ZER8 Delegate Thread

Delegates
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This thread will be used to communicate my voting rationales.

Introduction

Heya, ZER8, great to be here, I am an independent delegate with over 4 years practical and on the ground experience in DAOs, since 2020 I’ve been full time contributing to DAOs(1Hive, TEC, Across, UMA, Gitcoin, Arbitrum and now Scroll as a delegate). By training I have a BA in telecomm engineering and I’m also a part time creative in the field of art x fashion.

I enjoy being at the edge of the public goods space, exploring ideas, projects and

Project I’ve build or participated in for more than 1 year:

  • Part of the Buzz swarm at 1Hive- outreach, marketing
  • NFBeez- a 2022-2024 experiment into 100% decentralized and collaborative work between 10 artists and 3 developers.
  • Contributor and them team lead in the FDD workstream at Gitcoin- where I was in charge of reviewing all the grant applications for three seasons. Helped save over 1m$ in potentially wasted capital during these three seasons.
  • Grant Program Manager for three of Arbitrum on Gitcoin programs(part of Thank Arbitrum): Retrofunding for contributors, Arbitrum Matching on matching for Gitcoin Rounds and Grant Funding Fest
  • Solo working on Convex Funding - a novel allocation methodology that is optimizes for real impact in grant programs

Still a 1Hive member and currently I am a HelloMother core team member and contributor working at the intersection of the latest AI frameworks and community.

Enjoy testing innovative dapps, protocols, projects and joining experiments, conceptual work just for fun!

Motivation

The web3 governance space is mostly composed and influenced by specialized governance teams at the moment(which is not bad overall, but suboptimal) and I believe independent, neutral delegates can provide the optimal balance to avoid the capture of the space by entities who have gained embedded influence over time.

My two main goals in Scroll:

  • to help maintain this balance, provide critical feedback on proposals, discussions and always try to opt for positive-sum outcomes on anything related to funding, mechanisms, etc
  • help promote the Scroll ecosystem, onboard people into Scroll and overall support the ecosystem where I can

Disclosure.

As an ETH Maxi, I am a delegate in both Arbitrum and Scroll because technically they are the most advanced and at a DAO level embody the correct bundle of values and ethos of decentralization.

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My rationale on the 1st proposal: Research to Inform a Builder Support Strategy

Usually DAOs don’t take time to do market research to decide what’s are the optimal strategies going forward, this approach by RnDAO should in theory and if the research provides valuable provide the inputs that are needed to make informed decisions in the current market landscape(which is more and more dynamic) .

I voted YES, because the proposal is low cost/low risk and for the reasons mentioned above.

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My rationale on the DAO Delegate Accelerator proposal

I randomly had this idea during a call and strongly believe the proposal can help Scroll in two ways:

-giving Scroll more mindshare in the overall L2 landscape because of the uniqueness of the proposal, it only needs marketing and amplification and will make Scroll shine more.
-training existing and new delegates on the best practices of delegate duties

Voted YES because of these reasons.