Delegate Statement

Hola, I'm Humberto and this is my background:

Double Master degree in the Science & Arts of eGovernance and Public Sector Innovation, as well as several diplomas on Smart cities, Tech innovation, Macro economics, and Business development.

7 years in Blockchain, 10 years in IRL Community Building and Participatory Governance experiments. Founder. I've broke 2 companies, sold 2 succesful ones, and merged the last three into what is now Urbánika.

2025 is the year of the SolarPunk Bus, which I'll drive from México to Argentina and then up to Brazil for the next 5 years with the goal of facilitating the emergence of smart, regenerative, and participatory cities.

Publications:

“Blockchain in Public governance” with Sofia Villarreal. Chapter 27, Handbook of Blockchain in Public Governance by Edward Elgar Publishing, to be published in 2025.

"Unlocking IRL reputation in web3". Article. CoLab Fellowship. April, 2024.

“PostCapitalism and the Commons” with David Bollier. Video course. Urbanika, March, 2024.

"ReFi Roundup #42: From DeFi to ReFi, Degen to Regen" with Anna Kaic and Monty Merlin. Blogpost. ReFi DAO, November, 2022.

Experience as speaker, workshoper, mentor, and panelist:

Croatia [MetaFest], Thailand [BuildCon], México [ETH México, DAOist CDMX, Veracruzana University, Chapingo University, Kayros Research per the Mx National Congress], Guatemala [ETH Guatemala], Spain [Fundación Botín].

Why Scroll?

Three reasons:

Scroll is part of the end-game of Ethereum [1], [2]. I bet that zKEVMs are going to win the L2 war.
From engaging with Scroll's docs, videos, and blogs I find that the Foundation and people behind it deeply appreciates science-backed decision-making.
The governance approach based on co-creation and the big focus on city-based community development made me choose it as the Scaling solution to focus on.

It's difficult to play as a serious Delegate in different L2s at the same time. So my team and I will only focus on two, and my personal favorite is Scroll. The other one is still on my bet due to their mobile-first architecture, as well as for its approach on sustainability.

Contact

Discourse / Twitter username: @HumbertoBesso

Top Issues

Builders

We need more devs to join, and also better challenges for them. We need community-rooted devRels and a digital devRel academy so local communities can upskill their own members. Using human talent to build non-sense dApps that fill blockspace without any real value is not going to get us anywhere. Let's link Scroll developement to real world cases.

Community

Two key things: (1) Memetics. The Nouns DAO community is a model to follow. Let's meme Scroll until it becomes fashionable, cool, and therefore the route to choose for scaling Ethereum. (2) Decentralized and autonomous communities. I propose that if local and regional communities are formed to grow the Scroll meme these should embrace all aspects of Scroll beyond just the educational part. Therefore a local community should (1) become an active delegate, (2) have a Scroll node running, (3) DAOify their management and operations, and (4) have a DevRel. Obviously to achieve that communities need education and guidance on how to reach each of those points as well as funding. I'll support the creation of programs to teach and scale the emergence of local communities globally.

Governance

Consent over consensus. We should embrace decades of research on the fields of eGovernance, behavioral science, Commons, and participatory democracy. Instead of carrying out goverance experiments out of the blue, they should be supported by scientific research so that every iteration adds on to the knowledge field and allow us to improve.

Experimentation

Experimentation should be done using a SMART-type of trazability framework and each experiment should be based on existing scientific knowledge. Also, all experiments should output memes (packed knowledge virally shareable).

Decentralization

Decentralization is a spectre and has different layers. Regarding the decentralization of governance I am biased towards a mix of Sociocratic and Congress-type of path, which means that: Circles or committees should be able to make decisions with the trust that the people within are the best on that matter (unless proven the opposite) i.e., [Sociocracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy). This approach gives speed on decision-making, however, it has the downside of relying on a single provider (the committee), so to derisk it we can employ a Congress of committees. Committees compete between each to provide the best solutions. To avoid cartelization, all committees can be wind down by the DAO ala Citizen's House. An example of this in practice is the following: Grants management can be assigned to a couple of grant managers (providers/committees) who compete between each other on performance regarding the ROI and Impact of their grant allocation. By giving them the funds to allocate, they have greater speed than if a proposal needs to go through the DAO. We could test this same Congress-type and a Sociocratic type of management for other areas (Conflict resolution, Grants management, Treasury growth, Community development, Governance iterations, Data analysis, etc) all through scientific approaches so that every iteration is documented and improved. Regarding technical areas of decentralization (nodes). I envsion a future where local communities and other power-players run a Scroll node as a requisite to have greater access to the treasury, so that we align decentralization with community and growth. Think it as a Delegated PoS.

Sustainability

We should strive for regeneration. Therefore, a portion of the chain's profit should go to internalize the externalities consequence of our activity and usage.

Privacy

Privacy is a human right and we should do our best to always integrate it by default into all developments within our ecosystem.

Security

A protocol that is safe to use will enable us to comply with regulations, thus attract adoption by the retail, government, and investment capital, which means massive adoption.