Signaling intention to become a Badgeholder

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Who are you?

Hi my name is Antoine. I work since over 20 years on the question of governance and particularly sortition based and deliberative governance. I have been engaged in designing and implementing pover 500 processes of deliberation from local to global.

I also felt in the Crypto/Web3 Rabbit hole back in 2017 and have been since then fascinated by the potential of this new renaissance to help us coordinate at scale.

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?

I want to engage in Governance to connect my theory and practice with my passion for Web3. Nothing better than doing and engaging to move things forward.

What are your areas of expertise?

Governance of all kinds, design of governance systems, moderation and facilitation of small and big groups. Crypto and Web3 ecosystem (Degenscore top 100, Debank top 100, etc).

Contact point:

antoinevergne.eth

Relevant info you think should be here (leave it empty if not):

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Who are you?

BorrowLucid (Christina)

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?

To help support open source projects that suffer from the free rider problem.

What are your areas of expertise?

I write lore and contribute to DAOs, doing communications, operations, community and grants. Iā€™m a member of Chones, MetaCartel, DAOESCO, fwb, DAO East West and others.

Contact point:

BorrowLucid on Telegram and Discord

Relevant info you think should be here (leave it empty if not):

Please see the following to get a sense of my Optimistic-sense-ability.

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Who are you?

stevegachau.eth, contributor at ENS DAO

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?

Iā€™m interested in becoming a badgeholder because I believe in the value of recognizing and rewarding contributors in the community. I have a strong alignment with the long-term growth of the Optimism ecosystem and I am dedicated to promoting diversity of projects & perspectives within the RetroPGF community.

What are your areas of expertise?

I have been involved in several OP and ENS projects i.e Wildcards Protocol, Avatarsync, ensregistry, Optinames, and ENSRedirect.

Contact point:

  • Discord: stevegachau.eth
  • Telegram: stevegachau
  • Twitter: stevegachau
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Hey there I am here too, I am an Optimistic Nerd currently interesting with on-chain data analysis, I think; if you know me, you know that I can handle this responsibility, if you dont know me a post in here wont be enough to convince you

contact information
dc: arabianhorses
twitter: oguzthestoic
telegram: oguzthestoic

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Who are you?

Iā€™m Varit, known online as v3naru. I have been deeply involved in the blockchain since 2018 and decentralized governance space since late 2020. My background is diverse, encompassing startups, business, and decentralized governance. Iā€™m currently running a delegate team, Curia and as well as working with a leading venture builder in Southeast Asia, focusing on DAO research and development.

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?

Being a badgeholder for me is more than just a title; itā€™s a commitment to actively contribute to a DAO that is pioneering new ways to govern and fund public goods. My journey in the blockchain space, particularly in DAO governance and operations, has equipped me with a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities in decentralized governance. Iā€™m excited by the Optimism Collectiveā€™s RetroPGF initiative, which I see as a novel approach to solving the public goods funding dilemma.

Key reasons for becoming a badgeholder:

  1. Experience in Governance and Data Analytics: Iā€™ve been involved in the development of OP governance dashboards that provide granular insights into DAO activities. I believe my experiences can add value in contributing to the RetroPGF allocation process, making it more transparent and data-driven.
  2. Commitment to Our Principles: My advocacy for principles like experimentation, progressive decentralization, inclusivity, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making (E.P.I.C.D) aligns closely with the ethos of the Optimism Collective. I aim to bring these principles into the badgeholder role, ensuring that the RetroPGF process is as inclusive and equitable as possible.
  3. Learning and Growing Together: I see the badge as a two-way street. While I offer my skills and insights to the community, I also look forward to learning from this vibrant collective of like-minded individuals who are equally passionate about decentralized governance and public goods.

What are your areas of expertise?

  • DAO governance and operations
  • Business Development for Startups
  • Economics
  • Project Management

Contact point:

X (Twitter): v3naru
Discord: v3naru.eth#4668

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Who are you?

I am part of the governance team at StableLab. StableLab is a governance firm focused on professional delegation, DAO framework design, and product development. We work with over twenty of the top DAOs to help them decentralize sustainably.

I personally served as the Governance Facilitator for Euler Finance, served on the Rari DAO security council, and am an active delegate in Arbitrum, Balancer, dYdX, and Optimism.

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?

As a leading Delegate across many of the top DAOs, I believe I can offer valuable insights to the Optimism community. I have admired Optimismā€™s willingness to experiment with governance and would like to play a larger role in this experimentation.

StableLab previously had a badge in the last cycle and I was able to attend some of the badgeholder calls and follow along with the process. This cycle I hope to earn a badge of my own so I can have a say in the next round of retroactive funding!

What are your areas of expertise?

  • Governance Framework design and Implementation
  • Proposal Creation
  • Grants Programs
  • Contributor onboarding and relationship-building
  • DeFi

Contact point:

Forum Name: @Matt_StableLab

Delegate Address: stablenodgov.eth

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattstein111

Website: https://www.stablelab.xyz/

Email: Matt@StableLab.xyz

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Who are you:

James Waugh, founding team at :fire:_ :fire: - Fire Eyes (:fire:_ :fire:) is a contributor to the DAO space, providing strategic guidance to teams and communities working towards decentralization. Focused on mechanism and governance design, ā€˜go to tokenā€™ strategy, and contextualizing some of the most pressing issues around tokens and governance.

We currently support multiple DAOs including ENS, Rocket Pool, Hydra, Gitcoin and SuperRare. As well as being a delegate for many of these protocols + Optimism.

Why do you want to be a badgeholder:

At Fire Eyes our key goal is to see the Ethereum ecosystem move in the most productive way possible. By participating as a badgeholder I (and :fire:_ :fire:) are able to continue this mission to bring more impact & experimentation to the Ethereum and Optimisim ecosystems.

We want to help to shape Optimism governance towards a community-centric future.

What are your areas of expertise:

The areas of expertise we bring as a badge holder are; Culture (Art, Music NFTs, social events, etc), Onchain gaming, Incentive design and governance structure.

Contact point:
James.eth
Twitter

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Who are you?
I am the creator of Hildr which vision is building the whole OP stack in JVM ecosystem. Hildr got Cycle 13 grant support.

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?
I want to join and contribute OP community continuously.

What are your areas of expertise?

  • Blockchain
  • Rollup
  • Cross-Chain

Contact point:
tg: grapebaba
discord: grapebaba
twitter: grapebaba
github: grapebaba

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Who are you?

LXDAO is a DAO that supports the sustainability of public goods, we have a very strong production and research capability, and our members have an open-source community spirit.

We are a group of people who seek to explore and realize the true value of Web3, even if our views may sometimes seem idealistic.
We believe that Web3 public goods will be the cornerstone of the future Web world. Although they currently lack construction and infrastructure, we will be the best builders.
Iā€™m Marcus, Contributor at LXDAO, and Iā€™m primarily responsible for governance at LXDAO. The LXDAO Governance Group is the group responsible for designing the entire LXDAO governance mechanism, voting rules, and economic model.

With 1.5 billion Chinese speakers, we want to be a badgeholder, popularising and spreading the vision of optimism and public goods in the Chinese-speaking world.

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?

The LXDAO Governance group is interested in becoming a badge holder because we believe in the value of recognizing and rewarding community contributors. We are very supportive of the long-term growth of the Optimism ecosystem and are committed to promoting diversity of projects and perspectives within the RetroPGF community.

What are your areas of expertise?

Membership: We currently have 197 registered members, 65 of whom have governance rights and make decisions about anything LXDAO does!

Governance: We designed a governance mechanism for Web3 public goods builders, and itā€™s been working well for a year now.

Public Goods: Weā€™ve created more than 10 Web3 Public Goods in a year of development, ranging from MyFirstNFT, MyFirstLayer2, which allows newcomers to Web3 to learn about the blockchain in a few minutes, to the MobyMask project (an anti-phishing site) in collaboration with MetaMask, to projects like Donate3, which is similar to ā€˜buy me a coffeeā€™, here is the project description: https://lxdao.io/projects

Organizational partnerships: We have partnerships with many organizations, most of them are related to public goods, DAOstar, MetaMask, PlanckerDAO, 8DAO, AAstar, etc., because our strategic direction is to make Web3 public goods sustainable
Hackathons and awards: We have won many hackathon awards or sponsorships from public chain foundations such as ESP, Filecoin Foundation, MetaMask, Gitcoin, and others.

We adhere to the principle of decentralization, and are convinced that DAO will become the new form of human cooperation in the future,

We are committed to long-termism. Our focus is on how Web3 can truly create value for the world.

Contact point

Here is some information about LXDAO

LXDAO Website: https://lxdao.io/
LXDAO Project: LXDAO Projects | LXDAO
LXDAO Discord: https://discord.lxdao.io/
LXDAO Vote: Snapshot

Here is some of the information I will be applying for on behalf of the LXDAO governance group
Contact me

My Member Profile: https://lxdao.io/buidlers/0xC841D6DdF66467Af551b35218c0c2e22f9C14b48

Telegram: Marcuszheng
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bitzack_01

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Hello All,

My name is Elwood Dowd,
Iā€™m interested in contributing to the ecosystem. Iā€™ve been interested in crypto since 2015 and I believe Optimism has the right values and principles to make this a game changer.
Iā€™ve been a software developer for over 20 years Iā€™m also an artist. I would be glad to contribute doing design work, or other projects to help educate others.

Thank you so much

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Now that the badge holder for season 3 are announced and concluded, if you could not make it, I would like to request you to stick around and contribute to this collective.

There are so much to do, create content around gov and Optimism in general, contribute to the ongoing and evolving discussion here and on discord, help new member with their initial queries, submit your delegate profile(https://vote.optimism.io/) if you have not done that already.

For devs, look at ecosystem contribution page GitHub - ethereum-optimism/ecosystem-contributions: Find ways to contribute to the Optimism Collective, you might find something of your interest.

Now with scope of superchain, even Zora, Base and Warpcast contribution could also help you in getting a badge in next season.

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Thank you for the helpful info, I would love to contribute to the collective! This sounds like a good idea, Iā€™ll submit my profile as well.

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  1. Makar Brelgin (rroydds)

  2. My first transactions were over 3 years ago. I got XP on buying NFT, mining BTC, downloading nodes. Now Iā€™m a crypto blogger, in real life my profession is social grandraising. I have XP in education/marketing/solutions and social communication. I love the web3 grant platform, and have completed over 50 grant programs / kickstarter / hackathon. I understand how hard it is to evaluate other peopleā€™s projects, as I myself have been a committee member and jury member of various social contests and grant programs. I also understand that every grant program should achieve its goals, and this can only be achieved if the person who makes decisions on the issues of evaluating the quality of work/content/relevance and other criteria corresponds to the goals of the grant program and is objective.

  3. Head of Ambassadors Nomis.cc (3 months)
    Community moderator of Port3 Network (6 months)
    Crypto-blogger (7 months)
    Entrepreneur, owner of Marketing Agency (6 years)
    Coffee shop owner (1 year)
    Grant Writer (6 years)
    Traveler (all life)

  4. Telegram: Contact @rroydds

  5. Iā€™m very active.

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Who are you?
Haardik, Co-Founder @ LearnWeb3, Open Source Hacker

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?
Iā€™ve been following Optimismā€™s journey for many years - first meeting Liam Horne in Toronto in 2018 when he was still building out L4. Since then, itā€™s been amazing to see the growth of the ecosystem. My primary background is as an engineer. I spent 3 years contributing to the Decentralized Identity ecosystem within DIF, then shifted to being a Protocol Engineer at Ceramic (3Box Labs), and then became an educator through LearnWeb3. Aside from that, I do open-source stuff as well, with the most recent example being Teleport - a WIP fast Farcaster Hub written in Rust that follows the Farcaster protocol to improve client diversity.

As a public goods builder, ETH-aligned builder, and OP/Base/Farcaster builder, Iā€™d love to help out however I can as a badgeholder (For S4 and beyond)

What are your areas of expertise?

  • Web3 Education, from time at LearnWeb3
  • Decentralized Identity, from time at DIF and Ceramic
  • Account Abstraction, from building the most comprehensive AA course for devs

I could list more but itā€™s better to show Proof of Work. See my portfolio here - https://haardik.dev/

Contact point:
TG and Discord: @haardikkk (TG preferred)

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Who are you?
Pishikeni ā€œPKā€, Operations Lead at AyaHQ

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?
I want to contribute to the growth of Optimism and help improve its operations. I believe that Optimism is a platform for talented individuals with no connections to build global reputations. I am interested in working closely with the Optimism team to provide deep insight into the African landscape and identify deserving projects that are onboarding the next billion users.

What are your areas of expertise?
Technology Operations
Community Building
Education

Contact Point
Twitter (X): @Tukura_the_3rd
Telegram: @Pkstevenz
Discord: @PkStevenz#7141

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You can get more information about my work
AyaHQ
EthAbuja

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I am a Full Stack Blockchain Developer with over 3 years of experience in software development. My expertise lies in creating decentralized applications using technologies such as Rust, Solidity, Python, JavaScript, React, and NextJs.

Throughout my career, I have been recognized and awarded by various blockchain platforms, including Filecoin, Uniswap, Algorand, Near, Fuel Blockchain, Ceramic, and PARSIQ. One of my notable accomplishments includes completing a Filecoin grant to advance decentralized Identity (ERC-725) in combination with NFT privacy-focused standards.

In addition to blockchain development, I have also excelled in Python programming and have worked collaboratively with teams to enhance data analysis pipelines. Being a native English and Russian speaker, I also possess a working knowledge of Spanish.

I hold a BA in Business Studies and Economics from the University of Manchester, where I graduated with Honors. During my academic journey, I had the privilege of publishing an academic article titled ā€œCritical analysis of the electric vehicle industry: Five forces and strategic action fields,ā€ which received more than 10k downloads.

As a Full Stack Blockchain Developer, Iā€™m eager to become an Optimism badgeholder to maximize my involvement in Optimism and Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF). The mission and impact-driven approach of Optimism Foundation resonate with me, and Iā€™m excited to introduce OP Stack to contribute to building more public goods. With my expertise in blockchain development and a keen interest in progressing every day, I see becoming an Optimism badgeholder as a natural fit for advancing my involvement in the blockchain ecosystem and making a tangible impact.

If you would like to explore my work further, you can check out my GitHub profile and connect with me on Twitter.

GitHub profile: Pfed-prog (Pavel Fedotov) Ā· GitHub
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pfedprog
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavel-fedotov-pinsave/

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I can vouch that Pavel is really passionate about Optimism, with his knowledge and experience he would make a great Optimism soldier

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Who are you?

  • A Web3 Contributor with 4 yearsā€™ experience and expertise in Community Mgmt & building, Project visibility and ecosystem marketing, governance proposal writing and operations, conflict management, onboarding, offboarding.
  • I also have extensive hands-on experience with various DeFi apps across multiple chains at expert level since Iā€™m a crypto investor & trader for past 4+ yrs.
  • Previously, Human Resource Business Partner, People and Productivity advisory to startups {entrepreneur} and Leadership trainer with over 12+ years hands-on experience focusing on strategic and operational HR including talent acquisition, talent management, talent development, performance management, succession planning.
  • Juror with Kleros and Progressing on Certification - DAO Conflict Management from Gravity DAO.

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?

Being a badge holder for me is the position of responsibility and commitment to actively contribute to Optimism DAO with dedication, integrity and trust. My journey in the blockchain space for over 4 years has given me experience, understanding and first-hand exposure to various protocols and blockchains from user point of view, this coupled with my Web2 + life experiences has equipped me with a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities in decentralized space. Iā€™m excited by the Optimism Collectiveā€™s initiative, which I see as a novel approach to solving the public goods funding dilemma.

What are your areas of expertise?

  • Marketing + project visibility
  • People Management
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Research
  • Risk Management

Contact point:

Relevant info you think should be here (leave it empty if not):

  • I am a responsible optimism enthusiast contributing to governance proposals.
  • I am a responsible optimism enthusiast contributing to the protocols building on OP chain and L3s.
  • I am responsible optimism enthusiast invested in OP.
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Who are you?

A multiple DAO Contributor since June 2020 till date with expertise in entire Spectrum of Crypto (except coding). I also undertake Market-Making and arbitraging projects currently in Cryptos. Extensive network with investors & contributor communities globally & in India specifically. Previously a Quantitative / Option greeks / Implied volatility trader, Manual HFT/MFT/LFT Trader, Market Maker and an Arbitrageur with 16 years of experience in currency, Stocks, Commodities & Crypto.

Iā€™ve been involved in web3 since 2012 covering the entire gamut of web3 space since it resembles more like stock markets which is my expertise.

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?

For me a badgeholder at Optimism plays a key role in functioning of OP governance and community building. Itā€™s a position of responsibility, commitment and trust from the stakeholders with a belief that you would do all things best in the interest of Optimism. My journey in the blockchain space from 2012 has been very exciting, rewarding, challenging and an experience of going through the ups and downs this space has seen and progressed.

Optimism governance has paved the way of innovation and focused goals. It had been building on it relentlessly. The current badgeholders are taking the OP torch forward in the best possible way.

What I get to OP?

  • My expertise of risk management. This will add value to RetroPGF as the most important aspect of any investment is risk management and risk mitigation.
  • My expertise of 360-degree approach to protocol evaluation with data, analytics, market requirements in short and long term and presenting it in lucid and understandable way.
  • My expert background of stock market and crypto trading.
  • My expertise of Grants application evaluation from a 360-degree approach.
  • My love for analytics, numbers with community involvement.

What are your areas of expertise?

  • Grant Management
  • Risk Management and Mitigation
  • Number crunching
  • Community Management
  • Data analytics and presentation in a lucid understandable way

Contact point:

Relevant info you think should be here (leave it empty if not):

  • Senior Grant Reviewer
  • Optimism Contributor
  • Governance Nerd
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Who are you?
Yahav, BizOps Lead @ Snag Solutions, ex-VC, Governance nerd

Why do you want to become a badgeholder?
To help identify and properly allocated funding to deserving parties / projects that have actually driven growth for the ecosystem and will continue to do so. Iā€™m very aligned with Optimismā€™s ā€˜Superchainā€™ mission and the goal of decentralizing the ecosystem. As the Citizenā€™s House expands and secures more responsibility Iā€™d like to be on the forefront of this change to help foster growth & innovation.

What are your areas of expertise?

  • Technical Operations
  • Sales / GTM
  • Governance
  • EVM related technicals
  • VC & Funding early stage startups

Contact Point:
TG - yahavsal
X - yahavsal

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