Season 7 Nominations: Final Reviewer on the Grants Council

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Season 7 Nominations: Final Reviewer on the Grants Council

Please post your self-nominations for the Season 7 Final Reviewers on the Grants Council by commenting your complete self-nomination in the comments on this post, according to the template and process outlined here. There are 4 elected position opens for the Final Reviewers within the Grants Council in Season 7, according to the approved Operating Budget and Charter.

Nominations must be posted on this thread by 19:00 GMT on Friday, January 3rd

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Grants Council Self-Nomination Template

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Grants Council team you’re applying for:

Matt Eligibility for Final Reviewer:

  • Core Contributor at Synthetix (Major DeFi & OP Protocol) for 3 years

  • Within the above role, I’ve worked across various products - Communications, Marketing, Governance, Product, LPing, and so on.

  • Major OP Governance Contributor: OP Citizen, Top 10 OP Delegate, OP Committee Member (pre-council), OP Growth Councillor, OP Grants Councillor, and so on.

I’ve included some additional points, as I think it is critical to understand my thoughts on DeFi, and where I see the focus area needed for the coming season.

  • Supporter of Optimism DeFi Growth - Many items to point to here, please see some recent thoughts of mine from Twitter on OP Gov (x.com)
  • Summary of the above thread: Support DeFi Growth across the OP Superchain, cut funding to non-impactful areas, heavily increase funding towards:
  1. Bringing BTC on-chain
  2. ETH/BTC basis trades (scalable yield)
  3. LSTs
  4. Lending markets
  5. DEXs with clear long-term vision (e.g., Aero/Velo)
  6. Leverage products (Perps, Options, Leverage tokens)
  7. Experimentation to retain TVL over the long term, to avoid the “incentives pump”

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.

  • I’m a Core Contributor at Synthetix and formerly an elected member of the Synthetix Ambassadors Council
  • Due to this, I support many Synthetix ecosystem projects through external governance at OP/Arbitrum/et (this includes, but is not limited to, Kwenta, Lyra, Pyth, Polynomial, TLX, Toros/dHEDGE, Infinex, etc.) I am a longtime DeFi nerd, so I love these projects!
  • I’m an elected member of Pyth Network for the Pythian Council & support external governance. A longtime lover of Pyth feeds from SNX.
  • OP Grants Councillor/Delegate/Citizen/etc & ARB Delegate

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

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand you may need to sign an agreement with the Foundation prior to onboarding:

  • I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit

  • I am able to commit 20 hours per week to Council operations
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Grants Council Self-Nomination Template

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here.
http://atlas.optimism.io/gfxlabs

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Grants Council team you’re applying for:

Eligibility Criteria for Final Reviewer :

  • Season 6 Grants Council Reviewer (including Superchain Grants)
  • Season 6 Feedback Commission
  • Season 5 Grants Council Reviewer
  • Season 5 Anticapture Commission
  • Season 5 Feedback Commission
  • Season 4 Grants Council Reviewer
  • Various pre-Grants Council committees that made grants recommendations
  • Large delegate since Optimism governance founding

GFX Labs has also sat on a number of grants and procurement committees across various non-Optimism organizations, and has helped allocate well over $200m in grants and procurement across DAOs.

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.

GFX Labs holds delegations at the following ecosystems:
Optimism
Arbitrum
Uniswap
Morpho

GFX Labs is also recently a core contributor to Wormhole.

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

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand you may need to sign an agreement with the Foundation prior to onboarding:

  • I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit

  • ~40 hours per month (10 hours per week) for the Final Reviewer role
  • ~60 hours per month (15 hours per week) for the GrantNerd role
  • ~120 hours per month (30 hours per week) for the Operations role
  • I am able to commit a minimum of 10 hours per week to Council operations
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UPDATE:
I’ve decided not to move forward with my application. Good luck to all the other applicants!

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Grants Council Self-Nomination Template

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

My profile: https://atlas.optimism.io/opmichael

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Grants Council team you’re applying for:

Eligibility Criteria for Final Reviewer:

Defi Expertise:

  • An educational youtube channel where I did deep, technical, dives into how various defi protocols worked. Not only did this give me deep knowledge on individual projects, it gave me a very wide context of the entire defi ecosystem. Some highlights:
  • 1st Place Defi Prize in the Arbitrum Hackathon
  • Advisor to Chintai, an RWA tokenization protocol with 100m+ in tokenized assets
  • Advisor to Chimera Wealth for an onchain defi fund
  • Advanced user of DeFi protocols; LPing, basis trade w/Kwenta, Pendle, Astaria… pretty much every defi primitive
  • Bachelors degree in Economics
  • Series 65 holder (industry exam for registered financial advisors)

Grants expertise:

  • Season 3 Grants Council
  • Season 4 Grants Council
  • Season 5 Grants Council
  • Season 6 Grants Council

Technical Expertise:

  • Contributor to OP Stack codebase
  • Finalist in multiple hackathons (Chainlink, Superhack, Arbitrum, etc)
  • Master of Science in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University
    • Focus on deep learning, the same tech that LLMs/AI Agents use
  • Multiple years as a machine learning engineer
  • Technical Explanation / Tutorial videos:

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

  • I have no conflicts of interest, Optimism maxi through and through

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

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand you may need to sign an agreement with the Foundation prior to onboarding:

  • I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit

  • ~40 hours per month (10 hours per week) for the Final Reviewer role
    Happy to commit this time and more if required
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Im quite interested for this.

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Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Example answers: atlas.optimism.io/my-farcaster-username or atlas.optimism.io/my-organization-id

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Grants Council team you’re applying for:

Eligibility Criteria for Operations Role, GrantNerds, and Final Reviewer :

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.

OR

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

  • I have no conflicts of interest

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

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand you may need to sign an agreement with the Foundation prior to onboarding:

  • I understand

**Please verify that you are able to commit

  • ~40 hours per month (10 hours per week) for the Final Reviewer role
  • ~60 hours per month (15 hours per week) for the GrantNerd role
  • ~120 hours per month (30 hours per week) for the Operations role
  • I am able to commit X amount of hours per week / month to Council operations
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Hey @Bubli.eth , if you are interested you simply have to self nominate yourself by filling out the answers to the questions on the self nomination thread.

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Hai @Bubli.eth + If you wish to apply for this position, you can use the template provided here.

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Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Grants Council team you’re applying for:

Grants and Governance Expertise:

  • Founding member of Grants Council and member of every season
  • Member of CFC
  • Inspired several administrative changes to Optimism Governance including the DAB and Requests for Grants
  • Undertook the first wide-ranging analysis of early grants and their outcomes

Defi and App Layer Expertise:

  • Core contributor to Velodrome and Aerodrome
    – Work entails fundamental up-to-date knowledge of ecosystem needs

Eligibility Criteria for Operations Role, GrantNerds, and Final Reviewer :

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: I have a longstanding affiliation with Velodrome and Aerodrome.

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

  • I understand.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

  • I understand; I’m already KYC’d.

Please verify that you understand you may need to sign an agreement with the Foundation prior to onboarding:

  • I understand.

Please verify that you are able to commit

  • ~40 hours per month (20 hours per week) for the Final Reviewer role

  • I am able to commit 20 hours per week to Council operations. These things will often take longer, and I’ll do what I’ve done in the past, which is to work until the job is done.

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Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Grants Council team you’re applying for:

Areta specializes in helping foundations and DAOs establish and grow decentralized governance structures. Our core focus is setting up systems for effective capital allocation to support ecosystem growth.

We have developed and led key capital allocation initiatives in leading DeFi ecosystems, leading to significant TVL growth, innovation, protocol security and overall ecosystem growth. The following are selected examples of our work across various DAO ecosystems:

  • Uniswap Foundation Security Subsidy Fund: Launch of the $1m subsidy fund to optimize security investment and ecosystem growth in Uniswap. Read more here.
  • Arbitrum Security Subsidy Fund: Development of up to $2.5m subsidy fund to strengthen protocol security and drive innovation in the Arbitrum ecosystem. Read more here.
  • Uniswap-Arbitrum Grant Program: Set up of $1m+ Uniswap-Arbitrum Grant Program to foster cross-ecosystem growth across Uniswap and Arbitrum. Read more here.
  • Arbitrum RWA Innovation Grants Program: Launch of 300k ARB grants program to expand Arbitrum’s RWA vertical and grow RWA-based TVL contributions in Arbitrum. Read more here.
  • Contributor Efficiency System: Design of the Contributor Efficiency System to enable efficient grants allocation and management in Safe DAO. Read more here.
  • Operations Trustee: Management of dYdX’s trust’s assets as part of the dYdX Operations Trust. Read more here.

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.

Areta is a top-25 delegate in:

  • Arbitrum;
  • Aave; and
  • ZKsync.

Additionally, Areta holds an elected position as a member of the Arbitrum DAO Procurement Committee and serves as a multi-sig signer in Uniswap DAO.

Areta is also a key contributor in other ecosystems including dYdX, Safe, and Polygon.

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

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand you may need to sign an agreement with the Foundation prior to onboarding:

  • I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit

  • I am able to commit 10 hours per week to Council operations.
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Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Eligibility Criteria for Final Reviewer :

Prev Synthetix Grants Council
Grants council reviewer Season 4
Grants council reviewer Season 5
Grants council reviewer Season 6
AntiCapture Commission Season 5
AntiCapture Commission Season 6
in the defi trenches before it was cool
Prevented protocol exploits through contract monitoring “Have hotlines with the most important blokes in defi”

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.

I am not a major delegate for any other protocol and have no conflicting interests
My primary focus in this space is Optimism

OR

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

  • I have no conflicts of interest

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

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand you may need to sign an agreement with the Foundation prior to onboarding:

  • I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit

  • ~40 hours per month (10 hours per week) for the Final Reviewer role
  • ~60 hours per month (15 hours per week) for the GrantNerd role
  • ~120 hours per month (30 hours per week) for the Operations role
  • I am able to commit X amount of hours per week / month to Council operations
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Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Grants Council team you’re applying for:

Eligibility Criteria for Final Reviewer :

Over the past 5 years, I’ve gained the skillset and context to be able to review and prioritize key proposals that will be able to drive Stablecoin TVL across the Superchain

As the co-lead of Superchain Eco, I’ve spent nearly all of the past 18 months covering anything related to Superchain. I mapped all OP Stack chains and projects, created ecosystem insights such as the Ecosystem Map and over 70 weekly Superchain newsletters, and co-hosted the Super Contributor cohort and Optimism Contributor Essential MOOCs.

Before my role at Superchain Eco, I spent three years supporting Web3 start-ups in their operation, including being a lead analyst for PrimeDAO in 2022. I also managed a seven-figure onchain fund for Flagship, leveraging various DeFi protocols to maximize returns. This required me to regularly analyze and review protocols for their tokenomics, liquidity options, and overall performance.

Finally, I have experience submitting proposals to Optimism Governance, granting me additional context about what goes through applicants’ minds when proposing and proficiency with the review frameworks.

My current commitment to the Superchain and previous experience provide me with all the requirements of a human expert as defined in the Decision Design Framework, making me a great candidate for the role of Final Reviewer.

  • Leadership level vision :white_check_mark:
  • Professional-level analytics :white_check_mark:
  • High Context on Collective Values :white_check_mark:

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.

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

I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

I understand

Please verify that you understand you may need to sign an agreement with the Foundation prior to onboarding:

I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit

~40 hours per month (10 hours per week) for the Final Reviewer role

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Closing this topic on January 3rd at 19:00 GMT, the due date for self-nominations. Thank you to all the applicants!

Delegates: You can assess candidates from now until January 8th. Elections start on January 9th, so be ready! :sparkles:

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