Call for Community Delegates

[H_Rook]

Call for Community Delegates

As a system of staker voting is contemplated, the community and the Community Delegates will play a pivotal role in governing Polygon system smart contracts, ensuring a balanced, decentralized, and secure approach to upgrades.

Voters and Community Delegates will act as checks and balances on the Protocol Council’s ability to propose and execute modifications or upgrades. Delegates, among all other voters, will be empowered by their competency of voting and signaling a veto over any regular proposal and scheduled in the timelock by the Protocol Council.

Why get involved?

Becoming a Community Delegate is an opportunity to directly influence the future of Polygon’s governance and system smart contract infrastructure. Your contributions will help shape a secure and efficient network.

All interested and qualified community members are encouraged to express interest in anticipation of the Governance Hub.

Together, the Polygon community will build a robust and resilient governance system. Stay tuned for updates!

How to get involved in preparation for the launch of the Governance Hub:

1. Introduce Yourself - Use this thread to share your background, expertise, and experience in the blockchain space.
2. Explain Your Vision/Platform - Describe why you believe you would be a strong Community Delegate and the ways you can contribute in this capacity.
3. Commitment - Highlight your commitment to the Polygon community, ecosystem, and governance.

Qualities of a great Community Delegate:

• Technical familiarity with:
  • Distributed systems,
  • Zero-knowledge cryptography (STARKs, SNARKs),
  • Blockchain interoperability solutions (e.g., Cosmos IBC), and;
  • Smart Contract architecture and security.
• Ability to voting and providing feedback on technical Polygon Improvement Proposals submitted by the Protocol Council.
• Accountability: As a technical delegate, you will be tasked with keeping the Protocol Council accountable. You should, however, also maintain accountability to the token holders who delegate to you.
• Active participation in Polygon community spaces, including the forum and discord.

Level Up:

• Review Polygon’s Second Pillar of Governance, which addresses system smart contracts upgrades: The Second Pillar: System Smart Contracts Governance
• Familiarize yourself with the existing Protocol Council: Meet the Polygon Protocol Council.
• Complete the Layer3 governance quests: https://app.layer3.xyz/collections/polygon-governance

[Leuts.eth]

On behalf of Aragon, Governance service providers to Polygon and long-standing community members, we look forward to putting forward a member from our engineering team to participate as a technical community delegate.

The future of Polygon looks bright and we look forward to more deeply participating in it’s growth and security!

[swader]

Bruno, throwing my hat in the ring for Community Delegate. You can find me on X as @bitfalls.

Started in Eth in 2015 with Solidity tutorials and auditing, then proceeded to do technical writing at Status before going to do tech education for Web3 Foundation and Polkadot, being intimately familiar with novel forms of on-chain governance structures. There I founded a team which created 5+ ERCs for modular NFTs, now in widespread use across the gaming ecosystem, allowing unparalleled compatibility to the point of creating a global item economy for completely unrelated games and protocols.

I believe have a deep enough understanding of technical issues to be able to explain them to the community along with why I am voting the way I am voting. I have a keen interest in governance and I would like the opportunity to affect some change from within.

[everstake_masha]

I’m Masha, and I’m excited to apply for the role of Community Delegate. I’ve been working with Polygon PoS for almost four years now as the Lead Blockchain Manager at Everstake.
During this time, I’ve been deeply involved in the ecosystem, focusing on education, research (can be found here), and staying up-to-date with the latest developments.

I believe that a strong governance system is essential for the future of Polygon. As a Community Delegate, I will:

Ensure proposals and upgrades are secure and beneficial for the network.
Make transparent, informed decisions that reflect the community’s best interests.
Cover, explain and analyze all events and decisions in detail to keep the community up to date.
Encourage active community participation and feedback.

I’m thrilled at the possibility of serving as a Community Delegate and contributing to our collective success. Thank you for considering my application!

If you have any questions - find me on X

[topnft]

Thank you sir for all informations and sharing that a good work

[pablo]

Hello everyone, I’m Pablo the Penguin. I’ve been deeply involved in the blockchain space, particularly with QiDao since its inception. My journey has taken me through the highs and lows of DeFi since 2021, witnessing and contributing to its evolution over the years.

I have experience in pioneering omnichain bridging, optimizing liquidation mechanisms, and enhancing cross-chain governance. My work has covered a broad spectrum of challenges and growing pains in the DeFi space. I am eager to bring my expertise and dedication to the role of a Community Delegate, helping to shape a secure and efficient future for the Polygon network.

[Tane]

Hello Polygon community,

We are thrilled to be a Community Delegate and contribute to the protocol governance going forward.

Introduce Yourself

Tané is formed with a group of crypto-native product builders, based in Tokyo, Dubai and New York. We have an investment arm that has been focusing on infrastructure. We invested in projects in fields such as ZK/FHE, interoperability, and MEV. We also have a network operation entity where we contribute to projects with node operation and governance participation. We are a member of the Optimism Grants Council and active delegate in Optimism, Arbitrum Lido and Uniswap.

Explain Your Vision/Platform

We will contribute to making Polygon more attractive to application builders and, ultimately, to users, by

• Maximizing the use of our experience as a developer and our knowledge of technical themes
• Keeping ourselves transparent and communicating with the community including delegators properly
• Actively participating in the activities around the community

Technical familiarity with: …

Regarding our technical familiarity, we have two points to share.

The first one is the background of our co-founder, Takeshi, who will be the main representative from Tané. He was a senior software engineer for Twitter and other tech startups for 8 years. He worked on frontend (mobile web application and iOS app) and backend (Scala-based API services and data analysis platform). He has currently been responsible for operating blockchain nodes including Ethereum, Avalanche, EigenLayer/DA and Secret Network, thus he is quite familiar with how the blockchain works at each infrastructure level.

Additionally, we have been gaining a good amount of knowledge in key tech themes such as ZK and interoperability in the process of finding projects in the space and making decisions on whether to invest or not. Last year, we had writings on shared sequencing and Cosmos IBC. We also hosted a research-oriented side event at EDCON this year.

Ability to voting and providing feedback on technical Polygon Improvement Proposals submitted by the Protocol Council.

We are quite familiar with the technology as shared above, and we have been engaging in technical discussions in DAOs such as Lido. We believe we are pretty capable of actively participating in technical discussions in Polygon and giving feedback on proposals.

Accountability: As a technical delegate, you will be tasked with keeping the Protocol Council accountable. You should, however, also maintain accountability to the token holders who delegate to you.

As our value, we believe transparency is a vital trait in decentralized systems. We communicate our findings, feedback, opinions, disagreements and praises in a clear and constructive manner. We believe transparent communications should lead to better discussions and decisions to thrive.

Active participation in Polygon community spaces, including the forum and discord.

We have been actively participating in the governance of DAOs we are contributing to. This is because we believe fulfilling roles and keeping ourselves responsible are important qualities as a delegate. When we say we are active in governance and community activities, we don’t simply mean commenting or participating passively. Especially in governance, we consistently strive to make meaningful and insightful contributions rather than just increasing the volume of our statements. This has been our consistent approach in all the DAOs we’ve participated in, and we will apply the same principle to Polygon as well.

Commitment

As we shared so far, we will maximize the use of our experience as a developer and our knowledge of technical themes, particularly ZK and related technologies, to contribute to building a superior Polygon protocol.
Moreover, we will leverage our experience from various governance activities to contribute not only to participating in the governance but also working towards realizing better protocol governance.

[topnft]

Thank you sir for all goods informations

[Mateusz]

Hey everyone, with the upcoming launch of the Governance Hub, any community member may now preregister to become a technical community delegate.

Feel free to set up your profile and make sure to amplify it once the Governance Hub is live!

Delegate Registration Page: https://governance.polygon.technology/