Allium Delegate Platform

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Delegate Name: Allium

Delegate Address: 0x5FB9a39d5fE7063d46b37A336E3621f6Ea83a07c

Forum Handle(s): @Allium

Alternate Means Of Contact (Twitter, Discord, Email, etc):

About: Allium provides accurate, fast, and simple blockchain data to anyone who needs it. We currently cover 23 blockchains and 100+ schemas in near-realtime on a single platform. Our mission is to promote trust and transparency in blockchain, to help people ask great questions and build great things. As a partner and supporter of Wormhole and other leading Web3 projects, protocols, institutions, and organizations, we are excited to participate as delegates and to give a voice to those who share our mission.

Experience: As a data partner to Wormhole and other major players in Web3, we are well-versed in understanding and supporting the needs of large Web3 organizations and communities. We have been involved in several leading public and community-focused initiatives aimed at improving trust, transparency, and decision-making for those in Web3:

Delegate Platform or Philosophy: With our mission of promoting trust and transparency in blockchain, we will aim to vote in ways that promote those principles while staying aligned with the best interests of the community. We are committed to always being impartial and independent.

Conflicts of Interest: No current material conflicts of interest.

Policy for Handling Conflicts of Interest When They Arise: Openly disclose and abstain if needed.

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Certainly! Here is a potential question you could ask:

Question for Delegate Applicant: Allium

Thank you for providing detailed information about your application. I have a few questions to better understand your platform and experience:

  1. Experience with Wormhole:

    • Can you elaborate on your involvement with Wormhole? Specifically, what initiatives or projects have you collaborated on with Wormhole, and what were the outcomes?

  2. Transparency and Trust Initiatives:

    • Given your mission to promote trust and transparency in blockchain, can you provide specific examples of how your work has directly impacted these areas in the Web3 community?

  3. Voting Philosophy:

    • How do you plan to balance promoting trust and transparency with staying aligned with the best interests of the community? Can you provide an example of a scenario where these principles might conflict and how you would navigate that?

  4. Conflict of Interest Policy:

    • Your policy states that you will openly disclose and abstain if needed. Can you provide a hypothetical example of a conflict of interest and how you would handle it?

  5. Community Engagement:

    • How do you plan to engage with the community to ensure their voices are heard and represented in your voting decisions? What mechanisms will you put in place for this?

  6. Handling Disagreements:

    • In cases where there is significant disagreement within the community on a particular issue, how will you approach the decision-making process to ensure fairness and transparency?

Your detailed responses to these questions will help us better understand your approach and ensure that you are the right fit for this delegate role. Thank you!

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Hi!

Happy to answer your questions, thanks for asking.

1. Experience with Wormhole

We provide onchain data and analytics to Wormhole to help with research and answering key questions about the Ecosystem and its members. Our biggest project with Wormhole was partnering for sybil detection on the Wormhole Airdrop, helping ensure fairness in distribution and saving a significant sum of tokens from going to sybil accounts.

2. Transparency and Trust Initiatives

We recently partnered with Visa to develop a public Stablecoins Dashboard to help Stablecoin developers, issuers, researchers, users, and more understand supply and transaction flows. Of particular interest here was helping categorize organic vs. inorganic payments activity to provide more granular transparency on stablecoin adoption and use cases.

We also received a grant from the Uniswap Foundation to develop a public DEX Analytics portal for DeFi researchers to access open, standardized DEX datasets, helping drive improvement in DEX design.

3. Voting Philosophy

We believe that promoting trust and transparency brings great benefits to the Ecosystem, its partners, and its members. Frequent, open, and transparent communication provide valuable alignment that helps the community productively act together and grow. However, working with major institutions means we also deeply understand the need for discretion in situations like those involving sensitive or privileged information. In cases where this applies, we respect the need for confidentiality, as this also promotes long-term trust and stability that benefit the Ecosystem and its members in the end.

4. Conflict of Interest Policy

An obvious example here would be something like grant allocation to potential data & analytics partners. In this case, we would of course publicly make our case to the community on how our offerings, experience, and partnership with Wormhole make us a great candidate. However, we would abstain from voting on the allocation, as this would be a conflict of interest.

5. Community Engagement

We will monitor the forums here, as well as have dedicated staff to participate in relevant discussions and decision-making here and in other channels (e.g. Twitter, Telegram, Discord, etc.). When we vote, we will publish our decision along with the rationale for transparency and to reflect the voices and thoughts that contributed to our choices.

6. Handling Disagreements

We do not believe that governance should be an echo chamber. As such, insofar as there is not a conflict of interest, we will either vote or abstain in accordance with our belief of what is best for the Ecosystem guided by our principles of trust and transparency. However, we also understand that at a meta-level there are often cases where unity is needed, so we may also “agree to disagree” and commit.

Ultimately, as a data & analytics provider, we will aim to be data-driven in our decision-making process while incorporating evidence and ideas brought up by other community members. Our goal here is to be more objective, such that even if we disagree with the wider community, our logic and assumptions will be clear and understandable.