Concordium Governance Committee · 2026 Elections

Hills. The community's seat at the table.

I'm Jareau van den Heuvel, known in the community as Hills. I've held CCD since the early days and have spent the years since then talking to fellow holders, answering their questions, and watching how this ecosystem actually feels from the outside of the technical circles. I run one of the larger Dutch-language Concordium communities, and I'm running again this year because the retail voice still isn't properly represented where the real decisions get made.

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Why this matters

Builders and validators already have a voice. Retail mostly doesn't.

The Governance Committee shapes tokenomics, ecosystem funding, and protocol priorities. These are decisions that affect every CCD holder, not just the teams and institutions that are already at the table and already understand how everything works. I'm not a developer, and I'm not going to pretend to be one just to sound credible. What I bring instead is the perspective of the people who bought in, stuck around through the quiet periods and the noisy ones, and still have opinions about where their investment is heading and why.

What I'll push for

Three things retail holders keep asking about

Retail seat, not just a retail mention

I want community feedback to actually shape agendas and votes, not just get a polite nod before everyone moves on. If something matters to a large share of holders, it should show up in how the GC actually spends its time and attention, not stay parked in a side conversation.

Plain language updates on spend

Ecosystem fund and treasury decisions should be explainable in a sentence that a non-technical holder can actually follow. What was funded, why it made sense, and what changed because of it. If it can't be explained simply, that's usually a sign it needs to be explained better, not skipped.

A real feedback loop, not a comments section

Community Telegram and X threads are full of signal that never reaches governance. I want a structured way for that to actually get read and responded to, starting with the channels I already run.

Track record

Why I think I'm useful here

I've been part of the Concordium community for years now. First purely as an investor, watching the project from a distance and trying to understand where it was going. Over time that turned into something more active: answering questions, explaining updates when they came out, and generally keeping a Dutch-language community informed and engaged even when the official communication was only in English. That group has grown to over 50 members, and running it has taught me a lot about what retail holders actually care about, which is often quite different from what gets discussed in the English-language governance circles.

I ran for the GC last year and didn't make it. The reason I'm running again is simple: the gap I saw back then is still there, and somebody needs to keep showing up for it.

I'm not promising to overhaul the protocol or out argue the technical teams on tokenomics design, because that's not where my strength lies and I'd rather be honest about that upfront. What I'm offering instead is consistency, a direct line to a community that doesn't always speak English first, and someone who'll keep asking the basic, practical questions on their behalf when everyone else in the room already knows the jargon and has stopped asking them.