DAO-recognized Name: PGov
Individual or Organization: Organization
Time Zone: UTC -5 (US East Coast)
Relevant Background and skills:
- Paraswap Growth Working Group Member
- Active Velora Delegate and DIP Member
- 4+ years of governance experience
- Delegate for various blue chip defi protocols and L2s
- Contributed to growth teams at various teams and web3 projects
- Active currently in relevant roles with protocols including Uniswap, Compound, Optimism, Arbitrum, etc.
What can you contribute to the Velora Growth Committee?:
As a member of the initial Growth Working Group, we are confident we can continue to contribute to this committee, particularly with Defi integrations and token utilization. As an active participant across various DAOs, we have a wide scope on the current state of affairs across Defi and can utilize our networks to help grow the DAO in this role significantly.
We will use our overarching goals to provide as much long term sustainable value as we can.
- Growth: Our decisions are primarily focused on the growth of the protocol. This often results in how to spend money efficiently, but even more importantly and objecting for unreasonable spends and knowing when to vote no.
- Transparency: Clear communication with votes and explanations of reasoning, and an equivalent demand for proposals to do the same. Too often we see thousands, if not millions, being rolled up together and glossed over during proposals.
- Accountability: Too often once a decision is done, having proper accountability becomes an afterthought. Whether it’s a DAO promise or a grant or a new program, once a DAO votes something in, we forget about it. Our goal with PGov is to both continue to check in on these decisions as well as ensure that there are proper channels set up to ensure accountability.
What is your motivation for applying to this working group?:
We are heavily involved in Velora adjacent protocols that provide extensive experience for this role and believe this will be a perfect to provide tangible value. For example, we are founding members of the Uniswap Accountability Committee and involved on many chains Velora is deployed on such as Optimism and Arbitrum.
List your past or current association, history, role and contributions to the Velora protocol or DAO:
- Paraswap Growth Working Group Member
- Active Velora Delegate and DIP Member
- Investor and token holder
- Early user and airdrop recipient
- Worked with Paraswap team members on prior governance initiatives
Other DAO roles or working groups:
- Uniswap Accountability Committee: Help maintain deployments of Uniswap across different chains, hold different service providers to the DAO accountable, manage operations and deliverables for the DAO
- Optimism Grants and Milestones/Metrics Council: Ensure accountability and deliverables on grants for the DAO
- Compound Governance Group: Steward for the DAO and manage the governance ecosystem.
- Badger Treasury Council: Day to day work on treasury, growth, and financial operations management for the DAO.
- Engagements with Arbitrum, Lido, Moonwell, etc.
Conflict of Interest Declaration: PGov is actively involved in governance across defi protocols. As mentioned, we will leverage this experience and network and disclose conflicts of interest as they arise. We are not delegates at other DEX aggregators and have recently offramped our Cowswap delegation to focus solely on Velora.