TIP-17: Equilibria

Authors

@kbrizzle (co-founder of Equilibria), with the help of @lewi.

Summary

This proposal aims to onboard and align Equilibria as the primary ecosystem protocol development team going forward.

Activities

Equilibria is a new collective focused broadly on building out DeFi holistically, by co-building and cross-integrating a stack of DeFi protocols.

Protocol Development - Equilibria will assist with core protocol development work, specifically owning and/or coordinating the smart contract code development of any cleanups, optimizations, new features, and/or future upgrades, as well as generally contributing to strategy and vision for future protocol improvements.

Governance - Additionally, Equilibria will aid in the governance process for both Empty Set protocol proposals as well as external protocols’ proposals related to Empty Set as needed.

Team

The Equilibria team is a group of DeFi natives that have a long history of building in the Ethereum ecosystem. They offer a strong mix of experience and development expertise to help the protocol grow.

Members

Kevin Britz - Kevin is an Engineering Manager at Coinbase focusing on DeFi, and an advisor to Opyn. Previously he co-founded Astro which was acquired by Coinbase.

Arjun Rao - Arjun is a Tech Lead at Coinbase focusing on DeFi. Previously he co-founded Astro alongside Kevin.

Niraj Pant - Niraj is a General Partner at Polychain and formerly a researcher in the decentralized systems lab at UIUC.

Funding

As the ecosystem core protocol team, Equilibria will be granted 99 000 000 ESS, vesting linearly for 2 years, in an unvested-revocable contract.

Equilibria Multisig: 0x589CDCf60aea6B961720214e80b713eB66B89A4d