Grants Council Reviewer Nominations: Season 4

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StableLab Council Reviewer Self-Nomination

Council sub-committee: Growth

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate commitment:

Delegate profile | Delegate Commitment

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:

0.18%

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma 3, if applicable.)

99% - Karma Profile

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared:

StableLab Delegate Communication Thread

Please outline any other contributions to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

  • Member of DeFi Committee A for Season 2.
  • Token House badgeholder
  • Have been active delegates in the ecosystem voting on and providing our rationale for all our Optimism Votes

Do you have a technical background? If so, please elaborate:

Yes, we have technical resources on the team and are familiar with many technical aspects of governance from our work with numerous leading protocols, including MakerDAO, Balancer, and Element Finance, among others. Having these roles requires us to have a grasp of the technical elements of a protocol.

Have you previously served on a Token House Council or committee? If so, please specify which:

Token House Badgeholder | DeFi committee A

Please demonstrate any experience you believe is relevant to this role:

We are the leading professional delegate team with a track record across major DeFi protocols, including MakerDAO, Optimism, Aave, 1inch, Balancer, Element, InstaDapp, Hop and more.

We pioneer delegation work through high governance standards, extensive research, hands-on expertise and the consistent use of a code of conduct. Pushing forward web3 and DeFi since 2018, StableLab’s co-founders previously spent 3.5 years at the Maker Foundation.

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List of governance delegates and roles currently (or previously) held by StableLab.

View all our proposals, votes and milestones at stablelab.xyz /governance.

Please demonstrate expertise relevant to your Council sub-committee:

  • We are the operations lead at Element Finance and have helped build the infrastructure for Element DAO. In doing so, we have worked with external providers to tailor their services for Element Finance, such as reviewing grant proposals and recommending amendments to create a successful proposal.
  • We are the Governance Facilitator at Euler DAO where we help the DAO grow by implementing strong operational processes and working with external service providers to improve the DAO.
  • StableLab is the Co-lead of the Uniswap Accountability Committee. We are tasked with evaluating new proposals concerning cross chain deployments and alternate deployments for the Uniswap protocol. This has given us experience assessing new initiatives and keeping them accountable to their commitments.
  • We are also one of the lead domain allocators of the Compound Grants Committee and are working with Questbook to structure the grants program at Compound.
  • During our work in various protocols, we have worked with different service providers and can spot opportunities to insert relevant providers to elevate a protocol or network. For example, we introduced ShowKarma to Optimism.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Governance Fund grant:

We expect a successful grant application to demonstrate some of the following characteristics:

  • Clear milestones
  • Granular explanations for the amount of funding requested
  • Effective and efficient distribution of grant funds
  • Consistent communication with the community
  • Clear value-add to the ecosystem
  • Achievable goals within a set timeframe

What types of grant applications do you think will help achieve Intent #2?

We believe grants that will help achieve intent #2 are those that continue to increase the reach of blockchain technology. As Optimism continues to improve scalability for blockchains it is important to create novel applications that can draw even more users to the space. It is also important to continue to innovate on infrastructure applications to continue to make it easier for new users to interact with and understand the technology.

The following are some examples of projects we think could improve growth and help achieve intent #2

  • Applications that help align incentives either economically or socially for groups or organizations
  • Applications that help with proving identity
  • Applications to attract users from traditional gaming to move to web3 gaming
  • Easier on/off ramps and bridges to easily allow users to get started in crypto
  • Applications that improve user experience

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:

Through our holding company, we have invested in multiple projects to advance growth and governance for them. See the full list here.

We contribute to various protocols’ governance, such as MakerDAO, Optimism, Aave, 1inch, Balancer, and Element. See the full list here.

When applicable, we will disclose potential conflicts of interest in our rationale.

Please verify that you agree to abide by the Code of Conduct:

Yes

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 4:

Yes

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations:

Yes

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