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Foundation

Established in October 2021, Hummingbot Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established in the Cayman Islands. The Foundation’s mission is to democratize high-frequency trading by maintaining the open-source Hummingbot code repository and the HBOT governance system.

Bylaws

The primary purpose of Hummingbot Foundation is to enable a decentralized, bazaar-style model of software development for the Hummingbot codebase. The official Foundation bylaws are located at: https://hummingbot.org/bylaws.pdf.

Staff

The Foundation maintain a lean, globally-distributed team who handle the day-to-day operations of maintaining the Hummingbot codebase and the Foundation governance system, such as:

  • Reviewing and merging pull requests
  • Administering monthly polls and elections
  • Maintaining the Snapshot voting system
  • Managing the Discord server
  • Assigning and managing developer bounties
  • Packaging monthly releases into Docker containers for various environments
  • Maintaining and updating the Hummingbot website and documentation site

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors provides oversight over the Hummingbot Foundation and its day-to-day activities, along with managing the HBOT treasury.

Current Members

Elected for a 12-month term in February 2024 in HGP-54, the Board is comprised of the following individuals:

Name Hummingbot Discord Handle Ethereum Address
Brett Gibson brettdg eth:0x64b..4C3
Carlo Las Marias carlolm eth:0x03a..C79
Hoang La w0jak hoangla.eth
Maxime Fages engineeredjoy eth:0xD58..527
Michael Feng fengtality fengtality.eth

Role & Responsibilities

The Board is an independent committee that oversees the day-to-day administration of the Hummingbot Foundation and manages the multi-signature wallet of the HBOT treasury.

The Board conducts quarterly virtual board meetings to discuss Foundation progress and strategy. In addition, the Board regularly corresponds over group chat to handle multi-signature transactions related to HBOT distributions.

Requirements

Serving on the Board is open to anyone in the Hummingbot community. As board members are elected by HBOT holders, board candidates should have some past experience with Hummingbot and its community.

Since all transactions from the Foundation HBOT treasury require 3 out of 5 board signatures, board members should know how to manage a Gnosis multi-signature wallet.

Per the Foundation bylaws, there is no salary for serving on the Board of Directors.

Election Process

Hummingbot Foundation re-elects its Board of Directors every 12 months via Governance Proposal, following a process similar to that of other Polls:

  • Nomination thread: One month before the election, the Foundation will post a thread in Discord where past board members and anyone else can apply for a Board seat

  • Election starts: We will create the election as a Hummingbot Governance Proposal with everyone who applied via the Discord thread. Similar to other polls, this election uses Snapshot gasless voting and the quadratic voting allocation method.

  • Election ends: The election ends in 1 week, and the top 5 vote-getters will be seated afterwards on the Board of Directors for a 1-year term.