Governance that works beyond the vote.

Delegate programs were becoming core DAO infrastructure, but expectations, incentives and accountability were still fragmented across ecosystems.

Authored a practical operating framework covering program design, delegate selection, incentives, evaluation, reporting and the delegate lifecycle.

A reusable reference for DAOs and delegates rather than another one-off governance proposal — designed to travel across ecosystems.

The handbook was later recommended or used as a reference in live governance discussions by independent ecosystem participants.

RARI was operating across overlapping governance surfaces, with unclear canonical authority, onboarding friction and infrastructure dependency.

Co-authored the governance cleanup RFC with Anna Riabokon, mapping the architecture and proposing a clearer canonical governance model and delegate track.

Turned several separate governance issues into one explicit systems diagnosis and a concrete direction for community review.

The work advanced into active governance discussion, followed by parameter work including a proposal to raise V1 quorum from 15% to 20%.

Governance decisions arrive continuously across grants, builders, incentives and protocol operations — each with different evidence and trade-offs.

Review proposals, test assumptions, publish rationales and vote publicly while maintaining a traceable decision record.

Governance becomes an ongoing analytical process rather than episodic voting: research, judgment, execution and accountability in one loop.

The delegate thread provides a public record of positions and rationales across Rootstock Collective governance.