Uniswap Delegate Reward Initiative - Cycle 3 Application

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Applicant name: SEEDGov

Specify if you’re applying as an individual or an organization: Organization

Link to Tally onchain voting profile: Uniswap Tally Profile

Applicant summary–briefly explain why you’re interested in applying for this Delegate Reward Initiative:
SEEDGov is the first Latam based Delegate Platform actively engaging in various governance activities and we have a dedicated team of SEEDGov members, passionate about Uniswap and committed to governance activities. It has been a pleasure to have been part of Cycle 2 and ee are excited about the opportunity to continue to collaborate with Uniswap Governance.

The main objective of this delegation will be to continue to maintain active and meaningful participation, contributing to the growth and evolution of Uniswap Protocol Governance within Ethereum and other chains where available. In this sense, we have maintained a 100% voting, participation and justification rate since our joining, participating in community calls, and contributing ideas and asking relevant questions in the discussions to promote improvements in the proposals submitted, and not only that we will continue on this path, but we intend to deepen it, we have strong interest, expertise and capacity in to participate and integrate working groups, committees and workshops in which we can collaborate more intensely for the benefit of Uniswap, the DAO and its community.

It is our understanding that this new program cycle will help to continue to increase participation and discussions in governance, both in quantity and quality, thus strengthening governance itself and the protocol. In our specific case, the rewards received has been used to cover the compensation of the team dedicated to the Uniswap delegation, as well as the rest of the support team in different areas, so it would be very useful to continue to count on an incentive from the governance itself to ensure that we can continue and deepen our participation with the highest levels of quality that Uniswap deserves.

Please provide the date and link of the first offchain and onchain Uniswap vote you made:

Offchain: Jun 18, 2024 - Snapshot

Onchain: May 29, 2024 - Tally

Have you posted an RFC that passed the offchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit): Yes, 1: https://snapshot.box/#/s:uniswapgovernance.eth/proposal/0x0c7b3acc56ad1d276cd4c9338e2ef8ca9e15e8ab3e3a22d395fd34398bda40af

Have you posted an RFC that passed the onchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit): Yes, 1 (pending approval): https://www.tally.xyz/gov/uniswap/proposal/80

Have you joined the Uniswap Community Call for September, October, December 2024 & January - Feb 2025? If so, what name did you join as? If multiple joined as a team, please note theirs as well: We joined all of these Uniswap Community Calls with one of our member, Marian, who completed all the forms on SEEDGov’s behalf.

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Applicant name: Jojo

Specify if you’re applying as an individual or an organization: Individual

Link to Tally onchain voting profile: Uniswap Tally Profile

Applicant summary–briefly explain why you’re interested in applying for this Delegate Reward Initiative:
I’ll just state what I already provided in my personal platform for voting rationale: I am a builder first, and I firmly believe there has to be a higher representation of people working in protocols in the DAO, because while Governance entities can for sure do a great work, usually builders are the one having enough skin in the game to be able to provide a specific point of view.

As a Jones contributor, one of my focus is providing concentrated liquidity in the most important dexes, and this aligns me in being more involved in the Uniswap ecosystem: despite tons of different models out there, and with a very few exception, liquidity participant tend to prefer Uniswap as a platform, and as byproduct we tend to have on average a better depth and a better yield in Uniswap pools.

So far I have contributed to this ecosystem by being part, for almost a year, to the UAGP . I have brought my builder vision in there while helping Uni growth as much as possible. I would like to replicate the value I brought there in the governance life.

Please provide the date and link of the first offchain and onchain Uniswap vote you made:

Offchain: Sep 10, 2024 - Snapshot

Onchain: Sep 4, 2024 - Tally

Have you posted an RFC that passed the offchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit): No

Have you posted an RFC that passed the onchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit): No

Have you joined the Uniswap Community Call for September, October, December 2024 & January - Feb 2025? If so, what name did you join as? If multiple joined as a team, please note theirs as well: No. Only joined a few calls with my personal handle

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Applicant name: Arana Digital

Specify if you’re applying as an individual or an organization: Organization

Link to Tally onchain voting profile: https://www.tally.xyz/gov/uniswap/delegate/0x0579a616689f7ed748dc07692a3f150d44b0ca09

Applicant summary–briefly explain why you’re interested in applying for this Delegate Reward Initiative:
Our members have been active participants in Uniswap DAO for the past 3 years. History with the DAO allows us to make informed voting decisions. During our tenure, we’ve maintained an excellent voting record, passed numerous proposals, and collaborated with multiple other delegates, the Foundation, and adjacent teams associated with Uniswap. Our team lead, Abdullah, is currently serving on three Uniswap working groups: UADP, UAC, and UTWG. Arana hopes to continue delivering on its members’ previous commitments to the Uniswap DAO going forward, abiding by transparent communication & thoughtful decision making, all with the intention of bettering Uniswap as a whole.

Please provide the date and link of the first offchain and onchain Uniswap vote you made:

Offchain: March 1, 2024 – Activate Uniswap Protocol Governance
Onchain: February 8, 2024 – Deploy Uniswap V3 on Zora

Have you posted an RFC that passed the offchain/onchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit):

Yes. Our team has authored over 10 proposals that eventually passed the offchain & onchain voting stages. Links to each can be referenced on our delegate page.

Have you joined the Uniswap Community Call for September, October, December 2024 & January - Feb 2025? If so, what name did you join as? If multiple joined as a team, please note theirs as well.

Abdullah has joined all of the previous community calls, having hosted most of them.

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As the onchain proposal is still ongoing and ending in 8 hours, the application will be open till the voting closes.

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Applicant name: Blockchain at Berkeley (@CalBlockchain)

Specify if you’re applying as an individual or an organization: Organization

Link to Tally onchain voting profile:
Two Wallets:
https://www.tally.xyz/gov/uniswap/delegate/0x7ae109a63ff4dc852e063a673b40bed85d22e585
https://www.tally.xyz/gov/uniswap/delegate/0x458cEec48586a85fCFEb4A179706656eE321730E

Applicant summary–briefly explain why you’re interested in applying for this Delegate Reward Initiative:

Blockchain at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley focused on innovating, educating, and participating in the blockchain ecosystem. We have been active participants in the Uniswap DAO for many years and believe in the protocol’s sustainability. We prioritize growth and stability.

It takes a lot of time to understand, synthesize, and vote on proposals, as well as keep track of ongoing discussions. Currently, some members in Blockchain at Berkeley do this out of passion, but have to prioritize paid engagements first, like paid consulting projects, research grants, and paid governance participation.

As an active ongoing voter in the Uniswap ecosystem, we are very passionate about Uniswap and would love to take a more active role in shaping its future, as well as having the fiscal justification to staff more members in the Governance department.

The 2 members who currently follow Uniswap governance do so out of passion and with this money, we can finally justify governance participation as an active requirement for all our members (40+). We would love the opportunity to participate in this program and hope to boost governance participation within our club so more members are exposed to this vital part of the blockchain ecosystem.

Please provide the date and link of the first offchain and onchain Uniswap vote you made:

Offchain: Jul 13, 2021 https://snapshot.box/#/s:uniswapgovernance.eth/proposal/Qmeza7LnzTLAGhHeA2psNtf1ua4kgm2Q1NHAMPeVzs5C2i

Onchain: Nov 2, 2021 https://www.tally.xyz/gov/uniswap/proposal/9

Have you posted an RFC that passed the offchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit): https://snapshot.box/#/s:uniswapgovernance.eth/proposal/QmaG6nJYW3xLeQwAa6xxhpbuYS8h6PVQpbx1vfqpqxAtik

Have you posted an RFC that passed the onchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit): https://www.tally.xyz/gov/uniswap/proposal/19

Have you joined the Uniswap Community Call for September, October, December 2024 & January - Feb 2025? If so, what name did you join as? If multiple joined as a team, please note theirs as well.

No

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Applicant name: Argonaut

Specify if you’re applying as an individual or an organization: Organization

Link to Tally onchain voting profile: https://www.tally.xyz/gov/uniswap/delegate/0x21b3b193b71680e2fafe40768c03a0fd305efa75

Applicant summary–briefly explain why you’re interested in applying for this Delegate Reward Initiative:

Argonaut is a team of highly motivated crypto enthusiasts eager to participate in governance and make meaningful improvements where we see opportunities. We were part of the second cycle of this program and learned a lot from it. The financial compensation allowed us to better organize and bring new talent to the team. We would love to participate in the third cycle of this program to continue growing, add value to DAO governance, and take on key roles where the DAO sees us as a good fit.

Since our first vote, we have maintained a 100% voting participation rate and we will continue maintaning this participation and monitoring every proposal. Being part of the 3rd cycle of the program presents a significant opportunity for our team, especially as a new, unfunded group. We’re driven by passion and would love the chance to dedicate more time to this work and create value for Uniswap!

Please provide the date and link of the first offchain and onchain Uniswap vote you made:

Offchain: https://snapshot.org/#/uniswapgovernance.eth/proposal/0xc2eed288ba61241dd86928eff15b7c8c9622168fc4b435657f58dda8ce285d13 (Jul 22, 2024)

Onchain: https://www.tally.xyz/gov/uniswap/proposal/65 (Jun 27, 2024)

Have you posted an RFC that passed the offchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit):

Uniswap Delegate Race Tiebreaker - We know PGov is the author of these proposals (the on-chain and off-chain proposal), but since we were the ones who flagged the issue in the forum, prepared the slides, and presented them in the Community Call, we thought we should also be considered co-authors of the off-chain and on-chain proposal.

Have you posted an RFC that passed the onchain voting stage before? If so, please provide links here (only the sole author or co-authors explicitly mentioned on the proposal will receive credit):

Uniswap Delegate Race Tiebreaker

Have you joined the Uniswap Community Call for September, October, December 2024 & January - Feb 2025? If so, what name did you join as? If multiple joined as a team, please note theirs as well.
Yes, we’ve combined them under the following names: Argonaut, Argonaut Team, Orpheus - Argonaut, Kaer, and Ragnar.

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Thanks all for applying. We will work on recording points and will share with the community once ready.