Name: DAOplomats
Delegate Address: 5H6RE92F9oxLYSWdgKdiCtXw2rnfugh1gwGVoBkSJ3xHqKn2
Onchain IDs/ Username: @Baer_DAOplomats
Website: DAOplomats.com
Twitter: @DAOplomats
Introduction
DAOplomats, a seasoned Web3-native organisation, has been specialising in professional DAO governance and coordination through industry-leading research and tooling since 2022. We suggest and build efficient governance structures, act as professional delegates, and spearhead community-building initiatives.
As a trusted partner, we have been working with 1inch, Gitcoin, Everclear, and BanklessDAO on governance, tokenomics, grants, and community building. We are also professional delegates of DeFi platforms like Uniswap, Aave and Lido DAO, including Layer 2 ecosystems like Arbitrium, Optimism and ZKsync.
We are currently part of DV-like initiatives of
Political Philosophy
DAOplomats operates based on values and principles that reflect how we vote and collaborate with the broader community.
Accelerating Human Coordination
We value open and public collaboration between all stakeholders, ensuring everyone’s voice is heard and considered.
Support the Public Good
We prioritise initiatives that deliver positive social, environmental, and economic outcomes and contribute to society’s greater good.
Facilitating Applications of Distributed Technology
We help organisations implement decentralised technologies to enhance transparency, efficiency, and equity.
Voting Objectives
- Seamless Governance
Our approach to governance, which we call 'Seamless Governance ', focuses on creating smooth, uninterrupted workflows that facilitate effective management and oversight. We achieve this by leveraging our expertise, industry-leading research, and tooling to ensure that all governance processes are efficient and transparent.
- Empowering Core Teams/Empowering Strategic Vision
Under the ‘Empowering Core Teams/Empowering Strategic Vision’ objective, we actively aid in the strategic development of protocols by providing expert guidance and collaborative support to core teams. Through our facilitation of key initiatives, we ensure that their vision is refined and executed in alignment with community goals, ultimately enhancing the overall effectiveness of the project.
- Positive Sum Collaboration
We harness game theory to guide our collaboration with other delegates. We focus on initiatives that yield positive-sum results, ensuring that all parties benefit from our cooperative efforts.
Communication with Community
We participate in active discussions of Opergov Proposals and provide regular updates on how we vote.
- Voting record with rationale on our Notion.
- Telegram Channel for community outreach
Experience
DAO Vision & Goals for Polkadot DAO.
The Polkadot is undergoing implementation of its computation-centric vision and shared interoperability roadmap. DAOplomats aim to support the DAO in the following manner.
- Adoption of the tech
DAOplomats aims to leverage its social capital and governance reach to help Polkadot collaborate with the broader Web3 ecosystem by enabling cross-chain interoperability.
- Adoption PolkaVM
DAOplomats will focus on onboarding industry leaders from the EVM ecosystem to the newly launched PolkaVM, setting the stage for the new users to test and use the chains.
- Protocol Integrity
Integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to upholding the integrity of the Polkadot Layer Zero network through transparent and accountable governance processes. We aim to simplify Opengov’s governance overhead and help the community improve and iterate.
Our contributions per the Goals
Team
Medical-PHD candidate; University Regensburg, Governance consultant by trade. Currently Governance analyst at DAOplomats. Active professional delegate of multiple DAOs.
Jengajojo - Cofounder DAOplomats- Prev: Grants and Asset allocation BanklessDAO. Worked as governance steward for Gitcoin, current governance working group at Rari Chain. Delegate since 2021 of Ethereum DAOs (1inch, Uniswap, ENS).
Winverse: Governance Analyst: Political Science Grad: Governor and Delegate for Arbitrium, grants committee at Rari Chain and transition council member at Banklessdao.
NooberBoy: Tech lead: CS graduate, MAKAUT University. 4+ years experience as Full Stack Developer.
Eren Targ Marketing and Operations at DAOplomats: 5+ years experience as a social media manager
Disclosure:
DAOplomats are active governance participants in multiple DAOs and Ethereum Layer 2. We might leverage our network to bring up proposals that benefit all stakeholders.
We maintain high transparency and will always disclose potential conflicts of interest before voting on proposals, ensuring our operations are always above board.