Season 6 Nominations: Grants Council

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Note: Based on our experience in the Builders Subcommittee of the Grants Council during Season 5, @SEEDGov presents this nomination with @habacuc.eth for taking this role. As we usually do with other positions, we conceive the inclusion of support members for internal work of the reviewer. In this opportunity with technical support from delegate @Joxes and additional support from Kira @kira . This approach aims to improve the review process of Optimism Governance Proposals by providing timely feedback and valuable insights to the proposers, ensuring the best possible outcome for each proposal.

Council sub-committee: Mission Review

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:
Joxes is the SEED Latam delegate and will contribute as technical support for @habacuc.eth.

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:
1.31%

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:
1.18M

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared:
Agora Profile 1, Communication Thread.

Do you have a technical background?: If so, please elaborate

Habacuc / Reviewer:

Innovation and Development Engineer with a Master’s in Technology Management and a strong background in Research and Development with the Triple Helix model. In 2020, he founded Zenbit.eth, an R&D laboratory building public goods for cities with OSS and Ethereum technologies. He participated as a “Catalyst” in the ReFi DAO and has organized workshops and presentations on web3 in the city of Querétaro.

Joxes / Technical Support :
Before Web3, he acquired a background in Metallurgical Engineering, focusing on laboratory-scale research. After founding L2 en Español, a community focused on technical aspects, he conducted workshops and published research articles. In 2023, he joined Wonderland, a Web3 core development group, in the role of researcher, working with partners to identify new development opportunities, improve protocols, and report.

Kira / Technical Support :
Kira is highly proficient in developing decentralized systems and blockchain infrastructure holding a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. Currently, at Zenbit.eth, he pioneered transparent frameworks for collective governance using solidity and zk proofs. Previously at Razor Network, he developed Razorscan(razorscan.io) writing the core keygen and encryption modules. He is also a member of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Study Group, where he is one of the early major contributor to the EPF wiki (epf.wiki). He wrote the mev, mev-boost, PBS, ePBS and Consensus Layer(CL) sections of the wiki. He is also participating in the current Ethereum Protocol Fellowship cohort as a protocol fellow.

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

Joxes:

Kira:

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

  • Members of the builders sub-committee for grants council during Season 5, role taken by @Joxes and supported by @habacuc.eth .
  • ACC member in Season 5
  • Members of the Tooling Committee in Season 2
  • Members of DeFi C committee in Season 2
  • Joxes’s badgeholder for Citizen’s House
  • Joxes is OP top 100 delegate

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

SEED Latam:

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:
Our philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application revolves around a comprehensive understanding and alignment with the Intents set for the Optimism Season 6. In our experience, successful proposers should take the time to comprehend the multiple stages of the Season 6 calendar, actively participate in office hours to clarify any doubts and consistently seek feedback from reviewers. This proactive approach helps develop a strategy that benefits all stakeholders.

In terms of specific attributes of a good Mission Application, it should:

  1. Align with the Optimistic Vision
  2. Detailed Impact and Execution
  3. Detailed and Reasonable Cost Structure
  4. Manage Expectations and Risks
  5. Focus on Community and Sustainability
  6. Support the open-source philosophy

On the other hand, applications that are less effective usually tend to ignore traction, set unclear distributions plans, and incentives that seem suspiciously mercenary, targeting multiple ecosystems without dedicated focus on adding long-term value to Optimism.

What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:
For Intent 1: Progress Towards Decentralization, we think the first two topics can directly increase the OP votable supply while the next two can increase reliability of the OP governance process:

  1. Advanced delegation integrated on dedicated OP governance dapps
  2. Novel User Interfaces to facilitate delegation for Retro Funding recipients and OP holders.
  3. Integration of impact measurements currently used in OP governance.
  4. Onchain mechanisms to prevent Sybil attacks and collusion

For Intent 3: Grow application devs on the Superchain, we look for Missions that can bring active developers building novel products and experiences, including:

  1. Reliable and effective cross-chain interactions for DeFi, Stablecoins and Attestations.
  2. Integration of Account Abstraction tooling for use cases that reduce the friction on OP dapps.
  3. Novel games and ambitious applications leveraging the most efficient tooling available in the Superchain.
  4. Growth experiments focused on expanding gaming in the Superchain.
  5. Leverage of the Superchain infrastructure by projects integrating ML/AI in scientific research.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.
Any related to the organizations: SEED Latam, Wonderland and as well as any other that might be related to our developer assistant and contributors including Zenbit.eth. Any identification will be duly communicated in the future.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual 1: Yes, we understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6: Yes, we understand**

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

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