by 0xd6eff8f07caf3443a1178407d3de4129149d6ef6 (Canessa)
Should Monotributista be added to DAO Council?
Address
0x7a7280E299B79b7BD14D7501e3a03a0B77541622
Reasons for adding
Who I Am
Hey everyone,
Throwing my name into the DAO hat for the newly open Council seat.
I go by Monotributista (a pseudonym I started using in 2023), but I’ve been part of Decentraland way before that. I joined as a contributor at the end of 2017, after the ICO and around the time of the first land auction. That was three years before the Foundation even existed. I stayed on until February this year, when I stepped away from the Foundation.
This account might not reflect the full history, but I’ve been around, and many people at the Foundation can vouch for my involvement going all the way back. I’m a software engineer with over 16 years of experience, and Decentraland was a major chapter of my career. I worked on the dApps team for most of that time, acting as Tech Lead. Some of the projects I contributed to include the Land Manager (which later became the first marketplace), the Estates feature, the second land auction, Marketplace v2 (the one we still use today), the Builder across all versions (Babylon, Unity, and DCL Editor), the wearables and emotes editor and their integration with the marketplace, the expansion into Polygon and multichain support, and most recently, I worked the last couple of years with the SDK team on what started as the Decentraland VSCode Extension and today evolved into the Creator Hub. None of those were solo efforts. Everyone on the dApps and SDK teams brought a lot to the table. But I was there, helping build it all alongside them.
In addition to my engineering work, I collaborated closely with the Foundation’s Finance team during my last four years, helping with onchain operations and treasury management. That gave me a practical view into how Decentraland’s financials work and how much thoughtful coordination it takes to keep it running smoothly.
Outside of Decentraland, I’ve worked on a wide range of systems (some web2, some web3). I don’t brand myself as a "blockchain expert”, I just like building useful things that people can actually use.
Evidence
Why I’m Applying
Decentraland has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my career. It wasn’t just a job. It was a crazy, idealistic, ambitious experiment that I got to be part of from the early days. Even though I’m no longer at the Foundation, I still care deeply about the project and the community. Running for the DAO Council is a way for me to stay close and give back however I can.
What I’d Bring to the Council
If elected, I’d focus on bringing technical perspective to governance discussions, especially when proposals touch infrastructure, tooling, or ecosystem sustainability. I’d support the growth of creator tools. Decentraland needs to keep empowering people to build cool stuff. I’d also work to encourage transparency and clarity in DAO operations, and try to be a steady, long-term voice that understands where we came from and where we could go.
I’ve been here through a lot of milestones and growing pains. I know how things work under the hood: from the land system to the SDK to the DAO itself. I’ve seen how good ideas can get lost without the right structure, and how fragile momentum can be. I also know a lot of the people still actively building and contributing, and I think that context matters.
Thanks to my experience working with the Foundation’s Finance team, I also feel confident contributing to treasury strategy, onchain execution, and helping the DAO think through how to best deploy its resources, both for day-to-day operations and longer-term sustainability.
For transparency: I worked at the Foundation (and earlier entities) from late 2017 until early 2025. I’m applying under a pseudonym, but I’m fully willing to KYC with the rest of the Council if elected, as required by the process.
Happy to answer any questions or chat about anything I mentioned.
– Mono
savage. you can pick something I actually built to roast, i got plenty of code to clown on.
no hard feelings Jenn