Summary
In this post, you will find all the information that you need to self-nominate for the 2025 RareDAO Council election. Please see this post for more information about the election process as a whole: 2025 RareDAO Council Election Announcement
Attention: The nomination phase is open to all community members who own or have staked at least 1 $RARE. Only candidates who receive 1.5 million votes on their nomination proposal will proceed to the final election. Nominations are open from today (April 30th) through May 7th at 9am EST. If a candidate does not follow the below instructions clearly they may disqualify themselves from inclusion. As such, carefully adhering to the self-nomination instructions provided below will be critical to ensuring the success of your campaign.
Additionally, please make sure that the email you used to register your account on this forum is up to date, we will use it to contact you if you are elected.
To reiterate, please carefully read all of the following instructions. Please make sure your email address registered to the forum is up to date. Please post any questions to the announcement post.
Replies to this thread should only contain filled out nomination questionnaires. Any questions or commentary around the nomination and election process should be directed towards the announcement post.
Self-nomination instructions
The nomination phase is now underway, and will remain open until May 7th at 9am EST. To nominate yourself as a candidate, follow these steps:
Step 1: Reply to this post with your nomination profile
Copy paste the following template into a forum reply on this post and fill in all relevant information.
* **Link to snapshot:** (provide in step 3, after creating your proposal)
* **Preferred name:**
* **Ethereum address / ENS name:**
* **Country of residence*:**
* **Relevant social links & NFT marketplace profiles:**
* **Which best describes your role in the crypto art ecosystem?**
* **Select:** Artist, Collector, Curator, Builder
* **Provide more details:**
* **Please share any relevant experience that would support your work on the Council.**
* *This might include governance, protocol development, treasury management, regulatory strategy, or other areas where you bring expertise or discernment.*
* **What commitments can you make regarding availability and reliability for transaction signing, async communication, and participation in meetings?**
* *Note: Council members are required to own and maintain a hardware wallet for transaction signatures, which should be carried even when travelling, if possible.*
Step 2: Create your nomination proposal
Create a snapshot proposal in the RareDAO Council Nominations space here. In order to create a proposal, you will need to be connected with a wallet that contains at least 1 $RARE. This is required by Snapshot to prevent spam proposals. If you do not already own $RARE, you can get some on major centralized exchanges or on Uniswap.
For the title of your proposal, please use the following template: [2025 Council Nomination] Your Preferred Name
For the description of your proposal, please copy paste your nomination profile from Step 1 - excluding the āLink to snapshotā field. In order to ensure the best formatting, click the pencil icon beneath your forum response to open edit mode and copy the unformatted markdown text displayed on the left.
For the āDiscussionā field, please paste a direct link to your nomination profile, which can be obtained by clicking the chain icon beneath your reply on the forum.
For the āVotingā settings, please select āBasic Votingā from the type dropdown and leave the choices unchanged.This may already be selected for you by default.
For the āVoting Periodā settings, please leave the start time set to ānowā, and set the end time to your local timezoneās equivalent of May 7th at 9am Eastern Time. For help converting your local timezone to Eastern Standard Time (EST), I recommend this tool.
Once all of the above has been completed, please double check that everything has been entered correctly and then click āPublishā.
Step 3: Add snapshot proposal to your nomination profile
Once your snapshot proposal has been created, please copy the proposalās URL and then paste it into the āLink to snapshotā field of your nomination profile. In order to edit your forum response, you will need to click the pencil icon displayed underneath it and to the right.
What happens next?
Once youāve successfully followed the steps to self-nominate, you should use your connections within the community to campaign for 1.5 million votes on your snapshot proposal. When nomination voting ends on May 7th at 9am EST, all candidates with over 1.5 million votes on their proposal will be included in a final election proposal in the DAOās primary snapshot space, using the approval voting strategy. The election vote will begin at 4pm EST on May 7th and end at 4pm EST on May 14th, more information about the election vote and transfer of power can be found here.
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