# Season 6 Nominations: Grants Council **URL:** \ **Category:** Elections\ **Tags:** season-6\ **Created:** [May 10, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://gov.optimism.io/t/season-6-nominations-grants-council/8116 "2024-05-10T12:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![MattGov.eth](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/bc41dd/user_avatar/gov.optimism.io/mattgov.eth/32/11275_2.png) [@MattGov.eth](https://gov.optimism.io/u/MattGov.eth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://gov.optimism.io/t/season-6-nominations-grants-council/8116/12 "2024-05-29T16:03:40Z")
**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://gov.optimism.io/t/delegate-commitments/235/65) & [https://vote.optimism.io/delegates/0x1f4BA000D042cA0045eF094691615f3912DebEa8](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 you’ve shared:** [OPSNXAmbassador Snapshot](https://snapshot.org/#/profile/0x406b607644c5d7bfda95963201e45a4c6ab1c159) + [SNXAmbassador Snapshot](https://snapshot.org/#/profile/0x46abFE1C972fCa43766d6aD70E1c1Df72F4Bb4d1) + [Voting Rational for Shadow Committee](https://gov.optimism.io/t/defi-shadow-committee-season-2-recommendations/3549/13) + 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 ‘technical experience’ I feel I’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, I’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, I’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 I’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 that’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 KPI’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 “micro-grants” 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. We’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. I’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](https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/OPerating-manual/blob/main/manual.md):** 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.optimism.io/t/season-6-nominations-grants-council/8116)._