Stader DAO Delegate Program - Cohort 1

Proposal to vote whether the following eight candidates should receive delegations from Stader DAO Fund to decentralize Governance power of the DAO.

Below can be read each candidate's details with an excerpt from their pitch.

1. Dovah

Proposal: Dovah to receive 200K SD delegation from Stader DAO Fund

200,000 SD tokens to be transferred from Stader DAO Fund to a new wallet. Wallet address: 0x19213f85107ba87f06ad10894163160bd8642955

The governance power of this wallet will be delegated to Dovah, on his wallet address: 0x19213f85107ba87f06ad10894163160bd8642955

Context: Dovah has pitched on the forum, and requested to become a delegate https://forum.staderlabs.com/t/delegate-voting-rights-to-dovah-to-enhance-community-governance/605

Excerpts from his pitch: “I have experience participating in other DAO governance programs via governance forums and Snapshot. I usually spend hours on governance forums because it provides a great pulse check of what is going on with a project.

All in all, I believe I could be a valuable member for the Delegation Program for the above and below reasons. I would be bringing a base user vision from someone that:

has already a deep DeFi background across different protocols and chains. has also been active in the protocol and knows pretty much all the minor details from it. enjoys sharing his point of view and opening debates and discussions with other members who are also excited about the project and its future..”

2. Geeno

Proposal: Geeno to receive 200K SD delegation from Stader DAO Fund

200,000 SD tokens to be transferred from Stader DAO Fund to a new wallet. Wallet address: 0xC3900FD27e5BA0E2a93e1Ef52c57927FC1e0a778

The governance power of this wallet will be delegated to Geeno, on his wallet address: 0xC3900FD27e5BA0E2a93e1Ef52c57927FC1e0a778

Context: Geeno has pitched on the forum, and requested to become a delegate https://forum.staderlabs.com/t/delegate-voting-rights-to-geeno-to-enhance-community-governance/610

Excerpts from his pitch: “ I participated in the first beta to get a feeling of what running a node is. As I’m a bit tech savvy, this gave me the opportunity to help others with their setup. During both tests, I found a nice community with people keen to help each other and now I feel at home. I like what we are building here and I’d love to be more involved.

With this delegation program, I see an opportunity to help more and contribute to the whole Stader ecosystem in an amplified manner. I’m a real team player and I’d love to represent everyone within the community. “

3. Franklin DAO

Proposal: UPennBlockchain (Franklin DAO) to receive 200K SD delegation from Stader DAO Fund

200,000 SD tokens to be transferred from Stader DAO Fund to a new wallet. Wallet address: 0xCc878369b26127BD4bC1B0B465bC8bE9b92a4c62

The governance power of this wallet will be delegated to UPennBlockchain, on their wallet address: FranklinDAO.eth

Context: UPennBlockchain has pitched on the forum, and requested to become a delegate https://forum.staderlabs.com/t/delegate-voting-rights-to-franklin-dao/648

Excerpts from his pitch:

“We have committees covering Governance, Research, Education, Investments, and Development/Web3. On the governance side of things, our team has different members leading governance initiatives for different protocols we have delegations for. Current Penn Blockchain delegations include Aave, Compound, Uniswap, DyDx, Optimism, Maker, etc. Each week, governance leads will share updates with the club about new proposals and we will all debate about what to do before voting with our wallet.

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We’d love to be your StaderDAO delegate as many of us have been closely following the project for a while now. Our weekly discussions combine graduates with years of expertise in many jurisdictions with many bright minded undergrads eager to leave their impact and names in Web3. We have upheld a 95%+ participation rate across all the other protocols we are delegates for and plan to spend a lot of time here as well to help build out the ecosystem!”

4. BoilerDAO

Proposal: BoilerDAO to receive 200K SD delegation from Stader DAO Fund

200,000 SD tokens to be transferred from Stader DAO Fund to a new wallet. Wallet address: 0x2345F4E0CdF00D427D773413Dd4617d0156c29A9

The governance power of this wallet will be delegated to BoilerDAO, on their wallet address: boilerblockchain.eth

Context: BoilerDAO has pitched on the forum, and requested to become a delegate https://forum.staderlabs.com/t/delegate-voting-rights-to-boiler-dao/652

Excerpts from his pitch: “ At BoilerDAO, our voting decisions are guided by five core values that uphold the integrity of our club and ensure the long-term success of the Stader community:

Transparency Feasibility and Sustainability Purpose and Goals Diversity Cost/Benefit

We would be more than happy for the opportunity to become your Stader DAO delegate. Many of our members have been closely following the project’s progress, particularly in anticipation of the upcoming ETHx launch.”

5. Cambridge Blockchain Society

Proposal: Cambridge Blockchain Society to receive 200K SD delegation from Stader DAO Fund

200,000 SD tokens to be transferred from Stader DAO Fund to a new wallet. Wallet address:0x150c1a37F58c976160E7933fc474DC8a5390FF1E

The governance power of this wallet will be delegated to Cambridge Blockchain Society, on their wallet address: camblockchain.eth

Context: Stader has launched a delegation program. https://forum.staderlabs.com/t/stader-labs-delegation-program/577

Cambridge Blockchain Society has pitched on the forum, and requested to become a delegate https://forum.staderlabs.com/t/delegate-voting-rights-to-cambridge-blockchain-society/656

Excerpts from his pitch: “ Our society currently consists of over 2000 students and alumni in our discord and signed up to our mailing list.

We’ve hosted multiple bootcamps here in Cambridge - with 50+ students participating in a 5-week solidity bootcamp in December 2021. In Summer 2021, we hosted 85 people in full residence at a Cambridge College for 5 weeks, for a Polkadot Academy bootcamp with Gavin Wood.

We’re incredibly proactive in our commitments to education and up-skilling talent; in the 2021/22 academic year, we brought home prizes for innovative projects while sending +60 students abroad to: ETH NYC, ETH Barcelona, ETH Lisbon, ETH Amsterdam hackathons Furthermore, we have hosted our Blockchain: Applied conference attracting over 500 attendees, mostly from universities all over the UK.“

6. Cosmos Hoss

Proposal: Cosmos Hoss to receive 100K SD delegation from Stader DAO Fund

100,000 SD tokens to be transferred from Stader DAO Fund to a new wallet. Wallet address: 0xF74A7c2C2e391021a18A082AcA4F48791A8DBcd7

The governance power of this wallet will be delegated to Cosmos Hoss, on his wallet address: 0xF74A7c2C2e391021a18A082AcA4F48791A8DBcd7

Context: Cosmos Hoss has pitched on the forum, and requested to become a delegate

His pitch here:

“Hi everyone Cosmos Hoss here. I have been a crypto soldier shortly after covid began. I have been on a mission to help others my entire life but more specifically in web 3. I truly believe crypto is the last chance for humanity to correct so many wrongs of the past. I would be honored to be a part of this and would love to help and represent the community and stader labs to its best of ability. I have always pride myself on my reputation, honor and dignity. I want to be in web3 the rest of my life. My twitter handle is @CosmosHOSS, some of my twitter spaces terraspaces.org/hoss → I mainly focus on Cosmos and IBC which is very communitarian but I love all crypto.

Anyhow, I met the Stader team several months (met in person at ETH Denver as well) and really respect their passion, grind, resiliency and determination which coincides with my mindset as well.”

7. Boston College Blockchain

Proposal: Boston College Blockchain to receive 100K SD delegation from Stader DAO Fund

100,000 SD tokens to be transferred from Stader DAO Fund to a new wallet. Wallet address: 0x31819D3Ab2bA8417331081A597DE1c3094A738c7

The governance power of this wallet will be delegated to Boston College Blockchain, on their wallet address: 0x31819D3Ab2bA8417331081A597DE1c3094A738c7

Context: Boston College Blockchain has pitched on the forum, and requested to become a delegate https://forum.staderlabs.com/t/delegate-voting-rights-of-250-000-sd-tokens-to-boston-college-blockchain-for-community-transparency-efforts/608/4

Excerpts from his pitch: “BC Blockchain has just started its Governance Team, which is led by the club’s President. For some background on BC Blockchain, the club has been around since 2017 with a mission to educate the Boston College community on all aspects of blockchain technology. The club runs an investment fund, writes research articles, and hosts guest speaker events monthly. For more information check out the club’s website (https://bcblockchain.org/) and our twitter (https://twitter.com/Blockchain_BC)

The BC Blockchain delegation team plans to vote as well as contribute to the Stader Labs governance forums with their own proposals when the time is right. We plan to base our decisions primarily on the principles of decentralization, security, and transparency.”

8. Antons Kurakins

Proposal: Antons Kurakins to receive 100K SD delegation from Stader DAO Fund

100,000 SD tokens to be transferred from Stader DAO Fund to a new wallet. Wallet address: 0xeA56B8a92906A16A0781A0cAE52B473c41b9903C

The governance power of this wallet will be delegated to Antons Kurakins, on his wallet address: 0xeA56B8a92906A16A0781A0cAE52B473c41b9903C

Context: Antons Kurakins has pitched on the forum, and requested to become a delegate

His pitch here: “ Hello my name is Antons and i Am CEO of Crouton Digital. We are running validator nodes on few cosmos ecosystem projects, We got delegation from Axelar team to our node, and same story with UMEE, and NYM. Also i am an admin of Coin Metrika community channel with 18k followers. As i am part of community i always try to make decisions based on project and community interests, to achieve there goals. My reputation is important for me, and i can guarantee you that i will participate in DAO voting in honest way, there is no conflict of interest in any case. Also i was participating in Stader from early stages (coinlist sale). “