Iām very excited that for the first time this season, my voting power has ended up above the 0.5% threshold has a delegate! For that reason I have decided to start this delegate communication thread.
For simpler votes, I have used the āvote with reasonā feature and you should be able to see all of the reasoning behind my votes in the Agora UI here.
Below I will outline my reasoning for the votes where I didnāt use the āvote with reasonā feature, and for all future votes where the discussion is more complicated.
For Season 4 mission proposal requests, my main questions in my voting logic were quite simple:
Is the team the correct team to lead this mission on a skills/community level?
Is the mission directly contributing to the rise of Etherās Phoenix?
Is this proposal a good faith attempto to improve the Collective, as opposed to a bad-faith attempt to grab governance funds?
Does the requested amount of OP seem reasonable given the scope of the mission?
All of my votes needed to answer āyesā on all 4 of these questions. I tried to lean towards giving the benefit of the doubt on these proposals in the case that I was on the fence on one of the questions.
My votes for Season 4 mission proposals were as follows:
Intent #1:
Proposal 3B: Velodrome: Spread Awareness Through Direct Outreach and Onboarding
Proposal 3D: Create and Maintain the āOptimism Vision Reservoirā
Proposal 3E: Optimistic Womxn Shinning in Blockchain
Proposal 3F: Letās take the Optimistic Vision to LATAM with Espacio Cripto
Proposal 3G: Spread Optimistic values across Latam with Solow
Proposal 3I: āThank Optimism - powered by ThriveCoinā
Proposal 3J: Web3xplorer - A curated web platform to discover useful web3 apps, resources and tools,
*** These two proposals I am the alliance lead on. Due to the approval-based voting and having no way to abstain, my interpretation was that it is OK to vote in favor of my own proposals. That said, I only had ~60k votes at the time and to be honest didnāt give this too much thought. Now that I have much more voting power, I will be sure to be more careful about votes like this in the future and solicit community feedback for any gray areas.
Voted āForā on every proposal, excepting the suspension for Carlos Melgar. Being unable to view any evidence in the case made it very difficult to support a suspension, especially when Carlos has seemed to generally be a good actor in the ecosystem. That said, I am glad the code of conduct council will be able to handle these reviews with the evidence in front of them in the future.
@Juanbug_PGov - Active governance participant in Optimism and good experience.
@juankbell - His work with GravityDAO speaks for itself
These are the two members I feel strongly deserve a spot on the council and therefore did not vote for others.
Law of Chains:
Absolutely yes. I am extremely excited to enact this, it provides a solid framework for chains looking to join the superchain.
Season 5 Intent Budgets:
For. I support these budgets and the modifications made.
Grants Council, Builders:
Gonna.eth , @kaereste , & @jackanorak - Iāve seen first-hand the dedication and hard work these individuals have put into Optimism & itās grants program. They 100% deserve to maintain their spaces. In addition, I am also casting a vote for @ethernaut who has a very strong developer track record, and @mastermojo who has great grants program experience (including the defi committee with Optimism).
Grants Council, Metrics & Milestones:
@LauNaMu - Has done great work with impact metrics for RetroPGF
@v3naru_Curia - Curia has done awesome work for Optimism Metrics
@raho - NumbaNERDs & Messari contributions are a great context for this position.
Grants Council, Growth Experiments:
I am voting for all previous council members, who I have seen first hand turn Optimismās grants program into one that is being replicated across all of crypto, and in addition @brichis who has shown her competence and commitment to Optimism in the past few months.
Chain Delegation Program:
For. Provides great incentives for new chains joining, and any chain meeting the requirements for delegation definitely deserve the representation.
LOTS of things to cover in this voting cycle, I will add to the list as we go.
Mission Reviewer Elections:
This one was very difficult. The first set was pretty easy, because I am re-electing members of the grants council I have worked with before. Iāve seen their dedication to Optimism first hand and have done a very good job so far (high NPS score, many proposals reviewed, etc).
MattL
Jackanorak
GFXLabs
Mastermojo
MoneyManDoug
Michael (myself)
Katie
The next set were based on background, dedication to the long term success of Optimism, and their responses in the self nomination questions.
Jrocki
Brichis
Tane
Boardroom
Habucuc.eth
Candidates that I think are good and I hope get some other position in the DAO:
I was made aware that there was a change in policy this season about mission request authors not voting to their mission requests.
To be clear, I do not have any association with any teams that are working on stablecoins or who could potentially apply, I voted for it for the same reason I proposed it; because I think it is a good idea.
That said, I apologize for the vote and will be sure to avoid this in the future. While I canāt change the onchain vote, Iād like the community to consider this vote as an āAbstainā.