Applicant / Nominee Information
Name: Varit Ruangsiri
Email Address: varit@curialab.xyz
Telegram Handle: @v3dao
Current Occupation: Co-founder, Curia Lab
Country of Residence & Time Zone: Bangkok, Thailand (GMT+7)
Qualifications and Experience
Domain Expertise
Primary: Business Development, Venture Building, and Strategy & Operations Secondary: Corporate Finance, Capital Allocation, and Financial & Risk Management
Network and Experience
I am the Co-founder of Curia Lab, a governance analytics and research team. Before founding Curia Lab, I worked at SCB 10X, the venture-captital & venture-building arm of Siam Commercial Bank, one of the largest financial groups in Thailand and SEA. I sat on both sides of the table there: as a researcher evaluating emerging technologies, business models, and risks, and as a builder operating inside ventures during their early stages. That dual exposure to evaluation and execution is what I bring to oversight work, understanding how a venture is structured, where it is strong, and where it is fragile, helps me read whether an organisation is actually on track. Curia Lab itself was incubated inside SCB 10X in 2023 and spun out into a Singapore-incorporated company in February 2024.
Through prior oversight work on milestone-based grant programs and as part of the metrics & milestones council, I have reviewed delivery and performance across more than 200+ builder teams. That work is the closest analogue to the OAT’s accountability mandate: defining success in advance, asking uncomfortable questions early, separating real progress from optics, and writing transparent assessments the community can rely on. Combined with operating ventures from the inside at SCB 10X and running Curia Lab as a company — with the budget, hiring, and counterparty decisions that entails — it covers both sides of what OAT oversight requires: judging whether an organisation is delivering, and understanding the operational reality of the entity being judged.
Operating from Southeast Asia, I have built a strong network of crypto-native operators, founders, and builders across the region where OpCo will likely need to recruit as it scales into these emerging markets. I am an active voice in the regional Ethereum and DAO community, was an early advocate for bringing Devcon to Bangkok, and have spoken on DAO governance and tooling at industry events including SEA Blockchain Week, Governance Day, REDeFiNETOMORROW2026 hosted by SCB10x <> Bloomberg.
Arbitrum Governance Contributions
I have been an active contributor to ArbitrumDAO governance since its launch in 2023 through Curia. A summary of activity is on the @Curia profile, and headline contributions include:
- Arbitrum Governance Analytics Dashboard and monthly analytics reports: built by Curia Lab and funded through a Questbook grant. Live since 2024, the dashboard is a widely-referenced analytics surface for Arbitrum holders, voting power, proposals, participation, and delegate behaviour.
- Quantifying Decentralization: Analysis of Voting Power in Arbitrum DAO: a quantitative research report to measure power concentration across the Delegated Voting Power Layer and the Proposal Voting Layer, with recommendations on supporting small and mid-tier delegate participation.
- Curia Forum Score Integration: a methodology integrated into the dashboard that quantifies delegate engagement beyond on-chain voting, combining Proposal, Engagement, and Activeness scores.
- RAD Dashboard: a public, auditable dashboard supporting OpCo’s administration of the Rewarding Active Delegates program.
- Curia AI: an onchain and offchain governance assistant currently in beta with Arbitrum delegates.
- Active delegate with published voting rationale in the Curia Delegate Communication Thread.
OpCo Vision
I see OpCo as a high-trust execution layer that the DAO can verify rather than have to trust. The DAO retains strategic authority, OpCo handles operational complexity, and the OAT provides the bridge of accountability. Beyond keeping the lights on, I want to see OpCo help Arbitrum become a genuine home for builders, the place where the strongest teams choose to launch, scale, and stay.
Over the next 3 to 5 years, I believe OpCo should be responsible for:
- Standing up and managing the operational success of DAO-approved initiatives
- Proactively sourcing and onboarding builders into the Arbitrum ecosystem, including from underrepresented regions like Asia
- Setting a common reporting spine so performance across funded entities is comparable
- Ensuring deep, accurate, and timely reporting to delegates
- Moving quickly on hiring, contracting, and counterparty negotiations on behalf of the DAO
- Maintaining a clearly bounded mandate, never becoming a shadow Foundation
I would consider OpCo successful if:
- Any token holder can see in near real-time who is funded, how much, against what KPIs, and what was delivered
- OpCo itself is reviewed quarterly against predefined success metrics
- The DAO has visibly broadened its builder and contributor base, with measurable growth in mid-tier delegate participation
- Delegates and the wider community trust OpCo because its work is verifiable, not because of personalities or informal influence
References
- Available on request. Contact details will be shared privately to OpCo during the eligibility evaluation period.
Disclosures
- My only paid contributor relationship with the Arbitrum DAO was the Questbook grant for the Arbitrum Governance Analytics Dashboard. All milestones have been completed and no payments are currently being received.
- I previously served on the Optimism Milestones & Metrics Council. That term has concluded and I no longer hold any role with Optimism or its grant programs after end of this month.
- Curia Lab is an active delegate at several other L2/L1 & DeFi protocols. If elected, I will recuse the Curia delegate address from any votes that bear on Arbitrum-competitive matters and will publish a recusal log.
- If elected, I will not personally benefit from any new Arbitrum DAO contracts signed during my OAT term. Any future contracts will be handled by other Curia Lab team members, and I will recuse myself from any OAT decision touching Curia Lab proposals or contracts.
Declarations
I understand that any offer to join and hold a position in the OAT is contingent on:
- Successfully completing as well as maintaining updated all relevant non-disclosure agreements, KYC requirements, and other necessary documents
- Not being a direct representative or full-time employee at network competitors (e.g., Solana, Polygon, Optimism)
- An individual will be entitled to run as a candidate for the election. No single organisation should be overly represented in the OAT. There should be no more than 1 candidate associated with a single entity.
- If a candidate is elected on behalf of an organisation, then the OAT membership is tied to them and cannot be rotated to someone else in the organisation.
- Being aligned with the community values listed in The Amended Constitution of the Arbitrum DAO, following the Code of Conduct for delegates, being committed to prioritizing the Arbitrum DAO’s needs, and acting in absolute good faith and utmost honesty to fulfill their duties to the best of their abilities.
I confirm that I have read and understood all the content within this form and that the information submitted is accurate and complete.