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:<br><strong>2:54</strong> MakerDAO’s arc of decentralization<br><strong>7:51</strong> how Maker influenced Element’s design<br><strong>10:22</strong> the Governance Steering Council<br><strong>21:25</strong> voting vaults<br><strong>29:10</strong> L1 and L2 for governance<br><strong>33:23</strong> qualitative evaluation for contributions<br><strong>37:50</strong> the ElFiverse and NFTs in the Element community<br><strong>42:24</strong> on being a protocol delegate</p><p><strong>Mentioned in the show:</strong> <br>The Governance Steering Council - <a href="https://medium.com/element-finance/the-governance-steering-council-63aea7732262">https://medium.com/element-finance/the-governance-steering-council-63aea7732262</a> <br>Voting Vaults - <a href="https://docs.element.fi/governance-council/council-protocol-smart-contracts/voting-vaults">https://docs.element.fi/governance-council/council-protocol-smart-contracts/voting-vaults</a> <br>The Elfiverse - <a href="https://elfiverse.element.fi/">https://elfiverse.element.fi/</a></p>