Gitcoin username: Heph789

ETH Address: 0xACB837A57025BB355B8a82826164Fd47C6d0c573

Statement of Intention / My Values & Reason for Joining:

I’m a college student who is deeply curious about web3, as well as about distributed/democratic governance as a whole. I believe web3 has incredible potential to further our ability to coordinate in better ways. I believe in stakeholder decision-making, meaning that communities should have input and power over institutions that impact them, but I also think that formulating the mechanism for this type of decision-making is nontrivial (aka, one-person one-vote is often not optimal). I believe Gitcoin as a community deeply cares about these issues, and for a while I have participated and learned from this community. I want to be able to contribute more in this community in helping Gitcoin to fulfill its mission, but also by helping GitcoinDAO act as an example for how web3 can enable better collective decision making. I’ve enjoyed thinking about this kind of stuff in the abstract, and I think becoming a Gitcoin Steward would allow me to learn by getting my hands dirty.

What Web3 Qualifications / Skills I have:

• Experimented in the web3 space and followed it on and off since 2019.
• Tried out some early development in solidity and contributed to the Prysm Eth2 validator client (in golang).
• Actively writing my thoughts about the space. Currently working on a piece on DAOs and their utility