Here is my conversation with Charles St.Louis: intothebytecode.xyz/charles-stlouis-element/

Charles St.Louis 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.

Timestamps:

• 2:54 - MakerDAO’s arc of decentralization
• 7:51 - how Maker influenced Element’s design
• 10:22 - the Governance Steering Council
• 21:25 - voting vaults
• 29:10 - L1 and L2 for governance
• 33:23 - qualitative evaluation for contributions
• 37:50 - the ElFiverse and NFTs in the Element community
• 42:24 - on being a protocol delegate