gm everyone!
Below is my application for the domain allocator role under the category of Education, Community Growth, and Events.
Name: Shreddy
Forum Username: Shreddy
Twitter: @shreddydefi (sorry I can’t post more than two links >.<)
What is your experience in the interested domain?
I have quite a bit of experience in building & scaling crypto communities as well as working with grant programs, with a specialized focus in web3 grants.
Since 2020, I have been working with various crypto organizations, pioneering community building and growth in web3. Those organizations include: Olympus DAO, Klima DAO, Spice Finance, & Jones DAO. I have served in a lead marketing role for 3 of those organizations; Olympus, Spice, and Jones.
Within each org, I have helped develop & grow communities with memberships numbering in the 10’s of thousands. Through my help, each of these protocols reached new levels of success, TVL, and engagement.
Likewise, I have experience working with Grant programs. I was an early contributor and advisor to both the Olympus Grants & Olympus Incubator programs during my role as Marketing Lead at Olympus. Some of the projects I advised on ended up becoming prominent Arbitrum protocols such as Vesta & Jones DAO, the latter of which I am now a lead contributor of.
Here are some links to those programs:
- Olympus Grants: OIP-55 - Olympus Grants Program - OlympusDAOForum
- Olympus Incubator: OIP-41 - Launch Olympus Incubator program - OlympusDAOForum
What would you like to see built on Arbitrum in your domain and what a good grant proposal looks like for you?
Speaking from experience as someone who runs communities & events in the Arbitrum space, there are a few specific things I myself would love to see built.
Examples of proposals I would be excited to see:
- Event management tools for Discord / Telegram / X
- Guild-style quest tools that disincentivize bot behavior and incentivize real engagement
- An Arbitrum-Wiki listing all prominent projects and their use cases. Updated regularly.
- Cross-community collaboration tools
- Social alignment tools / Referral links made simple
That being said, I am open to many new ideas and hope to see things that I may not have considered to begin with. I am happy to be surprised.
A good grant proposal should present a unique idea that will change the way people interact with Arbitrum in a practical way. A good grant proposal should NOT be a fork of another protocol or a small iteration of a previously existing project.
Time commitment:
There is no issue with the 15 hour time commitment. If a project requires more time for consideration, I will be flexible catering to that need.
Declaration of Conflict of Interest:
If any grant proposals for Jones DAO were to come about, I would be fine abstaining from that decision making process.