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Preferred Name and/or ENS name: SpikeWatanabe.eth
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Hey everyone. I’m stepping up to run for the Meta-Governance Steward position for Term 7.
I’ve ran for steward before and came very close. I’ve invested a ton of time building my reputation here as an honest, hard-working delegate, and I take this responsibility very seriously. The DAO is at a turning point right now, and we need to cut the politics and actually get to work.
I’ll skip the usual water and get straight to my agenda. If elected, here is exactly what I plan to execute:
1. Fix the fragmented reporting right now, our financial reporting is very difficult to make sense of. We are throwing numbers at people from Karpatkey, Steakhouse, ENS Ledger, SafeNotes, and various independent dashboards. Even with my professional finance background, it’s impossible to reconcile. I will make it my mission to consolidate all of this into a single, clean portal where any reasonably educated user can easily read and make sense of our financial and operation position.
2. Public company standards for the DAO. In the past, we’ve had too many instances of money being distributed without real accountability. There are no laws regulating DAOs, but there is absolutely nothing stopping us from operating like a transparent, audited public company. I want to implement strict self-regulating guidelines that will force accountability and set the operational standard for the rest of the industry.
3. Real onramps for newcomers. It is currently way too difficult for new talent to join our working streams. I am going to make the process of joining the DAO transparent and easy to understand, with clear and appropriate compensation attached. We need a massive inflow of new contributors, and we won’t get them with closed doors.
4. Unhide ENS and drive real revenue - ENS is widely adopted, but it’s often hidden under the hood of other protocols. These protocols aren’t paying revenue directly to the ENS treasury, and as a result, our .eth registrations and revenue are stagnating. I want to use my business consulting background to make .eth visible on the radar across the board, push mass adoption, and directly raise our revenue.
My Credentials (Why me?)
Corporate Finance: My core professional background is in traditional finance. I’ve originated and executed complex M&A deals with a combined value of over $1bn, meaning I know exactly how to handle proper budgeting, valuation, and financial auditing.
Cross-DAO Governance: I used to work as a DAO Governance Manager for Stablelab and previously Avantgarde Finance, where I managed voting power and designed constitutional proposals across major protocols like Arbitrum, Uniswap, and Compound. I know what works and what doesn’t.
ENS Veteran: I am one of the top delegates here with over 1,100 users trusting me with their voting power. I was the runner-up in previous steward elections.
Technical Roots: I’ve been hands-on in this space since 2016 with early Ethereum mining, and I completed the mandatory C coding curriculum at School 42, so I understand the technical reality behind the DAO’s development processes.
I believe that board of stewards would benefit immensely from my business oriented background.