Season 7 Nominations: Governance Mission Team on the Developer Advisory Board

Hi everyone! I’m Iain! :ocean: I’m on the protocol team at ZORA and also work on the ZORA network’s application-level integration and documentation. I’d like to self-nominate to rejoin in Season 7 and serve on the newly formed Governance Mission Team. I’m excited to potentially be a part of the optimism collective evaluating projects and look through technical feedback.

I’m unable to connect my github to the optimism profile: iainnash (Iain Nash) · GitHub

Adding my self-nomination template below.


Developer Advisory Board 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 Optimist Profile: @iain

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

  • Protocol team @ ZORA: Built the ZORA creator tools onchain protocol, maintain ZORA protocol upgrades, security and ZORA network management at ZORA, helped maintain and build nouns builder DAO and contributed system upgrades and design around NFT metadata. Work with cross-chain deploys and protocol maintenance across multiple Superchains and EVM chains.
  • Community tools builder/steward: Built and maintain https://ether.actor/ (gh) alongside https://wei.tools (gh) as public goods Ethereum tooling for developers.
  • Open source NFT protocol developer: Built and worked with an audit for an NFT raffle (Forgeries gh), built out a prototype cross-chain NFT framework (OmniNFT gh), prototyped a on-chain incentivized cron framework.
  • Full stack developer

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

Confirming 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

Confirming I understand

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

Confirming I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

Confirming I can make this commitment


Excited to see the superchain grow with the overall ethereum ecosystem.

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