Contributors

Phase 1 research draws on structured interviews with governance practitioners, delegates, researchers, and builders across the web3 ecosystem. This page lists contributors who consented to public attribution.

Incomplete list

We added the attribution consent question partway through the research. Many early participants were never asked, so this page does not yet reflect all 52 contributors. We are reaching out to collect explicit consent from everyone — this list will grow as we hear back.

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Research Team

Name	Affiliation	Role
Eugene Leventhal	Metagov	Executive Director, gov/acc program lead

Contributors

Name	Affiliation	Role	Topics
Afolabi Aiyeloja	Greenpill	Tooling provider	Broken Contributor Economies, Voting Fatigue, Lack of Clear Purpose
Alex Soto	Independent	Independent delegate	Governance Theater, Broken Contributor Economies, Delegate Sustainability
Aman	Arbitrum Foundation	Governance teams	Governance Theater, Voting Fatigue, Lack of Clear Purpose
Arnold Almeida	Lighthouse Labs	Independent researcher	Grant System Dysfunction, Governance Theater, Lack of Clear Purpose, Informal Power
Bianca Kremer	University of Lucerne	Independent researcher	Governance Theater, Technical and Legal Gaps
Carl Cervone	Independent	Tooling provider	Governance Theater, Token Voting Failure
Daniel Kronovet	Independent	Independent researcher	Voting Fatigue, Token Voting Failure
ECVM	earthChange	Independent researcher	Governance Theater, Informal Power
Eric Alston	University of Wyoming	Independent researcher	Token Voting Failure
Gbiri Oluwaseun	—	Governance teams	Governance Theater, Voting Fatigue
Jeffrey McLarty	Agora	Tooling provider	Technical and Legal Gaps, Token Voting Failure
Joseph	Independent	Independent researcher	Technical and Legal Gaps
Joshua Davila	Independent	Independent researcher	Token Voting Failure, Informal Power
Karam	Yale / Polkadot ecosystem	Governance teams	Token Voting Failure, Institutional Amnesia, Grant System Dysfunction
Katashe Solutions	Katashe	Independent researcher	Voting Fatigue, Delegate Sustainability
Martin Schmidt	Independent	Researcher / builder	Technical and Legal Gaps
Mike Cooper	Metagov	Governance Innovation Lab	Grant System Dysfunction
Rashmi V Abbigeri	Independent	Governance teams	Governance Theater, Over-Reliance on Game Theory
Rosalind Marino	Independent	Independent researcher	Lack of Clear Purpose, Token Voting Failure, Informal Power
Sneha	Independent	Independent researcher	Technical and Legal Gaps
Tino	SEEDGov	Professional delegate	Lack of Clear Purpose, Broken Contributor Economies, Voting Fatigue
Trigs	Independent	Governance teams	Token Voting Failure, Governance Theater, Voting Fatigue
Zeugh	Coordinerds	Governance teams	Token Voting Failure, Voting Fatigue, Broken Contributor Economies, Governance Theater

Contributors listed alphabetically. Topics indicate governance problems the contributor provided evidence for during their interview.

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See also: Phase 1 Results · All Problems · All Solutions