[FINAL] Velodrome: Spread Awareness Through Direct Outreach and Onboarding

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@alexcutlerdoteth

What we have found in this work is that the best ways to drive awareness of the Optimistic Vision and the opportunity it represents for builders (and their users) is to drive actual trial and usage of network and ecosystem: deploying their token, building liquidity on it, engaging with other ecosystem projects, getting engaged in governance, etc. It makes the Optimistic Vision tangible and gets projects (and their users) invested in it.

Love this approach!

Couple of questions

@alexcutlerdoteth

Velodrome is the single largest protocol on Optimism and the largest DEX on Layer 2 Ethereum,

@alexcutlerdoteth

Bounties would not go to people currently employed by Optimism Labs, the Optimism Foundation, or any affiliates, nor would they go to currently titled and compensated people on the Grants Council.

Given veledromes is the largest protocol on Optimism can you clarify please the term ‘affiliates’ as it could have either a very broad or narrow application. Where does the proposal intend to draw the line in terms of affiliation?

@alexcutlerdoteth

We propose 100,000 OP to be used as bounties to incentivize individuals in the Optimism community to surface and introduce new protocols to Velodrome to onboard to the Optimism Collective.

@alexcutlerdoteth

Onboard 1 new, unreached protocol by week 4, 2 protocols by week 6 and 5 protocols by week 12 of 5 new projects to Optimism (or 10% of existing opportunities in biz dev pipeline)

Does new protocols include existing opportunities in biz dev pipeline? How best to prevent overlap with existing opportunities?. Is the intention to return any unallocated incentives or to retain provided the critical milestones are achieved?