Grants Council Self-Nomination Template
Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.
Council sub-committee:
Optimism Missions Reviewer
If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:
Delegate Profile on Agora
Delegate Communication Thread
If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: (voting power can be referenced here)
2.75%
If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma 7, if applicable.)
Onchain votes 88%, but some early votes were with services that did not support all Safes, and are documented in our Delegate Communication Thread, where we provided how we would have voted and the rationale.
Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared:
This Delegate Communication Thread documents every vote we’ve made on Optimism, as well as a brief summary of each vote and why we voted the way we did.
Do you have a technical background?: GFX Labs is a developer company, so our governance staff have access to multiple technical advisors.
Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:
GFX Labs has experience as a past or present delegate on:
Uniswap
MakerDAO
Optimism
Arbitrum
Compound
Hop
0x
Wormhole
GFX Labs has experience in grants and procurement with:
Optimism
Arbitrum
MakerDAO
DyDx
zkEVM
Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective?
Yes. GFX Labs has been elected to the Grants Council three times. We were also elected to serve on the DeFi Committee, which was an advisory body that predated the Grants Council. GFX also sits on the Anticapture Commission and provides feedback to the Foundation on various initiatives.
Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:
Please see our previous answer.
Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:
Successful, strong grants are those that aim to migrate some combination of users, assets, and developers to Optimism that were not previously on Optimism. Alternatively, a successful grant or mission could increase the intensity with which a user or asset interacts with Optimism. One way to further strengthen a grant plan is for the applicant to have identified some mechanism that previously led to a desirable outcome, and the grant plan is designed to allow for scaling or repetition of that previous success.
What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:
Without excluding other approaches, we firmly believe the importation of yield-bearing assets and tighter economic integration with the real world and other chains’ economies should be prioritized.
Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:
GFX Labs is active in governance and development of multiple protocols. Current and recent relationships include Uniswap, MakerDAO, Optimism, Arbitrum, Wormhole, and Interest Protocol.
Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual :
We understand.
Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:
We understand.
Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations:
We verify we can make this commitment.