Holger

Objectives

In August 2020 I wrote the following: Mankind - I believe in the Unity of all Humans - We just need to learn it! Freedom - Everyone should be able to share his thoughts freely and express himself like he wants if it does not harm the freedom of others! There are no Borders - The limit is what you can imagine! As a DRep, I will stick with the core VISION of Cardano and safeguard it to the maximum possible extent. It is important that we stick to our values - the ones that brought us here and led us to create Cardano in the first place!

Motivation

Being a DRep is not only the 'new cool thing' — it comes with a lot of responsibilities. My goal is to protect and improve what we have built so far. Let's be frank here: It will be a huge challenge. Wherever humans and a large amount of 'money/power' are combined, some people get weak and only follow the money flow for their own profit. Cardano is so much more than money. Cardano was created to change the world and make it a better place — where everyone is treated fairly and has better opportunities. Cardano is the digital version of power to the people! Therefore, we need to protect what we have achieved so far and continue the road into the future by making the right decisions — decisions made by people who are here to do the right thing for all of us. And that is exactly what I am known for and stand for!

Qualifications

Here are a few of my milestones - there is more, but the following should give you an idea: ✦ Running a pool from day one ✦ Running 50+ relays worldwide ✦ Voted as Foundation Board Member of SPOCRA by hundreds of SPOs (in 2020) ✦ Helped over 500 pools run correctly ✦ Helping African pools with infrastructure they otherwise could not afford (for free) ✦ Creator of cardano24.social (without any funding) ✦ Tech Lead of Liqwid / former CTO (bringing native DeFi to our Cardano ecosystem) ✦ Infrastructure Lead of DripDropz ✦ Part of the Cardano Alonzo Blue Testnet - to bring us closer to smart contracts ✦ Official Moderator in IOG's Technical Community Discord Server ✦ Main Droperator of Drip ✦ Host of "We are Cardano" ✦ Creating a Space/Sci-Fi MMO on Cardano ✦ Creating a monitoring system for all stake pools on Cardano ✦ Creating a DDoS protection layer for SPOs/stake pools ✦ CTO of IAGON, bringing decentralized storage and compute to Cardano