Name: Wintermute

Address of ENS: wintermutegovernance.eth

Discord username: Callen | Wintermute#6664

Verification and Voting Activity: Boardroom

I have read and understood the Delegate Commitment Process: Yes.

I have read and understood that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes.

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

Hi Optimism Community!

We are excited to begin supporting Optimism at our fullest capacity, offering a unique delegate experience for the community and stakeholders. As a user and supporter of Optimism since its launch, we are committed to helping the protocol’s decentralization and multi-chain growth.

Specifically, our focus will be on:

• Researching and putting forward proposals to address potential areas of improvement such as governance participation, governance processes, growth, grants, etc.
• Providing input and recommendations regarding the size and distribution of OP funding across the Optimism ecosystem. As well as ensuring our votes are targeted towards protocols that truly align with the Optimistic Vision.
• Streaming important votes and proposals and their impact across our institutional and corporate channels.

At Wintermute, we believe that a decentralized world needs robust and progressive governance systems. Our goal is to support DAOs along their journey towards such a state through objective, long-term value-add decision-making.

Our Core Values:

Long-term value creation over short-term opportunism.

For example, we do not support short-term rent-seeking token distribution programs; or the redistribution of tokens that carry no positive second-order effects.

In contrast, we do support and encourage purpose-driven mechanisms that incentivize positive behaviour and are value-maximizing; or that improve alignment between token holders and the protocol.

Transparency, alignment, and proactivity.

We are proactive in providing clear and consistent reasoning behind our decision-making and proposals, ensuring the protocol’s sustainability is at the heart of all governance discussions.

Objective data-driven decision-making.

We use data and research to ensure our final decision is objectively value-accretive for the protocol.

By becoming a delegate we hope to support Optimism and have an impact on its transition to a robust and decentralized public good.

My view on the Optimistic Vision: The Optimistic Vision outlines a truly transformative vision of public good funding that is highly transparent and accountable in contrast to traditional practices. The large retroactive incentive scheme ultimately redefines not only the public good landscape but also the demographic of contributors which have been traditionally cornered to private sectors.

We believe the Optimistic Vision aligns social and private benefits/costs at a scale never seen before. Ultimately, creating a highly inclusive and impactful public goods commonplace.

My view on the first three articles of the Working Constitution: We believe that for a decentralized governance system to succeed it must be robust and progressive. Both these properties come from innovation, adaptation and improvements based on trials, tribulations, and experiments; a clear testament to a working constitution.

A bicameral governance system is an exciting angle taken towards tackling systemic governance issues such as misalignment, pseudo-governance and voter apathy. Given a strong incentive system, ensuring a balance of voting power derived from financial and merit-based systems is extremely important.

Furthermore, we believe having some sort of a central figure whether that be an individual or the Optimism foundation is important for a DAO to retain a sufficient level of operational efficiency, especially in its infancy.

My Web3 interests:

DAOs, Governance, DeFi, Economics, Accessibility, Decentralization, Markets

Languages I speak and write:

English, Spanish, Russian, and many more.

My skills and areas of expertise: Wintermute is a leading crypto-native algorithmic trading firm, specializing in creating efficient markets across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Wintermute was founded in July 2017 by three Optiver veterans. Evgeny Gaevoy, founder and CEO, was previously head of ETFs (screen and OTC) at Optiver Europe, one of the largest ETF market-making desks. Since our inception, we have traded over $2.85T and expanded our presence across 80+ (de)centralized exchanges and various (non)EVM chains, continuously supporting and providing liquidity throughout the ecosystem for our partners and their communities.

Alongside our trading arm is Wintermute Ventures, which enables us to support projects where we know we can be true value-adding, develop a partnership and help influence a positive outcome.

Furthermore, our firm is driven by our employees with extensive knowledge and experience across governance, economics, finance, HFT, product development, treasury management, software architecture, smart contract development etc.

Interested in delegating to us? Here’s how:

1. Head to Optimism Gateway and connect your wallet. Make sure you’re on the Optimism network!
2. At the top of the page click on “delegate to anyone” and enter our Ethereum address 0xB933AEe47C438f22DE0747D57fc239FE37878Dd1 or our ENS wintermutegovernance.eth
3. Lastly, click “Delegate” and sign the transaction!

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