8 Polls Closing June 19, 2024
Developer Advisory Board Elections
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates should sit on the Developer Advisory Board for Season 6. There are five open seats.
Candidates:
Devtooligan
wildmolasses / Ed Mazurek
Wbnns
Bytes032
Jepsen
Blockdev
Anika
Merklefruit
Gmhacker
Jtriley.eth
Shekhirin
Philogy
Noah.eth
Chom
0xleastwood
alextnetto.eth
Recommendation: Vote Blockdev, wildmolasses, devtooligan, alextnetto.eth, noah.eth
Blockdev has experience with ZK and security, having done audit work for projects like Blast, LIFI, and zkEVM. Wildmolasses (aka Ed) is a Coinbase engineer who is already a contributor to the OP stack. Devtooligan is a developer with security experience. Alextnetto.eth has significant web2 development experience and currently works with his a team of 10 developers for the web3 company he founded, Blockful. Noah.eth is the Head of Security Reviews at Spearbit.
Season 6: V2 Code of Conduct Council Renewal
Summary: This poll asks OP holders if they support renewing the Code of Conduct Council with a budget of 26,000 OP.
Recommendation: Vote Yes. We still think this is too much OP, but at this point require a budget for the Code of Conduct Council to continue operating. We would have preferred a number much closer to the 18,000 OP budget of last season.
Chain Delegation Amendment
Summary: This poll asks OP holders if they support extending the timeline (a year, rolling basis) and overall budget (up to 20,000,000 OP) for the Chain Delegation Program. Currently the overall delegation budget is 10,000,000 OP. Maximum delegation is 1,500,000 OP per chain.
Recommendation: Vote No. This program was not utilized in Season 5, so we don’t see a need for expansion. We also don’t want a large number of new Superchain members to be able to dominate governance decisions on expenditures when they may have varying amount of skin in the game for Optimism mainnet’s success.
Anticapture Commission Amendment
Summary: This poll asks OP holders if they support minor amendments that clarify and slightly reduce the scope of the ACC. Full details can be found here.
Recommendation: Vote Yes. This mostly clarifies and slightly reduces the scope of duties for the ACC. In particular, it is now clearly stated that the ACC is not required to vote on proposals that are not technical upgrades or subject to Citizen’s House veto, though it may still choose to do so if it prefers.
Grants Council Election: Audit Reviewer
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates they support for Audit Reviewers on the Grants Council. There are two open positions.
Candidates:
M4rio.eth
AnthiasLabs
0xDonPepe
leo.sagan via seedlatam
Recommendation: Vote AnthiasLabs, M4rio.eth. AnthiasLabs is a risk and technical contributor at a variety of other protocol governances. M4rio.eth is a security reviewer with more than 100 reviews to date.
Grants Council Election: Milestones & Metrics Reviewer
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates they support for Milestones Reviewers on the Grants Council. There are three open positions.
Candidates:
Bubli.eth
Juanbug_PGov
Mmurthy
v3naru_Curia
LauNaMu
suckmydiscoteque.eth
Recommendation: Vote Juanbug_PGov, mmurthy, v3naru_Curia. These are all incumbent Grants Council members. We believe that all of them have done a good job, and retaining experienced members is important for the continued improvement of the Optimism grants process.
Grants Council Election: Mission Reviewer
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates they support for Mission Reviewers on the Grants Council. There are 12 open positions, with the top three vote recipients reviewing Superchain Missions.
Candidates:
Derbygold.eth
Katie
Jrocki
Michael
Mastermojo
GFXlabs
MattL
Alexsotodigital
Jackanorak
MoneyManDoug
Sov
Brichis
habacuc.eth via seedlatam
Fujiar
Liliop.eth
DanSingjoy
Tane
Boardroom
Kokocares
TomaszSwaczyna
Zeugh
Antoine
Recommendation: Vote GFXlabs, Katie, MattL, Michael, MoneyManDoug, Jackanorak, Mastermojo, Tane, Sov, Jrocki, Derbygold.eth, Brichis
GFXlabs, Katie, MattL, Michael, MoneyManDoug, Jackanorak, and Mastermojo are all incumbent Grants Council members. We believe that all of them (which includes ourselves) have done a good job, and retaining experienced members is important for the continued improvement of the Optimism grants process.
Tane is a group with technical background and that has been active in governance across several projects. Sov has grants experience from Gitcoin. Jrocki is a former Optimism Foundation employee, and has been engaged with governance. He co-hosts an L2-focused Twitter Spaces with Michael. Derbygold.eth has grants experience from Polygon. Brichis is the current Anticapture Commission lead, and we think moving her to a more active role would better utilize her energy and commitment to Optimism
Upgrade Proposal #9: Fjord Network Upgrade
Summary: This poll asks OP holders if they support upgrading Optimism mainnet to the Fjord update. Fjord includes updates that allow for phones and other software using the sepc256r1 cryptographic curve to interact more easily with Optimism, several optimizations to lower cost, and increasing the max sequencer drift parameter from 10 minutes to 30 minutes.
Recommendation: Vote Yes. These changes have been reviewed and recommended by OP Labs and Coinbase engineers.