In 2021, Uniswap v3 launched on the Optimism network. Since then, it has become one of the most popular protocols on Optimism. In order to further protocol engagement in Optimism governance, Optimism is experimenting with a Protocol Delegation Program to give the Protocols building on Optimism a voice in the ecosystem’s decision making.
As a part of this initiative, the Uniswap Foundation has accepted the delegation of 199,501 $OP tokens on behalf of the Uniswap Protocol. In order to ensure that Uniswap’s votes on Optimism proposals accurately representation our community’s interests, we are proposing the creation of a committee of 5 members to lead this engagement in Optimism governance. These 5 members will make up a multi-sig that will vote on behalf of the Uniswap community.
These committee members will serve as a representative of the Uniswap community’s interests. To be clear, they will represent Uniswap, and not their primary affiliated entity. Below lays out the format, criteria, and expectations of the committee.
A group of 5 entities or individuals on a multi-sig voting as one Optimism delegate.
3 of the 5 members have been selected by the UF based on the criteria listed below, but we invite community members to nominate themselves below to fill the last 2 multi-sig spots. Self-nomination will happen on this forum post, and the UF will host a Snapshot vote to determine these 2 members.
More specific details regarding expectations will be discussed directly with the committee members after voting is over.
Cameron ODonnell & Erikson Herman (ConsenSys)
Cameron is a DAO Governance Strategist at ConsenSys focusing on Web3 participation & research. He represents ConsenSys through Uniswap delegation and has been an active contributor for ~6 months. ConsenSys champions DAO first ideals that align with the continuity of the organization. As ConsenSys continues to pursue the decentralization of its products, the Web3 participation team is also responsible for applied research to leverage within the organization.
Erikson Herman is a DAO strategist at ConsenSys focused on maximizing ecosystem value through partnerships. He also is the co-lead and creator of the MetaMask Grants DAO (MMG DAO) that supports >2M/year to developers within the Metamask ecosystem. His experience includes and managing grant programs and communities while working on several Consensys product teams.
Charlie Feng (Agora)
Charlie is a co-founder at Agora, a governance tooling team that is actively contributing on both Optimism and Uniswap through its delegation products. Their team is deeply interested in governance innovation and have been actively developing in the Nouns and ENS ecosystem as well. Currently, Agora is supporting the Optimism Foundation in the move towards on-chain voting as well as helping implement liquid delegation for Uniswap's ecosystem. Agora is focused on improving the governance and ecosystem experience for a few DAOs and Optimism and Uniswap have been a huge part of their future roadmap. The team is uniquely positioned as DAO governance and tooling builders with deep team expertise in both design and engineering. Charlie, as well as the entire Agora team, has an open commitment towards building governance tooling as a neutral party.
Brian Park (Gamma Strategies) Brian is a co-founder of Gamma Strategies, which is an active liquidity manager and market maker on Uniswap v3 with a focus on business development and operations. Specifically, he reaches out to different DeFi projects and DAOs about the benefits of managing liquidity on Uniswap v3 through governance forums and proposals. Recently, Gamma wrote a joint proposal with xToken to manage OP-WETH liqudity on Optimism. Gamma is also currently assisting the Uniswap Foundation in carrying out its liquidity mining program on Optimism. Both Optimism and Uniswap are a huge part of Gamma’s protocol, and for that Gamma would love to dedicate resources to being an active delegate. The team’s unique perspective as a liquidity manager would bring diversity of thought.
If you wish to nominate yourself, please answer the following prompts as a forum post reply and verify yourself through Tally or Twitter.
Instructions from Optimism: ”To avoid impersonation, we ask that delegates complete a profile using Tally. This can be done by logging into Tally with Twitter and associating an Ethereum address with your profile that matches the address you submitted on this form (example 105). If you’d prefer not to use Tally, you may post a tweet that links to your delegate submission, then edit your submission to link to the tweet.”
Name:
Discord username:
Telegram:
Verification (Tally profile or tweet, example):
I have read and understood the Optimism Delegate Commitment Process:
I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment:
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
My view on the Optimistic Vision 151:
My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution:
Skills and areas of expertise:
Past contributions to the Uniswap and/or Optimism ecosystems:
Conflicts of interest:
The forum post will be up for 1 week (until February 8th), and we will set up a 3 day snapshot voting poll (until February 11th) shortly thereafter to have the committee finalized as soon as possible. Once the votes are finalized, we will be reaching out to the top two members with the most votes.
Thank you, and we are excited to represent the Uniswap community in Optimism’s governance!
In 2021, Uniswap v3 launched on the Optimism network. Since then, it has become one of the most popular protocols on Optimism. In order to further protocol engagement in Optimism governance, Optimism is experimenting with a Protocol Delegation Program to give the Protocols building on Optimism a voice in the ecosystem’s decision making.
As a part of this initiative, the Uniswap Foundation has accepted the delegation of 199,501 $OP tokens on behalf of the Uniswap Protocol. In order to ensure that Uniswap’s votes on Optimism proposals accurately representation our community’s interests, we are proposing the creation of a committee of 5 members to lead this engagement in Optimism governance. These 5 members will make up a multi-sig that will vote on behalf of the Uniswap community.
These committee members will serve as a representative of the Uniswap community’s interests. To be clear, they will represent Uniswap, and not their primary affiliated entity. Below lays out the format, criteria, and expectations of the committee.
A group of 5 entities or individuals on a multi-sig voting as one Optimism delegate.
3 of the 5 members have been selected by the UF based on the criteria listed below, but we invite community members to nominate themselves below to fill the last 2 multi-sig spots. Self-nomination will happen on this forum post, and the UF will host a Snapshot vote to determine these 2 members.
More specific details regarding expectations will be discussed directly with the committee members after voting is over.
Cameron ODonnell & Erikson Herman (ConsenSys)
Cameron is a DAO Governance Strategist at ConsenSys focusing on Web3 participation & research. He represents ConsenSys through Uniswap delegation and has been an active contributor for ~6 months. ConsenSys champions DAO first ideals that align with the continuity of the organization. As ConsenSys continues to pursue the decentralization of its products, the Web3 participation team is also responsible for applied research to leverage within the organization.
Erikson Herman is a DAO strategist at ConsenSys focused on maximizing ecosystem value through partnerships. He also is the co-lead and creator of the MetaMask Grants DAO (MMG DAO) that supports >2M/year to developers within the Metamask ecosystem. His experience includes and managing grant programs and communities while working on several Consensys product teams.
Charlie Feng (Agora)
Charlie is a co-founder at Agora, a governance tooling team that is actively contributing on both Optimism and Uniswap through its delegation products. Their team is deeply interested in governance innovation and have been actively developing in the Nouns and ENS ecosystem as well. Currently, Agora is supporting the Optimism Foundation in the move towards on-chain voting as well as helping implement liquid delegation for Uniswap's ecosystem. Agora is focused on improving the governance and ecosystem experience for a few DAOs and Optimism and Uniswap have been a huge part of their future roadmap. The team is uniquely positioned as DAO governance and tooling builders with deep team expertise in both design and engineering. Charlie, as well as the entire Agora team, has an open commitment towards building governance tooling as a neutral party.
Brian Park (Gamma Strategies) Brian is a co-founder of Gamma Strategies, which is an active liquidity manager and market maker on Uniswap v3 with a focus on business development and operations. Specifically, he reaches out to different DeFi projects and DAOs about the benefits of managing liquidity on Uniswap v3 through governance forums and proposals. Recently, Gamma wrote a joint proposal with xToken to manage OP-WETH liqudity on Optimism. Gamma is also currently assisting the Uniswap Foundation in carrying out its liquidity mining program on Optimism. Both Optimism and Uniswap are a huge part of Gamma’s protocol, and for that Gamma would love to dedicate resources to being an active delegate. The team’s unique perspective as a liquidity manager would bring diversity of thought.
If you wish to nominate yourself, please answer the following prompts as a forum post reply and verify yourself through Tally or Twitter.
Instructions from Optimism: ”To avoid impersonation, we ask that delegates complete a profile using Tally. This can be done by logging into Tally with Twitter and associating an Ethereum address with your profile that matches the address you submitted on this form (example 105). If you’d prefer not to use Tally, you may post a tweet that links to your delegate submission, then edit your submission to link to the tweet.”
Name:
Discord username:
Telegram:
Verification (Tally profile or tweet, example):
I have read and understood the Optimism Delegate Commitment Process:
I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment:
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
My view on the Optimistic Vision 151:
My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution:
Skills and areas of expertise:
Past contributions to the Uniswap and/or Optimism ecosystems:
Conflicts of interest:
The forum post will be up for 1 week (until February 8th), and we will set up a 3 day snapshot voting poll (until February 11th) shortly thereafter to have the committee finalized as soon as possible. Once the votes are finalized, we will be reaching out to the top two members with the most votes.
Thank you, and we are excited to represent the Uniswap community in Optimism’s governance!
Hi @OPuser, @kohei, @devenmatthews,
Hope you are well. We finished off the season at OP, and communicated the positioning here:
Let us know if you have any questions & thank you for being so active on this topic :blush:
hey @devenmatthews and @OPuser,
To my understanding, this topic serves as an update regarding Uniswap's optimism protocol delegation program. https://gov.uniswap.org/t/uniswap-optimism-protocol-delegation-committee-update/20812?u=kohei
Hi Folks,
Gonna echo @devenmatthews comment, what was the outcome of this proposal ?
cc @kenneth
Hi @OPuser, @kohei, @devenmatthews,
Hope you are well. We finished off the season at OP, and communicated the positioning here:
Let us know if you have any questions & thank you for being so active on this topic :blush:
hey @devenmatthews and @OPuser,
To my understanding, this topic serves as an update regarding Uniswap's optimism protocol delegation program. https://gov.uniswap.org/t/uniswap-optimism-protocol-delegation-committee-update/20812?u=kohei
Hi Folks,
Gonna echo @devenmatthews comment, what was the outcome of this proposal ?
cc @kenneth
Hey thanks, but Gamma already has a voice in this. Would love to see some other people though.
not sure if i can recommend someone but @StrategicReserve u up for this ??
OP Foundation is delegating those token to Uniswap only for season 3 and post that we will brainstorm and decide on next steps which might include contributing protocol delegation into season 4 and beyond.
Hey thanks, but Gamma already has a voice in this. Would love to see some other people though.
not sure if i can recommend someone but @StrategicReserve u up for this ??
OP Foundation is delegating those token to Uniswap only for season 3 and post that we will brainstorm and decide on next steps which might include contributing protocol delegation into season 4 and beyond.
Is there a continuation of this conversation elsewhere? Would be great to get clarity on the outcome of this program in this forum thread.
Thanks @kenneth and the UF team for spinning this up!
Allow this post to act as my submission/application for the Delegation program. Below I have filled out the aforementioned nomination criteria.
Name: Jeremy Guzmán
Discord username: Guzman_MassAdoption#0820
Telegram: @Guzman_MassAdoption
Verification (Tally profile or tweet:
Thanks @kenneth and the UF team for spinning this up!
Allow this post to act as my submission/application for the Delegation program. Below I have filled out the aforementioned nomination criteria.
Name: Jeremy Guzmán
Discord username: Guzman_MassAdoption#0820
Telegram: @Guzman_MassAdoption
Verification (Tally profile or tweet:
I have read and understood the Optimism Delegate Commitment Process:
I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
Aside from just being passionate about DeFi Governance holistically, the Optimism Collective embarked on delivering an innovative and refreshing approach to governance with the prioritization being agile, impactful decisions first that consequently results in protocol profit. This framework piqued my interest and seeing a public good primitive such as Uniswap and the UF exploring collaborative community efforts just makes it all worthwhile.
My view on the Optimistic Vision 151 1:
As mentioned in the section above, the Optimism Collective's vision is one that emphasizes community collaboration and long-tailed protocol scalability ideals. In effect, this creates a perpetual flywheel of creativity, growth, and (of course) governance optimization - further driving the fundamental pillar of acting as a public good.
My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution 3:
Exciting. The fact that we're already half way through the WC (Working Constitution) transitory period without an issue is impressive and speaks volume of the quality of community Optimism has. Curious to see any drafts related to the permanent Bedrock Constitution!
Skills and areas of expertise:
Past contributions to the Uniswap and/or Optimism ecosystems:
Published a research piece detailing a possible renovation of Uniswap governance through the use of DAOlitical parties and the implementation of veUNI: https://twitter.com/Guz_MassAdopt/status/1503452225934397445?s=20&t=15icOyFb5ViD67F29f0T1A
Currently working on a research piece that expands on the benefits of Uniswap implementing a veUNI token & governance model.
Conflicts of interest: n/a
Really cool to see Uniswap begin to voice an opinion on other protocol's governance, Optimism is a clear first partner in this. The concept of DAOs participating in other DAOs is tricky, we should consider Uniswap governance's ability to 'override' use of these tokens by the committee.
There could be more fancy veto or override mechanisms written natively into a smart contract wallet, though I think having the $OP tokens owned by Uniswap DAO and voting power delegated to this committee multisig is a strong and simple solution for this use case.
Really cool to see Uniswap begin to voice an opinion on other protocol's governance, Optimism is a clear first partner in this. The concept of DAOs participating in other DAOs is tricky, we should consider Uniswap governance's ability to 'override' use of these tokens by the committee.
There could be more fancy veto or override mechanisms written natively into a smart contract wallet, though I think having the $OP tokens owned by Uniswap DAO and voting power delegated to this committee multisig is a strong and simple solution for this use case.
Would Uniswap DAO retain full custody of the $OP tokens? I only hope Uniswap can trustlessly remove delegation to this committee if necessary.
Thanks for the comment and glad to see you are excited about this program!
The concept of DAOs participating in other DAOs is tricky, we should consider Uniswap governance’s ability to ‘override’ use of these tokens by the committee.
Thanks for the comment and glad to see you are excited about this program!
The concept of DAOs participating in other DAOs is tricky, we should consider Uniswap governance’s ability to ‘override’ use of these tokens by the committee.
This is definitely something we considered when creating the committee as well. For this 10 week trial run, we plan to account for this risk in two ways.
However, in the future, we would love to empower more community members to play a bigger role within the Uniswap community and allow them to implement the necessary executive action system to appropriately account for any risks. For instance, we might introduce a new method where the community is able to remove certain delegates from the committee in future trials.
Is there a continuation of this conversation elsewhere? Would be great to get clarity on the outcome of this program in this forum thread.
Thanks @kenneth and the UF team for spinning this up!
Allow this post to act as my submission/application for the Delegation program. Below I have filled out the aforementioned nomination criteria.
Name: Jeremy Guzmán
Discord username: Guzman_MassAdoption#0820
Telegram: @Guzman_MassAdoption
Verification (Tally profile or tweet:
Thanks @kenneth and the UF team for spinning this up!
Allow this post to act as my submission/application for the Delegation program. Below I have filled out the aforementioned nomination criteria.
Name: Jeremy Guzmán
Discord username: Guzman_MassAdoption#0820
Telegram: @Guzman_MassAdoption
Verification (Tally profile or tweet:
I have read and understood the Optimism Delegate Commitment Process:
I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
Aside from just being passionate about DeFi Governance holistically, the Optimism Collective embarked on delivering an innovative and refreshing approach to governance with the prioritization being agile, impactful decisions first that consequently results in protocol profit. This framework piqued my interest and seeing a public good primitive such as Uniswap and the UF exploring collaborative community efforts just makes it all worthwhile.
My view on the Optimistic Vision 151 1:
As mentioned in the section above, the Optimism Collective's vision is one that emphasizes community collaboration and long-tailed protocol scalability ideals. In effect, this creates a perpetual flywheel of creativity, growth, and (of course) governance optimization - further driving the fundamental pillar of acting as a public good.
My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution 3:
Exciting. The fact that we're already half way through the WC (Working Constitution) transitory period without an issue is impressive and speaks volume of the quality of community Optimism has. Curious to see any drafts related to the permanent Bedrock Constitution!
Skills and areas of expertise:
Past contributions to the Uniswap and/or Optimism ecosystems:
Published a research piece detailing a possible renovation of Uniswap governance through the use of DAOlitical parties and the implementation of veUNI: https://twitter.com/Guz_MassAdopt/status/1503452225934397445?s=20&t=15icOyFb5ViD67F29f0T1A
Currently working on a research piece that expands on the benefits of Uniswap implementing a veUNI token & governance model.
Conflicts of interest: n/a
Really cool to see Uniswap begin to voice an opinion on other protocol's governance, Optimism is a clear first partner in this. The concept of DAOs participating in other DAOs is tricky, we should consider Uniswap governance's ability to 'override' use of these tokens by the committee.
There could be more fancy veto or override mechanisms written natively into a smart contract wallet, though I think having the $OP tokens owned by Uniswap DAO and voting power delegated to this committee multisig is a strong and simple solution for this use case.
Really cool to see Uniswap begin to voice an opinion on other protocol's governance, Optimism is a clear first partner in this. The concept of DAOs participating in other DAOs is tricky, we should consider Uniswap governance's ability to 'override' use of these tokens by the committee.
There could be more fancy veto or override mechanisms written natively into a smart contract wallet, though I think having the $OP tokens owned by Uniswap DAO and voting power delegated to this committee multisig is a strong and simple solution for this use case.
Would Uniswap DAO retain full custody of the $OP tokens? I only hope Uniswap can trustlessly remove delegation to this committee if necessary.
Thanks for the comment and glad to see you are excited about this program!
The concept of DAOs participating in other DAOs is tricky, we should consider Uniswap governance’s ability to ‘override’ use of these tokens by the committee.
Thanks for the comment and glad to see you are excited about this program!
The concept of DAOs participating in other DAOs is tricky, we should consider Uniswap governance’s ability to ‘override’ use of these tokens by the committee.
This is definitely something we considered when creating the committee as well. For this 10 week trial run, we plan to account for this risk in two ways.
However, in the future, we would love to empower more community members to play a bigger role within the Uniswap community and allow them to implement the necessary executive action system to appropriately account for any risks. For instance, we might introduce a new method where the community is able to remove certain delegates from the committee in future trials.
