Name (organization or individual): Gauntlet

Wallet Address or ENS: gauntletgov.eth

Tally Profile URL: Tally | Gauntlet

What area are you most interested in contributing to? choose up to two tags:

• DeFi development on Arbitrum

• Tooling, Improving protocol decentralization

Please share your stance on overall goals for the DAO:
eg — how aggressive should we be in liquidity mining, what is the goal of the DAO?
Please share your stance on issues that were raised previously, in other communities, as described below:

Gauntlet’s delegate guidelines are informed by our core values and prior experience analyzing both protocols and blockchain networks.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen competition and innovation in L2’s ramp up dramatically. In this landscape, many L2’s have failed to keep up with market changes by not investing heavily in forward-looking development.

Ongoing issuance is a powerful mechanism to incentivize development. We believe that Arbitrum should invest significant resources into ecosystem growth, R&D, insurance, auditing, and security analysis. We see the following examples of spending as crucial to the continued competitiveness of the L2:

• Market risk
• Research, development, and security
• Ecosystem growth
• Supporting novel use-cases

Sample Voting Issue 1:
Gauntlet was (and still is) a delegate for Uniswap at the time of this vote. While Gauntlet abstained, per our Uniswap Voting Philosophy, it should be noted that the Flipside team has proven to be valuable contributors across DeFi and DAOs.

Given the contention around centralization/concentration, an amendment to be considered would be iterative polling related to various aspects of the proposal. For example, gaining additional UNI holder input, via a vote, on committee mandate(s), committee structure, committee personnel, and term lengths.

Sample Voting Issue 2:
When taking all of the factors into account, Gauntlet would opt for split reimbursement. While it wasn’t a stated responsibility of the team to compensate users for losses the protocol endures, it’s clear from the initial vote and discussion that a partial reimbursement would have the best chance of restoring user faith in the protocol and allow it to potentially grow beyond the state it was in. Broadly speaking, these situations should be looked at on a case-by-case basis, as no two situations are identical.

Languages we speak and write: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, German, Greek, French, Russian, Farsi, Degen

Conflicts of Interest:

• Gauntlet has and will continue to deploy our platform to other protocols and DAOs.
• Gauntlet holds token positions from prior work including but not limited to COMP, LQTY, AAVE, SUSHI, and BAL.
• Gauntlet’s investors may hold positions in Arbitrum and other protocols.
• Gauntlet sits on the dYdX Grants Council as a reviewer. Other Gauntlet employees may participate in other governance councils or DAOs in the future.
• Gauntlet is an active delegate on Compound, Uniswap, Aave, and dYdX.