[2025 Council Nomination] Simon Hudson

Preferred name: Simon Hudson

Ethereum address / ENS name: 0x2Fb523a295a3b194Ee24Dc358BA98865E61Af6DE / hudsonsims.eth Country of residence: Canada

Relevant social links & NFT marketplace profiles: @hudsonsims

Which best describes your role in the crypto art ecosystem?

• Select: Artist Builder
• Provide more details: I am co-lead of the Botto project

Please share any relevant experience that would support your work on the Council.

• I served on the council during the latest 2024 term.
• Working on Botto has me developing and thinking about decentralized governance in the context of art every day. Botto’s own set up of having a DAO vote on and guide the direction of an autonomous artist’s development has many parallels with the Rare protocol. We deal with the challenges of balancing plutocratic conviction with long-tail democratic consensus as it applies to finding culturally-impactful works.
• We are in a long-term process of progressive decentralization, where some parts of the BottoDAO that governs Botto is fully decentralized while many other parts are still heavily centralized. Aside from Botto I have over 17 years of experience in community-governed organizations, and I have become very comfortable with the idea that full decentralization of social and cultural organizations takes a long time. However, it starts by having the initial (centralized) leadership leading by example and consensus to discover and lay the foundation of the guiding principles for the organization. Much of my work is developing and writing proposals in conjunction with the community and ensuring what we put forward has strong popular consensus.
• My professional background prior to Botto is in science/tech communications and branding, helping organizations to refine and communicate their core purpose in a simple way. My goal on the council would be to help navigate that discovery of the core purpose and values of the protocol through supporting key projects that manifest and test those ideas.
• Conflicts: I want to also state that I retain my core responsibility to the Botto project and BottoDAO, so I will be proactive in pointing out anywhere that may be a conflict for my role on the council and abstain on relevant issues.

What commitments can you make regarding availability and reliability for transaction signing, async communication, and participation in meetings? I can continue to be available to participate in the regular meetings and sign as needed.