Simona Pop

Romanian-born British entrepreneur, angel investor, governance strategist, community builder, conference producer, facilitator, and public speaker working at the intersection of decentralized governance, public goods, open coordination, and human flourishing.

Over the past decade she has helped build institutions, communities, governance systems, conferences, and funding mechanisms across the Ethereum ecosystem. Rather than focusing on any single organization, her work has consistently explored how people can coordinate more effectively, build resilient communities, and design healthier internet cultures.

Areas of Work

Governance & Institutional Design

Helping decentralized organizations evolve through governance design, stewardship, facilitation, and institutional development.

Gitcoin, ENS DAO, Optimism, Element, SuperRare DAO

Public Goods

Designing funding mechanisms, stewardship structures, and community processes that support shared digital infrastructure.

Gitcoin, ENS Public Goods Working Group

Community Building & Ecosystem Growth

Growing healthy contributor communities through onboarding, education, relationship building, and ecosystem development.

Status, Bounties Network (Co-founder)

Conference Architecture & Design

Designing conferences as coordination systems through curation, facilitation, narrative design, and cultural programming.

LisCon, Schelling Point, Devcon, ETHDenver, Devconnect

Angel Investing

Early-stage investor in web3 infrastructure, tooling, and ecosystem projects.

WalletConnect, Sprinter, 0xbow, Alien, Gnosis Guild, and more

Organisations
Bounties Network (Co-founder) Status Gitcoin DAO ENS DAO Optimism Element SuperRare DAO Human Protocol LisCon Schelling Point
Selected Talks
Themes
Decentralized governance Public goods Open coordination Institutional design Community building Education Conference production Regenerative systems
Featured In
Bankless Forbes BBC Future Decrypt Devcon EthCC
Source Links

Governance & Institutional Design

Public Goods

Community Building & Ecosystem Growth

Conference Architecture & Design

Web3 Culture & Psychology

Writing