Oversight and Transparency Committee (OAT) - June 2026 Elections Application Thread

Applications for DAO programs
15

Applicant / Nominee Information

  • Full Name: Jojo
  • Contact Information: @jojothecow on Telegram / @JoJo on the Arbitrum forum
  • Current Occupation: Lead analyst and advisor at Blockworks; Program Manager of the Arbitrum D.A.O. Grant Program S3
  • Country of Residence / Time Zone: Italy / CET

Nominator Information

(Not applicable - self-application)

Applicant / Nominee Qualifications and Experience

Identify one of the domains described within the Desired Qualifications section in which you have the most experience and describe that experience:

Corporate Finance, Capital Allocation, and Financial & Risk Management.

Most of my professional work, before my time in the Arbitrum DAO, has been about deciding where capital should go and what could go wrong once it gets there. Even before joining Blockworks I always did risk analysis and modeling for several Arbitrum-native protocols. Today, as lead advisor, my day-to-day work is producing actionable reports for protocols: fee and revenue structures, loan book analysis, comparative economics, and risk assessments.

Within Arbitrum specifically, my experience has been mostly related to be an allocator on behalf of the DAO:

The combination matters for the OAT specifically since the overarching goal of the committee is, at the very end and among others, analyst work applied to oversight.

Describe your network and reputation within the blockchain/technology industry. Have you previously represented a crypto brand and/or navigated DAO governance:

I have been a delegate in the Arbitrum DAO since 2023, recognized by the Arbitrum Foundation as the second highest contributor after L2Beat. Through Blockworks I have multiple ecosystem connections and work daily with protocols, foundations, and service providers across the industry. Within Arbitrum, the roles listed above mean I have worked directly with most of the DAO’s recurring stakeholders: the Foundation, Offchain Labs, Entropy, OpCo, AGV, program operators, and grantee teams.

Detail your experience in advisory, governance, and/or oversight roles:

  • Current member of the AGV council, alongside David Bolger (OCL) John Kennedy and Tim Chang. I was also member of the interim council of the GCP, alongside krz, BobRossi, limes, and coinflip at the very start of the gaming entity
  • Advisor/evaluator across four DAO incentive and grant programs (LTIPP, STIP.b, Stylus, Questbook)
  • Program Manager of the D.A.O. Grant Program, where I am currently the operator producing the reporting and accountability the DAO expects
  • Signer in the Arbitrum Multi-sig Support Service (MSS)
  • Previously governance lead at Camelot

Have you previously contributed to the Arbitrum DAO? Describe any relevant experiences through which you’ve gained an understanding of the DAO’s current structure, contributors, and programs:

Yes, continuously since 2023. Two points worth adding. First, I have seen the DAO’s programs from both sides: as a delegate voting on and scrutinizing them, and as an operator running one and being scrutinized. That dual perspective is directly relevant to a committee whose job is to hold an operating entity accountable without micromanaging it. Second, as part of the D.A.O. Grant Program I authored the mid-term summary report analyzing the state of Arbitrum from the perspective of the teams building on it, which required a working knowledge from the perspective of DAO programs, delegates, and protocols’ operators.

Given the scope of OpCo is relatively broad in its current form, describe how you view OpCo’s role within the DAO and what it should accomplish to deem the entity a success over the next 3-5 years:

OpCo should be the DAO’s organization and execution layer, not its decision-making one. The DAO should be able to decide once properly informed on what is happening, ecosystem’s goals and other info that, with the current setup, only OpCo is able to produce through connections with the Foundation and Labs entities; OpCo makes the decision happen with professional standards. In 3-5 years I would call OpCo a success if three things are true:

  1. Execution speed in the entities measurably better. Proposals and programs that are needed and havea consensus in the DAO should be executed by the appropriate entities in a timely manner. We should not spend time in the limbo made by the assignment of ownership, the establishment of deliverables etc. We don’t have infinite time. OpCo should directly act on this.
  2. Follow-up on initiatives is materially better. Proposals, Researches, Succesfull programs that are well executed do not die after their natural end but they are put at the service and are served by other entities and programs. We should not reinvet the wheel everytime, and we should leverage what we have created so far instead of leaving it unused. OpCo should create shared repositories with the knowledge of all entities.
  3. OpCo establish shared cross-functional frameworks for all the entities. We are at the point in which Foundation, Labs, Entropy, DAO, all communicate their results and before that execute tasks in their own way. We dissipate a ton of energy through this, with unaligned uninformed people working on the same problems from different angles. OpCo should allow for better human and knowledge efficiency by putting together different arms of different entities oriented toward the same tasks.

My general view on committees, stated publicly many times as a delegate, applies to the OAT itself: if the DAO elects a committee and assigns a budget, it should trust that committee and judge it on outcomes without micromanaging it. That said, the outcomes should be material, measurable and somehow pre established, albeit with the ability to change it during the course if this is what aligns with new missions, purposes and ambitions the ecosystem might have.

Additional Information

While not required, I want to briefly explain the reasoning behind my candidacy.

I have professionally started my crypto career in Arbitrum. I have been, here, a delegate, an evaluator, and an operator.
DAOs are now different from 6 months ago, and this is reflected by how they operate.
My goal is to participate to the ecosystem by having the highest degree of impact possible; as of today, through the DAO, this is possible only through the OpCo.
At a more grounded level, know the programs OpCo coordinates with because I have evaluated, run, or overseen most of them, and I know what good reporting looks like because producing it is my job. I also have relationship with all the entities involved, and have a deep degree of context about each one.

References

  • Krz (L2Beat)
  • Raam (Arbitrum Foundation)

Disclosures

I am employed by Blockworks, currently winding down its Arbitrum delegate role. I am the Program Manager of the D.A.O. Grant Program, and I am part of the Council of AGV. I am in the RAD program. All DAO roles should come to an end either right at the start or slightly after the new OAT mandate; I plan to step down from any DAO role still active at that time.

Declarations

  • I understand that any offer to join and hold a position in the OAT is contingent on successfully completing and maintaining all relevant non-disclosure agreements, KYC requirements, and other necessary documents.
  • I am not a direct representative or full-time employee at network competitors.
  • I understand that no single organisation should be overly represented in the OAT, that no more than 1 candidate may be associated with a single entity, and that if elected, OAT membership is tied to me and cannot be rotated to someone else in my organization.
  • I am aligned with the community values listed in The Amended Constitution of the Arbitrum DAO, will follow the Code of Conduct for delegates, am committed to prioritizing the Arbitrum DAO’s needs, and will act in absolute good faith and utmost honesty to fulfill my duties to the best of my abilities.
  • I confirm that I have read and understood all the content within this form and that the information submitted is accurate and complete: Yes
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