UAC Season 4 Application

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The onchain vote to renew S4 of the Uniswap Accountability Committee (UAC) has passed. We will commence with the election of two new committee members. This present forum post will serve as the space for candidates interested in applying to the UAC to submit their applications. For a detailed account of the type of work that the UAC conducts and will plan on undertaking during Season 4, please read the Season 3 Report.

Committee Details

  • The UAC will consist of 5 people for increased work capacity and multisig security.
  • Max budget for the number of hours a month is average 40 hours/month.
  • Season 4 will last for about 7 months, through EOY 2025.

Eligibility Criteria

You are only allowed to apply as an individual—not as an organization, using your DAO recognized name and identity. Although you may be associated with an organization, it is important to have representation from a designated point-person to ensure clear accountability. Multisig operations are also less obscure when dealing with a single individual, and since the UAC is responsible for escrowing and deploying large amounts of funds, this will increase trust from the DAO.

Application Logistics

  • If you wish to apply for a position in the UAC, please comment on this post by completing the below application template. Please keep responses brief and to the point.
  • The application deadline is Wednesday, May 21st @ 11:59pm UTC.
  • All applicants meeting the outline requirements will be included in a Snapshot vote.
  • The Snapshot will run for 5 days following the application period.
  • The top two candidates will become active UAC members for S4.

Voting Fairplay (Max Matching)

  • We will be introducing the same model as last season. If you or anyone from your organization is applying for a UAC position, you are not allowed to designate 100% of your voting power to the candidate in question. The maximum self-voting % allowed is 50%, and this amount must be at least evenly distributed among other candidates. The maximum self-vote percentage in any scenario must be matched equally with at least one other candidate.
  • Example: if you self-vote with 50% of your voting power, you must give one more candidate the other 50% (max matching 50%). If you self-vote with 25% of your voting power, you may divide the remaining 75% among as many candidates as you like, as long as one other candidate also receives 25% (max matching 25%). The self-vote % is simply your own voting cap that must be matched at least once with another applicant.
  • This setup introduces a cap to self-voting, while simultaneously giving a degree of priority to yourself, as we understand that you would not be applying if you didn’t feel like a qualified candidate. This is something that was “soft consensus” decided when some issues arose in prior votes.

Application Template

Legal Name:

Country of Residence & Time Zone:

Occupation:

What is your motivation for applying to this working group? (max 3 sentences)

Please list your association, history, and contributions to the Uniswap protocol or DAO:

Briefly provide an overview of any other working groups or teams that you have been a part of in relation to a DAO (limit to most relevant):

Briefly provide an overview of any role that has required you to operate as a multisig member:

Conflict of Interest Declaration:

Provide the Ethereum address that you will be using as a part of the UAC multisig:

**Failure to follow the application template will result in disqualification from the election

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UAC Season 4 Application

Legal Name: Sov

Country of Residence & Time Zone: USA, Pacific Time (UTC-7)

Occupation: Sales/BD + Program Design/Management

What is your motivation for applying to this working group?

My cross-ecosystem perspective from managing programs and serving in different roles would bring insights to UAC’s accountability work. As Uniswap continues to scale its mission, strong accountability mechanisms become increasingly vital for maintaining protocol integrity and community trust.

Please list your association, history, and contributions to the Uniswap protocol or DAO:

I authored a comprehensive research report on Uniswap’s Grant Program that was cited in the official UGP retrospective. I worked with CryptoStats to help them secure a grant from Uniswap, guiding their process. I’ve created and maintained resources, including LlamaoGrants, Blockworks Grantfarm, and Crypto Grant Wire, all of which have been mentioned and have helped drive awareness of the Uniswap Grants Programs over the years.

Briefly provide an overview of any other working groups or teams that you have been a part of in relation to a DAO:

Within the Optimism Collective, I currently serve as the govNERDs Lead and previously served on their Grants Council in Season 6. As ENS Public Goods Steward, I oversee treasury allocation and ecosystem support initiatives. Additionally, I’ve maintained delegate roles across multiple major DAOs and, through my work with Gitcoin, have participated in various other working groups and programs for both the Gitcoin Grants Program and partner programs.

Briefly provide an overview of any role that has required you to operate as a multisig member:

I’ve been responsible for primary multisig operations at Gitcoin, managing Safes across multiple chains, and coordinating. This includes understanding proper security considerations and coordinating time-sensitive transactions. I’m familiar with multisig tools like Safe and it’s various forks (ex. Protofire) and I know the importance of rigorous security practices when handling multisig transactions.

Conflict of Interest Declaration:

In addition to the roles mentioned above I currently hold positions at Gitcoin and serve as a delegate for multiple DAOs, including Velora (previously Paraswap). I’m committed to transparent communication, clear rationale, proactive disclosure, and will recuse myself from any decisions where potential conflicts might arise.

Provide the Ethereum address that you will be using as a part of the UAC multisig:

0x5F834C8f70baaEAfAd00662Cd214245c9A1A9ef5

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Legal Name: Doo Wan Nam

Country of Residence & Time Zone: South Korea , KST

Occupation: Co-founder & COO at StableLab ; BD Lead at Sky

What is your motivation for applying to this working group? (max 3 sentences)

As Uniswap DAO matures, UAC is experiencing more opportunities and responsibilities. This is exciting for me, as I’ve been interested in engaging further with the Uniswap ecosystem to facilitate growth.

Please list your association, history, and contributions to the Uniswap protocol or DAO:

I have been a delegate for Uniswap since May 2023. During this time, I’ve actively contributed to various working groups, including the first season of UAC, UAGP, and UTWG. Additionally, I have authored and co-authored several proposals.

Briefly provide an overview of any other working groups or teams that you have been a part of in relation to a DAO (limit to most relevant):

From 2024-2025, beside Uniswap DAO,

Sky: BD Lead

Compound: Compound Governance Support Working Group, Compound Grants Committee

Briefly provide an overview of any role that has required you to operate as a multisig member:

I served on the multisig for the following: UAC, UAGP, CGSWG, and Compound Grants.

Conflict of Interest Declaration:

I work at StableLab which contributes to more than 25 DAOs.

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I am also BD Lead at Sky.

Provide the Ethereum address that you will be using as a part of the UAC multisig:

0x26C4b264f87622F3ef09Fe5AD0e0Ea081bCfdC0b

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Legal Name: Jordan Karstadt ( DonOfDAOs – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordankarstadt/ )

Country of Residence & Time Zone: United States (EST)

Occupation: Founder at Event Horizon and Professional Delegate

What is your motivation for applying to this working group? (max 3 sentences):
My commitment within the context of the UAC and DAO governance broadly is to expand enfranchisement, grow community inclusion, and strengthen transparency. At Event Horizon, we built an end-to-end metagovernance platform entrusted with as high as $16M in delegations and processed over half a billion dollars worth of votes on behalf of (and at no cost to) the retail voters of 10 different DAOs. To continue these commitments as a UAC member, I will emphasize personal communication by making my calendly publicly available to any and all delegates and community members (starting now: calendly) as well as publishing monthly reports on my contributions, insights, and UAC-facing perspectives.

Please list your association, history, and contributions to the Uniswap protocol or DAO:

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As founder of Event Horizon, I have championed voter inclusion and innovative governance explicitly by looking past access by capital means alone – token-weighted voting alone is insufficient, as some of the brightest minds and greatest contributions may be held by individuals with $50 or less. For more context, if interested, I have linked my work on Implicit Delegation , Voter Specialization, and Agentic Governance.

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Building on this philosophy, Event Horizon joined the Uniswap voting body in November of 2023 and has since provided tens of millions of dollars of UNI voting power to the average Uniswap retail voter, across 55 proposals, with 100% uptime and at no cost to the voters or the DAO. Opportunities such as the UAC provide critical communication channels for the community to engage with the direction of Uniswap absent millions of dollars of voting power. I am here and fully available to help facilitate this.

Briefly provide an overview of any other working groups or teams that you have been a part of in relation to a DAO (limit to most relevant):

Beyond Uniswap, I’ve partnered with a wide range of leading DAOs and foundations including Arbitrum DAO and Foundation, Compound, Gitcoin, Origin, Optimism, Scroll, and more. Through these partnerships, I and the Event Horizon team have been entrusted with millions of dollars worth of DAO-sponsored delegations and functions as the largest metagovernance and AI governance protocol across all 10 DAOs it operates.

Briefly provide an overview of any role that has required you to operate as a multisig member:

I serve as a multi-sig signer on all wallets tied to Event Horizon’s metagovernance operations across the DAOs mentioned above. I also sit on the oversight committee for the 7,000,000 ARB community delegation pool, which I co-steward alongside the Arbitrum MSS.

Conflict of Interest Declaration:
Event Horizon operates with a strict commitment to credible neutrality akin to other vote infrastructure providers like Snapshot or Tally. As such, I do not anticipate conflicts of interest. However, I will fully recuse myself from any matters directly involving Event Horizon.

Provide the Ethereum address that you will be using as a part of the UAC multisig:
0xCE8Ab0464957EAB5635344A62FAb9Bf5a3FF8cA3

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Legal Name: Kevin Nielsen

Country of Residence & Time Zone: United States - Eastern

Occupation: Founder and CEO

What is your motivation for applying to this working group?

As an active participant in Uniswap governance, I hope to contribute in a more official capacity and leverage my years of experience working in DAOs. Between responsibilities like service provider and grantee disbursements, governance community calls, transparency through the Foundation Feedback Group, and managing general DAO operations, the UAC seems right up my alley.

Please list your association, history, and contributions to the Uniswap protocol or DAO:

I was previously the founder of Boardroom (a company that Agora recently acquired), a platform supporting DAOs and protocols with governance infrastructure and tooling. I helped to lead governance advisory and operation roles for large protocol DAOs and specialized in delegate management and governance workflows in previous roles. Now, with Proxy, our team currently works as a governance service provider for multiple protocols (e.g. Moonwell), handling recurring governance operations. Proxy also serves as an active delegate for multiple protocols, including Uniswap. We’ve consistently posted our voting rationale and commented on relevant forum proposals where we could leverage our past experience.

Briefly provide an overview of any other working groups or teams that you have been a part of in relation to a DAO (limit to most relevant):

Proxy is an active contributor to Moonwell. Some recurring operations include publishing weekly and monthly governance reports, managing social media communications with professional editing, hosting and editing governance community calls, and building out governance documentation. Our role necessitates working collaboratively with a diverse set of stakeholders. We frequently engage with and serve as a liaison between core teams, delegates, and the wider community to align objectives. The UAC requires a similar level of cross-domain communication and transparency.

Briefly provide an overview of any role that has required you to operate as a multisig member:

During my years building Boardroom, we operated multiple multisigs across different chains to handle Boardroom’s operations and finances. I was also a part of a multisig for Shell DAO. Proxy currently manages a multisig related to managing delegations.

Conflict of Interest Declaration:

I have no direct active conflicts of interest to declare. Proxy does not perform similar roles for any direct competitors of Uniswap. Our collaborations with other DAOs are focused on governance operations and/or acting as an informed delegate. Proxy was recently elected to the Velora Growth Committee. These engagements are in unrelated domains and do not pose a conflict with the UAC’s operations. If any potential conflict of interest were to arise, we would disclose it immediately and take appropriate steps.

Provide the Ethereum address that you will be using as a part of the UAC multisig: 0x6De8448e7d5f58af394CC9540ABe703d0c955dFd

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Legal Name: Takeshi Ohishi (LinkedIn)

Country of Residence & Time Zone: United States (ET)

Occupation: Co-founder & Head of Network Operations at Tané

What is your motivation for applying to this working group? (max 3 sentences)

As a co-founder of Tané, Takeshi strongly believes in Uniswap’s potential beyond being just a DEX and am committed to expanding its horizons, building upon our past contributions. His experience on Optimism’s Grants Council and as a Software Engineer at Twitter and a Product Manager at a unicorn startup has provided me with relevant capabilities in ensuring organizational accountability and supporting ecosystem growth, which he believes are directly applicable to the UAC opeations. Furthermore, by participating as Tané, a team with Japanese roots, in such a key role, he believes we can amplify diverse stakeholder voices, thereby broadening Uniswap’s own potential and fostering greater global inclusion in its governance.

Please list your association, history, and contributions to the Uniswap protocol or DAO:

Takeshi has been an actively represented Tané, which is a delegate in the Uniswap DAO and a part of the delegate incentive program since Season 2. Additionally, he has collaborated and coordinated with Erin from the Uniswap Foundation and other UAC members and community contributors in authoring proposals including the Treasury Delegation Round 2, demonstrating a proactive engagement with Uniswap’s governance processes.

Briefly provide an overview of any other working groups or teams that you have been a part of in relation to a DAO (limit to most relevant):

Through Tané, his engagement in DAO governance includes:

  • Optimism:
    • In Grants Council Season 6, Takeshi reviewed and provided recommendations on grant proposals, aligning them with Optimism’s overall ecosystem strategy.
    • Currently, in Season 7, as part of the Milestones & Metrics Council, he is involved in reviewing the progress of grant-receiving projects and offering support, ensuring high transparency for all stakeholders while facilitating decision-making and project advancement.(announcement)
    • We are also a member of Optimism Anticapture Commission and he is the main DRI in the operations.
  • Lido: we have authored proposals for improving governance structures, which were successfully adopted and implemented, contributing to better governance practices within the Lido DAO. (forum)
  • Gitcoin: Selected as a Governance Council member.(announcement)

Briefly provide an overview of any role that has required you to operate as a multisig member:

Takeshi has gained practical experience with various multisig operational practices through his involvement with Optimism’s M&M Council and Lido DVT node operations. Furthermore, Tané started as a VC fund, and in that capacity, he has been also involved in multisig-based fund management, underscoring his familiarity with the responsibilities and security protocols inherent in such operations.

Conflict of Interest Declaration:

Our investment arm, as a separate entity, has invested in a number of crypto startups but as of the time of writing this profile, we don’t believe there are clear COIs in terms of contributing to Uniswap DAO. We are also active in the other DAOs, including Arbitrum, Optimism (S7 Milestones & Metrics Council member), Lido, ENS, Morpho, and more.

Takeshi is committed to transparency and will disclose any potential conflicts of interest. In situations where a conflict may arise, he will abstain himself from related discussions and decisions to maintain the integrity of the committee’s work.

Provide the Ethereum address that you will be using as a part of the UAC multisig:

0x7B030392E7c7Ef50d5Ca7C0d953A147C52d822Ec

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Legal Name: Varit Ruangsiri

Country of Residence & Time Zone: Bangkok, UTC/GMT +07:00

Occupation: CEO / Governance Lead at Curia Lab

What is your motivation for applying to this working group? (max 3 sentences)
I’m applying to join the UAC to enhance transparency and accountability in Uniswap governance, especially around delegate contributions and incentive mechanisms. We believe strong, consistent oversight encourages more meaningful participation from delegates and community members. Our goal is to support fair evaluation standards and help improve the quality of governance discussions.

Please list your association, history, and contributions to the Uniswap protocol or DAO:
I and Curia Lab has served as an active Uniswap delegate, regularly publishing our voting rationales on all the proposals. We advocate for transparent, merit-based incentive frameworks and have repeatedly shared constructive feedback on proposal and delegate-ranking models—most notably in support of GFX Labs’ metric-based approach. Beyond Uniswap, our team aggregates and analyzes governance datasets for DAOs such as Optimism Collective, Arbitrum DAO, and Safe DAO. We aim to supply delegates and researchers with actionable insights that strengthen oversight, foster informed discussion, and advance accountable governance.

Briefly provide an overview of any other working groups or teams that you have been a part of in relation to a DAO (limit to most relevant):
Our team has worked with multiple DAOs including Optimism, Safe, Arbitrum, and Gnosis - supporting them with proposal evaluations, governance tooling, and research. I’m currently serve on the Optimism Grants Milestone and Metrics Council, where I help grantee define grant KPIs and ensure accountability of their grant milestones in funding outcomes. These experiences have shaped my ability to work collaboratively across stakeholder groups and bring rigor to DAO processes.

Briefly provide an overview of any role that has required you to operate as a multisig member:
My experience as a multisig member stems from serving on the Optimism Milestones & Metrics (M&M) Council during Season 7. One of our primary mandates was the secure distribution of grant funds. This involved a multi-step process where, as a council, we first assessed milestone completion. Following internal consensus, I, along with other council members, would then act as signers on our multisig wallet to create, review, and execute the transactions for fund disbursement. We operated with a focus on our internal procedures and were working towards compliance with the Optimism Collective Multisig Policy.

Conflict of Interest Declaration:
As being a part of the team deeply involved in governance and DAO operations, we engage with various projects and DAOs such as Optimism, Safe, Arbitrum, Gnosis, etc. to improve their governance. We pledge to maintain transparency and manage any potential conflicts of interest responsibly, especially in our dealings with Uniswap and its community.

Provide the Ethereum address that you will be using as a part of the UAC multisig: 0x17296956b4E07Ff8931E4ff4eA06709FaB70b879

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Legal Name:

Cole Schendl

Country of Residence & Time Zone:

USA, UTC -4 (EST)

Occupation:

Co-Founder of 404 DAO, Head of Governance

What is your motivation for applying to this working group? (max 3 sentences)

Uniswap DAO is entering a pivotal chapter, with anticipated regulatory clarity, continued improvements in DAO operations, and promising revenue opportunities ahead. By joining the UAC in Season 4, my goal is to help position the DAO for success as we navigate this important phase in Uniswap’s evolution. I see 3 specific objectives that Uniswap DAO should dedicate its resources to: one, growing developer mindshare (specifically on v4 & Unichain); two, strategically expanding distribution channels; and three, strengthening $UNI as a productive asset.

Please list your association, history, and contributions to the Uniswap protocol or DAO:

404 DAO has been a delegate in the Uniswap DAO for almost two years, with an excellent track record of voting and transparency. We have participated in the inaugural Blessing and all of the GovSwap delegate events at EthDenver while also supporting key conversations between builders and relevant stakeholders. We have also written research on Unichain, highlighting the unique architecture of the UVN, flashblocks and TEEs.

Briefly provide an overview of any other working groups or teams that you have been a part of in relation to a DAO (limit to most relevant):

Arbitrum:

  • LTIPP Grants Council: Tasked with reviewing and recommending grants for over 100 protocols
  • MSS: Signer on 12 multisigs on behalf of the DAO

NEAR:

  • Leading a newly formed treasury management working group

Optimism:

  • ACC: Voting member of the Anti-Capture Commission

Overall, I have deep experience engaging in the governance process specifically, writing proposals, reviewing grants, signing transactions, and supporting builders. Outside of governance, I led partnerships for 404 DAO’s Web3 ATL conference in 2022 and 2023 and previously cofounded Blockchain at Georgia Tech in 2021 where I taught blockchain 101 classes to students and led standard management responsibilities.

Briefly provide an overview of any role that has required you to operate as a multisig member:

Currently, I serve as a member of the Arbitrum Multisig Support Service (MSS), where I have been a signer on 12 SAFE multisigs providing myself relevant experience in best practices for multisig management, operations and security.

Conflict of Interest Declaration:

Our team contributes across a range of DAOs, including Arbitrum, Optimism, NEAR, ZKsync, Scroll, Wormhole, Morpho, and Rootstock. I am committed to transparency, and if any conflict of interest arises, I will disclose it promptly and take the necessary steps.

Provide the Ethereum address that you will be using as a part of the UAC multisig:

0x5E9eEd8E7Fff23aa40f7c06AB9Cc42BFD76042D6

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Thank you to everyone that has applied. The application is now closed.

Please take a look at the snapshot vote: Here

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I voted for those who specialize specifically in governance and openness of data:
– Doo Wan Nam - 50%
– Kevin Nielsen - 50%

Rationale:
https://gov.uniswap.org/t/cp0x-delegate-platform/25321/16?u=cp0x

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