Phil UPLC
Phil UPLC is an active Cardano DRep with ₳80.8M of voting power from 715 delegators. Voted on 44 of the 62 governance actions of the last six months.
- Status
- Active
- Voting power
- ₳80,754,280
- Delegators
- 715
- Votes, last six months
- 44 of 62 governance actions
- Explains their votes
- 38 of 96 votes came with a published rationale
- Registered
- 3 Sept 2024
- DRep ID
- drep1yg343cyuckglj48a6gpcey7fkfcy5x5f9g65wme3ne9q2mgaedmkm
Objectives
Identify and resolve pain points that DApp developers experience work on Cardano.
Advocate for: Layer 1 feature development (input endorsers, babel fees, etc) Layer 2 research and development (Hydra, Midgard, etc) DApp development support User experience enhancements (i.e. transaction manifests)
Motivations
I have always emphasized the crucial role of open-source development in the Cardano ecosystem. I founded Anastasia Labs with the core mission to create open-source decentralized protocols, libraries, and developer tooling that benefit the entire community. We are here to grow the ecosystem, support DApp development, and improve both network and user security.
Qualifications
CEO and founder of Anastasia Labs
Compiler Development & Programming Language Theory.
Stopped the DOS attack on Cardano and looted the attacker's funds in the process: https://x.com/phil_uplc/status/1805672403822870776
Wealth of professional experience in smart contract security and auditing on Cardano; and was responsible for the identification and resolution of a large number of critical exploits in production open-source smart contracts.
Links
Latest votes
- Yes on Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada, 14 Sept 2026
- Yes on Reimburse Ikigai Info Governance Action Deposit., 14 Sept 2026
- Abstain on Withdraw 4,969,231 ada for Cardano Enterprise Adoption: Ticketing Platform, 28 Jul 2026
- Abstain on Alchemy by Sundial x Charms: Cardano-Native Bitcoin Treasury Protocol, 28 Jul 2026
- Yes on Blockfrost's transformation to not-for-profit, 28 Jul 2026
- Yes on Name the Protocol Version 12 hard fork “von Bergen“, 28 Jul 2026
- Yes on Scalus 2026: Maintenance, Dijkstra Readiness, Interoperability & Application Runtime, 28 Jul 2026
- Yes on Se7en Labs: Daedalus Wallet Maintenance and Improvements 2026-2027, 28 Jul 2026
- Yes on Withdraw 120,000,000 ada for AlphaGrowth’s Cardano PRIME, 17 Jul 2026
- Yes on Hard Fork to Protocol Version 11 ('van Rossem' Hard Fork), 17 Jul 2026