Areta Governance specializes in helping foundations and DAOs establish and grow decentralized governance structures. We develop tailored solutions in governance inception and optimization, ecosystem growth, and service provider selection. Our connected investment bank with deep strategic expertise, enables us to serve our partners holistically, rather than working in isolated governance silos.

We have had the privilege to work alongside industry leaders such as Uniswap, Arbitrum, Safe, Aave, and dYdX.

Delegate Address: aretagov.eth

Governance Leads: Bernard Schmid, Siddharth Shah

Active Delegate Platforms: Aave, Safe, Arbitrum

Delegate Focus: Ecosystem Growth, Governance Optimization, Information Flow to Investors

Active Ecosystems: Aave, ****Uniswap, Arbitrum, Safe, dYdX

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Connect with us on Telegram at @bmitte or send an email to [email protected].

We are always eager to explore professional delegation and collaborative opportunities with projects that align with our areas of focus and interest.

Introduction to Areta

Areta Governance specializes in helping foundations and DAOs establish and grow decentralized governance structures. We develop tailored solutions in governance inception and optimization, ecosystem growth, and service provider selection. Our connected investment bank with deep strategic expertise, enables us to serve our partners holistically, rather than working in isolated governance silos.

We have had the privilege to work for some of the leading companies and DAOs in the crypto space. Examples of our work on the governance side include leading the first cross-ecosystem growth initiative for Uniswap and Arbitrum, leading governance optimization initiatives for Arbitrum, Safe, and dYdX. On the transaction side, we led the first acquisition of Coingecko, the sale of Solscan to Etherscan, and the strategic wind-down of Gro DAO.

As DAOs emerge from their infancy, their structures have proven powerful tools for enabling decentralization and autonomy. However, we still encounter challenges in maintaining the organization, highlighted by governance issues such as contributor onboarding, delegate overload, and centralization of power structures. Thus we aim to find solutions where DAOs can improve in establishing structured processes for better collaboration.

Recognizing the need for evolution, we focus on governance participation with robust analysis of proposals while applying our institutional knowledge and governance expertise to offer proactive DAO governance solutions aimed at growing the ecosystem long term.

Select Experiences

1. Uniswap-Arbitrum Grant Program: Launch of Cross-Ecosystem Growth Initiative for Uniswap and Arbitrum. Read more here.
2. Contributor Efficiency System: Development of Safe DAO Contributor Efficiency System. Read more here.
3. Services Procurement Framework: Management of Service Provider Selection and RFPs for Arbitrum. Read more here.
4. Aave Delegate: Incentivized Delegates for the Aave DAO. Read more here.
5. Operations Trustee: Trustee to dYdX’s Operations Trust. Read more here.

Delegate Statement

Areta’s key tenets as delegates are as follows:

• We will aim for 100% voting participation - we are deeply invested in the ecosystem and our goal is to meaningfully support its direction via thoughtful, educated governance decisions.
• We always commit to voting independently and impartially.
• We will open source our rationale through frequent updates to our delegate platform, which will act to anchor our thinking and make ourselves accountable to the wider community.

We will achieve these tenets through our four unique sources of value: