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House of Stake - Meet the Delegates Round 2
Recorded: May 21, 2025 Duration: 0:53:49Space Recording
Short Summary
The recent discussion on the House of Stake Delegates highlighted key initiatives aimed at enhancing governance within the NEAR ecosystem, including the introduction of AI-driven strategies, a focus on community engagement, and the establishment of a robust funding framework to support growth and sustainability.
Full Transcription
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No, it's better
all right
I think we're still missing
a couple of people
off the top of my head
well James if you could
request to speak
and if you're able to attend
that would be awesome
I think we're missing Takeshi
Takeshi is in the listeners.
Okay, so let me invite him on the stage as well. Takeshi, if you could request to speak, we could bring you on.
But yeah, hi, everyone.
Welcome to the second round of the spaces we're having to present the House of State Delegates.
We had one about a month ago where we got the community to know six of the endorsed delegates.
Today, finally, we've managed to bring together the other five. And as well as those five,
we have the person who's kind of making sure everything works.
So we have Lane as well.
So thanks to him for taking the time out.
So yeah, we could probably do like super quick summary
or recap of what House of Stake is.
Where are we at in terms of roadmap timelines?
And then the usual, as we did last time, is we go around the room,
let everyone introduce themselves, a bit about their background,
why they're excited about this initiative, et cetera, et cetera.
So, Lane, if you're able to speak, I'd love for you to introduce House of Stake for folks
who are new to this.
Thanks, Mr. Potato.
Okay, hopefully you can hear me, everybody.
Yeah, super excited about the second round AMAs.
I just think AMA is a really excellent and important format.
And also that we are doing our utmost
to increase transparency and visibility
into everything that's happening in House of Stake.
And like, I know we still have a lot of work to do there,
but I think that this format and this sort of event
is a very important way we can do that.
So hopefully this will continue.
And thank you to everyone, you know everyone for making time to join today,
speakers as well as audience.
Yeah, I mean, House of Stake is, I think I could still call it new because we've
we haven't even officially launched yet, but, you know, we've sort of put our
delegates in place a couple of months ago now.
So it's a new stake weighted governance initiative
for the NEAR protocol and the NIR ecosystem.
I'm part of the NIR Foundation.
So the NIR Foundation is kind of kicking off and stewarding the early stages of House of Stake.
But over time, House of Stake will grow and take on more autonomy, agency, responsibility in the ecosystem.
And I think probably, hopefully, when people ask me
what success looks like, whether it's a year, two years,
three years from now, I think House of Stake,
a successful version of House of Stake,
would actually begin to not only augment,
but actually indeed replace some of the functions
of near foundations.
So that's one way to think about it, where we're going,
what success looks like.
I think another way to look at it is it's,
if the community were to come together and build a foundation to govern the near ecosystem, provide public goods funding, things like that, you know, help steer the kind of economic direction of the protocol.
That's what House of Stake, you know, could be and should be.
There's a lot of other interesting things cooking, you know, on the AI front.
I probably will leave that out now for the sake of brevity.
But I posted more on the NIR Governance Forum recently.
So if you haven't seen that, check out gov.nir.org.
Look for the transparency thread there.
Yeah, I'll stick around to answer questions.
But mainly, I think we're here to let the delegates introduce themselves and answer questions.
introduce themselves and answer questions. So take it away. Thank you again.
So take it away.
Thank you again.
Yeah. So it's, it's a, I want it to be like a free flowing space. So whoever wants to get started
and so on and so forth, just so we can go around the room. Yeah, we can probably do quick intros.
Your motivation to be part of this, maybe like some kind of background experience in governance,
if you have any,
and maybe quick high-level items
which you're kind of looking to work towards.
So anyone, if you want to go first, take it away.
If not, I'll have to name someone.
Sure.
Go ahead, Cameron.
I'll go first.
How's it going, everybody?
My name is Cameron Dennis.
I've been building a Nier for about four and a half years, and it's been in crypto for quite a bit.
I was part of the first governance experiment with the Nier Digital Collective, where I was on the House of Merit.
or I was on the House of Merit.
And so trying my best to take a lot of those learnings
and apply them to not make the certain stakes
that we made in V1.
So yeah, I'm really excited to start identifying
which roles the Nier Foundation can be sort of augmented
by the House of Stake,
both specifically on the ecosystem growth side of things
and some protocol decisions
around token issuance rates and everything.
So really excited about, as I mentioned,
the ecosystem growth piece.
Specifically, I would like to ensure
that there's a very robust database
where we know which projects are live in the ecosystem
and make sure that that gets updated frequently.
The second thing is an inbound lead management system
so people know that if they want to build with NIR,
they have a place to go, fill out a form,
get routed to the right people
as long as they meet the qualification criteria
of the kind of need of those verticals.
Three is create a more ai driven uh public goods
funding strategy working with the best teams in web3 to facilitate this ensure that it's a multi
chain as well uh really leverage nears like program programmable mvc design transactions
manage accounts on any chain really trying our best to make blockchains invisible for everyday
people um and yeah i mean there's a lot there,
but really going to probably contribute most to the ecosystem growth side of
things at the house of stake.
Shall I call someone else?
Yeah, or whoever wants to go next.
I just don't want there to be awkward silence, so feel free to jump in.
Yeah, I was picked by Cameron, so I'm going to go next.
Hi, my name is Takeshi.
I'm representing the Deligate platform called Tane.
So for Tane, we started as a VC fund investing in a couple of crypto projects, but we also have
operation entity focusing on running node operations for validators like Ethereum and other blockchain projects
but also interested in running validator for NIR as well.
With that technical knowledge, we are also being active in the DAO governance as delegates, especially for Ethereum protocol DAOs, including Arbitrum
Optimism and others.
And we like to kind of bring our expertise, experiences into new governance and also the ecosystem growth from there.
So we are particularly interested in the governance infrastructure working group, working with
James.
And also we are particularly looking into what's going to happen in what should happen in the ecosystem growth and also network
security part as well.
Myself, I started my career as a software engineer, converted to be a product manager
at startups in San Francisco and I got into crypto
in 2020 and I've been
with the co-founder of Tane since then
and actively
active in many various projects.
All right, I think I'll go next then.
Hey guys, my name is Yuen.
I've been in the Nier ecosystem since I think it was 2022
with the different NFT communities.
I've worked within the Nier ecosystem for the past NFT communities. I've worked within the near ecosystem
for the past two years.
I started with the NDC as well during V0.
And then currently I am one of the delegates
within the House of Stake.
Since I am more near natives,
I'm currently helping the working groups
as well as the different newcomers
within House of Stake
to get connected with the ecosystem,
either verticals or the ecosystem founders to make sure that everything, all communications
and all sync will be made easier.
Moving forward, I'll be working more closely with the different House of Stake delegates
as well as the different projects to see which aspects that we could look into fix.
Some of problems that was highlighted by Cameron
will also be looked into with the Growth Working Group.
And I'll be contributing as much as I can
to ensure that everything can be done smoothly
and that the delegates within the ecosystem
has a smoother onboarding process.
Super cool, I think it's my turn.
Super happy to be here and meet you all.
My name is Charlie.
I'm part of Aurora Labs.
I'm the head of marketing and in the past, for the past four months, I've taken also
the hat of the ecosystem growth.
I've been in crypto for seven years, always in growth.
So this is my strengths area.
At Aurora, basically what we do is we've been focusing on expanding the NIR ecosystem by onboarding either new chains.
So launching new chains on top of NIR protocol or bringing EVM dApps.
or bringing EVM dApps, so onboarding those.
So onboarding those.
So I think this, from this point of view,
it gives us a strength because I'm talking with founders,
either chain founders or dApp founders on a daily basis.
And they explain to me what kind of tools they need,
why they're excited to build on NIR or not.
So the idea for me is really to help bridge this information
to the whole House of State team
so we're able to onboard even more people.
Personally, governance participation is a fresh area for me.
So I think it's going to be great
because I'm going to approach it with a new perspective.
Of course, we have Aurora as a whole. We have
past governance experience within NIR, so I'll be able to tap in this whole knowledge.
And I had an endpoint on why we're excited about this. We really want Aurora to drive
significant growth and interest in NIR by increasing liquidity, so bringing more money within the chain,
and creating also more opportunities for the entire community, such as new tokens to invest in,
or a great project to follow up. But super happy to be here.
All right. Well, my name is James, and I've been part of NIR since late 2020 when I joined the foundation as a community manager.
And I worked there until the beginning of 2022.
We launched the original SputnikDAO contracts, and I helped users navigate the SputnikDAO and AstroDAO platforms.
I've represented NIR on various councils as well. And I'm part of the
NDC experiment as a grassroots DAO leader. The BuildDAO was my project for a couple years, and
we received funding from NDC and learned a lot in the process, supporting builders in our ecosystem and beyond. So I've taken the volunteer position
as head of the governance processes and infrastructure working group within the
endorsed delegates team. And that has been a very interesting process because we are exploring AI
agents in the governance realm.
And that's what really excites me about the House of Stake, because our focus, while emphasizing transparency and accountability for decentralization, we're also exploring these new possibilities with near AI.
So that's really exciting to me.
And I look forward to discussing that further
with all of you and really building a better system
for everyone.
Awesome.
Yeah, I think there's a very wide variety of skill sets
and backgrounds.
So that already complements the previous delegates we had in the last spaces.
And there's kind of like, I think we've kind of covered and ticked all of the boxes.
We've got dev experience.
We've got people who agree with BD folks like you and who are in the trenches, and then also other external
perspectives with people like Charlie and Takeshi.
I'm going to be very simple in that I'm going to repeat the questions I asked the last time
to the other set of delegates, and the primary one being around the core topics that are
of utmost importance to the House of State, at least in its initial stages.
So there's three key challenges that are expected to be addressed or at least looked into. One being how to effectively manage the near
treasury and its resources and how would that drive sustainable growth. The second one is
sometimes a bit controversial and also very interesting because of that controversy, and that is how do we manage the near token issuance
and making sure all stakeholders are kind of taken care of.
So whether that's reducing the staking rate,
adjusting emissions, et cetera.
And the third one is around maintaining
and strengthening network security. And then
how would that play along with people or entities like Gauntlet who are also involved in the
House of Stake initiative. So very high level questions. You could go as as you can be as thorough or as superficial as you would
as you deem appropriate but yeah like I think these are very interesting questions for folks
to know the perspective of the delegates so we can maybe do the same round starting with Cameron
We can maybe do the same round, starting with Cameron.
I think it was Cameron, Tukeshi, Ewan, et cetera, et cetera.
Happy to hop in.
So, I mean, there's three pretty significant questions there.
I'm going to just take the first one, how to efficiently manage treasury and maintain strategic growth.
First off, I don't think just because we have a treasury to spend means we have to spend the entire treasury.
Being very diligent around the initiatives that we fund is a prerequisite.
We absolutely should not just fund things because the money exists.
So I'm much more keen on funding fewer projects that succeed than many projects that don't.
So that is step one, like in creating a very robust and ideally transparent qualification criteria for how to how we go about funding those projects.
Every single decision should be that is made on somebody from the house of stake should be explained.
decision that is made on somebody from the house of stake should be explained. We have amazing
tools like AI to help us with this. So there's no excuse at all why you cannot explain why someone
makes a decision. So that's, I'd say, step one. On the managing your token issuance, I think it's
absolutely critical that validators get paid enough to, I think I'd say like initially just cover basic costs.
But at the same time, Near, in my opinion, is trading at a lower, you know, lower than it should be.
And I first got involved in Bitcoin in 2013, was, you know, had the option of running a miner on my computer.
And at the time, it was not worth it.
I was getting paid less in Bitcoin than I was in electricity.
So technically speaking, I was not incentivized to run said miners.
But now I look back and that was probably the stupidest decision of my life,
evaluating the cost of running the miner at the price of Bitcoin at the time versus
where it is today, where it's hitting all-time highs. So yeah, shout out to all the Bitcoin
holders out there. All-time highs is great. I wish I was mining back in 2013. So I guess my point is
for the validators, I think there does need to be some sort of long-term ecosystem alignment.
term ecosystem alignment. Okay, thanks, Mr. Potato. I guess that's my note to hurry the
hell up. So I do think that validators should have a long-term bull case on NIR, which is why
they are validators to begin with. And I also want to incentivize founders and teams to run
validators. So the people who are actually building the ecosystem
are participating in the validation process and earning long-term rewards.
So I think doing both those things will ensure the network security
and, you know, make sure that the people who are aligned are getting paid.
Lastly, sorry, is geographic distribution. I do not want all of our
validators inside of some AWS, you know, data center in North Carolina. That's, excuse me,
but bullshit. We need validators to be distributed across the world and should incentivize validator
creation and maintenance in locations that don't have any. It's a long list of questions but it's my it's my shortest i can do um i'll pass it on to
kashi cool um i'm gonna start off from uh question one the treasury management um i completely agree
with what cameron said but also i think it's important to think about the kind of
stableness of the treasury part.
Most of the DAOs have their native tokens, only native tokens as a treasury,
which is not ideal.
We've seen cases that in Arbitrum they have the whole pretty much most of the
most of the treasury in Arbitrum token and if they pay something to service
providers delegates all those like operational costs in our arbitram token.
And if the arbitram token kind of inflate or deflate, like fluctuate in price, it will
be always the issue for them to have, especially like decrease the price, which is going to
be the issue. So some DAOs have kind of defensive management style
to have some of the part of the treasury to be in stable
so that they can kind of set aside
some of the operational costs can be paid in stablecoin. I think we should also think about that and
like the stableness of the treasury is important. The second part, I also completely agree with
what Cameron said. As an operator running validator for other ecosystem
as long as you align and contribute to the network security
you have to be at least like break even for running validator node
for NIA the hardware requirement and all those things are not huge, like hard.
So also kind of touching on the side part, but geographical distribution is really important.
We are kind of a Japanese-rooted team.
We are running nodes Japanese rooted team. We are running mostly from Japan.
And those players are kind of distributed in the world,
kind of contributing to the ecosystem in a systemic way
with the geographic contribution
and also kind of bringing some of the unique perspectives
in the ecosystem.
So I think we should value those players and encourage them to kind of join the network
and also the governance part as well.
That's all for me.
Okay, I think it's my turn. Thank you very much, Takeshi, as well as Cameron.
So I think I'll jump into the near the validated issue first.
I'm seeing different protocols or different ecosystems
are also looking into how they can lower down
the near issuance,
which doesn't also impact the validators.
I think it goes back to the main thing where price increase,
then the near rewards token will be able to cover back
to how much they earn and then ensures that they will not be negatively impacted.
So this should be done sooner or later because you can look at the other chains.
I know that Solana is one of the major ecosystems and we cannot compare it at this moment but like they are currently
running normally running well even with like low apys to their state tokens as well as i do
i'm seeing this happening with sui as well so i think if we have we find a better way to grow
the treasury and ensure that the resources are there to grow how the token is utilized as well as the token growth we can ensure that then when validators
come to new ecosystem they will be able to earn enough rewards to cover their validated costs
and really shout out to metapool where they are currently doing like a metapool grant program
where any new validators coming into the ecosystem could like work with them and get like a Metapool grant program where any new validators coming into the ecosystem
could like work with them and get like a grant of sorts where they get delegations, where
they could like, they can get the delegations to ensure that they can slowly ramp up with
the growth as well.
Since like I know that some people coming to the ecosystem, they might not have as much
capital or they might not have as much like, let's say, engagement with the community to get near-stake into their validators.
So Metapool being there ensures that other, let's say, projects or other more Web2 companies coming in will be able to run their validators without having to cover a lot of the costs.
So that will be for the validator side.
For maintaining and strengthening network security side,
I think currently we are working with Gronklet and Agora.
They are planning, as well as FastNear team as well,
they are doing a really good job to ensure
that the UI, the UX are done well, as well as doing a lot of audits with it to ensure that there is no effect with the user's fund whenever they lock their Near to vNear, and then they head over to the Agora's new UI website to do voting.
Currently, we have snippets of that around the ecosystem, but I do think that there will be more and more demos, there will be more and more test nets that will be run by the community team as well, from Mr. Potato as well as from my side, where we will first try it out with the delegates and then we'll try it out within the different projects, project founders, project leaders within the ecosystem, and then slowly try to do like a full-on test run with
the wider community as a whole but really props to them uh if you do want to see like what's the
current progress you could check the forum where master agora's representative just gave an update
i think it was yesterday thank you guys very much awesome Awesome. Let me jump in.
I'll go straight to the Treasury allocation.
From our side, how we see it, Treasury allocation really depends on the current market states.
We believe that with the current market state, we may have six or eight months of bull market in front of us. We prefer to push on some aggressive growth
while still maintaining
due diligence to ensure projects are in line in what we're doing
and we're not getting scammed away.
But again, I think we need to find the right balance
between being protected, defensive, but also going after the market shares because other projects are doing
it, are trying allocating grants, etc. So we should be fighting on the same field.
I think this is on this side. And in terms of validator, I don't have a strong opinion from this. I think what Cameron has been explaining is very true with decentralization and running a validator, make it sense for those validators.
I think it's again a question of balance. Thanks.
Hey, I just want to hop in and provide a bit of a controversial take on Treasury management.
I do think that the Treasury should turn a profit.
If we are managing millions of dollars, any organization asset manager in the around the
world turns a profit here.
We should be doing the same and using those rewards to fund further ecosystem initiatives.
I'm done with the days of just bleeding money.
We should be making money.
Yeah, building on that,
I would love to discuss
how to make money with the treasury
in a fair, you know,
kind of community first way.
I'm all about retention strategies.
That's kind of my two cents on the ecosystem growth
plans because, you know, focusing on the onboarding and the just plain growth in terms of
certain metrics can be a problem when it comes to long-term sustainability of the community
health and, you know, prosperity, keeping people around, you know,
why,
why should a contributor stay in our ecosystem if,
if they're not getting something out of it, you know? And, uh,
that's where I believe an educational, uh,
kind of approach would be really helpful because my genuine belief is once you
learn about NIR, it's hard to leave because you just realize how powerful and groundbreaking it
is. It's a whole new ballgame with NIR. So that's kind of my approach in general.
In terms of the validator points, I think that, you know, Metapool is a
great resource for this. They've done so much work in that regard. It's already been said. I just want
to reiterate. And, you know, from my point of view, you know, I'm not an expert on these things, but
I'm very much interested in getting feedback from the community. I think we need to do a lot more community engagement to gauge different positions. It's not just about what the validators think. It's
not just about what any type of stakeholder thinks. It's about what our community decides.
And so I think that's really important. And as far as the security aspect, I think it's tied in with the other two, but I'll just say that I believe
we need to pluralize rather than just decentralize. I think giving people the authority
they need to make decisions and achieve goals efficiently is really important. So that
responsibility of delegates to not be a bottleneck is crucial.
And while I see the point of not wanting to just go spend all the money, I also think we need to
balance that out with recognition that we don't know everything. And so it's important to keep
in mind other perspectives are out there and we need to listen and we need to talk.
We need to have opportunities like this to really share opinions and utilize the forum and other platforms to come to agreements and really take big swings.
I think that's another mantra I would like to say.
We shouldn't just go small and do
little things all over the place. It should be a lot of experimentation, but also let's go for it.
That's my mindset.
Yeah, I really agree. One sec. Yeah, I kind of agree with the points being put out.
And especially to what James just said,
we should definitely not shy away from taking risks, so to speak,
as long as there's due diligence involved
and we are trying to kind of attempt to break out into the next big thing, for example.
So, and then there's been a lot of points.
I can't remember everything, but I think all in all, it does seem like there is a lot of alignment in terms of how do we want to reduce issuance?
Like we want to do it, but without impacting, especially the validators who keep the network alive.
We want to as well, like have a more diligent way
of managing the treasury resources.
I think what Cameron said is very valid,
at least from a personal perspective.
I think like we should be thinking in ways
of growing that treasury, not just drawing money from it.
But yeah, that's just my personal take on it.
I do agree with that.
And then there's been a lot of interesting pointers from others as well.
Kind of moving on to the final segment.
Moving on to the final segment, it might be intertwined with some of the questions we've covered before,
but it's more about your vision as a delegate.
Both, like what are you planning to work on and what you are already working on, if you are,
you are already working on if you are as well as what message would you like to put out to
prospective delegators and how if you do receive delegates from on their behalf how do you, for instance, how do you plan to manage communications with them?
Like, how could they expect accountability from you if there's any?
So, yeah, maybe, like, it's a more open-ended question, but that's kind of, like, the final segment of today's spaces.
So, we'll go ahead with the same round, starting from Cameron, Takeshi, you and so on and so forth.
So, yeah, Cameron.
Yep.
So I am super passionate about AI governance because I don't think humans can coordinate at scale as well as we should to solve the world's most pressing issues.
And I do think House of Stake is probably the best venue to experiment with ai
driven governance obviously done in a safe and conscious way so that's something i absolutely
want to help facilitate uh part of the stake the second thing is i kind of mentioned this earlier
but you know ensure that there's an ecosystem database where everything is kept active and we can very clearly see which projects are legit and not.
Informalize the new inbound lead management system.
Previously, for those who were a part of this project in your ecosystem connects,
it needs to have a revamp and I'd like for the house of stakes to eventually own that.
I love what James said about an ecosystem education and onboarding program,
but definitely with a focus on retention. If we are filling the top of funnel and we get all these
amazing founders and developers, but they end up leaving, it's not worth it to invest all that
money in the on-ramp and the onboarding. So maybe we start with retention, James. I mean,
this is why we're all here is to figure this out together, but really
want to kind of build out an ecosystem education program where I want every employee that is funded
by the Nier Foundation in any way, shape, or form to complete. And if they don't complete,
we'll have a problem. And so, yeah, I want to kind of put this very hardcore top-down onboarding
experience so everyone in the ecosystem knows how to talk about NIR, knows what projects are valuable, and how to recommend people to get involved.
I think it's critically important.
And then, yeah, I guess just to reiterate the AI piece to programmatically fund proven builders and contributors.
Those are the four.
Takeshi, you want to go next? Sure. So those are the four.
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but it's something that we've been trying to experiment
within our organization.
And also I'm confident that we can contribute to any form of experiments that NIR governance is trying to do.
So it's something that I like to work with James and Cameron going forward. I think especially for the kind of accountability for delegators, the token holders to delegate to us.
I think we've been diligent about what we think about proposals that we need to vote on.
we need to vote on and also why make decisions about the voting on the
proposals in any DAOs that we've been involved with. So communication, public
communication, it's not just for delegators but also the community how we think about
the proposals and how we make decisions kind of transparent approach is something we need
and something we are trained to do that so i think it's encouraging for other delegates to do
I think it's encouraging for other delegates to do.
I think it should be known for all the delegates and community members to transparent about what you think about the NIA to go forward with.
So, yeah, that's what we've been doing.
All right.
Yuin?
Thank you guys very much. For my side, I think I will do a lot of more communications. I think
more spaces, more video calls between the different delegates, like show show that would be something fun to do
because i know that a lot of people within the near foundation itself are doing town hall so maybe
uh delegate town hall and we could like maybe make a session or we could like maybe try to
think of something else i do see monza i do see uh rhyme also are doing a lot of different
marketing strategies and i do expect more and more marketing strategies to be done within the NIR ecosystem moving forward.
Since, as you can see from the NIR official Twitter, they have started to engage more with the different projects, the different verticals.
And I think that would be something that we could also tap into as well.
that would be something that we could also tap into as well.
I will be maybe hosting more with the delegates,
maybe making a series out of it.
And then we could just talk unfiltered,
like just what we think about different proposals,
what we do want to see feedback.
And then maybe there will be a report
to send it to the projects or the persons that
submitted those proposals.
Say like, hey, we did a a podcast or we did like a video AMA.
You could like check through this feedback to see like what we as delegates thought about it.
Here are the people that joined.
Here are what they thought they think about your proposal,
what they want to see improve or what they want to see changed.
And then they could like try to re-edit it before it gets to see changed. And then they could try to re-edit it
before it gets to a vote.
And then we could see more and more acceptance,
as well as more and more approval from the different proposals
submitted to House of Stakes.
But yeah, currently, more video content,
more short video content.
I know that attention span is quite small at the moment for the the current gen z's so that that will be something i'll be looking to to make uh yeah
thank you guys very much super cool i really like how you and you you you explain what you you you
gonna do i think from our side we're going to follow the same kind of format.
What we've been doing at Aurora on marketing is trying out different style of communication. We've been seeing what's been working is videos, is short form content, but also being able to deliver
long form content for those who want to go deep in the details. So we'll try and find a way to balance all this
so that everyone finds
something that interests him.
Also, we'd be super glad
to participate in any Twitter space
to discuss any hot topic
within the ecosystem
or key trends that we're seeing
on the market
on which we could jump in
and see how we could contribute
as house of
stake and have people join. So I think I'm pretty, pretty excited for what's coming up. I'm seeing
the conversation that's happening, for example, in the ecosystem growth. It's great. We're having
very different ways of seeing stuff. So hitting heads together is extremely important. And I'm
seeing people are super open to share their ideas. So yeah, I'm
super, super stoked to Francis.
So one of my main goals, between now and the official launch of
the house of steak is to gather ideas for proposals, and whittle that down to the best three to five proposals
that we can schedule for voting and really get organized before launch so that we're ready.
And we know the most important decisions will be prioritized.
And I'm working on a post to be published on the forum,
starting a discussion about those proposals, explaining
the process of how to submit and introducing alongside the great updates already on the
forum by the Agora team, just, you know, our thoughts as delegates on how that should work,
how it's going to work, and any questions that we need to answer in the meantime.
I'm also, you know, I'm very interested in not reinventing the wheel.
I think sometimes in our ecosystem, we scrap things before it's necessary.
So there's a lot of great initiatives already happening that
we can build on, you know, with momentum. I love what Metapool is doing. I've already mentioned
that. I think we should also look at what Potluck is doing. It's an amazing project, and there's a lot of cool ways that we can use it for this kind of purpose.
And I also think that what the DevHub or the Near Dev team is building around the Treasury
platform, the Near Treasury app is really amazing. So we should definitely leverage that.
amazing, so we should definitely
leverage that.
And they're launching a new
project called Nern, which could help
along with
all the stuff they're doing to support
developers.
Just a
side note, I really am
grateful to Nier for teaching
me how to build stuff, and I
learned how to
write code on Nier. So I think it's a maybe understated
element of success that we have. It's not just about experienced developers, but I think,
especially with AI changing the game, with vibe coding and whatnot, I think, you know, people can find a home on near and really change
their lives. And that's, that's something that I love, and I really believe in. So I just wanted
to say that. And on that note, I, I see a room, you know, for growth in terms of participation,
or engagement throughout the community. I love what the infrastructure committee has been doing.
And I would love to, you know, explore that further as an opportunity to expand the committee's
program and have other kinds of committees.
I think that's a really effective way of organizing people, you know, and getting stuff done.
So I know that was a little scattered, but that's kind
of my thoughts on what I'm doing and how it can help and would love any feedback. I'm very
accessible. You can find me, hopefully, and I'm always yours, you know, all yours for whatever
you got to say. Yeah, I think those are, there's a lot of um interesting ideas which i personally think uh
should be pursued um i particularly liked uh you and his idea on having more informal sessions so
like something like um house of state office hours where um maybe like one of the delegates
is always around to maybe answer questions or like
help people out how they can get started if they're interested in putting a proposal
and kind of pointing people around like how to get stuff done because there is a lot of elements to
the house of stake structure there's the the endorsed delegates, there's the security council, there's officers, there's a bunch of stuff which I'm sure like at
start will cause a bit of confusion to people. But I also agree to what James said, like,
let's not overcomplicate it and try to facilitate as much as possible and keep things simple. I think that's super important.
And finally, I think Cameron's not here,
but I think he's spot on with getting AI involved.
And I think it's part of the roadmap sometime down the line this year
to get involvement from AI agents to maybe filter things out
and speed things up a bit. So very excited about that as well. to get involvement from AI agents to maybe filter things out
and like speed things up a bit.
So very excited about that as well.
We've got maybe about five or so minutes.
If there's any closing remarks,
soft shills on why people should endorse to you in particular
or something in regards to perhaps joining working groups?
Because that's kind of been something that's been asked a few times.
So we've got a couple of minutes before we wrap up.
So maybe we can kind of discuss something that's maybe not on the agenda.
I just wanted to jump in really quick since since you mentioned the AI driven governance piece.
I know Cameron and the governance working group are working on this RFP.
It's a request for proposals.
But we're interested in just collaborating with anyone out there who is interested in AI agents used for governance purposes.
So if you're thinking about those kind of things, please reach out to one of us and we'll get you in the loop for that development.
It's very early still, but we can use all the help we can get and want it to be an open source, community-driven project.
So it might not end up being an RFP,
but that's kind of the format we have now.
And I just wanted to throw it out there.
If anyone is interested, please let me know.
Awesome.
Is there anyone else want to kind of give out some closing remarks?
If not, we are pretty much on time,
but there's still a few minutes left
if anyone wants to take the mic.
Yeah, maybe like a few words that I want to share.
If you have any questions,
please do join the House of Sticks public group chat.
I think if possible,
Nir Kwan could share it under the space where people can
join in, see if you have any questions, if you have any feedback you want to give to the delegates,
to the different working groups, just place it there. Any feedback is welcome, no matter whether
or not you're a new person here, whether or not you have any government experience, whether inside
or outside the chain. We just want to make sure that House of State is a success
and that we hear from all the people within the ecosystem
as well as ensure that everybody has their feedback heard
and that we can ensure that everybody is happy with the current iteration
and that I know that we cannot make it as perfect as we want,
but we'll make it as good as we can get it to.
Awesome.
With that note, since there's no further questions,
and I think this space has been quite thorough,
and I hope it's been useful for people in the community, prospective delegators to kind of know some of these delegates, see which ones align.
But I think like it's kind of hard because pretty much everyone's on the same page, which is great as well.
ones on the same page, which is great as well. So it might be a bit of a challenge to figure out
who's the more aligned endorsed delegate for you. But that's always a good problem to have. So
thanks everyone for joining in today. And as Ewan said, expect more communications as
we're approaching to the launch of House of Stakes. So there'll be more sessions
similar to this, maybe in the format of office hours or just very laid out spaces, kind of,
if people are interested to know more about specific endorsed delegates or like specific
functions within House of Stakes. So be on the lookout for that. But for today, that's pretty much a wrap.
Big thank you for all of the endorsed delegates
to kind of make it to the space.
I know it's a challenge.
There's people from all parts of the world.
Always thank you for people in the audience
who take part of your life
isn't always like the most fun thing you can do
so I really appreciate your time
yeah that's all we have for today
thank you and until next time
