Profile of polynya in Optimism
Posts by polynya
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Polynya - Delegate Communication Thread
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: Oct. 27, 2024, midnight
Content: Voted for the Governor Update Proposal # 3 , however, the Agora UI doesn’t show my vote. Is it a bug? Where else can I check? Onchain vote was executed: OP Mainnet Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | OP Mainnet Etherscan 6
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Optimism Working Models for Decentralization
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: Oct. 18, 2024, 2:10 a.m.
Content: Looking good! I’d like to see a Phase D where both Security Council and Optimism Foundation itself are dissolved.
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Polynya - Delegate Communication Thread
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 19, 2024, 10:43 p.m.
Content: Electing Security Council is the most important decision, as they ultimately provide security until we get to Stage 2 decentralisation. As a result, I have in mind a couple of criteria:
Positively contributed to the space for 5 + years with an immaculate reputation
Jurisdictional diversity
Aligned strongly with Optimism’s values
Having preliminarily browsed through some of the nominations, I can only think of 2 or 3 people meeting the above criteria. For most proposals, I’m willing to give the benefit of doubt, but this is too important. It’s a tough one - it’ll have to be one of those where I wait till later in the cycle to vote.
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Security Council Election Town Hall Cohort A
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 16, 2024, 12:57 p.m.
Content: In the event that a government agency in your jurisdiction or an influential organisation attempts to coordinate an irregular upgrade not approved by governance, how will you respond?
Similarly, a scenario where OP Labs tries to push through an emergency upgrade, what are the due diligence resources/measures you have available?
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Polynya - Delegate Communication Thread
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 2, 2024, 5:30 a.m.
Content: Thanks for chiming in. That may be the case, but I was commenting about the specific opt-in process for season 6 , which required Warpcast mobile app, as informed by your colleague. I’ll look into the docs later, thanks. For now, I’ll focus on the Delegate role.
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Polynya - Delegate Communication Thread
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 2, 2024, 12:48 a.m.
Content: It’s not just that - you need to have Warpcast installed on mobile, period. If it was just linking a Farcaster account, I’d complain about it, but maybe I’d understand, but forcing a fully centralized third party mobile app is unacceptable.
I have no problem with that being an option, but at least have Sign in with Ethereum alongside it?
As for the manual input, at this point I’d opt out anyway until this is fixed.
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Polynya - Delegate Communication Thread
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: July 31, 2024, 8:29 a.m.
Content: As we don’t have “Citizen Communication Threads”, I’m going to leave an update here. Citizens have been required to opt-in to Season 6 . However, to opt in, there’s a process that requires installation of the Warpcast mobile application. I believe forcing citizens to install a fully centralized third party mobile application (or even an external decentralized protocol like Farcaster) is against the OP Collective’s ethos of openness and accessibility. The only requirement should be to hold an Ethereum-compatible address, as is the case with Token House and all DAOs I’m aware of. I passed on this feedback to a Citizen House operator a few days ago, and hope it’ll be addressed in the future. Until then, I’ll continue as a Delegate to the Token House, but will no longer be a Citizen.
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Polynya - Delegate Communication Thread
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: July 14, 2024, 3:49 a.m.
Content: I’ve made a big mistake - I wrongly voted for the Intent # 3 B as Abstain (which is the default) instead of For. Sincerely apologise, and hope the quorum and approval threshold will now be met without my vote. In future, I hope to see the ability to revote like in other proposal types. Sorry again.
Update, 18 th Jul: The thresholds have been met, so my vote doesn’t matter - relieved!
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Polynya - Delegate Communication Thread
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: June 15, 2024, 10:16 p.m.
Content: General feedback for Board/Council elections. As the collective grows, we’re seeing many applications, and it may continue increasing. The key to a productive council is not necessary just throwing a bunch of qualified individuals together, but rather, a team that can collaborate together. Also, it’s difficult for us delegates to go through 20 + applicants, so it’s understandable most voters are sticking to the well-known applicants. I’m not sure how the election process can be reflected these, but something to consider.
Addendum: First, sorry for the poor grammar in the original comment. I’ve now voted for all proposals, and I’ve tried to mix in new voices for the election proposals. I found some great candidates who have received negligible votes - which goes back to what I was saying about too many applications, so delegates stick with the familiar names. But we need fresh insights, else we will stagnate. On a different note, I’m experimenting with the newly formed ZK Nation. It’ll have no impact on my role here at Optimism. These are the only two DAOs I participate in.
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Open letter to Polynya
by polynya - No Role
Posted on: May 29, 2024, 1:32 a.m.
Content: To quote my last blog post 7 : I’ll try and make the occasional cast on Farcaster, and I’ll absolutely fulfill my delegate and investor obligations, and privately help anyone who wants to fight against degeneracy and build useful products. But this is the end of the road for this “polynya” blog. In short, nothing has changed from the Optimism governance perspective. The only “announcement” in that post was that I will not write any more blog posts under this pseudonym. Separately, before then, I had a delegate update where I updated my participation intention 2 . I have never missed a vote since the very first proposal, and that’ll continue to be the case until I make another update. Hope that clarifies everything. Separately, my delegation is not as powerful as it used to be - less than 10 % of the active participants - but I do recognize it may sway contentious proposals like the Code of Council Rescoping vote (as can you, and about 10 other delegates). In these cases, be rest assured I’ll be following the discussion closely.
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