[Meta-Governance] Nominate by SpikeWatanabe.eth
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Preferred Name: SpikeWatanabe.eth
Forum username: SpikeWatanabe.eth
Twitter Profile: @spikewatanabe
Why do you want to be a Steward of this working group?
I’ve invested a lot of time and effort into building my reputation within ENS community as honest and hardworking person. Moreover I have necessary qualifications to excel as MetaGov steward. This is a very exciting opportunity and I’m taking it very seriously. To me this work has many angles - it is a very interesting challenge, opportunity to make an impact and do something meaningful, learn a lot in the process and build the cornerstone infrastructure project within universe of blockchain. Having worked at Avantgarde finance as DAO relations manager I had an opportunity to observe some of the best governance practices around. I will be looking to apply those lessons to ENS governance to build better more efficient DAO.
I intend to apply for MG Steward position during the upcoming annual elections, in the meantime I will be happy to support the team to ensure governance continuity.
Please consider my candidacy. I’m available to discuss any questions on twitter or forum and will be happy to talk you through any points.
Credentials
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Top tier Economics education - University College London
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Experienced investment banker - worked in a number roles in auditing, private equity and financial consulting companies (combined value of projects where I participated in execution exceeds 1bn USD)
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Completed year of study in coding School 42 to better understand development process
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Wrote regular column in major news agency, notable publications including interview with Gavin Wood and coverage of Devcon 4
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OG Blockchain markets - began my early mining experiments in 2016
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2018-2020 built investment fund focused on blockchain assets – conducted in depth research into protocols, nature of consensus and tokenomics // designed pitchbook and marketed fund to investors
ENS highlights
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ENS OG, first .eth name registered in 2018
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Volunteer support pre token issuance in discord chat for 6 months July 2021 – Dec 2021
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Delegate with 11K voting power 100% of which was acquired organically from small token holders appreciating my help as support volunteer. Initially during token issuance event my voting power stood at 60K, gradually decaying over time as people were selling their tokens. 11K is a very “dry” measure of support provided to me by over 1000 users (Tally profile)
What I’m looking to bring to the table
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Strong work ethics – as investment banker I was trained to be diligent, pay extreme attention to detail and be committed to the task no matter the hours and effort required
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Integrity – I hold myself to high ethical standards: during my previous line of work as someone who was regularly given access to sensitive information it is naturally a basic requirement to be a person of integrity. I demonstrated to ENS community that I’m an honest person during my six months tenure as support volunteer
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I’m “blockchain finance savvy” and will have no problem building working relationship with Karpatkey. I was interviewed by KK in the past, they grilled me intensively via interviews and case study
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Project management – running extremely complicated projects under a very tight constrains both time and human resources wise taught me how to execute workflow efficiently
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Intersection of expertise – I’m uniquely positioned to be a useful MetaGov steward as I’m situated at the intersection of “fiat” and “blockchain” worlds. Even though I’m not a lawyer by training, but bankers are also required to be able to align “economic” substance with legal documents. Proof reading share purchase agreements, making sure that contracts do not contradict broad legal framework are just some of the tasks I had to face. In that capacity I will able to assist in building DAO Bylaws
Global goal
Ideally what I would like to see is to transform ENS DAO into something similar to public company in terms of disclosure, efficiency and audit practices. I can clearly see that the intent to do this is present, because there is a lot of disclosure already available. The problem is that it’s scattered all over the place and it is relatively difficult for an “outsider” to put it all together. The goal here is build an annual report, which would be similar to what public companies do.
This document will not carry any legal repercussions with it, as blockchain space is largely unregulated, however there is nothing stopping ENS DAO from self imposing highest standards of accountability. This work will increase transparency and add credibility to ENS DAO in the long run as well as set precedent for other DAOs.
We are looking to onboard several billions of people, for that to happen they need to understand what ENS is. I’m ideally positioned to execute this vision as in my previous line of work I would usually be situated at the intersection of all aspects of project be it legal, financial or managerial.
Thank you!
Spike
