Proposing StakeCat as Community Lifeguard
After a successful pilot, the Community Lifeguards Initiative was recently consolidated as a sub-committee of LEGO.
As such, we think it’s time to onboard an additional Community Lifeguard covering the Europe region. This will complement Enti’s and my coverage of LATAM and Asia, and allow us to further ramp up our efforts in developing Lido solo staking communities globally.
After extensive rounds interviewing suitable candidates together with the Lido Community Staking team, we have decided to nominate StakeCat as a group for the role, with @GLCstaked_StakeCat serving as the main point of contact.
The roles of StakeCat as a Community Lifeguard will be in line with those defined in the overall initiative.
Our Rationale
StakeCat is a group of 7 Ethereum solo stakers that decided to combine their efforts to raise their proficiencies and contribute to the development of solo stakers.
Some of their key contributions to the solo staking community speak for themselves below:
- GLCStaked’s Solo Staker List: Aside from Rated’s list, this is the only other list that identifies solo stakers, and has resulted in solo stakers being eligible for benefits across the Ethereum ecosystem. The StakeCat team painstakingly maintains and filters this list as a public good.
- Solo Stakers Aren’t Going Away blogpost: Analyses the behavioural trends of solo stakers to better understand how to grow this talent pool.
- StakeCat grows and maintains their local communities in the UK centred around solo staking, the Lido ecosystem, DVT, and in general all things Ethereum.
- Spearheaded adoption of DVTs as one of the first mainnet clusters on Obol, and actively participating in SimpleDVT plus supporting participants from the very first cohort
- Being an already proficient AVS operator, they will be able to guide solo stakers when pre-confirmations are implemented on Ethereum
To put it simply, they are thought leaders in the solo staking space with the right motivations to ensure strong and healthy growth of the Lido solo staking community.
I recommend re-reading @GLCStaked’s application in the comments above to hear in their own words on why they are an ideal candidate as a Community Lifeguard.
Working Structure
As described above, StakeCat will serve as the European Community Lifeguard as a group while maintaining an individual representative (@GLCstaked_StakeCat ).
While this is an uncommon arrangement, we believe that it is the optimal working structure to draw out the best of what StakeCat has to offer.
Individually, each StakeCat member is a highly proficient Ethereum node operator with a strong reputation among peers. Collectively, StakeCat delivers and executes high-quality content and initiatives, achieving results far more efficiently than would be possible as individuals.
Onboarding StakeCat as a group also allows a wider coverage of community events and major conferences happening across Europe.
With that being said, the budget constraints of Community Lifeguard Initiative remains and the total compensation available to StakeCat as a group will be capped to that of 1 full-time-equivalent.
Conclusion
Being a Lido Community Lifeguard is demanding work as we are constantly driving new initiatives and breaking new grounds. However, we are confident that StakeCat will bring the Community Lifeguard Initiative to new heights and ramp up the adoption of Ethereum solo staking through the Lido CSM.
With that, I invite the community to provide feedback on this proposal and show their support for our potential new Lifeguard!