Governance Advisory Board Candidacy

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Executive Summary

This post is for ecosystem participants and community members to propose their candidacy to join the Governance Advisory Board.

You can read the Advisory Board announcement to learn more about Advisory Boards and their role in governance and the setting of strategic direction for the Livepeer network.

Candidates have until Thursday May 22nd to submit, with the final decision made the following week. To give ample time to review and consider, we advise everyone to submit their applications ASAP.

Governance Advisory Board Scope

In general, Advisory Boards play a critical role in supporting the development of network wide strategic direction. There are four advisory boards covering the gamut of network sovereignty (Network, Growth, Markets, Governance).

The primary question the Governance AB will focus on is: How does the Livepeer project progressively decentralise to a community -governed protocol

Types of activity this AB includes are:

  • Protocol development and upgrades
  • Treasury management
  • Security council
  • Consensus mechanisms.

Time Commitments

Exact time commitment will emerge in the next couple of weeks. We estimate that AB members will spend roughly:

  • ~3-4 hours per week for 4 weeks during Recommend & Screen phases.
  • ~1-2 hours per week ongoing during Advise stage.

Advisory Board Member Criteria

These are the primary criteria to be met in order to be eligible and considered legitimate for an Advisory Board Member role.

Established reputation - have a solid standing within the Livepeer core contributor community.
Strategy-oriented - does this person have the cognitive capacity to think both long-term and laterally, taking into account different aspects of the Livepeer project.
Collaborative attitude - have showcased a collaborative way of thinking and working within the Livepeer ecosystem
Stake in Network - have 100+ LPT staked within the network

However, all ecosystem participants can consider the opportunity, even if you don’t fulfil all criteria.

Propose your candidacy

To join the Governance Advisory Board, simply post a reply to this thread answering the below questions.

Try to keep each answer to 500 characters or less, so ecosystem participants can adequately review all candidates.

1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?
Tell us a little about yourself. What name do you like to go by? What is the focus of most of your time? How do you like to spend your free time?

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?
Tell us what brought you into the Livepeer network and what excites you about its future?

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?
Briefly describe any historical contributions you’ve made or role(s) you’ve fulfilled within the network. Don’t forget to mention if you’re an existing Orchestrator, SPE member, grantee or Livepeer Inc team member.

4. Why are you a good fit for the Governance Advisory Board?
Advisory Boards are specialized. Describe any qualifications or contributions that could help visualize your specialized expertise in network dynamics, especially those that relate to Livepeer.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Governance?
List only one area concisely.

6. What is one area where the Livepeer network could be improved, in relation to Governance?
List only one area concisely.

We look to forward to hearing from you!

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1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?

Hi everyone! I’m Paolo, Ecosystem Manager at The Graph Foundation, where I lead initiatives to grow participation and support our ecosystem participants. I’m also co-founder of Live Pioneers and creator of Indexer Score and Graph Tools Pro. In my free time, I enjoy coding, studying strategy, and building communities to onboard more people into web3.

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?

I co-founded Live Pioneers, the largest community of long-term LPT holders and supporters. What drew me to Livepeer was its clear mission and values around open infrastructure, and its real-world impact on decentralized video transcoding. What excites me most is the amazing human talent in this ecosystem and the capabilities to unloick new uses cases.

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?

As co-founder of Live Pioneers, I’ve helped foster community discussions, surface ecosystem needs, and spotlight long-term contributors. I’ve supported the network through strategic content, coordination, and user education, always with a long-term mindset, as I’ve been a delegator since 2021.

4. Why are you a good fit for the Governance Advisory Board?

My work across decentralized ecosystems—especially in governance, where I co-founded Graph AdvocatesDAO, and in community design (launched nine global communities here and here)—gives me a unique lens on network dynamics. I design programs and tools that align incentives, ensure legitimacy, and could support GAB’s mission of neutrality and accountability.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Governance?

Mission-aligned, long-term holders: The network has a uniquely principled and dedicated group of participants who deeply care about its future.

6. What is one area where the Livepeer network could be improved, in relation to Governance?

Structured feedback loops: More consistent ways for contributors and token holders to influence priorities and surface emerging needs.

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Hi everyone, very excited to see applications come in. As the incoming Chair of the first Governance Advisory Board, I thought it would be worth giving an overview of my background:

1. Who are you and how do you spend your time?
Hi all, I started out my career initially running coding bootcamps. I’ve been fascinated by economics, human behaviour and incentive systems since school, which is what led me to blockchains and new way of organising. I would like to think myself as pretty Ethereum-aligned in principle; and I’m interested in new structures to organise human work and ways of coordinating and allocating onchain capital. I’ve worked with a number of web3 projects (Protocol Labs, Encode, Node Guardians) before working with Livepeer. Interests span from football to poetry to permaculture.

2. Why are you a Livepeer Contributor?
I believe building distributed, censorship-resistant, privacy-first infra is key to a world which is becoming increasingly controlled by the few. Video has become the primary medium to ingest information and is the backbone of the information economy. Creating open-source, distributed video tech which anyone can integrate into and use in their own applications will be key to ensuring that everyone has access to information regardless of who they are.

3. What is your relationship with the Livepeer network?
I’ve been working with Livepeer Inc since February 2024. I initially started as Ecosystem Operations Lead, project managing the AI SPE with Rick, and running a series of programs including the Startup Program and AI Hackathon. In October, I switched focus to Operations within Livepeer Inc, helping set up a clearer pod structure. Since March my attention has been focused on setting up the Livepeer Foundation, which I will be a Director of.

4. Why are you a good fit for the Governance Advisory Board?
I have been interested in protocol design and tokenomics since joining the space back in 2021. In 2023, I ran a residency focused on DAOs (through my organisation Chinwags), and have tracked the difference governance successes and pitfalls of adjacent ecosystems (Arbitrum, Gitcoin, ZKSync, dydx to name a few examples). My particular interest in Governance with Livepeer is how we can gradually progress from social governance systems to protocol-based governance, where onchain capital is allocated with minimised bureaucracy.

5. What is one area where the Livepeer network is strong, in relation to Governance?
An awesome Orchestrator community where every onchain treasury vote has reached quorum. Compared to other ecosystems, where voter apathy with token holders is much higher and delegates have less skin in the game, the Livepeer project is strategically positioned to truly be community-governed over time. As a broader Livepeer community, we should be proud of the commitment that has been shown 9 years into the project.

6. What is one area where the Livepeer network could improve, in relation to Governance?
More community-driven protocol development. Over the past 1-2 years, there has been a stagnation in protocol upgrades. We need to consider onboarding more contributors and ensuring that there is greater decentralisation of the signer process. This will decrease the reliance on a centralised entity and ensure that there ownership is gradually handed over to the Orchestrator community and token holders.

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