Name (Organization or Individual)
Bhau
Wallet Address or ENS
Bhau.eth
Tally Profile URL
What area are you most interested in contributing to? Choose up to two tags:
⢠Public Goods funding
⢠DeFi development on Arbitrum
⢠NFT development on Arbitrum
⢠Gaming development on Arbitrum
⢠Improving Governance participation
⢠Supporting infrastructure
⢠Tooling, Improving protocol decentralization
⢠IRL Arbitrum community gatherings
Please share your stance on overall goals for the DAO:
The overarching goals of Arbitrum DAO should direct Decentralized Governance (via $ARB) towards harnessing Network Effects â increasing the N.
EIP-4337 Account Abstraction facilitates the process.
The aim of Liquidity Mining should be defined before it is initiated; if not specifically, then at least generally. DeFi Summer 2020 and the ensuing bull market taught us many lessons about governance token issuance. An important insight that should be integrated and applied is this:
Majority of farmed governance tokens were dumped for ETH, WBTC, and Stable-coins. The market behavior essentially signaled an absence of governance utility for these tokens; consequently, the governance tokens did not retain or store value. I.e., Greshamâs Law manifested in real time as Liquidity Pools were drained of âgoodâ money, driven out by âbadâ money. The systematic dismantling of Curve Liquidity Pools that precipitated USTâs de-peg and, then, the ensuing LUNA fiasco is likely the most resounding manifestation of this monetary principle in recent history.
The goal of Distributed Ledger Technology is to decentralize emergent innovations to the masses. To quote Steve Jobs,
âWe have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.â
Arbitrum DAOâs greatest priority should be to create value and deliver it to the end users â We, the People.
Through Decentralized Governance, we should direct the DAO to onboard as many people as possible. Policies of Action must be chained with Consequences of Outcomes. This is how we harness Network Effects and hold ourselves accountable; this is how we decentralize the Ethereum Network. Nobody should even mistakenly refer to our Infinite Garden as a Centralized Network, nor ETH as a Security.
If elected as a Delegate, I will gladly share these ideas in further detail.
Decentralized Finance will be prioritized because we have yet to optimize it and leverage Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to its full potential. When parametrized appropriately, combination of DeFi with Public Goods can facilitate a Regenerative environment. We can say this with minimized uncertainty because the Great John Nash has already mathematically solved the Cooperative Bargaining problem; the satisfaction of these 4 axioms creates a Non-Zero Game, and generates Collective Non-Zero Sum Outcomes (Public Goods):
⢠Scale Invariance
⢠Pareto Efficiency
⢠Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives
⢠Symmetry
As a natural consequence of Pareto Efficiency optimization, Positive Externalities are likely to benefit some, many, and essentially all tags.
Initially, Iâd like for us to focus on the following causes in order to ensure we help those people first who need it the most. Money makes the world go round.
This is of particular relevance in the midst of our ongoing banking crisis. Residency DAO is special to me.
More context below pertaining to Optimism & Base
Once we optimize the system to achieve these goals, perhaps we can consider onboarding each United State as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization.
Sample Voting Issue 1
Vote for or against?
For.
Hindsight is 20/20, so itâs easy to act as the armchair governor and state what could have been done differently. Importantly, we have to take risks lest we stifle innovation and progress altogether through paralysis by analysis.
What amendments would you make to the proposal, if any?
None, though moving forward Iâd recommend adopting innovative primitives from Elastic Decentralized Finance. Inversion of Price Elastic Digital Assets into Supply Elastic Digital Assets unlocks the value proposition of Double-Token Debts.
How would you approach the trade-off between centralization of authority and the ability to get things done?
Here, my approach is straightforward â letâs avoid reinventing the wheel. We can model the system(s) that have already optimized this. A prime example is the Nervous System. Within the Active Inference & Free Energy Principle framework, Information Entropy (Free Energy) is actively minimized by the Nervous System to accurately infer the future (minimize Prediction Errors).
Mechanistically, information (entropy) is perpetually entering the Nervous System and it is processed via distributed computing in parallel at the level of individual neurons, collectively at the level of function specific regions, and then integrally at the level of dynamic functional brain networks. This maps on to individual user wallets, DAOs, and a global web3 layer on Ethereum.
Therefore, Iâd like to simultaneously have delegate power on Optimism, Base, and/or other Layer 2s/3s built on Ethereum. This need not necessarily entail a Conflict of Interest; rather, it can promote Checks & Balances.
More clarity here can be shared through media, but at this time my account is restricted in this regard.
Sample Voting Issue 2
Outside the flipping of the vote, how would you choose to handle this situation? Elaborate
- Full Reimbursement
- No Reimbursement
- Split Reimbursement
Full Reimbursement. Debtors should be made whole, as they are the ones who delegated Trust in this case.
In such scenarios, a conceptual application of the Learned Hand Rule (Calculus of Negligence) can offer valuable pragmatic insights.
Roughly â if the Probability of Loss (P) x Gravity of the Loss (L) is greater than the Cost of Burden for the entrusted party (B; smart contract engineers, auditors, and associated entities):
P x B > L â then, full reimbursement should proceed.
Edit: P x L > B â then, full reimbursement should proceed.
Measure thrice; cut once.
Languages I speak and write:
English, Hindi, Marathi, Medicine, Psychiatry, Symbolese (Language of the Soul vis-Ă -vis Collective Unconscious), Mentalese (Language of the Mind)
Disclosure of Conflict(s) of Interest:
I partake in Decentralized Governance at Forth DAO. Instead of a Conflict, I believe this would be a Focus of Interest for Arbitrum DAO. I retain Optimism Governance Tokens as well. Of note, intrinsically I have no Conflicts of Interest as the overarching goal is oriented towards effecting Collective Non-Zero Sum Outcomes.