Mission Proposals
Intent #1
We approved:
Superchain Deepdive
Reason: Superchain is on the roadmap of Optimism, and there needs to be an initiative be in place for progressive decentralization
Reviewer: @Sator
TechNERD Program
Reason: Technical education inside Optimism are essential
Reviewer: @Sator
Extend the L1Block contract to store historical blockhash data
Reason: Access to historical data allows for further decentralization
Reviewer: @Sator
Spearbit + Immunefi Bug Bounty Program for Large Protocols on Optimism
Reason: Security is of paramount importance to the Optimism ecosystem, particularly for large protocols such as Velodrome.
Reviewer: @chaselb
We did not approve:
Fully Decentralized and Independent Oracle and Data Infrastructure
Reason: Through consulting with more technical members of our club, we do not believe that this is a practical enough solution considering the request asked for.
Reviewer: @sator
Future-proofing UI/UX of OP nodes
Reason: The timeline for this proposal appeared to be out of scope of the restrictions imposed upon Mission Proposals.
Reviewer: @chaselb
Intent #3
We approved:
Velodrome: Spread Awareness Through Direct Outreach and Onboarding
Reason: Attracting more protocols to the biggest DEX on $OP would definitely bring attention to the OP vision across the DeFi space.
Reviewer: @sator
BanklessDAO’s Global Campaign to spread the Optimistic vision
Reason: BanklessDAO is a cost-effective platform for the intent
Reviewer: @sator
Create and Maintain the ‘Optimism Vision Reservoir’
Reason: Resource Aggregator on Optimism Vision is an essential for spreading the OP Vision.
Reviewer: @sator
Optimistic Womxn Shinning in Blockchain
Reason: Education + Building in Cohort Style for the LATAM woman community makes sense.
Reviewer: @sator
Let’s take the Optimistic Vision to LATAM with Espacio Cripto
Reason: Education for the LATAM community makes sense.
Reviewer: @sator
Spread Optimistic values across Latam with Solow
Reason: Spreading Optimistic values to diverse communities is important and the ask seems reasonable.
Reviewer: @chaselb
‘Thank Optimism - powered by ThriveCoin’
Reason: https://gov.optimism.io/t/final-thank-optimism-powered-by-thrivecoin/6104/56
Reviewer: @chaselb
Web3xplorer - A curated web platform to discover useful web3 apps, resources and tools
Reviewer: @chaselb
Reviewer: @chaselb
We did not approve:
Fueling RetroPGF Growth through Education, Collaboration, and Active Marketing
Reason: The initiatives in our opinion were too scattered for the mission proposal format.
Reviewer: @sator
Develop the most relevant and aligned audiovisual content for the Optimism Collective
Reviewer: @chaselb
Intent #4
We approved:
Multi-lingual Lesson on Optimism Governance, by Bankless Academy
Reason: Bankless IP will be effective in increasing the Governance Accessibility
Reviewer: @sator
Reason: The blockchain guy youtube channel with 7k+ followers and quality content will be effective in increasing the governance accessibility. Michael is also an experienced operator in internet native organization.
Reviewer: @sator
Reason: Experience under MetaFactory and especially podcast-related experience at Roll proves a legit track record Sinkas, and we believe they will be able to spread the voices of delegates of OP and enhance the governance accessibility
Reviewer: @sator
REGEN Score - Attestations for the Citizen’s House
Reason: Building out an on-chain reputation metric is aligned with the intent
Reviewer: @sator
Pairwise: Tinder UX For Web3 Community Signaling
Reason: It will be a great tool for community signaling usage during the retroPGF voting period, and with an experienced team, we believe they will be able to ship it according to the listed milestone.
Reviewer: @sator
DAOStar: Governance standards for the Optimism ecosystem
Reason: [FINAL] DAOstar: Governance standards for the Optimism ecosystem - #31 by chaselb
Reviewer: @chaselb
OP Governance Analytics Dashboard
Reason: [FINAL] OP Governance Analytics Dashboard - #19 by chaselb
Reviewer: @chaselb
Reason: [FINAL] NumbaNERD program - #10 by chaselb
Reviewer: @chaselb
We did not approve:
Improving Governance Accessibility through Praise and Contribution Based Attestations
Reason: At the time this proposal was already approved and we did not have strong feelings either way, thus we chose to abstain.
Reviewer: @sator
Economic Co-design of Gas Fees for the OP Stack
Reason: Interesting project but we also echo Linda’s point on the huge 125k $OP ask (even with the 1-year lock-up). Also we’d like to echo Bobby’s point that “OP Mainnet’s gas fees will not be subject to governance until a proposal type to do so is introduced in a future governance season”, and thus we abstain from this vote.
Reviewer: @sator
Velodrome: Fostering Inclusive Governance through Leading Optimism Builders and Long-term Users
Reviewer: @chaselb
Enable aOP as A Votable Token in Optimism’s Governance
Reason: [FINAL] Enable aOP as A Votable Token in Optimism's Governance - #22 by chaselb
Reviewer: @chaselb
Reason: [FINAL] OPdelegate.com - #17 by chaselb
Reviewer: @chaselb
- Additional context: upon checking in with my co-lead, we both agreed that the course style is insufficient to address the stated problem.
Reviewer: @chaselb
Does it fulfill our mission?
“We strive to promote equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and effective community ownership and governance of key web3 infrastructure through thoughtful and researched decision-making and community engagement.”
Yes. We sought to approve proposals that maximized this goal in the best interests of the collective, and we conducted research and sought informed opinions where we didn’t have expertise.
Intent 2 Budget Proposal 2
We voted FOR
Reallocating left over budget from the Mission Proposal Process to an effective and well-run grants program seems like a no brainer. In the future we should try to conduct an analysis on the impact of the grants program on the collective, to better inform decisions like this.
Does it fulfill our mission?
“We strive to promote equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and effective community ownership and governance of key web3 infrastructure through thoughtful and researched decision-making and community engagement.”
Yes. The grants program is an important avenue for the community to have impact on the Optimism ecosystem, and giving them access to more funds (that were allocated for the community to use anyways) enables the community have more impact on the ecosystem. The only drawback in the context of this mission statement is the potential for the grants council to be a centralizing force asking for more power, however, we believe this is a non-issue as we only are voting to give them leftover funds, and the request for these funds was well argued and justified.
Feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, or concerns about the way we have voted!