Carbon - Growth Experiment

[katie]

Hello and thank you for your proposal! Throughout the application process, this forum thread will be one of the official means of communication. Please be sure to monitor it for updates over the course of the review period. Please note that the cutoff for modifications is Monday.

At this stage, applications are mainly being reviewed for completeness, and nothing at this stage should be construed as support or opposition by any members of the Grants Council.

I have some feedback/questions below:

@Carbon

How will the OP tokens be distributed? (please include % allocated to different initiatives such as user rewards/marketing/liquidity mining. Please also include a justification as to why each of these initiatives align with the problem statement this proposal is solving. Distribution should not include the sale of any tokens by the grantee or the use of tokens for compensation, protocol expenses, etc. See the [no sale rule here 1]:

As mentioned above: Post 12 months grant approval, 60% of the OP grant tokens will be distributed to the team working on the above integration with the remaining 40% distributed to the community who utilize the integrated OP wallet and make a tx. We believe this combination will ensure maximum growth of users interacting with Optimism and ensure a seamless UX experience by rewarding our devs who are committed to a 12 month lock to allow time to test, upgrade and maintain the integration.

Since the distribution plan does not directly affect the number of users, this may be better suited for the builders grants council. Can you please explain how your proposal would increase users and reach for OP?

@Carbon

Please provide benchmark milestones for this project. These milestones should guide the Optimism community on the progress of your project throughout your work on the project. Do not use distribution of the grant itself as a milestone:

Milestone 1: Wallet OP L2 Chain Integration

Milestone 2: OP L2 Chain NFT Integration

Milestone 3: Featuring top 10 OP Dapps on Web3 App store and updated monthly with top 3 featured on Browser homepage.

Please define critical milestones for this project. Critical milestones are meant to show good-faith efforts to accomplish the project. Non-completion of these milestones could lead to revocation of remaining grant rewards. Do not use distribution of the grant itself as a milestone:

Milestone 1: Sending/Receiving/Storing OP tokens within the Carbon wallet

Milestone 2: Minting/Importing/Exporting OP NFTs within the Carbon wallet

Milestone 3: OP Dapps listed/featured on Browser homepage and web3 store

Please provide specific timelines and metrics for these milestones. Additional information regarding milestones can be found here