Hop protocol is extremely central to Ethereumās rollup-centric future with users seamlessly moving funds between different chains all secured by Ethereum. As one of the co-founders of Arbitrum, I feel personally responsible for making sure that bridgeās which our ecosystem are heavily intertwined with are as successful as possible.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Iām co-founder and CTO of Offchain Labs (building Arbitrum). Iāve been in the space since 2014 as a researcher studying the mechanism design and incentive compatible of various blockchain systems. For the past 5 years Iāve been working on developing Arbitrum, starting out as the lead engineer through now where I lead the engineering team. Iāve been excited about scaling and bridging since I got started in the space looking at early HTLC designs and Iād be excited to contribute thoughts and insights from my experience.
What voters can expect of me:
I will thoughtfully consider all proposals and try to make decisions that benefit the long term success of Hop. My personal interests, and the interests I hope to represent are to make sure that Hop is successful in providing the powerful, seamless, reliable experience users need to safely navigate the cross-chain world. I will be transparent and communicate openly through my decision making process so that the community can stay as informed as possible.
My discussion on this forum above prompted me to apply as a delegate. I have explained in greater length in a blogpost On DAO governance the reasoning why I believe it is really important NOT to delegate to institutions and to have varied pool of delegates.
I want to see this governance experiment flourish and avoid the future where we end up govern by few big crypto corporations, prevent the future of plutocracy and help establish healthy norms of decentralized governance.
We have not seen many governance attacks on protocols but they are coming, since the incentives are there.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
I have a multidisciplinary background in finance & mechanism design, building businesses, designing products & mechanisms.
I have been involved with the Ethereum community since 2016, organizing meetups, volunteering at devcon, participating at hackathons, working on tokenomics / protocol mechanism and recently getting more into coding. Currently transitioning into crypto full time and looking for projects to contribute to.
I have always been fascinated by different complex systems. in free time studying evolutionary biology & psychology observing its elegance & robustness, and also delving into history fascinated to see different cultural systems with different incentives play out.
Observing a hard truth that the success of the system itself and the happiness of its parts(humans) are two separate things.
Lover of Ancient Rome & Greece and the Mediterranean world.
What voters can expect of me:
to vote in accordance with Ethereum values of openness and decentralization
articulate long term consequences of various governance decisions and the norms & precedents thus being established. An example of this can be read here.
not being naĆÆve about governance coopting and hijacking by the big players
bring my knowledge of natural biological systems & human incentives and system outlook to governance decisions
bring the knowledge of various governance experiments and their consequences from history to the table.
steer governance in the direction of symbiotic relationship with the wider Ethereum & crypto ecosystem even for a price of forgoing perceived short term benefit to the token holders
voting in accordance with long term health of the protocol and ecosystem.
Hi everybody! I am applying on behalf of Karpatkey DAO.
ENS name: mrsisyphos.eth
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I believe that the future of the Ethereum environment is cross-chain, and I would like to help Hop drive interoperability and composability in such an ecosystem.
My web3 qualifications / skills: Experienced in DeFi and Tokenomics, I have background in Product and now performing as independent consultant and contributing to the Karpatkey DAO. As such, Iām responsible for driving a healthy liquidity of Hop on the Gnosis Chain through GNO rewards.
What voters can expect of me: My intention is to use the voting power delegated to me to help elevate Hop as the main bridge in the Ethereum ecosystem. I will keep voters updated on relevant proposals and have fluent communication with them on their interests and proposal implications.
Our reasons for wanting to be a delegate: We at Blockchain at Berkeley believe Hop is core infrastructure for Ethereumās rollup-centric path to scaling. Hop governance is a method of handing over this key infrastructure to the community. If delegated to, our organization will take an active role in community discussions, and work closely on initiatives or proposals that further decentralize and activate community governance.
Our web3 qualifications / skills: We are a 100+ student organization involved in blockchain research, development, and governance. We have been around since ~2014, and have done projects for major Web3 protocols. We are active delegates for AAVE, Uniswap, Compound, dYdX, and Tribe; and have pushed through multiple proposals. Our hop delegation will be run by a specialized team with dedicated focus on Hop governance.
What voters can expect of us: The community can expect all of our voting decisions to be publicized via our Twitter account. Additionally we will take on projects we believe to benefit Hop overall: whether it be developer work to improve meta-governance, writing proposals for Hop, or proposals on external protocols that benefit Hop.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Iāve been a Hop user and LP since launch in 2021. I want to help others discover using Hop as a bridge and do my part to vote for the most sustainable path forward with Hop protocol.
My web3 qualifications / skills: DeFi power-user since 2019, in crypto since 2017, created hundreds of tutorials in video and written format across YouTube, Defiant, Bankless, newsletters, and formerly at Zapper. Iāve been intimately involved in about 25+ DAOs. I also invest and work with DeFi and Web3 builders full time now at 4RC (fourthrevolution.capital).
What voters can expect of me: I will vote in the best interest of the Hop protocol, even when the best decision is the least popular or even if the best decision goes against my own self-interest. I also can help to communicate more of these updates to the protocol to help us arrive at a greater consensus.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I want to represent the community to the best of my abilities when helping decide the future and direction of Hop. Personally, I would like to get involved in DAO Governance and I like the Hop community, thatās why I want to get involved with them.
My web3 qualifications / skills: Dedicated DeFi crypto user, with a very good understanding of all the industry and diverse protocols in existence. From bridges to NFTs to yield farming to L2s. I like educating people and distributing knowledge and information, and going hands-on trying new protocols.
What voters can expect of me: Keeping decentralization as a north. I am a firm believer in web3 and how it will shape the world in the years to come, not only from a financial/monetary point of view. I intend to help make this happen, and will always vote on this direction.
Hop Protocol is one of the most transparent and community-oriented bridge protocols. As a member of the Optimism team, this aligns very well with not only the ethos of our ecosystem but also myself. Iāve been a Hop user for quite some time now and after working with the team closely, Iād love to help push forward Hop and its values to a wider audience.
On top of that, Optimism is very focused on having effective governance in Web3. Iād love to help partner with Hop to pave the path to better governance paradigms in the space.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Iām the Head of DeFi BD/Strategy at Optimism. I started out as a lead frontend engineer and prior to Optimism, I helped Synapse(another bridge protocol) with some dev related activities regarding their frontend. Iāve been in the space since 2015 as an investor, builder, and advocate for the Ethereum space. Iāve spent many years on-chain and playing around with a ton of protocols ranging from derivatives all the way to NFT gaming. Because of this Iāve also bridged through Hop and other bridge protocols a considerable amount. Overall, I have a deep passion for the space and specifically molding the future of governance in this world!
What voters can expect of me:
I will do my best to ensure that I am always aligned with the community and ethos of what Hop embodies. When voting, I will do my due diligence in making sure that I source feedback from the community to remove personal bias and selfish voting practices. As a member of the Optimism community, our values are aligned to push forward Ethereum and create a stronger transparent partnership between us as well! The Optimism ecosystem has been a long-term supporter of Hop Protocol and will continue to do so.
**My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Seen a thing or two around the blockchain, but HOP team and community is unique in nature, culture caps everything. This token is for the long run guys, so lets make it fun, transparent and secure.
ENS name: boshshieh.eth My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: iām good at loosing money,just like normal person My web3 qualifications / skills: fomo/panic hold something never up What voters can expect of me: nothing,just like others
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I think hop is dope, I think L2s are the future, and I want to contribute in some small way to making sure weāre good stewards of the L2/Ethereum ecosystem.
My web3 qualifications / skills: Gearbox and LobsterDAO contributor, PotionDAO multisig, and one of the 10-ish people still hanging around in the Based chats. Also Iām a deep defi degen and video propagandist for various projects.
What voters can expect of me: My number one priority when voting is making sure we arenāt doing harm to the broader Ethereum ecosystem somehow, and my second priority will be to move Hop protocol forward.
Will often favor efficiency and granting people executive power versus decision making by committee, especially at this early stage of the protocol.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I think I have the required vision in proposing and analysis of governace ideas
Being a former physics scientist and economic analyst, I think I have standard visions in developing and investigating great governance ideas. I got familiar with the crypto economy from 2012 and, during the past two years I have been focusing on Blockchain research. We have developed several MVPs in this regard. As a result, I have adequate experience in this world! But the fact that brings me to be a delegate in this area, is my vision (and experiences) in analysing the outcomes of each decision.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Familiar with code level depth of Blockchain technology since 2012
Local Activist in social movement toward decentralized web
Working on UniqueID (an ongoing project for issuance of unique Identity for every human being as a world nation identity platform)
Working on an undercollateralized loan system based on proof of humanity mechanism, to distribute bankās seigniorage fairly among every human being.
Solidity expriences
I am not a front end developer professional but I work alongside two great front end developers who are specially experienced in web3 DApps developments. I had a little contribution in cryptoverse.cc web3 services and I have developed plenty of reports in analysing diverse web3 DApps (i.e.e oasis, axie, ā¦)I am not a front end developer professional but I work alongside two great front end developers who are specially experienced in web3 DApps developments. I had a little contribution in cryptoverse.cc web3 services and I have developed plenty of reports in analysing diverse web3 DApps (i.e.e oasis, axie, ā¦)
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
Hop Protocol is one of the most reliable chain bridges, i have been using hop since launch
i want to represent hop community in governance to vote for proposals that benefit the hop protocol community and hop protocol itself
Together we will continue to drive hop protocol towards a community first protocol, and place the community as a priority in any decision making to grow hop protocol
My web3 qualifications / skills:
professional experience in smart contracts (solidity, vyper)
full stack developer (front end and backend)
gitcoin dao fulltime contributor (i live for public good)
i also have development experience with unity (c#), python and a ton of other programming languages
i am a developer at moralis building future proof web3 tech to better the ecosystem and make things easier for builders. We also work with other protocols to organise hackathons and event to incentivise builders to build more
i am pretty deep in the rabbit hole of web3 and planing on going deeper
What voters can expect of me:
They can expect me to have their best interest and decision towards the growth and develop of Hop protocol
They can expect me to take part in discourse (hop protocol forum) and also voice out my opinions and listen to theirs
They can expect me to keep them up to date on governance activities and proposals (mainly my thoughts and opinions toward the proposal and how i feel they can betterment the hop protocol and it community
They can expect me to always support any community individual and give a lending hand and open ears to all
They can expect me to vote on their best interest and on the interest of hop protocol
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Coaction wants to be a HOP delegate as we support Hopās critical infrastructure which is expanding the scalability of ETH and helps to mesh the various layer-2 scaling solutions together, all while maintaining a clean and simple UI/UX for the end user which we believe to be critically important to grow adoption. HOP is a critical piece in this puzzle to ensure the long-term sustainability and global expansion of Web3, an end goal that Coaction is heavily aligned with and fighting for.
My Web3 qualifications / skills: Coaction is building another critical piece of infrastructure focused on the Web3 infrastructure subsector including protocols The Graph, Arweave, and Livepeer among others. These protocols are in many instances shifting to layer-2 solutions and we are well versed in the headaches that this transition can create but are far outweighed by the benefits post transition. Our goal is to strengthen the foundation of resource providers enabled by these projects into a bedrock which future applications can depend on to create and build the endless possibilities of Web3 while decreasing the industryās dependence on the centralized infrastructure providers of Web2.
What voters can expect of me: As a HOP Delegate, Coaction will be heavily involved with the protocols development through governance and firmly/vocally push for the long-term success of the HOP ecosystem for many years to come. Coaction is launching a protocol to support Web3 infrastructure and it is critical to our success that Hop succeeds for our vision to pan out. Expect heavy involvement from Coaction in governance through rational and well thought-out research focused on long term success.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
I am excited about the future of DAOs in a multichain future, and I believe in the omnichain thesis that requires bridge protocols such as Hop to be critical components to service, and want to be part of delivering this future into reality thru active participation and advocacy for ensuring the new and smaller scale believersā voices arenāt drowned out when the larger institutional-level players start mainstreaming their adoption of cryptoasset investments
My web3 qualifications / skills:
I have been developing enterprise software for about two decades now, and have been in Web3 development actively over a year now. I came into Web3 full time managing a globally distributed software development team in Web3 financial derivatives that was also a DAO, and am currently working with a non-EVM blockchain that is also focused on bridges so I understand the balance between retail and institutional users and their concerns when working not just within one blockchain but in moving their valued assets amongst blockchains as they seek the best utility and wealth generation opportunities for their assets. I believe I have unique front-line understanding and empathy for users that will be faced in evolving both a DAO and a bridging protocol.
What voters can expect of me:
As a Hop DAO delegate, I will be the advocate of the retail users who believe in the Omnichain thesis and Hopās essential role here providing the bridge among blockchains, not just L2s but other L1s, side-chains, application-specific chains and privacy-focused blockchains, to ensure safe and true value transfer of user assets among them, and ensure the voice is still heard as more institutional level players are welcomed into the cryptoindustry space and help carry it forward.
ENS name: awbvious.eth My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Only one reason. I want to get the necessary 1-million voting power, so I can create this proposal, and vote for it: Staking HOP for portion of fees - anti-whale . After creating and voting on it, I will post a reply to the forum post that it has been done and you should probably re-delegate. My web3 qualifications / skills: Been involved in DeFi projects for a number of years, active on many Discord forums, and as a constant early-adopter have liquidity on nearly all the EVM-compatible chains. I know the pain of finding a bridge/hop that can get your liquidity where you need it. What voters can expect of me: That I create that one proposal and vote on it. After that, no promises. Thus, you may want to watch / get notifications on the forum.hop.exchange post and re-delegate after it happens, if it happens.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Hop is a vital piece of infrastructure to increase the adoption of scaling solutions that do not compromise on decentralisation. Hop takes security seriously and aims to minimize any trust assumptions. Hence it is the bridging solution I want to see adopted. I wand to be be a delegate to influence decision making that will lead to greater adoption. My web3 qualifications / skills: I am a Software developer, currently building the Atlendis protocol offering unsecured lending to institutions. What voters can expect of me: Every decision I make will be focused long term, with the aim to see Hop become the number one bridge in every relevant metric while not compromising on security.
I understand Iām a bit late for āofficialā applications, but Iād like to put my information here anyway to advocate for future delegations to my address.
ENS name:.eth My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Hop Protocol has already become a staple in the quickly growing L2 and Ethereum multi-chain ecosystem. The team has prioritized security with a focus on long-term growth and value creation (at the expense of flashy marketing and smoke & mirrors short-termism). These themes highly align with my way of working and thinking. As an L2 early adopter, I quickly came to the realization that Hop had also built what I consider to be the best bridging product and I have gravitated towards using it and interacting with its community more than any other. I have been watching the DAO work and think I can add to the process and also contribute to the brainstorming process, while helping to make sure things do not get stale in the governance process. My web3 qualifications / skills: Despite my ENS and alt-persona, I am a Real Life Serious Person, with real qualifications and credentials. I have been involved in crypto/Ethereum since 2016 and have grown into somewhat of an Ethereum-minimalist. I have a strong knowledge of the L2/rollup and DeFi landscape. I have a deep understanding of various protocols and their token and governance designs. What voters can expect of me: While I have not been a delegate, I believe I have already been quite involved in Hop protocol governance and I have an active desire to see Hop succeed. I have been vocal in trying to push forward stale RFCs as well as creating new ones. I will continue to push the DAO forward, quickly opine on RFCs (after thoughtfully considering multiple options), create snapshots when they are ready, and brainstorm new scenarios and ideas as crypto continues to develop, making sure Hop can stay on the bleeding edge. I believe all decisions must focus on long-term growth and value creation, never short-term perceptions or token price.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
Iām a long time HOP user and early liquidity provider. After receiving the airdrop, I was drawn to the community and have been participating in governance ever since. I look forward to seeing the widespread adoption of L2 powered real-world utility, and believe that projects like HOP will be fundamental to enabling this success.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Iāve worked in tech all my life and more recently, the blockchain industry. Any spare time is spent between family and playing around with new crypto projects.
What voters can expect of me:
Iāll respond promptly to snapshot and on-chain votes, and Iāll vote with regard for the long term success of HOP. Similarly, as a liquidity provider for which the HOP token forms a percentage of the reward, it is in my interest to vote for actions that derive fair value to the HOP token.
I am deeply invested in the future of DeFi and the role Bridge Protocols will play in web3 where more and more blockchains are launching every year. My active participation in community calls has solidified my belief in HOP and its team. So Iām here to contribute to our shared success.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
I have deep roots in both DeFi and TradFi, with a focus on Treasury and Risk Management.
Led Investments and Quant Portfolio Management at Coinpanion (+$10m); spearheaded Treasury Management at GroDAO (+$10m), enhanced their Risk and Rebalancing Framework.
Contributed to key initiatives like the Uniswap-Arbitrum Grant Program and offered governance insights to leading DAOs (undisclosed) as part of my work at Areta (former Web3 Studios).
What voters can expect of me:
What I Offer:
Growth Mindset. Committed to enhancing HOPās long-term value and ecosystem expansion.
Engagement. Ready to actively participate and make informed, beneficial decisions.
Principled Approach. Advocating for transparency, diversification, simplicity, and risk awareness.
My core values are:
Transparency. Everyone should have access to know how funds are allocated and investments are made.
Diversification. Diversification keeps DAOs balanced and safeguards against unexpected exploits.
Simplicity. āSimplicity is the ultimate sophisticationā. I believe in simplicity over complexity.
Risk Management. By being cautious and mindful of risks, we ensure the long-term sustainability of our treasury.
