Season 6 Nominations: Grants Council

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Council sub-committee: Primarily interested in Superchain mission reviewing, but happy to be an OP Mission Reviewer.

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile: Commitment & https://vote.optimism.io/delegates/0x1f4BA000D042cA0045eF094691615f3912DebEa8

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: SNX Ambassadors + Personal Matt Delegations = 5.05%

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: 100% participation since becoming active, with a few issues around multisig voting.

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared: OPSNXAmbassador Snapshot + SNXAmbassador Snapshot + Voting Rational for Shadow Committee + various comments directly on Agora from Matt delegations.

Do you have a technical background?: I do not have direct technical experience, though I rely on the expertise of members of the SNXAmbassadors who have solidity, sql, and other development experience.

In my role as a Synthetix Core Contributor, I explain complex technical matters and core mechanisms of the protocol. So even without ā€˜technical experienceā€™ I feel Iā€™m still able to hold my own.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:

  • CC at Synthetix - Primarily support comms, but also growth, bd, and so on.
  • Ambassador Councillor for Synthetix
  • Long-time DeFi/Crypto User - been in the space since before DeFi Summer

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which: Yes, Iā€™ve served in the grants council as a Growth Experiments reviewer S3, S4, S5. As well as the Shadow Committee (lore) in Season 2.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

  • Constant supporter and cheerleader of Optimism & Superchain
  • Personally and from Synthetix, Iā€™ve supported various devs and teams coming to Optimism, applying for grants, and building here for the long term.
  • Created mission requests & provided feedback on missions to drive DeFi to Optimism, and support the overall growth of OP related DeFi.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

This response is relatively similar to my prior response on good grants, but Iā€™ve tailored it a bit.

  • Missing piece on OP/Superchain, which can grow the greater DeFi / other vertical ecosystem (Social, gaming, etc) - though personally my focus is on all things DeFi, as thatā€™s where most capital & users flood into.

  • A clear path to non-incentivized growth - We should not incentivize projects for the sake of incentivization, this should always be a temporary measure.

  • Clear KPIā€™s

  • Milestones tied to token amounts to release grants.

  • Quality team (on all facets - devs, community, marketing, etc)

  • Healthy Treasury which reduces the chance of OP token misuse

  • Potential contingency plan / alternate path to distributing governance fund grant

  • Path to protocol decentralization / Governance structure

What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:

  • While Michael has already stolen the show a little bit here, I also think that ā€œmicro-grantsā€ or a dedicated grant program for more experimental and first-time applicants to ensure that we provide grants to those that may create great projects, but struggle under the current rubric problems of favoring long-time low-risk grants that lack experimentation outside of typical DeFi LM structure.

  • Grants that bring DeFi to OP & Superchain should be a focus. We must ensure that we are the place for capital, users, and developers to find home. Weā€™ve lost on various verticals in the past - LRTs, real yield, composability, and so on - and I think we can make a proper splash going into the next round.

  • With the Superchain grants programs spinning up, we will have much more expertise in achieving on #2, which I am very excited for. Iā€™ve done research on various verticals and projects we should be courting to apply to these grants, and see these as long-term alignment programs which we can find great success on.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: I am an elected member of the SNX Ambassadors and a Core Contributor at Synthetix - Synthetix specific grants & ecosystem grants driving volume through Synthetix will be a conflict of interest.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual : Verified.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6: Verified.

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

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