Polygon’s chief facts security officer Mudit Gupta has been removed from the election route of for Arbitrum’s Safety Council despite having the most votes out of the 44 candidates that utilized.

Gupta turn out to be as soon as disqualified thanks to a stipulation in the Arbitrum structure that stops any candidate with a warfare of hobby from becoming a member of the council, which would forestall them from performing in the fitting pursuits of the chain.

“Doubtless conflicts of hobby shall be, but are no longer restricted to, affiliations with advise Arbitrum rivals, proven histories of exploiting initiatives and others,” reads the Arbitrum structure.

The disqualification didn’t attain as mighty of a surprise to many industry watchers, and even Gupta himself, thanks to his affiliation with Polygon — a chain that many envisage to be an rapid competitor to Arbitrum.

“I wasn’t alive to here and wouldn’t have any doubt that you just’d no longer have any ulterior motives,” acknowledged Steven Goldfeder, the founder of Arbitrum builders Offchain Labs, in step with Gupta’s X put up.

“Nevertheless that is a technicality for the reason that structure explicitly doesn’t allow this (and the community can fully debate whether or no longer that is a correct thing or must be changed for future elections),” he added.

In a weblog put up addressing the warfare of hobby, Arbitrum acknowledged that two candidates from Polygon had utilized to be segment of the Safety Council and could maybe well be removed from the elections throughout the compliance stage.

The Arbitrum Safety Council is a committee of 12 contributors who’re signers of a multi-sig pockets, which would maybe function emergency and non-emergency actions to uphold the ArbitrumDAO’s structure. Candidates will wish to meet a threshold of 5.43 million ARB to qualify for the subsequent stage of the election on April 13.