Why am I interested in becoming a delegate?

I love the team, love the mission, love the product and want to be more involved. I am a very active large delegate in Arbitrum and love that OpenDollar is Arbitrum native. Although, I hope it doesn't end there and we can see this protocol grow beyond the Arbitrum ecosystem and I think as a delegate I am strategically able to support both the growth on Arbitrum and the expansion to other networks.

About Me

I’ve been a contributing member of the Ethereum community since 2015 & received a masters degree in digital currency in 2016, not that the degree means anything, but its cool! I was the first person ever to get a degree in digital currency.

I really made myself a person of influence in this space as community manager for Slock.it and TheDAO, I helped form the community around TheDAO and led every angle of the crisis response effort following TheDAO Hack. I co-founded the White Hat Group, which secured the at-risk funds (10% of the total supply of ETH) during TheDAO hack and one year later rescued $210 million dollars worth of crypto assets following the Parity Multisig Hack. I also audited Aragon and MakerDAO systems with the WHG.

In 2016 I co-founded Giveth, a crypto donation platform that radically empowers individuals and communities to affect real change in a transparent, decentralized way. I co-founded DAppNode in early 2018 and co-founded the Commons Stack in 2019. The Commons Stack is the natural progression of Giveth’s efforts to build the future of giving from a Token Engineering perspective with a goal of turning any non-profit cause into an impact investment, our pilot Commons, the Token Engineering Commons was a raging success, it’s token price has kept pace with ETH for the last few years. I co-founded General Magic in 2021, a web3 design and dev studio focused on web3 impact projects. I led the creation of Praise spinning it out to its own org in 2022, and am currently developing Pairwise, a novel voting system for DAOs. I have contributed to dozens of other projects as well, most notably, iden3, PolygonHermez, and brightID and continue to support in an advisory capacity.

I am also a top delegate for ENS, Arbitrum, Optimism and Gitcoin.