Grants Council Self-Nomination Template
Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.
Council sub-committee:
Mission Reviewer
If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:
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If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:
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If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:
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Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared:
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Do you have a technical background?:
Boardroom’s infrastructure stack integrates with over 350+ DAOs and over ten governance contract frameworks, providing technical support, governance tooling, and data services. We have extensive experience in platform integrations and governance operations and a full-stack technical team that can adequately analyze potential changes to a product stack. Our team has expertise in analyzing DeFi grant proposals, ensuring that they are technically sound, aligned with strategic objectives, and capable of delivering measurable outcomes.
Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:
Boardroom has extensive experience working with a variety of DAOs and decentralized governance processes. Specifically, our expertise includes:
- Governance Support and Facilitation: Boardroom has provided comprehensive governance support to multiple DAOs, including drafting governance frameworks, ensuring regulatory compliance, and facilitating effective community communication.
- Technical Expertise: Our team has strong technical backgrounds in blockchain development, decentralized finance, data analytics, and contract auditing, ensuring practical evaluation of grant proposals.
- Stakeholder Engagement: We have engaged with developers, token holders, and community members to foster inclusive governance processes.
- Educational Initiatives: Boardroom has conducted workshops and training sessions on governance best practices and proposal drafting, empowering community members to participate actively in DAO contribution.
Boardroom has previously engaged with the following DeFi communities:
- Aave
- 0x Protocol
- Compound
- Moonwell
- Synthetix
Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective?
No
Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:
Boardroom has significantly contributed to the Optimism ecosystem by integrating the governance stack and its upgrades to our dashboard and API, which are used by several third-party projects. This enables voting on Snapshot and onchain proposals and delegation. We collaborated with Agora on integrating updates to the governor contracts. Additionally, we have provided “Weekly Recaps” for governance updates, ensuring the community stays informed.
Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:
A good Mission Application should align with Optimism’s strategic intents, providing clear objectives that demonstrate specific goals. It should include a detailed plan with comprehensive steps, timelines, and milestones. Demonstrating community benefit is crucial, showing the positive impact on the Optimism ecosystem. Inclusivity is key, engaging a diverse range of community members. Accountability should be maintained through transparent processes, and the application must outline well-defined evaluation metrics to measure success and impact.
What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:
To achieve the Season 6 Intents, Mission Requests should focus on several strategic areas:
- Progress Towards Decentralization: Proposals should aim at both technical and organizational decentralization, including improving fault provability, governance execution, and expanding the development ecosystem. Projects enhancing the security and resilience of the network are crucial.
- Bring Chains to the Superchain: Mission Requests should focus on integrating new chains into the Superchain, enhancing interoperability, and supporting technical infrastructure. This includes features like OP Plasma and protocol-enshrined revenue sharing.
- Grow Application Devs on the Superchain: Initiatives should aim to increase the number of active developers on the Superchain, support developer growth, and boost demand-generating applications. Projects could include infrastructure partnerships, developer tools, and vertical-specific growth campaigns.
Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:
Boardroom is a neutral, independent third party trusted by governance participants across multiple protocols to create and manage governance tooling without bias. We do not anticipate any conflicts of interest that could affect our role in the Optimism Grants Council. Our position as a neutral entity allows us to provide unbiased analysis, data, and recommendations, ensuring that our contributions remain objective and focused on creating long-term value for the stakeholders of the Optimism ecosystem.
Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:
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Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:
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Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations:
We verify that we are able to commit ~20 hours / week.