AMA with Bill Laboon - VP @ W3F
•October 9, 2025
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Why It Matters
The shift signals a more proactive, research‑driven governance and ecosystem strategy that could reshape tokenholder participation, developer support and protocol incentives across Polkadot and allied Web3 projects—potentially accelerating adoption and influencing on‑chain economic policy. Increased community inclusion and focused research may reduce governance friction and better align technical upgrades with ecosystem needs.
Summary
Bill Laboon, recently appointed VP of Ecosystem at the Web3 Foundation, says his broad remit covers community-facing functions including grants, developer support, staking, on‑chain governance, technical education and the support team. He emphasized the Foundation’s wider mission to build a decentralized internet—primarily through Polkadot but also via research, Kusama and protocol‑agnostic forums—backed by a 12‑person research arm studying cryptography, game theory and distributed systems. Laboon described organizational changes under way to strengthen community participation in governance, citing a new DV program designed to amplify voices of smaller token holders and other initiatives to improve ecosystem engagement. He framed these moves as operationalizing the Foundation’s mandate to nurture builders and steer Polkadot’s long‑term technical and economic design.
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