Zeugh.eth Grants Council Self-Nomination
Council sub-committee:
Mission Reviewer
If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:
Zeugh’s Delegate Profile
If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:
0,00% (my own little 785 OP)
If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:
I’ve become a delegate quite recently. I have taken part in all proposals since, but that is only a total of 8.
Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared:
Haven’t shared any voting rationale, it will be here when I have something relevant to say about a vote.
Do you have a technical background?: If so, please elaborate
Yes, I studied Computer Science in college at UFSC - for 3 years out of a 4 total and then dropped out.
I did a 2-year research internship on memory access optimization during that time and worked for a year after that as a developer with C++ and Python.
I haven’t developed professionally since 2017. I currently work with product teams where I’m constantly reading documentation, reading code, and supporting with technical architecture and logic, but I don’t code anymore.
Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:
I was an early contributor to JuiceboxDAO, working with community and governance design. I am still a big holder and voter there. It was a great experience as a contributor to follow up on the growth in community size and complexity of the protocol. I think I can evaluate proposals and missions very well from the amount of time I’ve spent discussing, onboarding, and voting there, as well as helping build Nance - the current governance platform the DAO adopts, which was developed internally and then branched to its own thing.
I was a founder for CanuDAO, a community manager DAO where we looked for issues to solve in our communities and developed tools to solve those. I think I have a good background in understanding tooling and its relevance from my experience there. As part of this journey, I also co-hosted a twitter spaces series with Reka.eth, interviewing founders of web3 tools, which also helped to learn a lot of challenges for building on Eth Mainnet 2021-2022.
I worked for 1 year for the DAO framework startup Origami, where I helped communities create their DAOs and enable their members and governance to work. Out of the DAOs we created, Collab.Land DAO is likely the most relevant still, and it was the first one I launched on Optimism.
I have been researching a lot around coordination and governance, I’ve been conferencing quite a bit over the past 3 years which created a habit of exploring new thoughts and experiments in those areas and spreading that through talks focused in DAOs I gave in different events(EthBarcelona, Global Governance Gathering, NFTBrasil, EthSafari…).
I have supported the structuring and launch of different projects on Optimism, my favorites being: AlxndriaDAO, AgroforestDAO and AfricaDeFiAlliance. I believe my experience with organizations trying to establish themselves on OP, with OP tools, gives me a good perspective for adding my two cents in what needs building or not, and how to prioritize and connect it,.
I see this role as a great chance to make use of those experiences and support builders to connect to what/who they need, beyond analyzing their applications.
Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:
No
Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:
I have been a user for most of the time, just recently deciding to join as a delegate. Most of my contributions have been to Eth ecosystem in general, as listed above. For Op I have been a spreader of the word since the first RPGF, but haven’t finnised any relevant contributions. I’m currently working with blockful where we are working on a reputation system integrated with EAS that will run on OP and are working on a mission for scaling ENS to OP, both are still in development and can’t have their impact measured.
Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:
I believe in things being built in the open, with clear and fast feedback loops and in the freedom for creators to do things they love and are good at. A good mission application should be able to:
- provide clarity of how to follow up with the progress of the project
- demonstrate the capacity to deliver
- present a plan on how they are going to deliver
- be focused on solving things efficiently first, and if it’s the case, making it fancy and cute later.
I am biased towards impact and especially towards enabling others to create impact.
What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:
There’s a common line between the 3 intents that make clear that one can support the other, the line goes through making decentralization stronger, which makes the superchain more interesting for other chains, which makes for more possibilities on areas, communities and work styles/vibes for developers to join.
Regarding Intent 1 I think enabling DAOs to properly exist “in the superchain” instead of in one of the chains would make a great case. I believe having the RPGF Governance round will be a great support to the decentralization challenges already, but having specific Intent 1 missions looking at current infra for organizations to be run fully on the superchain and easy to launch in this way, can make a big difference. Honestly, all things related to advances and exposure on the Path to Open Metagovernance can super power the 3 intents, as good builders are easier to flock when you give them capacity to easily manage or comprehend the management of the things they build.
Specifically towards intent 2 I believe that making sure the advantages of being in the superchain are clear, visible and easy to enable should be the focus of missions. This intent is very delicate and needs good experienced business people dealing with it, so my initial thought is that the missions of this intent should be focused in increasing the FOMO inside other chains so there’s pressure to support the negotiation.
On Intent 3, Base will do it by itself I guess lol I see spreading the funding for different areas around many chains as the most viable option to scale growth. Understanding where on the superchain are game, defi, AI or whatever other type of builder already more inclined to build and better supported and superpowering it in there, while allowing it to connect to the rest easily, is way more powerful than trying to have everyone build everything on OP.
Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:
I work with blockful.io and our team will likely be building on the superchain and taking part on mission applications and RPGF in the coming months. Also, one of our team members is top 7 delegate on ENS DAO where we are elected service providers.
Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual 1:
Yes
Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:
Yes
Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations:
Yes