Speaking on behalf of Blockchain@Berkeley:
Describe your/the experts’ involvement in the Aave ecosystem and in the space more generally:
Blockchain@Berkeley (B@B) is and has been one of the most active student organizations in the Ethereum and DeFi community, paving the road for what leading blockchain student organizations look like since 2017. We’ve been actively involved in DeFi governance since December of 2020 and for nearly a year, B@B has reviewed and voted on proposals for some of the top DeFi protocols such as Aave, Compound, and Uniswap. B@B is aiming to become a significant community member in DeFi and joining Aave’s Risk DAO would be a huge step toward that goal. Over the past year alone, our education department has leveraged dedicated research projects to further understand and analyze the mechanics of DeFi and create models that can be used to better evaluate DeFi markets. One such long-term project ‘Stable Sims’ enabled a simulation of the Maker Protocol using different liquidation mechanics and stress-tests of these mechanisms under various market conditions.
What skills/experience do you/they bring?
B@B is made up of nearly 60 driven & passionate students with a breakdown of roughly 60% developers, the remaining 40% is made up of business development experts, designers, and education members. Our developers would likely be our biggest value add to the Risk DAO. Not only do all our developers do a 120 hour Web3.0 development course covering Solidity, React, and MongoDB but they are also deeply passionate and involved in the Blockchain community outside of B@B with many interning at different DeFi and Web3 companies over the summer. We believe that by participating in the Aave Risk DAO we can advance our skills and rise to meet any potential challenges while pushing the Aave protocol forward.
Can you commit ~5-10 hours a week?
Since B@B is a relatively large organization and with a dedicated governance team. 5-10 hours per week will be easily manageable and we’re excited to do so!