Name: Solarcurve aka balancermaxi.eth
Snapshot profile: Snapshot
Discord username/TG username: solarcurve#5075 / @solarcurve
I have read and understood the Delegate process: Yes
I understand that becoming a delegate is a significant commitment: Yes
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
I was a LP on Balancer v1 before the token launched - I was never a significant percent of the TVL but at times my 8 token 1% fee pool was responsible for a noticeable percentage of the 24h fees. My motivation for being a delegate is because I still believe Balancer has incredible potential and after being here for two years I can bring a lot of experience to the table. My focus will be on growing Balancer’s most important metric (revenue), pushing to minimize the amount of BAL we must sell to fund ongoing operations, and bringing value to the veBAL system.
My view on Fernando’s vision for Balancer:
I don’t disagree that projects building on top of us is important and should be an easy thing to do. However, I strongly believe we have all the tools necessary to be successful and gain market share entirely on our own - we don’t need to wait around for Element or Sense to hit it big. Curve and Uniswap have many projects building on top of them because they are the largest dex’s - the biggest advertisement we can make for why you should build on Balancer is for Balancer to become a bigger player in the dex market.
How do we gain market share? Embrace the veBAL flywheel, focus on revenue generation, move quickly to establish ourselves in promising L2’s. I have been pushing these items for a long time - I proposed raising the protocol fee to 50% (I proposed turning it on nearly a year ago), I pushed for a new pool factory that will apply the protocol fee to yield bearing tokens like wstETH and boosted pools, and I put together the deal with BeethovenX to put us in the best possible position to dominate Optimism.
There is much more to do though I think we are better positioned now than we’ve ever been to start gaining market share from Sushi and Curve in particular. As a delegate I will continue working towards these goals with as much transparency as possible.
My web3 interests: DAO’s, Governance, DeFi, some NFT’s here and there. I believe we should rely on veBAL voters to make good decisions rather than put rules in place that make decisions for them - I have done my best to help design Balancer’s governance system with this in mind.
Languages I speak/write: English
My skills and areas of expertise: I have been in the Balancer community for two years so I have some first hand experience in DAO’s and Governance. I’m also an avid reader of governance forums. I consider myself DeFi native and was a user of protocols like Uniswap, Curve, and Balancer before they launched tokens.
Other web3 projects I’m involved in:
Advisor to BeethovenX, otherwise most of my interactions with other projects are on behalf of Balancer.