Security Council Member Self-Nomination: World Foundation

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Organization ID: World Foundation

Does this nomination represent an individual or organization: Organization

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Security Council Charter:

Reputation

The World Foundation is maintaining and operating World Chain, one of the highest-volume chains in the Optimism Ecosystem designed for real humans: it houses over 20 million users, over 9M of which are verified through Proof of Humanity. World Chain is a Top 5 OP Stack chain (Superchain Eco) and has more user operations per day than Ethereum or Optimism Mainnet (L2Beat).

Alignment

The Foundation is committed to growing the ecosystem through both our own research and the expansive grants program. In October, we have announced a 50M WLD ($124,000,000 at the time of writing) fund for ecosystem grants, part of which will be used for World Chain development—and consequently, improving the OP Stack through upstream contributions. In addition to proof of humanity, the Foundation is performing and funding a lot of ZK research and we are hoping to contribute a big part of that research upstream to benefit the broader OP Stack ecosystem.

Technical competency

For the sake of contingency planning, the World Foundation has picked two employees who may serve on the council on its behalf. Both of them individually possess the necessary qualifications and competency required for being on the Council; if elected, one of the two will serve as a signer on behalf of Foundation:

Remco Bloemen (@recmo on GitHub, technical notes on 2Ď€.com) brings significant experience in cryptography, blockchain, and decentralized systems to this role. His contributions include the first open source compatible Stark prover, the Hubble L2 node implementation, EIP-712, and the gas optimized EVM assembly implementations of muldiv, exp and log used by many prominent projects.

One of Remco’s key contributions to the Optimism Ecosystem was collaborating with Optimism and Ethereum’s technical teams to implement the KZG ceremony that was needed for EIP-4844. He also contributed ruint, the arithmetic library that Reth (and hence op-reth and sp1-reth) uses for the 256-bit EVM virtual machine.

Ed Medvedev brings experience in running incident response, managing complex on-call rotations, and securing multisig systems in high-TVL environments. Previously serving as Head of Engineering at Axelar and running the Reliability team at Chainlink Labs, Ed has been responsible for risk management, multisig contract configuration management, and infrastructure for some of the most high-risk systems in the DeFi space.

Ed has a track record of being committed to privacy, decentralization, and security: before his work in the Web3 space, he has volunteered his time to build educational security challenges in the infosec community and worked on localizing privacy-focused projects like Signal, Tor Browser, and Tails OS to bring them to censorship-heavy countries.

Geographic diversity

The Foundation is incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Remco is currently based in Poland, Ed is based in Argentina.

Diversity of interests

This is the only application associated with the World Foundation or World Chain, and the only application submitted by any employees or affiliates of the World Foundation or World Chain.

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 that election is subject to successful completion of a Foundation screen which may include KYC/AML, sanctions screening, and a requirement to sign a standard contract:

I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~5 active hours / month to fulfill the Member Responsibilities. Please note that there is an “on-call” aspect to this role that is not fully encompassed in the active hours estimate:

I am able to commit ~5 active hours per month to Security Council operations

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I’m an Optimism delegate with sufficient voting power and I believe that the Worldcoin Foundation is a relevant representative to be put up to vote.

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I’m an Optimism delegate with sufficient voting power and I believe that the Worldcoin Foundation is a relevant representative to be put up to vote.

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The SEED Gov delegation, as we have communicated here, with @Joxes being an Optimism delegate with sufficient voting power we believe this proposal is ready to move towards a vote.

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Nice to see World Foundation applying!

  • How are the signers selected within the organization?
  • How do you ensure individual accountability for actions taken by the selected members?
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I am an Optimism delegate with sufficient voting power and I believe this proposal is ready to go to a vote.

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Thank you for the questions :slight_smile:

How are the signers selected within the organization?

We are very transparent about signer selection as we believe that at the end of the day any Council is made up of people, not organizations. Our nomination explicitly lists the two people who were selected to potentially serve as signers on behalf of the Foundation; the internal selection process was based on individual qualifications related specifically to SC duties, alignment and previous experience with the OP ecosystem, the level of responsibility within the Foundation, and verifiable history of serving the community. The Foundation believes either of them would be an asset to SC; having two qualified candidates internally instead of one also helps us ensure redundancy and contingency planning.

How do you ensure individual accountability for actions taken by the selected members?

While the selected signer would represent the Foundation, above all they would act as an individual and be committed to the betterment of the OP ecosystem as a whole; therefore, their identity will be public to make sure the community knows—and can always get in touch with—the actual person behind the key, and they will be putting their personal reputation at stake just like any individual SC member would. We think that people who prefer nominations from individuals over organizations have a point, and we believe this approach strikes a good balance between running for SC as an organization and ensuring individual accountability.

Additionally, since the signer would be employed by the Foundation full-time, serving on the Council would explicitly be a part of their primary responsibilities and not something they would need to find time for outside of their main job. That should work towards improving availability and reachability, as well as create an extra accountability layer, as the signer will be held accountable by both their community and their employer—although we believe that this point is largely moot, since both of our signers are highly driven by their sense of duty to the community and the ecosystem.

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Not that my support is needed in this cascade of support, but it seems obvious that World Foundation should have a representative on the security council.

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I am an Optimism delegate with sufficient voting power and I support this nomination!

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We have known the World Foundation team for some time and believe they would be more than capable of serving on the Security Council.

We are an Optimism delegate with sufficient voting power and we believe this proposal is ready to move to a vote.

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I am an Optimism Delegate with sufficient voting power and I believe this proposal is ready to move to a vote.

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I am an Optimism delegate with sufficient voting power, I believe this proposal is ready to move to a vote

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