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

Charles St.Louis 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.

Timestamps:
(00:02:54) - MakerDAO’s arc of decentralization
(00:07:51) - how Maker influenced Element’s design
(00:10:22) - the Governance Steering Council
(00:21:25) - voting vaults
(00:29:10) - L1 and L2 for governance
(00:33:23) - qualitative evaluation for contributions
(00:37:50) - the ElFiverse and NFTs in the Element community
(00:42:24) - on being a protocol delegate

Links:
The Governance Steering Council - https://medium.com/element-finance/the-governance-steering-council-63aea7732262
Voting Vaults - https://docs.element.fi/governance-council/council-protocol-smart-contracts/voting-vaults
The Elfiverse - https://elfiverse.element.fi/

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

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