GCP Council Nominations

Procurement & Nominations
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After consideration Treasure’s Arbitrum Representative Council (ARC) would like to share the following reasoning on our GCP Council nominations

Before going into our picks, we want to highlight that the ARC has been grappling with how to deal with the weighting for this vote, and other election votes. We feel that the fractional approval voting system is fundamentally flawed and makes it hard for delegates to effectively indicate their preference for different candidates. The decision across how many candidates to split your vote fundamentally alters the outcomes of elections, and encourages tactical or last minute voting. None of which is optimal. In our opinion, a voting system that gives each delegate an equal vote for each individual candidate based on their voting power is the most fair (e.g. a simple x votes for x seats, ranked voting, etcetera). We are aware that Snapshot does not support the capability to apply other voting systems at this moment, but feel the need to throw this out there to see what other delegates’ opinions are on the matter.

We have opted to place our vote on two candidates, splitting our delegated voting power 50/50:

  1. Sam Saliba (@sam). Sam has extensive experience and contacts in traditional gaming, a diverse angel investment portfolio in web3, and experience working with several web3 gaming companies. This shows that aside from his experience in gaming, he understands web3 and knows how to navigate it. At the same time, Sam has been a long-time user, player, builder, and investor within the Arbitrum gaming landscape since its onset in 2021. This perspective is invaluable to be able to appropriately represent both Arbitrum DAO and Arbitrum gaming’s interest.
  2. Enric Pedró (@aepac). Enric is the only candidate with proficiency in Player Engagement. He has experience in optimizing games and revenue in a science-based manner, by applying relevant player engagement and data-driven strategies; besides, also having experience in applying relevant game KPI metrics for user acquisition purposes. This experience can be used to help optimize games, but also in relation to creating independent research on relevant metrics. Furthermore, his experience in mobile gaming and in-game monetization is particularly relevant in regards to the current state and inherent financial nature of web3 gaming.
  3. Coinflipcanada (@coinflip). Coinflipcanada is also one of our three preferred council seats, which is a perspective that is evidently shared with other Arbitrum delegates. As a member of the GCP Interim Transparency Council and a well-known and respected delegate and actor within Arbitrum, we believe he would be a strong representative on the Governance side. Given the ARC’s conviction in @coinflip getting elected to the council regardless of our vote for him, we opted to place our voting towards our other two picks.

Without touching on the candidacy of all other candidates, we wanted to share a few more thoughts on our thought process:

  • Indexing for games experience on the council beyond just Arbitrum DAO and governance expertise in order to satisfy the council’s oversight and fiduciary duties to ensure the GCP operates in accordance with the DAO’s best interests. In order to do so, the council members should have a deep understanding of web3 gaming as well as familiarity and experience with Arbitrum DAO.
  • Regarding the proficiency/mastery list, in general we do not agree fully on the importance of each of the domains and the need for all five to be represented. For instance, the makeup of the planned GCP Team comprises a General Counsel (legal), VP Finance (finance), and Program Director + Producer (operations) which meaningfully overlaps with the Operations Expert role. Given the scope of the GCP’s mandate of grants and investments to grow the share of builders and players within Arbitrum, having greater representation on games venture, player engagement, and growth and BD we felt is of the utmost importance.
  • Optimizing for new members to join the Arbitrum DAO roster of committees and councils to offer greater diversity and focus of time and energy to make the GCP as successful as possible.

Lastly, we would like to thank our fellow ARC members @CJ.Bzdewka and @thechaingamer.eth, and all other candidates more generally, for applying to this critical role as part of the GCP Council. It was a hard decision to come to, with so many great applications, which called for significant deliberation to determine both our voting approach as well as land at our final two selections.

We sincerely hope that many or all of the council nominations or applicants consider continuing to be involved within the GCP and Arbitrum gaming as a whole regardless of the outcome of this council election. We feel strongly that we can be even greater with your continued participation and engagement to truly make Arbitrum the home of web3 gaming.