Pursuant to the unanimously passed SLURP-12 | Community Council Seats we’re proud to present the candidates for the next stake.link Community Council election!
The candidates for this election cycle are being sourced from the #epoch-2-council-nominations channel on the stake.link Discord!
Voting Process
You will be able to vote for multiple candidates with any amount of your voting power that you desire. You will need to know how much voting power total you have, as SnapShot doesn’t do a super job of indicating this. It can be helpful to identify your voting power using read only mode if you don’t want to connect your wallet to check on the stake.link UI. Note also that unstaked/unlocked SDL and SDL in your SushiSwap LP position confers voting power, but at a 1:1 rate with reSDL (meaning 1 unlocked SDL confers 1 SDL worth of voting power, while 1 SDL locked for 4 years confers 9 SDL worth of voting power).
Your Candidates
BuffTuck (aka Michael)
bufftuck_ on Discord
I self nominate myself. Reason for running to become a bigger part of SDL and steer protocol in a way beneficial to its future. SDL is and will remain the best liquid staking platform with the best NOP’s around. I will give community a strong voice in the voting process with all direction being towards the long term sustainability and success of the platform. I feel i have a fairly good grasp on the long term goals of SDL and Chainlink themselves and would be excited to have a bigger role in the protocol vs just holding and supporting / staking, that way it can be ensured the decisions made best suit the community while balancing the long term vision of the protocol. @michaelp3711 on telegram @BuffTuck on twitter
Genghis Jhan
greenbuffalo0726 on Discord
Hello SDL family, I am Genghis and would like to nominate myself for a role on the Community Council.
I think i would be a good community representative because I have been part of the Chainlink community for almost 7 years, and the LPL/SDL community since early on after its inception. I’m very pragmatic and pride myself on basing my opinions strictly on logic. If appointed to be a community council representative, I would present my views on each SLURP and the reasons i am either for or against each proposal.
I created and maintained the SlurpBot and LinkPoolDistros twitter account, and more recently the CCIPMetrics twitter account. I believe these projects demonstrate my dedication to the community and my continued stance of truth>trust.
Professionally i work as a Cybersecurity Engineer, and have an appreciation for technical nuance and data-driven decision making.
Discord: greenbuffalo0726
Telegram: Genghis Jhan
Will submit wallet address if elected
**Tokenized / T303 **
onetothousand on Discord
To all reSDLers lockers, My nickname is Tokenized and I am nominating myself for the second epoch as a council member. Besides fulfilling my duty to vote on all SLUPRS during the second epoch (EZ), I am already actively engaging the stakedotlink and Chainlink community members - stakers and holders alike, educating them about the utility stakedotlink brings to the Chainlink network, and why our liquid solution is a much better alternative to native staking. The information gap is still very apparent. We’re talking what is rebasing levels.
Per SLURP-12, elected members are compensated with $1,000 worth of SDL tokens per month. For an entire epoch, that will be $6,000 worth of SDL tokens.
If I am elected, I would take 100% of the personal stipend and re-invest it in stakedotlink’s community, by creating the first WAGMI mini-budget. I believe the LToad campaign had good effect, and I would like to further explore bridging the knowledge gap that way. The entirety of the budget will be used to whatever we can come up with: pay for meme contests on x, infographics, airdrop to individuals based on certain criteria,video/art designers, burn it. VRF it. retweet it. mint reSDL and airdrop them. IDK, any idea we might have in the future…$6K is a lot of money!
I see a lot of talent in the crypto space and I’m wondering if collectively we can find them using that budget, as this is not something I want to do solo. If you believe the community can come up with a good use case for these funds, elect me and let’s start spending it on stakedotlink’s brand using memetic warfare and knowledge.
Telegram: @Tokenized2027 wallet will be provided if elected
**Hugo **
hboss. on discord
My dear poolers and sistas, greetings from one of your Majors here.
My name is Hugo, you guys know me as Hugo Boss on Telegram.
I have been involved with Linkpool since 2021 and have fully lived the whole transition of LP to LPL to StSDL and finally to ReSDL. I saw the team involve through adversity and I cannot be more proud of the results so far.
A major portion of my holdings are locked for 4 years and the rest is being allocated in liquidity pools on Mainnet and Arbitrum to support development. I am the author of Slurp-13 which gave additional benefits to SDL holders and hopefully made some happy sistas. I am looking forward to proposing more Slurps that will benefits all holders including myself. I love to share my thoughts and engage in discussions on Telegram and Discord for the greater good of the protocol and its holders. I just completed the Chainlink bootcamp 2024 and made some great connections there.
I am involved in many other Chainlink build projects and partners.
Just like Tokenized, I am also part of the LToad community and am an ambassador for Etherisc, an insurance protocol partnered with Chainlink. I have a few ideas of slurps that could create synergy with projects involved with Chainlink and ultimately benefit ReSDL holders. If elected, I promise to propose a minimum of 1 new Slurp during my mandate. I am also looking forward to finalize the official SDL ranking and launch additional community engagement.
Finally, if elected, I promise to use the money to deliver and set up an online store where sistas can order their favorite Stake.Link merch. I have seen the evolution of the protocol and realize I should be sharing more excitement about it. It’s a dream to be able to rep SDL with a cap and a hoody and I am confident that 6months is enough time to make it happen.
All participants are really strong and shows the power of this protocol, la crème de la crème 
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Good luck to all
Cheers
Telegram : @Hugoboss_1
wallet: HugoOnCrypto.Eth
**EqS **
renhaut on Discord
Hi all, I thought I’d throw my hat in the ring.
I’ve been involved with Chainlink since 2017 and LinkPool since 2018 as part of the ICO. From the start, the value-add of a third-party staking infrastructure has been apparent and the more recent evolution towards a liquid staking token (LST) has been exciting to see.
It’s been great to see how stake.link has evolved over the past year, improving the tokenomics through SLURP-8 and adding new features. I look forward to seeing stake.link continuing to fulfil its potential and in providing a constructive voice in the community.
I have been active on the Discourse Forum from the beginning and have provided input on several SLURPs including:
SLURP-3: Suggested a change to allow LPL holders who had not initially migrated to be able to claim their SDL airdrop in full
SLURP-5: One of several members who pushed back on these tokenomics changes that led to the improved SLURP-8
SLURP-10: Suggested changes to the airdrops including an increased allocation for reSDL stakers and a distribution through VRF to help drive smaller deposits
SLURP-12: Suggested a change to have a fallback community vote on a SLURP in the event that both Community Council members did not vote
Outside of this, I have taken part in a couple of Chainlink hackathons and am currently working on a blockchain project that uses Chainlink.
Taken together, this gives me both the background and capacity to act as an effective stake.link Community Council member. I will seek the community’s views on proposals and issues and will be available to discuss as needed.
Best of luck to all and also a big thank you to Seth and Ari for their contributions over the past six months.
EqS on the Discourse Forum and @unertq on Telegram
Ari
arikiry on Discord
GM dear DAO,
I’m excited to nominate Ari for this second epoch. As the ambitious goals of stake.link and reSDL holders start to materialize, there are still significant things to consider and discuss moving forward.
Ari wanted to fulfill his commitment, showing his integrity by not running until he accomplished the sole promise he had made. Below are some personal thoughts on this regard, in the first blog post of the series.
That said, he wants to thank all the nominees because each has contributed their unique and exotic ingredient, helping to cook one of the most based communities in Web3. Wishing everyone the best of luck.
We’re all in this together.
Tg: @ arikiry
X: @ari_kiry
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