Season 7 Nominations: Final Reviewer on the Grants Council

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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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