FranklinDAO Delegate Program Application
FranklinDAO (Prev Penn Blockchain)
Nomination Statement
We are a team from FranklinDAO, a DAO run by students from the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to participating in DAO governance. Our Governance Team has been active since the founding of some of the earliest DeFi DAOs and have made major contributions to Uniswap, Aave, Arbitrum, and Compound DAOs. More information can be found in our delegate profile.
We’ve been keeping up with the developments coming out of Gnosis for the past year, and would like to utilize this opportunity to officially become involved in GnosisDAO. We’re very excited to contribute to GnosisDAO and hope to strengthen our relationships with other stakeholders and delegates.
Seeking Sponsorship:
We understand the expectations for this delegate program and would like to join the delegate nomination. This application seeks sponsorship. Thank you for your consideration!
Below is our Delegate Statement:
Introduction
FranklinDAO is a student-run DAO composing of students at the University of Pennsylvania, and is one of the most active blockchain university orgs in the world. Our teams range from Governance, Research, investments, and Trading. Some of our other current delegations include: Arbitrum, Uniswap, Optimism, Compound, and Aave. Members of our governance team are highly motivated and have a background working at Chainlink, Messari, and Galaxy.
Some of our recent notable accomplishments:
- Current member of Uniswap Treasury Working Group, with plans to present findings with UniswapDAO in the coming month
- Launched and passed proposal on Compound to implement exchange rate pricing for LSTs and LRTs
Delegate Motivation
As a group of passionate and highly motivated contributors to the crypto ecosystem , we would like to help Gnosis continue its mission of building infrastructure and products for the crypto economy and bridge the gap between old and new payment rails. We believe GnosisDAO has provided tangible value to the ecosystem through projects like Gnosis Pay, Safe, CowSwap, and xDAI. We would like to help push Gnosis forward by providing our unique perspectives on existing initiatives, by leveraging our network and background in governance, and by proposing new ideas for the DAO. We will aim for 100% voting participation and to actively communicate our rationale.
Areas of expertise
Our team has a strong track record having worked as delegates in other major DAOs, and have developed expertise in those ecosystems (Arbitrum, Aave, Uniswap etc). We also have a strong background on the technical side from a software engineering and research perspective, enabling us to do on chain data analysis as well as understand and draft code for proposals, one of which includes oracles and hybrid web3 infrastructure.
Conflicts of Interest
FranklinDAO Governance also works as delegates in several other DAOs, including those listed in the Introduction Section.