[Election & Application Thread] Arbitrum D.A.O. (Domain Allocator Offerings) Grant Program

Applications for DAO programs
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Applicant Information

  • Name of Applicant & Applicant’s Representative (If applicable): Saswat Sahu
  • Telegram Handle (if applicable): POC @republicofocean
  • Twitter/X Handle (if applicable): (x.com)
  • LinkedIn Profile (if applicable): https://www.linkedin.com/in/saswatksahu/
  • The role being applied for: Education, Community Growth and Events

BACKGROUND & SKILLS:
Saswat Sahu

Saswat is a Global Visiting Professor at EGADE, specialising in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. EGADE (
Tec de Monterrey is the premier university of Latin America)

He comes with a decade-long experience in strategy consulting across multiple geographies. He is a Bain advisor and has worked with Deloitte, Accenture Strategy & other global consulting firms in the UK, Middle East, US & APAC. Saswat is a MassChallenge (US/Israel) & On Deck (Silicon Valley) Alumnus and is the host of 2 podcasts. SaaS it up is one of the top SaaS podcasts in the world where he speaks with Investors and founders. In collaboration with Forbes (US), he is relaunching his second podcast named as the Web3 Ocean Pod. He was the speaker at Tulum Crypto Fest 2024 in Mexico last December. He is a Blockchain expert and has been a Delegate to Token2049 (Singapore) and Taipei Blockchain Week (Taiwan). His Research work revolves around Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and innovations in the decentralised AI canvas.

You can learn about his work at https://arbalestpartners.com/

Saswat is the co-founder of Offchain Monterrey and has spearheaded few offchain IRL meet-ups to bring university students and blockchain ecosystem players together.

With a Builder score of 77, I have participated in previous EthGlobal Hackathons too.

Domain Related Experience & Vision:
Education at universities follow the academic curriculum. Blockchain innovations and knowledge base hasn’t reached the universities yet. Primarily because university professors are not hands on blockchain users or ecosystem participants. With a decade long strategy consulting experience, when I explored academia, I started teaching about entrepreneurship and venture capital. As I moved my base from India to Latin America, I saw a huge gap in terms of blockchain educational knowledge base in the academia. So, I gradually introduced blockchain concepts within my curriculum. I am aiming to curate more knowledge assets for students via Podcasts, Blogs, Research Papers and cohort based projects in accelerators. As a mentor in Kernel0x and Foundership, I started delivering classes to my students in universities and cohort programs. Now, I am aiming to record classes and mint it on-chain via podcasts and use decentralised socials (Lens) for distribution. I founded the Offchain Monterrey community to help university students with the resources to get started with their blockchain journey.

My quest is to make an impact in the education space and I think getting integrated within the ArbitrumDAO would give me the right group of peers to accelerate my goals and knowledge base.

You may check out some of my on-chain classes which are minted on the blockchain:

  1. Hey
  2. Hey
  3. Hey
  4. Hey (Market Segmentation)
  5. Hey
  6. Hey
  7. Hey
  8. Hey

This year, I shared my DAO experiences with my DAOpunk friends in Austin.

Collaborative Vision:

I am strong believer of collaboration. If stakeholders with strong expertise in education collaborate, then the final offering for the end users is of high quality.

  1. Socratic Methodology: I usually start my classes at the university following a socratic technique by asking the right questions. If we ask the students, what they would like to learn within the blockchain space (Ethereum, L2s, et al), we would be amazed at the lack of knowledge assets available in the ecosystem because blockchain ecosystems and protocols haven’t identified the teaching pedagogy for university (technical and business) students yet.
  2. Knowledge Assets: I would love to build knowledge assets for students (+ working professionals & freelancers) via a ShotGlasses templates that we use in consulting engagements.
  3. University Research: I would love to accelerate the linkages between universities and protocols (Ethereum, Arbitrum etc) in 2025. I have socialised this plan amongst my friends and colleagues and would love to discuss with the DAO members in the coming years.
  4. Blogs & Research Papers. Blogs are usually for our friends but Research Papers needs long term viewpoints. I’ll discuss about the research work we are undergoing within our university peer groups.

Grant-Related Experience

I was running the Accelerator program at StatesDAO in 2022. You can check out the format here.

Having participated in DAO grants programs and running DAO accelerators (scouting projects and funding opportunities for them) has made me an active participant in the DAO ecosystem.

I have been reading the proposals on the forum and I am aligned on many of the pointers shared by our friends. My approach would be effective collaboration and stakeholder management amongst all these participants.

Successful programs needs the following:

  • Effective AI driven Program Management
  • Quick Responses to the queries of the stakeholders

As easy it may sound, it’s hard to implement it without the right expertise and experience. I was impressed by the responses (TAT) I got from @JoJo on the telegram chats.

Declaration of Conflict of Interest

None

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