[TEMP CHECK] Incentivized Delegate Campaign (3-month)

Title: [TEMP CHECK] - Incentivized Delegate Campaign (3-month)

Authors: @noturhandle @lajarre (Butter)

Date: 2023-04-03

Summary

This Temperature Check has been created to enable the Aave community to select a delegate for the three-month incentivized Delegate Campaign organized by Butter.

The campaign will be funded by a $15k grant received in AAVE (~222 AAVE) from the Aave Grants DAO, which will be used to compensate the winning delegate for their efforts on behalf of tokenholders during the three-month term.

Thirteen candidates applied for the campaign—each will be presented as options in this proposal.

The 3-month Incentivized Delegate Campaign

During the three-month term of the Delegate Campaign, the winning delegate is expected to perform governance duties on behalf of tokenholders. To ensure maximum alignment between the elected delegate and the voters, each candidate has been asked to produce a Delegate Initiative, which can be found at this link.

The Butter team will monitor the elected delegate and report on goals and KPIs related to the Delegate Initiative to help voters evaluate the delegate’s performance.

For the first pilot version of Butter’s Delegate Campaign program, the compensation mechanism is not yet permissionless. However, Butter will provide compensation on at least a monthly basis (or more frequently). More updates on this will be available soon.

The Candidates

The candidates for the vote are listed below, in reverse alphabetical order. At ACI’s suggestion, we’ve decided to use the Weighted Voting voting type for this election to allow tokenholders to support multiple candidates:

• Wallfacer Labs: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• TokenLogic: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• StableLab: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• Saludiego201.eth: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• Oxytocin: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• OnChainCoop: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• FranklinDAO: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• Flipside Crypto: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• Fire Eyes: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• DAOStewards: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• Curia: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative
• ConsenSys: 90-day Delegate Initiative (Delegate Platform will be posted if elected)
• Blockworks Research: Delegate Platform & 90-day Delegate Initiative