Tané - Grants DAO committee member application

CoW Grants Program
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Name

Tané

Contacts

Relevant experience

  • Experience on the Optimism Grants Council
    • Served/serving on the Grants-related Council of the Optimism Collective in Season 6 and 7.
    • Participated in the review, evaluation, and distribution of grants.
    • Familiar with effective workflow design for grant approvals, stakeholder engagement, and on-chain administration.
    • In Season 7, we are placing greater emphasis on supporting the delivery of projects that have received grants, which is very similar to what is discussed as Steward in this thread.
  • Active participation in 20+ DAOs as a major delegate.
    • Involved in governance activities across Optimism, Arbitrum, Lido, ENS, Morpho, Safe, Gitcoin, Obol, Near, ZKsync, Scroll, Jito, Compound, ParaSwap, and more.
    • Authored governance proposals and successfully navigated them through voting to pass in DAOs such as Lido.
    • Leverages cross-ecosystem insights to ensure the CoW Grants Committee benefits from diverse best practices in DeFi and governance.
  • Broad project assessment & support
    • Evaluated a wide range of applications (infrastructure, DeFi, middleware) for both technical feasibility and community impact.
    • Provided ongoing guidance and resource support for grant recipients, focusing on both short-term deliverables and long-term ecosystem growth.
    • We can also leverage the insights we gained through our venture investment activities in evaluating projects.
  • Hands-on technical and product building background
    • Team members include a former senior engineer at Twitter and a product manager at a unicorn startup with tens of millions of MAU.
    • Quite familiar with MEV as we have been running nodes of different chains including Ethereum, and invested in MEV-related projects like Fastlane and Titan Builders.
    • Skilled at assessing project feasibility, reviewing technical roadmaps, and spotting integration or security issues early.

Motivation

We are impressed by CoW Protocol’s innovative approach to addressing MEV and enhancing the trading experience for users. CoW DAO’s commitment to decentralization and better UX resonates with our values, and we see tremendous potential for the protocol to serve as a cornerstone of the DeFi ecosystem for a long term. We believe that a well-structured and efficiently managed grants program is crucial for fostering innovation and attracting talented builders to the CoW ecosystem.

Our experience in grant management, particularly within the Optimism Collective, has equipped us with the skills and insights necessary to contribute to the CoW Grants DAO Committee. We are eager to leverage our expertise to help identify and support high-impact projects that align with CoW DAO’s mission. We are confident that we can contribute to streamlining the grants process, ensuring transparency, and fostering a thriving community of grantees. Ultimately, we want to contribute our skills and time towards realizing CoW Protocol’s full potential, because we believe in its vision.

Availability and commitment

Available 5-10 hours/week, flexible to increase for peak loads. Available for occasional calls.

Past Contributions to CoW DAO (if any)

We have been involved in CoW DAO governance since last year as an active delegate and one of the recognized delegates since its inception.

Please feel free to contact takeshi55555 on Telegram for any feedback or questions. Thanks for your consideration in advance!

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Hi @Tane,
Thank you kindly for your application. The RFP has now been closed and your application is under consideration. You will be notified of an outcome (for progressing to the next phase or not) by 18/04/2025. We would kindly suggest if you have not done so to join the CoW DAO Discord server, and notify us here on the Forum as to your Discord handle (and ID) to make sure that we have contact under which we can organise potential interviews / meetings etc.

mfw.

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@mfw78
Thank you for the update.

Here are our Discord handles and IDs.
handle: takeshi, id: tksohishi
handle: Shoji | Tané, id: 0xshj

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Hi,
Thanks for your application and your expression of interesting in the CoW DAO Grants committee is greatly appreciated. Upon deliberation by the grants committee we have elected that we will not be proceeding with your application at this time. We are working to finalise the recruitment of the positions within the next couple of weeks at which time we will have a final determination.

One thing that was specifically mentioned in the the grants committee meeting is that we greatly value the contributions that are made by you to the governance of CoW DAO and we very much wish to keep your continued engagement in governance. :folded_hands: :man_bowing:

mfw.