September was a busy month for the StakeWise DAO, with the SWAT Bureau member candidates answering community’s questions, StakeWise going through the Merge, and the announcement of V3 upgrade. Now it’s the beginning of October and hopefully everyone had time to read through the candidates’ responses. With no further ado, let’s finally kick off the election process for the SWAT Bureau Members!
We have 6 candidates running for the 4 available positions in the StakeWise Bureau:
Now it’s time for the DAO to choose who will be the stewards of the SWAT program!
To help you choose, please examine the original applications and responses to the various community questions made by the candidates (if you haven’t already). These are linked below along with their applications (in the order of making their SWAT bids):
- Discord Handle/ID: Red.Beard (brianchilders) / brianchilders#9850 / 708868956592537612
- Motivation: StakeWise fan - want to roll up sleeves and help the protocol.
- Number of hours (per week) you could dedicate towards SWAT: 4-6 hours average - can surge up to 10-12 hours during busy times
- Main areas of expertise: Community / Infrastructure / Crypto Practitioner (not a Solidity dev, but general understanding of how crypto works)
- Most relevant example of experience: launchpad.eatsteakbewise.com / running of community Oracle
Response to kiriyha & Sid questions
- Your Discord handle: cryptochrome
- Motivation to join the Bureau: I love the idea, I want to see it succeed, just like I would like to see StakeWise succeed. The SWAT is such a unique feature that I am eager to help shape it.
- Number of hours (per week) you could dedicate towards SWAT: A few. Hard to say.
- Main areas of expertise (e.g. Storytelling / Analysis / Front-end / Community / etc): Management, organization and coordination, tooling/apps, Discord
- The most relevant example of experience from the chosen field of expertise: I have been involved in managing the StakeWise Discord since forever. I ran large-scale Discords before, and I know bots and I eat Discord configs for breakfast. I am an entrepreneur, started two companies and know what it takes to build.
- Anything else? LFG!
- Your Discord handle: remche (remche#2194)
- Motivation to join the Bureau: Early StakeWise user, web3/decentralization fan, I would be happy to help the project with a great long-term vision.
- Number of hours (per week) you could dedicate towards SWAT: Few hours a week.
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Main areas of expertise (e.g. Storytelling / Analysis / Front-end / Community / etc): Infrastructure (cloud/devops and other F* words
). Developer on spare time. General knowledge of blockchain/contract. A bit of Solidity. -
The most relevant example of experience from the chosen field of expertise: On my github :
remche · GitHub 1
- Your Discord handle: shoque88#9704
- Motivation to join the Bureau: Fan of the project, crypto, web3.
- Number of hours (per week) you could dedicate towards SWAT: 2-4 hours
- Main areas of expertise (e.g. Storytelling / Analysis / Front-end / Community / etc): Storytelling, analysis, community.
- The most relevant example of experience from the chosen field of expertise: I come from a completely different background - wine business, which actually requires a lot of quality storytelling! I’ve created a wine tasting group using social media, wrote many articles on this topic, some of which were really well received. Done a bit of vlogging, a lot of public presentantions, managed a 4 person sales team and won a sommelier contest (I’m pretty competitive and eager to learn). I’ve been lurking the crypto topic for quite a while and ran a small ETH mining farm.
- Your Discord handle: dreth#1988
- Motivation to join the Bureau: Wanting to contribute beyond moderation. I think this initiative is important and I want to directly be part of it.
- Number of hours (per week) you could dedicate towards SWAT: 2-4 Hours, maybe more depending on the week, ideally with key/niche tasks that I could be especially good at helping with.
- Main areas of expertise: Data, DeFi-related analysis, some (still limited) solidity code auditing knowledge, some basic web development, general coordination/writing.
- The most relevant example of experience from the chosen field of expertise: I love programming, algorithmic problem solving and general data understanding, have a few years of data science experience in very distinct industries and been playing with DeFi since mid 2019 (a few months after the deployment of Uni V1) and I’d consider myself an avid user, I’m almost always up to date on anything related to this market.
Response to bZ - missing 
Response to Georg - missing
- Your Discord handle: Woody0x
- Motivation to join the Bureau: Strong believer of the protocol and have an in depth understanding of StakeWise and the greater liquid staking ecosystem. Currently in my free time I am interacting with the community on discord / telegram to help better educate new users and maintain a presence of the community being actively engaged.
- Number of hours (per week) you could dedicate towards SWAT: 5-10 ish hours
- Main areas of expertise: Community building, narrative pushing, tokenomics, defi analysis, mediation of unruly forum / discord users.
- The most relevant example of experience from the chosen field of expertise: Part of a team that recently published a report on StakeWise along with our social media outreach and campaign to educate the greater crypto ecosystem about liquid staking and even more so StakeWise itself. Have also published a few forum ideas from revised tokenomics to revenue distribution and vote locking ideas.
Note that we have omitted the salary information from the applications cited here as all of the candidates have expressed willingness to be flexible with the compensation.
Voting process
Once you have familiarized yourself with responses, make sure to proceed to the DAO vote. Because every DAO member can make a choice out of 6, this time we will be going with a voting method called Quadratic Voting. It allows every voter to split the amount of votes between the candidates in the proportion they think is best. The number of votes each candidate receives will then be squared to make the differences between their share of the vote more pronounced. Note that reaching a quorum of 3M SWISE is also required for the voting results to be considered valid.
One final rule is that the candidates themselves should abstain from voting. All the votes submitted in this Snapshot will be analyzed for foul play before the results are considered final in order to rule out any foul play.
Vote
The link to the Snapshot is here: Snapshot