Gitcoin Username : trent_vanepps

ETH Address : 0x4C0a466DF0628FE8699051b3Ac6506653191cc21 trent.eth

Statement of Intention / Your Values & Reasons for Joining

We’re witnessing the opening moments of a multi-decade shift from legacy hierarchies and institutions to grassroots value networks. Ethereum has been and will likely remain the epicenter for this shift - however, our network will need its own mechanisms to maintain Public Goods. Over the past few years, Gitcoin has demonstrated its uncompromising commitment towards this vision. I’ve been happy to contribute DAI each round, as well as offering consistent feedback to the team. Joining as a Steward means I get to directly participate in the evolution of Gitcoin - an incredible opportunity to build the machine that builds the machine. There are few things more exciting than framing our collective future in Ethereum, working side by side with the rest of you

I’m most interested in Meta-Governance, Public Goods Funding, Progressive Decentralization, and Special Projects.

Your Web3 Qualifications / Skills

• Ethereum community membership since 2015
• Participated in the original DAO, the EIP 999 and ProgPoW debates, and helped shepherd EIP-1559 to mainnet
• mod of r/ethereum
• regularly engage with the broader Twitter community: @trent_vanepps
• ran several Ethereum Dev onboarding sessions in 2020
• helped run 4 ETHGlobal hackathons and many summits (2019 - 2021)
• projects like the Eth2 Open Grant, as well as the soon to launch Beacon Book
• I’m engaged with a broad range of ecosystem stakeholders, including: POAP, r/ETHFinance, ETHStaker, ETHGlobal, ETHR&D Discord, MolochDAO, Flashbots, Eth2 Researchers and Implementing teams, Eth1 client teams, Eth1 & Eth2 infra, the All Core Dev Call, Ethereum Cat Herders, Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians, the ethereum.org team, a number of DeFi (eg. Maker, Uniswap) and web3 teams (eg. Mirror, Zora)
• Past positions include Fission, Whiteblock, ETHGlobal - currently at the EF as Ecosystem Person