.
With this set, I started with a general first-round voting phase using pairwise comparison. The AI summary of each project was a huge help, as it gave me an overview and allowed me to set up my initial voting phase.
Once that was done, I went to round6.optimism.io to see the token distributions and began the second voting phase: analyzing each project individually to understand its structure, governance, and impact on the superchain and community.
In the Telegram group created for voters to share ideas and feedback, many invited voters agreed on the principle of impact = profit for allocating token percentages to each project. We also noticed that some projects had both Season 5 and Season 6 proposals in the same category, so I decided to allocate zero tokens to Season 5 proposals. This reduced my voting allocation to 15 projects, and I then manually adjusted part of the budget to reach 100%.
My personal analysis focused on several factors, primarily the project’s impact. However, I also considered what is needed, from my perspective, to maintain transparent governance, foster project development, and adapt to the community to make superchain adoption easier. In summary:
Ecosystem Impact + Project Development + Social Adoption
Each of these elements is essential for governance development. Leading governance requires transparency, a code of conduct, technical and social development, and best practices in every area mentioned.
These were the criteria that guided my voting. I’d like to wait for the final results before sharing more details.
If you made it this far—thank you for your time!
Best,
David ( 
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