Wintermute Delegate Platform
Contact & Delegation Address Information
Delegate Address: 0xB933AEe47C438f22DE0747D57fc239FE37878Dd1
Delegate ENS Address: wintermutegovernance.eth
Forum Username: Wintermute, Callen_Wintermute
Email: governance@wintermute.com
Website: https://www.wintermute.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wintermute_t
Our Voting Activity: Boardroom
Our Discussion Activity:
Profile - WintermuteGovernance - Compound Community Forum.
Profile - Callen - Compound Community Forum.
Hi Compound Community!
We are excited to begin supporting Compound at our fullest capacity, offering a unique delegate experience for the community and stakeholders. As a full-time delegate we are committed to helping guide the protocol’s decentralization and multi-chain growth.
Specifically, our focus will be on:
- Supporting the safe deployment of Comet across EVM chains, ensuring target chains are net beneficial to the protocol and token holders.
- Providing input and recommendations surrounding collateral listings & protocol parameters.
- Researching and putting forward proposals to address potential areas of improvement such as governance participation, governance processes, growth, grants, etc.
- Stream important votes and proposals and their impact across our institutional and corporate channels.
Introduction
Wintermute is a leading crypto-native algorithmic trading firm, specializing in creating efficient markets across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Wintermute was founded in July 2017 by three Optiver veterans. Evgeny Gaevoy, founder and CEO, was previously head of ETFs (screen and OTC) at Optiver Europe, one of the largest ETF market-making desks. Since our inception, we have traded over $2.85T and expanded our presence across 80+ (de)centralized exchanges and various (non)EVM chains, continuously supporting and providing liquidity throughout the ecosystem for our partners and their communities.
Alongside our trading arm is Wintermute Ventures, which enables us to support projects where we know we can be true value-adding, develop a partnership and help influence a positive outcome. Importantly, we do not target large ownership stakes; decentralized ownership is an important prerequisite to transitioning to a robust future.
Why us
We believe that a decentralized world needs robust and progressive governance systems. Our goal is to support DAOs along their journey towards such a state through objective, long-term value-add decision-making.
Alongside active governance participation, Wintermute’s goal is to support Compound’s growth in a sustainable and robust manner, providing research when needed and proactively creating proposals to address areas of improvement (e.g. dYdX LP Reward Restructure). We’ll also happily leverage our internal infrastructure from both our trading and venture arms to support the DAO in areas such as simple treasury maintenance, to bespoke cross-chain liquidity management.
Outside of Compound, we’re contributors to Aave, dYdX, Index Coop, and 1inch. We intend to expand our presence across many more DAOs in the near future.
Our Core Values:
Long-term value creation over short-term opportunism.
For example, we do not support short-term rent-seeking token distribution programs; or the redistribution of tokens that carry no positive second-order effects.
In contrast, we do support and encourage purpose-driven mechanisms that incentivize positive behaviour and are value-maximizing; or that improve alignment between token holders and the protocol.
Transparency, alignment, and proactivity.
We are proactive in providing clear and consistent reasoning behind our decision-making and proposals, ensuring the protocol’s sustainability is at the heart of all governance discussions.
Objective data-driven decision-making.
We use data and research to ensure our final decision is objectively value-accretive for the protocol.
We look forward to actively contributing to Compound alongside fellow delegates and thank all future delegators who choose to support Wintermute and the greater decentralization of Compound!
Interested in delegating to us without paying for gas? Here’s how:
- Head over to https://comp.vote/delegate and connect your wallet
- Once connected, scroll to the bottom of the page and enter our Ethereum address 0xB933AEe47C438f22DE0747D57fc239FE37878Dd1 and click “Delegate”
- Lastly, click “Sign” on your wallet application pop-up!
