Landscape of Professional Delegates
summary
Senate Labs builds governance tooling and maps six active professional delegates and their business models: Flipside: data analytics and on‑chain monitoring, Gauntlet: risk‑management consultancy, reported $1.5M Aave contract, Llama: focused Aave delegate, ~$2M deal, GFX and Revelry win foundation grants and long‑term relationships, StableLab shows unusually high voting participation (representative delegate compensation cited ~€144k/yr). Claim: delegates vote to sell services; two archetypes emerge—product builders vs consultants—and the next wave is specialist expert delegates rather than generalists.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Why delegates participate
- 2:29Flip Side governance model
- 4:36Gauntlet risk management
- 5:38GFX Labs Optimism governance
- 6:41Llama governance focus
- 7:46Stable Labs high commitment
- 9:09Delegate models
- 10:17Q&A
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