Charles St.Louis: Element Finance and voting vaults as a primitive

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/CharlieStLouis">Charles St.Louis</a> is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets and previously the governance architect at MakerDAO. In this conversation, we talked about Element’s governance system - with a particular focus on voting vaults, a powerful new primitive that decouple the relationship between capital and voting power and allow much more expressiveness in how users are given a governance voice in the ecosystem.</p><p>Timestamps:</p><ul> <li> <strong>2:54</strong> - MakerDAO’s arc of decentralization</li> <li> <strong>7:51 -</strong> how Maker influenced Element’s design</li> <li> <strong>10:22</strong> - the Governance Steering Council</li> <li> <strong>21:25</strong> - voting vaults</li> <li> <strong>29:10</strong> - L1 and L2 for governance</li> <li> <strong>33:23</strong> - qualitative evaluation for contributions</li> <li> <strong>37:50</strong> - the ElFiverse and NFTs in the Element community</li> <li> <strong>42:24</strong> - on being a protocol delegate</li> </ul>