Introduction

I’m an active contributor across several DAOs, including Balancer, Aura Finance, Velora and SuperFluid. My work has focused on strengthening governance systems through structured processes, contributor coordination, and clear communication. I bring a pragmatic and principled approach to DAO participation, shaped by hands-on experience in proposal review, working group formation, and operational design.

Within Arbitrum, I’m committed to driving clarity, transparency, and long-term alignment between the community and its stakeholders. In governance, I aim to represent the interests of protocols, users, and builders — those who actively create and rely on the network. Governance should empower these actors to shape the ecosystem they help sustain.

Driver and Values

I believe the DAO thrives when supported by engaged delegates who understand both the technical and social dynamics of decentralized networks. My goal is to represent the community's interests while also helping Arbitrum achieve broader adoption. I value transparency, accountability, and thoughtful experimentation — all essential to building a strong and adaptable governance foundation.

Arbitrum’s strength lies in the builders that choose to develop on top of its technology. I will advocate for their voices to be heard and for their interests to be meaningfully considered in governance decisions. Protocol developers are critical to Arbitrum’s continued growth, and governance should reflect and support that reality.

Name: jameskbh.eth

Wallet Address: 0x714D8b5874b3a6a69f289f4e857F4C9670074296

What area are you most interested in contributing to? choose up to two tags:

• DeFi development on Arbitrum
• Improving Governance Participation

Please share your stance on overall goals for the DAO:

• Uphold Arbitrum’s ethos as an open-source, decentralized and censorship-resistant platform to scale Ethereum and foster borderless dApps for the next billion users

Sample Voting Issue 1 - UniSwap/Flipside Bounty

1. Against
2. The committees should be elected, and one entity should hold only 1 seat. Additionally, Flipside should not have a seat on the oversight committee.
3. A good way to achieve this is to have structures with specific mandates so:

• There is no need to have everything up to vote
• Select subject matter experts to run the workforce within the limitations set by the DAO, including budget and individual allocation size.
• Leaving only the big decisions to the DAO itself.

Sample Voting Issue 2 - FEI RARI Hack Reimbursement

1. Split Reimbursement

Governance decisions are a social agreement that need to be final, unless new facts arise about the same topic, or if there is a prevision to do so.

The reimbursement can happen over a longer period of time to not compromise protocol's operation, if this is the path forward. In that specific case, FEI RARI’s had a nice product-market fit, and it would made sense to keep the project running and split part of the reimbursement to a later date, using a specific token for that, or governance tokens with a vesting schedule.