Council sub-committee: Growth Experiments
If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate commitment: Commitment
If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: 15.02% is delegated to the SNXAmbassadors, of which I am an elected member of.
If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: The original SNXAmbassador wallet faced multisig issues from the start, and the new OPSNXAmbassador wallet was created after a few rounds of voting. In my opinion, it wouldn’t be helpful to judge participation based on this.
Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared: OPSNXAmbassador Snapshot + SNXAmbassador Snapshot + Voting Rational for Shadow Committee
Please outline any other contributions to the Optimism ecosystem to date: Discussed later on.
Do you have a technical background? If so, please elaborate: Although I do not have direct technical experience, I rely on the expertise of some members of the SNXAmbassadors who have solidity and other development experience. I also enjoy explaining technical matters.
Did you serve on a committee in Season 2? If so, please specify which: Shadow Committee
Please demonstrate any experience you believe is relevant to this role:
- I am currently a Core Contributor for Synthetix, where I primarily focus on Communications, Marketing, and Partnerships. I have had the opportunity to take on various projects and initiatives, such as supporting SNX’s international presence (SNX Country Leads) and community marketing (SNX 300), and helping new protocols build on top of Synthetix as part of partnership efforts.
- I was also recently re-elected as one of the five SNX Ambassadors. The SNX Ambassadors are an elected council that represents Synthetix through governance across the ecosystem and works on partnerships/business development alongside CCs and other councils.
- I have collaborated with many protocols across Optimism to support their growth, a prime example being Synthetix Spartan Spaces on Twitter, which I host as an SNX Ambassador. This platform promotes great protocols across both Optimism and ETH mainnet and helps them explain their protocols to users. These efforts have led to many successful partnerships and integrations for Synthetix and other ecosystem partners.
- I have the ability to concisely communicate complex technical topics in a way that is easily understood by end users.
- Extensive knowledge of the DeFi landscape and what it takes to support a protocol in various aspects.
- I have been a DeFi user since the early days of the space. Before the days of complex gov tokens and during the great times of yearn and curve being used together being the most interesting use-case
Please demonstrate expertise relevant to your Council sub-committee:
I have a pulse on the Optimism ecosystem and have worked extensively with protocols onboarding to Optimism, helping them navigate the process of growth on Optimism. I have firsthand experience of onboarding new users into the ecosystem and supporting them with a great product and ongoing incentives to keep them engaged in the long term. Based on this experience, I believe I am a strong candidate to serve on the Optimism Growth Experiments Committee, with the goal of driving growth for Optimism in the long term.
Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Governance Fund grant:
- Great product / usecase for the protocol within Optimism and the greater DeFi ecosystem
- A clear path to non-incentivized growth - Overtime Markets fit this with it’s Gov Fund Grant
- Clear KPI’s
- Milestones to release grants
- Quality team (on all facets - devs, community, marketing, etc)
- Healthy Treasury
- Potential contingency plan / alternate path to distributing governance fund grant
- Path to protocol decentralization / Governance structure
Yet again, I will echo what Juan said – there’s no way that a grant proposal will be perfect or fit in perfectly with what’s required/wanted on Optimism. But there should always be a great attempt to bring in protocols that fit within the needs of Optimism users, and also help bring protocols to a yes grant request if it’s close!
What types of grant applications would you like to see or what RFPs would you create?
There’s three big types of grant applications I would like to see
- Innovative protocols that fit well into Optimism - While this is a wide net, I think the simplicity of it can’t be denied. There must be an all-out push for protocols to build innovative protocols both on Optimism, and on Optimism protocols. There is a great opportunity to incentivize money legos to be built and supported for the long term, which will help to incentivize continued growth from users and development across Optimism. Furthermore, these protocols should be incentivized to support builders and education to bring users onto Optimism. Protocol ecosystems are great for Optimism, and should be uniquely supported.
- Onboarding and Education - The next group of DeFi users should be brought to Optimism directly from CEXs and educated on why it’s important to continue building on top of Ethereum through L2s, and how all their DeFi/crypto needs can be supported on Optimism. These educational needs can be fulfilled through working with YouTubers/guide writers to ensure that there is ample content across onboarding to Optimism and using some of the projects on Optimism. Again, there is a need for a long-term partnership between the Optimism Foundation, Optimism Governance, and protocols on Optimism to ensure that onboarding is as easy as possible.
- Research Content (with distribution ability) - Research-level content should be incentivized in various ways, though this will require a deep partnership with the Optimism foundation to ensure that it is done correctly.
Yet again, I will echo what Juan said – there’s no way that a grant proposal will be perfect or fit in perfectly with what’s required/wanted on Optimism. But there should always be a great attempt to bring in protocols that fit within the needs of Optimism users, and also help bring protocols to a yes.
Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: I am an elected member of the SNX Ambassadors and a Core Contributor at Synthetix.
Please verify that you agree to abide by the delegate code of conduct 1: Yes
Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 3: Yes.
Please verify that you are able to commit 12 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations: Yes