Hello everyone!

Gitcoin Username: @rsthornton

ETH Address: 0x77b175d193a19378031F4a81393FC0CBD5cF4079

Statement of Intention / Your Values & Reasons for Joining:

I’m interested in being a Gitcoin steward because I want to help support the growth of digital public goods and gain more hands-on experience with DAO governance.

I’m a big believer in the concept of “open-source-everything,” that we should strive to make all of humanity’s critical hardware, software, and socio-technical infrastructure open-source.

For now I’m most interested in understanding and determining what kinds of public goods the community cares about. In the future I’d like to become more involved with conversations around meta-governance and progressive decentralization.

I’m also working to help spin up a DAO investment and support fund focused on long-term DAO infrastructure and am interested in understanding ways in which GTC (and other governance tokens) may accrue value.

I believe that DAOs hold enormous potential to help humanity coordinate in more efficient, transparent, and equitable ways. I’m eager to play an active role in shaping the future of Gitcoin while gaining practical experience working with DAOs!

Your Web3 Qualifications / Skills:

• Researching and investing in crypto since 2012. Early investor in ETH and participant in “The DAO” along with other early DAOs (MakerDAO, 0xDAO…)

• Writing about crypto since 2015 on Medium and my personal blog

• Regularly using and experimenting with Web 3 apps ( Gnosis Safe, Colony, Enyzme Finance, Augur, Audius, etc.)