Through my efforts as an analyst and researcher working with Castle Capital I have contributed in analyzing proposals on the Arbitrum Forum. In particular, as a collective we have commented on over 45 proposals, contributing to increasing overall awareness of the governance process as well as demanding accountability and transparency from grant recipients. By providing an unbiased opinion from a collective of on-chain native, we help projects align with their grassroot communities as well as with the overarching ecosystem goals of Arbitrum. Last but not least we hope to have encouraged smaller delegates and individuals to contribute and make their voice heard. 
We have been very satisfied with our impact: over 35 projects engaged with us in the forum after our response. 21 updated their requests, including 14 projects who lowered their amount requested. 

In total, our impact consists of more than 12m ARB saved that the DAO could allocate to other projects. 
Furthermore, both as an individual and through Castle Capital, I have written tens of threads and articles, who have contributed to increase awareness on the governance process, as well as to the Arbitrum tech stack and ecosystem, contributing to abstract technical complexity and educate/attract users to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
 How do you measure your impact? (e.g. viewers, forks, branches, likes, etc)Public
The most immediate way to measure our governance impact is through the amount of ARB that we saved to the DAO following our comments: over 12m.
Furthermore, over 50% of the projects we commented on updated their request. As our suggestions were mainly to ensure a broader alignment of the grant with Arbitrum, through our contribution we have acted as a steward of the ecosystem - even though this impact is rather non-quantifiable practically.
Through my research efforts, over 200k users (conservatively) have viewed and interacted with my articles and threads, both on Twitter and Substack. In this way, I have contributed to onboarding many new users, and educating them on Arbitrum.
