Michael (OPMichael.eth) Delegate Communication Thread

[Michael]

Hey Everyone!

I’m 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 “vote with reason” 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 didn’t use the “vote with reason” 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 Ether’s 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 “yes” 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 ‘Optimism Vision Reservoir’
• Proposal 3E: Optimistic Womxn Shinning in Blockchain
• Proposal 3F: Let’s take the Optimistic Vision to LATAM with Espacio Cripto
• Proposal 3G: Spread Optimistic values across Latam with Solow
• Proposal 3I: ‘Thank Optimism - powered by ThriveCoin’
• Proposal 3J: Web3xplorer - A curated web platform to discover useful web3 apps, resources and tools,
• Proposal 3K: Rumbo Optimista - Hacia Ethereum Mexico The Event || Optimistic Road in the way to Ethereum México

Intent #3:

• Proposal 1A: Superchain Governance Deepdive
• Proposal 1B: Fully Decentralized and Independent Oracle and Data Infrastructure
• Proposal 1C: TechNERD Program
• Proposal 1D: Extend the L1Block contract to store historical blockhash data
• Proposal 1E: Future-proofing UI/UX of OP nodes
• Proposal 1F: Spearbit + Immunefi Bug Bounty Program for Large Protocols on Optimism

Intent #4:

• Proposal 4B: The RetroPGF Podcast ***
• Proposal 4C: Delegate Corner Podcast
• Proposal 4E: Improving Governance Accessibility through Praise and Contribution Based Attestations
• Proposal 4F: Pairwise: Tinder UX For Web3 Community Signaling
• Proposal 4I: Velodrome: Fostering Inclusive Governance through Leading Optimism Builders and Long-term Users
• Proposal 4K: OP Governance Analytics Dashboard
• Proposal 4L: OPdelegate.com ***
• Proposal 4M: NumbaNERD Program

*** 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 didn’t 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.

[Michael]

Voted “For” 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.

[Michael]

Code of Conduct Council:

• @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 - I’ve seen first-hand the dedication and hard work these individuals have put into Optimism & it’s 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 Optimism’s 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.

[Michael]

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. I’ve 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:

• DanSingjoy
• LiliOP

[Michael]

Just wanted to make a comment here.

I recently voted on a mission request that I authored Rolling Mission Requests: Voting Cycl....

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 can’t change the onchain vote, I’d like the community to consider this vote as an “Abstain”.

[Michael]

Voting cycle #31b:

Hey everyone! Below is my reasoning for voting on cycle 31b. Post will be edited over the next few hours as I evaluate and cast my votes.

Security Council Cohort B

To be honest, this was an extremely hard category to select. It is amazing to see such a strong roster of high quality applicants, and I would be pretty happy with pretty much any combination of these individuals/organizations to make it to the security council.

I decided to use my vote to boost those with the most skin in the game. These are the chains/teams that are building L2s that will be governed by these keys or are core contributors to the OP stack. These are: World Foundation, Coinbase, Ink, Test in Prod, and OP Labs.

Final reviewer election:

Voting for myself, Jack, GFX Labs, and Matt. In a lot of ways this is a dream team. We each bring a different perspective to the grants council (AI agents, prediction markets, RWAs, perps, DEXs and more) and also have a ton of experience with grants itself. I think each member has potential to make a positive impact in their own right.

DAB Foundation Mission

Having worked with Ed, he was a no-brainer as he was a strong member of the previous DAB. Skeletor & Danyal also have very strong & relevant experience and are aligned with Optimism, so I am voting for all three.

DAB Audit Mission:

After looking through the candidates for a long time, I decided that I would rather defer to other voters as a I didn’t have a lot of confidence in my knowledge on this topic. I abstained.

GrantNerd election:

Voting for Jrocki, Brichis, and Mastermojo. I have worked with these three and they have proven a strong presence in previous grants councils. They all go out of their way to help applicants through the process and are 100% Optimism aligned. I have confidence they will do a good job in this role.

Milestones and Metrics:

A ton of good candidates here. I voted for Varit, Mel, Lau, Anthias, Mmurthy, Takeshi, and Pumbi.

DAB Governance Mission:

Having worked with Will before, he is an easy choice. I also think Jepsen, Iain, Blockdev, and Shubham are qualified.

Grants Operations election:

Bunnic did a great job last season, easy choice here.