AFC Application - Thiago C

Governance Astar Finance Committee
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Full name & timezone

Thiago Castroneves — UTC-3
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thiagocastroneves/

Relevant experience

  • 13 yrs running budgets and strategy. Ex-Head of Innovation & BD (Americas), Enviri Corp.
  • Moonbeam Foundation — set up and ran the grants desk and headed all BD initiatives for the Latam region.
  • Advisor to Colb Finance, Diode, Carbify (treasury and BD work).
  • Founder/CEO, Dooor Labs — raised $650 k pre-seed; manage our own token-based treasury.

Personal track record

  • Backed Polkadot from day one; joined the early crowdloans.
  • Angel/LP in 10+ DeFi & infra startups — know the good, the bad, and the ugly of funding requests.
  • Written treasury playbooks for a few DAOs; mix of speed and openness.
  • Stayed solvent through the May-21 and Jun-22 crashes — risk comes first.

Why I’m applying & what I’ll focus on

I want to bring my finance chops to Astar: dig into the new Soneium track, keep treasury numbers in plain sight, tighten proposal quality with simple checklists, and back ideas that actually help builders and users.

Weekly availability

Roughly 8–10 hours, flexible.

On-chain identity

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Conflicts

  • Founder of Dooor Labs (no ASTR overlap).
  • Advisor to Colb, Diode, Carbify — I’ll step out if any vote touches them.

Commitment

Show up to calls, sign the multisig, post clear monthly notes, and keep the conversation open.

Happy to answer anything else — thanks for reading.

— Thiago

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We have personally worked with Thiago to verify AOC’s work milestones on Moonbeam, he is a person we recommend, competent and professional. :top_arrow:

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Hi @thiago and welcome to Astar Forum :star:
I am happy to see applications for the AFC role that come from other ecosystems.
I would like to delve into some cases of management of past treasuries with some examples, if forum discussions, metrics or any other data are available I would be happy to delve into it.

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Hey @VasaKing, thank you for the warm welcome!

I have spent over 2 years with the grants committee at Moonbeam and you may find several reports here.

One example is this report here where I covered in details how we were approving grantees and measuring performance.

During my time in the grants committee, I’ve directly participated in most decisions involving community and ecosystem grants - all ecosystem grants given aimed to improve on chain metrics, from TVL and trading vol to DAU and transaction vol. There was a lot of learning with this process along the way.

Let me know if you want to dive deeper in some of these reports or if you have any questions!

Best,

Thiago

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thank you for the kind words bud!

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Hi Thiago, thanks a lot for your application.

Could you teach me more about these learning? The most important learning you had during your role as grants committee.

This role in AFC will be different as grant committee, the aim is to bring more value towards the ASTR token through several initiatives stated in the initial thread. Could you share more about your experience in DeFi? How you think DeFi should be used to maximize opportunities and yield farming? You can share your view :folded_hands:

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