In Season 7, our goal is to make significant improvements to Retro Funding to enhance its performance in accurately rewarding impact. Impact will be measured using algorithms, which are created, chosen and refined by humans. This allows us to focus human input where humans excel. This shift comes from separating Retro Funding into three distinct decisions: setting budget per mission (ratified by Citizens ahead of Season 7), selecting an evaluation algorithm, and measuring impact (which is automated via evaluation algorithm).
In order to support this shift, we need to run additional Guest Voter experiments. In Season 7, we are inviting a much larger group of the Collective’s stakeholders to participate temporarily as Guest Voters and choose the algorithm used to assess the impact of projects. This will allow us to collect voting and participation data from a much wider set of participants, which will continue to progress the development of decentralized Citizen selection. More details about the voting process is shared in a separate forum post.
What we want to learn in Season 7
In Season 7, our goal is to understand the preferences of different Collective stakeholders. Voter groups will be analyzed using both the voting data itself (how individuals cast their votes) and the preferences expressed by voters in pre-vote and post-vote surveys. In addition to identifying potential clusters or interest groups, we will also gather valuable insights on voter turnout.
Unlike in previous rounds, where the job of voters was to accurately measure impact, Season 7 invites voters to make a different type of decision — defining what constitutes impact rather than measuring it. The hypothesis is that domain expertise doesn’t play a role in the definition of impact in the way it did in rounds 5 and 6. Therefore, the Season 7 selection process strives to create a broad group of Collective stakeholders, rather than trying to select ‘for’ a specific characteristic like expertise.
Who is eligible to participate as a Guest Voter in Season 7
In Season 7, following groups are invited to participate as Guest Voters:
- Up to 3 contributors each from the top 30 recipients of Retro Funding 4, 5 and 6 (excluding projects of community contributors, elected officials etc. who are represented in the second and third bullet)
- Season 7 elected officials (if organizations, 1 representative), Collective Feedback Commission members
- Community contributors above wannabe level
- Up to 3 contributors each from eligible Superchain member organizations (those marked green or orange in the Superchain Index).
As always, participation as a Guest Voter in Season 7 is temporary and doesn’t imply the eligibility to participate in future seasons.
If you think you might be eligible to participate, set up your OP Atlas profile by February 10th. On this date, everyone who is eligible and has linked an email address to their profile will receive an automated email with further instructions.
Setting up your profile
- Sign in to OP Atlas and follow the profile completion steps
- Add an email address (so we can reach you)
- Make sure you have a verified address (so we can send you a voting badge).
- If you’re a community contributor, connect Discord
- If you are eligible based on being a contributor to a project, the project admin must add you as a contributor in the project edit view.
Here is a walkthrough of how to complete your profile and add contributors to your project
List of eligible S7 elected officials
Grants Council Operations
DAB Foundation Missions
DAB Governance Missions
DAB Audit Request Team
Milestone and Metrics Council
Grants Council Final Reviewer
Grants Council GrantNerd
Grants Council Lead
DAB Lead
Milestone and Metrics Council Lead
CFC
Security Council Cohort A
Security Council Cohort B
List of eligible Retro Funded projects
Some teams submitted their work in multiple projects. These will be counted as one project for the purposes of eligibility. Projects that represent governance or community contributors are excluded, because these types of contributors are eligible by virtue of their roles, not their past receipt of Retro Funding.
Please refer to the lists below to determine if your team is eligible.
Recipients of Retro Funding 4
- Zora
- Layer3
- LI FI
- Stargate Finance
- ODOS
- 0x Protocol
- Sound.xyz
- Synthetix
- Account abstraction ERC 4337
- Aerodrome Finance
- Sushiswap
- Kwenta
- Perp V2 - Curie
- Dmail Network
- LayerZero
- Ionic Protocol
- Boost
- Party.app + Party Protocol
- Synapse protocol
- Aave
- Seamless Protocol
- Velodrome Finance
- Rainbow
- WOOFi
- Holograph Foundation
- Kim Exchange
- deBridge
- NFTs2Me
- Far.quest Farcaster Super App
- Manifold
Recipients of Retro Funding 5
- Go-ethereum
- Protocol Guild
- Solidity
- Conduit OP Stack Contributions
- OP Reth
- Kurtosis optimism package
- Nethermind Ethereum Execution Client
- Go-libp2p
- Sedge
- Lighthouse
- Erigon
- Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS)
- Asterisc
- Revm
- Rollup-as-a-service Platform
- Ethereumjs-monorepo
- OP Succinct: Full ZK Validity Proving of OP Stack Rollups with SP1
- Besu
- Vyper
- Roll-op
- Maintaining simple-optimism-node
- AWS KMS and YubiHSM signer for OP Stack
- Code4rena
- Nimbus
- Upnode Deploy
Recipients of Retro Funding 6
- OSO Insights & Data Science
- Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS)
- Growthepie RetroPGF3 tracker
- OP Governance App
- Superchain.Eco
- Snapshot
- CharmVerse Grants
- GitCoin
- DeepDAO
- GovXS
- DAOStar
- SEED Gov
- Optimism Governance Calls
- Voting-Bloc Entropy (VBE)
- Superfluid
Retro Funded Projects that are excluded from the lists of top 30 above
Round 5:
- Account Abstraction - ERC-4337 (already represented in Round 4)
- OP Nethermind (same team as Nethermind execution client)
- Delta Network Upgrade (same team as Asterisc)
- OP Erigon (same team as Asterisc)
- TechNERDs Program (community contributors are eligible via a separate process)
Round 6:
(Community contributors and elected governance officials are eligible via a separate process)
- numbaNERDs
- Optimism Developer Advisory Board (S6)
- Optimism Security Council [Season 6]
- Optimism Security Council [Season 5]
- Grants Council [Season 6]
- OP Governance Contracts (same team as the OP Governance App)
- Grants Council [Season 5]
- Collective Feedback Commission [Token House]
- Developer Advisory Board (Season 5)
- Anticapture Commission [Season 5]
- Anticapture Commission [Season 6]
- Onchain Impact Metrics for Retro Funding (same team as OSO Insights & Data Science)
- Collective Feedback Commission Citizens House
- GovNERDs [Season 5]
- GovNERDs [Season 6]
