GM GOV GEEKS, NEARWEEK AT YOUR SERVICE!
A. Delegation Address
NEARWEEK.near
B. Forum Username
@Gus
C. Twitter Username
@NEARWEEK
D. Website (optional)
https://nearweek.com
E. Target Voting Participation
We aim to maintain 100% participation in governance decisions, except in cases where a direct conflict of interest may arise.
F. History of Interactions with NEAR Protocol
Over the past 200 weeks, NEARWEEK has curated the most relevant news, ecosystem developments, and governance discussions within the NEAR ecosystem. We have in practice shipped a weekly newsletter, done weekly X spaces, done daily written and video content and facilitated the NEAR ecosystem townhall calls. We have always put an honour in bringing light to new and existing projects, while using as much NEAR native tooling as possible along the way.
G. History of Governance Participation (in NEAR or other ecosystems)
NEARWEEK’s team has governance experience across multiple DAOs and protocols. Within the NEAR ecosystem it has thus far been our responsibility to take part in the off-chain signaling process as a neutral media representing the diversity of voices our ecosystem consists of. We are doing this on a micro and macro level every day, in the open and in our interaction with stakeholders in private conversations.
In other ecosystems beyond NEAR Protocol our core team has been active in a number of DAO experiments on EVM chains. This includes taking part in leading market token based governance voting systems and whitelisted DAO experiments such as Metacartel Ventures, Hydra Ventures & the Commons Stack.
H. Top 3 Priorities for the NEAR Ecosystem
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SHIP: We need the world’s best AI founders. We need to minimise undifferentiated heavy lifting and offer developers access to state of the art infra, tooling, users, liquidity and investors. Shipping and removing barriers to shipping is the DNA of NEAR.
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AMPLIFY: Composable AI offers network effects on steroids. We need to utilise all tools and tricks available to bring attention to what we are doing. Our vision of user owned AI is clear, we have the best position in the world to do this, we need great products, great marketing rollouts, awesome brands and an unfair advantage of a winning culture.
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ITERATE: The rate of iterations and applied learnings is our north star. We need to test our ideas rapidly, learn, measure impact on the ecosystem and double down on what works and shut down what does not. Repeat all of the above!
I. Reasoning for any past votes in the NEAR Ecosystem
Actual on-chain governance is a new concept in our ecosystem.
J. Conflicts of Interest
We believe we are aligned 100% with the interests of the NEAR ecosystem. In a case we are not, we will disclose and if necessary abstain.
K. Answer Hypothetical Delegate Scenario
- Additional information needed to make an informed decision
A. DeFi Incentives Proposal
• Historical data on user retention, TVL, and daily active wallets from similar incentive campaigns.
• A timeline indicating how and when incentives taper off to mitigate mercenary capital inflows.
• Risk analysis focusing on liquidity fluctuations and short-term vs. long-term user engagement.
B. Marketing Subcommittee Proposal
• Detailed allocation for marketing initiatives: content creation, developer outreach, targeted campaigns, etc.
• Clear KPIs (e.g., developer signups, hackathon participation, cost per lead).
• Defined oversight structure with term limits to ensure accountability and rotation of leadership if needed.
C. Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) Proposal
• Expected ROI and modeling for risk management (impermanent loss, market volatility, rebalancing strategy).
• Proposed governance mechanisms to ensure a somewhat fair and transparent treasury allocation.
• Explanation of how POL contributes to overarching NEAR objectives, such as strengthening liquidity depth and ecosystem utility.
2. Key metrics to evaluate
A. DeFi Incentives Proposal
• Growth in TVL (tracked over time to ensure sustainability).
• User retention rate and churn minimization.
• Protocol revenue and overall ROI on incentives.
B. Marketing Subcommittee Proposal
• Developer acquisition and retention, including metrics on newly deployed contracts or apps.
• User engagement levels (forum participation, social metrics, event turnout).
• Cost efficiency, such as cost per conversion and total brand lift.
C. Protocol-Owned Liquidity Proposal
• Liquidity depth across target pools or protocols.
• Capital efficiency measured by ROI on deployed assets.
• Impact on NEAR’s broader DeFi ecosystem (e.g., increased trading volumes, reduced slippage).
3. How NEARWEEK Would Support and Vote
A. DeFi Incentives Proposal
• Support if: Initiative creates an actual sustainable DeFi ecosystem + passes A/B/C triangulation with NEAR protocol governance AI assistants.
• Vote: Yes
B. Marketing Subcommittee Proposal
• Support if: Team is capable, able to move fast, minimal budget requirements and streamlined benchmark with other initiatives + passes A/B/C triangulation with NEAR protocol governance AI assistants.
• Vote: Yes
C. Protocol-Owned Liquidity Proposal
• Support if: A low-overhead, transparent and arguably fair allocation mechanism is presented + passes A/B/C triangulation with NEAR protocol governance AI assistants.
• Vote: Yes
L. What is your motivation for becoming a NEAR delegate?
We believe NEAR protocol is shipping non-trivial infrastructure in the ai x crypto niche like no other ecosystem in the world. Yet NEAR protocol is falling behind other ecosystems on trivial marketing, branding, product, DeFi, investor & sentiment metrics. Our motivation for joining this initiative is to do our part to fix this. How? By using user owned AI “common sense”…
We need to put the spotlight on the great innovations done, the huge founder opportunity building on NEAR, the people behind the tech and share our coherent vision for how user-owned AI will help humanity. We need to do this over and over, everything else is a distraction, let’s not fuck this up.
M. Anticipated delegation support (if applicable)
Some whales say they support us, let’s see.
Self-Assessment Criteria
A. Experience (2/2)
NEARWEEK has been grinding everything happening in the NEAR ecosystem for 200 weeks in a row with no downtime. We have seen the few things that worked and learned from the majority that didn’t. We have a background in early Ethereum days, being involved in decentralised governance using a variety of tools. Most importantly, when we sleep we dream about applied ai x crypto governance experiments every night.
B. Diversity of Perspective (2/2)
We curate all perspectives every week, we can’t help to notice this also affects our perspective as well.
C. Alignment with NEAR Ecosystem (2/2)
Yes we want the worlds best AI assistant to live on NEAR. Yes we want the NEAR protocol to be the most active open-source & user-owned community ever. Yes we want user owned AI to eat closed source AI for breakfast!
D. Governance Engagement (2/2)
Every day, every week sir!
E. Conflicts of Interest (2/2)
We will disclose any potential conflicts upfront and recuse ourselves from votes or discussions where impartiality could be compromised.
Delegate Code of Conduct
We have read and agree to the NEAR Delegate Code of Conduct. As part of our commitment, we will continue fostering a culture of transparent, data-driven decision-making to uphold the integrity of the NEAR ecosystem’s governance processes.
Stay NEAR!
Team NEARWEEK
