The following reflects the views of L2BEAT’s governance team, composed of @kaereste and @Sinkas, and it’s based on the combined research, fact-checking, and ideation of the two.
We’ve decided to divide our vote between 6 candidates, whom we’ve selected based on our internal assessment of their fit for the Security Council.
As we’ve done in the past with Security Council elections in other ecosystems, we looked through all the nominees’ applications and assessed each of them based on a few criteria we’ve decided as relevant. On a high level, the 4 criteria that helped us drive our decision were:
- Strong technical knowledge
- It’s imperative for each member of the security council to be able to independently verify what they’re signing and understand the underlying technology and code. We are willing to support members who bring other skills, like deep knowledge of legal implications, that add significant value to the Security Council.
- Reputation at stake
- While we respect the wish for some community members to remain anonymous, we believe that members of the Security Council should have their identities known so that if they misbehave or fail to act on time, they risk slashing their public reputation. We are generally only willing to make an exception for well-known anons with exceptional reputations.
- No connection to OP Labs or Optimism Foundation.
- We wanted to limit support for individuals or entities related to the original founding team (OP Labs & Optimism Foundation) as we believe the Security Council should serve as a third-party guardian that protects the protocol’s users.
- Location
- Security Council members should be spread around the world to cover most time zones and various jurisdictions as that would help with reaction speed in case of emergency and would mitigate the risk of legal implications.
Based on that, we’ve voted in favor of the following candidates:
Furthermore, we would like to thank all the candidates for running in this election. We would like to emphasize that the bar was set quite high in this election, which is great considering the importance of the Security Council.