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: OP Atlas
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