Name: Avantgarde (organization) gov.avantgardefi.eth

Delegate representative in Arbitrum: SpikeWatanabe.eth

Telegram: @spikewatanabe

Website: https://avantgarde.finance

Link to forum: https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/delegate-statement-template/31/1197

Avantgarde is a crypto native asset management, DAO advisory & research firm.

We have conducted work for leading protocols including Uniswap, The Graph, Nexus Mutual, Paraswap, Enzyme and others. Arbitrum DAO can leverage Avantgarde’s combined expertise in protocol development and onchain asset management for developing strategies to improve treasury sustainability. We’ve been long term contributors to Arbitrum, in particular we produced a research report for Arbitrum on DAO treasury risk reduction, which led to creation of the STEP program.

Areas of Interest

• Improving governance participation
• Working towards developing a holistic vision for financial sustainability within the DAO

Please share your stance on overall goals of the DAO

• We believe in implementation of a holistic approach towards the DAO’s long term sustainability, where all DAO activities are considered for strategic decisions on long term capital allocation. As a delegate we can offer unique perspectives on integrated financial planning and strategic treasury management to improve long term sustainability of the DAO through institutional grade processes and research.
• In our opinion the finance function should be at the center of decision making within the DAO, given the long term ambitions of the Arbitrum community and the multi-period nature of strategic financial planning. This needs to be balanced with the impressive levels of decentralization the Arbitrum DAO has managed to achieve to date. Our longer term vision is to structure the finance function to mitigate the well known inefficiencies that come with DAO governance whilst maintaining the values of decentralization.
• Our vision has always been to advocate transparency, diversification, and decentralization. We apply these crypto native values with best practice from traditional finance and asset management. We believe that evidence based decision making, driven by data and rigorous research, produces the outcomes over the longer term. Our team is uniquely positioned at the intersection of traditional finance and DeFi to promote these values within the DAO community as the two worlds converge.

Language we as a team speak and write

English

Disclosure of Conflict(s) of Interest:

We are not currently aware of any conflicts of interest and we are happy to disclose any, should they arise in the future.