Nomination and Election Process for the UNI-ARB Grant Program (UAGP) and Delegate Program (UADP)

[AbdullahUmar]

1–Delegate Program (UADP)

2–Abdullah Umar (Michigan Blockchain)

3–Twitter: https://twitter.com/abdullahbumar

4–Applicant Summary: I lead governance at Michigan Blockchain, with experience as a delegate for various protocols, from DEXs and money markets, to L2s and stablecoins. Prior to governance, I worked as a product and data analytics consultant for dYdX and ImmutableX, respectively. At the moment, my other commitment includes managing a family and friends blockchain fund called Arana Ventures, focused on small cap assets. My intention behind sponosring this grant and delegate proposal is stated in a previous post:

@AbdullahUmar

It will likely be a customary practice in the coming years to commingle governance tokens between different DAO treasuries, thereby aligning incentives and strategies to grow the Ethereum ecosystem as a whole. This proposal allows Uniswap to begin leading such initiatives.

By partaking in this meta-governance initiative, I believe that I can help the Uni DAO contribute meaningfully to the Arbitrum ecosystem.

5–Involvement in Uniswap and/or Arbitrum community or prior initiatives:

For Uniswap:

• Active voter and participant in forum discussions across a breadth of topics. Review drafts of proposals prior to their release on forums. Provide guidance to teams on how to attain votes and structure proposals to best address the Uniswap DAO’s needs.

• Proposals authored: Deploy v3 on Avalanche, Deploy v3 on Moonbeam, Deploy v3 on Base, Deploy v3 on Filecoin VM

For Arbitrum:

• Involved in voting on various topics since the Arbitrum DAO’s inception. Discussion contributions made to incentive and grant programs like the recent Questbook, Plurality Labs, and domain allocator proposals—as well as other crucial security & constitution-based proposals.
• Am a part of Arbitrum’s Phase I ambassador program.

6–Prior experience in Delegate Programs

Have experience as a delegate with:

• Uniswap
• Aave
• Compound
• Arbitrum
• Origin
• Stader Labs

7–Conflict of interests:
Michigan Blockchain is a delegate for Arbitrum. To ensure separation of voting decisions, I will not be making the final voting decision for Arbitrum proposals at Michigan Blockchain—this obligation will be handled by the rest of the Michigan Blockchain governance team, while my voting decisions for the Arb DAO will align with the positions of the Uniswap DAO.