TL;DR:
Election of PGP v3 Grants Council.
Two open positions: Grants Lead and Grants Evaluator.
5 Active Nominees.
The elected council will operate for 3 months (1 DAO Season).
Abstract
The Push Grants Program V3 marks the third phase of our Grants Program. In line with our commitment to progressive decentralization, the PGP V3 will be overseen by the Push Community rather than the core team.
The snapshot proposal to establish a GrantsSubDAO, to be administered by the newly elected Grants Council, was unanimously approved with a 100% majority vote in favor.
Please follow this link for additional information on the PGIP-8 Push Grants Program V3 (PGPv3) snapshot.
The Push Grants Council Election serves to fill two positions:
Push Grants Lead Role: Responsible for the overall coordination of PGPv3.
Evaluator Role: Responsible for overseeing the grant application evaluation process and ceremonies.
The Push Grants Program has operated privately through an Internal Grants Review Committee in the previous two iterations, however with PGP v3 the entire control of the grants program will be vested in the hands of a community-elected grants council.
The council comprises three individuals, with one seat occupied by a Push team member in an observer/evaluator role. This team member is Ian LeViness, the DAO Lead. The Push team member will contribute comments and share insights, but the primary decision-making responsibility will rest with the other two members (Push Grants Lead and Grant Evaluator).
Although other Push Foundation members may have a voting presence, only Ian and Carla are active contributors with positions and decision making ability in the DAO.
Specification
Nominations
The following are the self-nominated candidates for the Push Grants Council, view their backgrounds, socials, qualifications, and experience at the full nomination thread here.
Christian Dike (@christiandike)
Sixty (Brian Adam) (@SixtyKeys)
jengajojo (@jengajojo)
emixprime (@emixprime)
René Hernández (René Hdz) (@Rene)
Brief Introduction of Nominees
Christian Dike
Christian Dike has been an active community member of Push DAO since December 2023 and has contributed to various governance discussions on the Push Governance Forum by providing well-researched views, solutions, ideas and consistently attending Push ceremonies.
Christian has a background in law and finance and specializes in facilitating investment operations for firms by providing legal advisory, due diligence, and other key investment management services. Christian Dike was previously in the Legal and Investments division of Asset & Resource Management Company (ARM).
Read Christian Dike’s complete nomination proposal.
Sixty (Brian Adam)
Sixty has been a part of the Push Community since October 2022, having joined with an interest in protocol governance.
Sixty has been actively contributing to Push Governance for the past 5 months by leading the initiative of designing and structuring the Push Grants Program v3, assisting in hosting the Push weekly governance call, and onboarding DAO service provider - StableLab. Sixty previously led a Governance Working Group for DeFi protocol Index Coop, which involved designing the Index Improvement Proposal process, budgeting, allocation of resources and administration of contributors who worked in this working group, and regular reporting of OKRs and KPIs specific to the working group.
Read Sixty (Brian Adam)’s complete nomination proposal.
JengaJojo
JengaJojo has been monitoring the progress of the DAO from the outside as well as hearing live updates from @CryptoReuMD and @Rene about the work happening inside the DAO.
JengaJojo is an active delegate in Gitcoin, Optimism, SAFE, 1inch, Bankless and Rari DAOs. JengaJojo has experience with governance and has served as a grants reviewer at BanklessDAO for 6 months.
Read JengaJojo’s complete nomination proposal.
EmixPrime
EmixPrime has known Push Protocol since its early days when it was called EPNS. In 2021 while working at Idle DAO, Emixprime cooperated closely with @MrJaf and other EPNS team members to launch the Idle DAO channel integration for its governance notifications.
EmixPrime holds experience in Grant program design & Management where he, at Idle DAO, facilitated the creation and management of IGP (Idle Grants Program). EmixPrime’s experience at Areta (formerly web3studios) consists of designing and implementing processes for the Uniswap-Arbitrum Grant Program (UAGP).
Read emixprime’s complete nomination proposal.
René Hernández (René Hdz)
Rene has been part of the Push Community since May 2023, having joined the Latam Push Ambassador program. Rene holds a role similar to that of a Community Manager for the Latam team Ambassadors and has taken on a leadership role from the beginning until now.
Rene has been contributing to Push Governance for the past 4 months (in the forum) and is active in the Push Discord, where he holds a star as a Community Superstar.
Rene had functioned as a Lead of AV and Comms of the Nación Bankless (SubDAO of the BanklessDAO) and holds experience in team leadership in the web2 MKT industry.
Read Rene’s complete nomination proposal.
Voting Methodology
The voting system being used in the governance vote is weighted choice voting. As per our experience, weighted choice voting offers voters greater flexibility in selecting candidates, allowing them to express their preferences across multiple options. When it comes to selecting candidates it is best to ensure that voters can express their choices without being confined to a single absolute choice, weighted choice voting allows voters to express their choices in varying degrees.
An example can be viewed here.
Election Criteria
The candidate with the highest number of votes will assume the Grants Lead role, while the second-place candidate will take on the Evaluator role. If any of the elected members choose not to continue, the runner-ups will be offered the opportunity to step in.
