9 Polls Closing January 15, 2025
Security Council Elections Cohort B Members
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates to elect to the Security Council. There are 6 open seats.
Candidates:
World Foundation
Andrey Petrov
OP Labs
L2BEAT
Alchemy
Maggie Love
Gauntlet
Test in Prod
Yoav Weiss
Ml_sudo
Kris Kaczor
Martin Tellechea
Ink
Coinbase
troy
Recommendation: Vote L2BEAT, Test in Prod, Yoav Weiss, Kris Kaczor, Martin Tellechea, Alchemy. L2Beat is a widely respected L2 watchdog group with plenty of technical expertise and multiple personnel available. Test in Prod, Yoav Weiss, Kris Kaczor, and Martin Tellechea previously served as Security Council members successfully. Test in Prod and Yoav Weiss make/have made technical contributions in the past to OP stack as well. Alchemy is included as another organization with deep technical expertise and multiple personnel available in the event of an emergency.
Grants Council Operations Elections
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates to elect to the operations role for the Grants Council. There is 1 open seat.
Recommendation: Vote Bunnic. Nic is the only candidate, and also successfully served in this role in Season 6.
[Developer Advisory Board Foundation Mission Team Elections
](https://vote.optimism.io/proposals/89373814096940749239399795696169676931497831019947431093522618314329883874987)Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates to elect to the Developer Advisory Board (Foundation Mission Team). There are 2 open seats.
Candidates:
Ed
Skeletor
Danyal
Recommendation: Vote Ed, Skeletor, Danyal. These are all three fantastic candidates and the DAB would be lucky to have all of them. Ed (aka wildmolasses) successfully served on the DAB last season, and, in our capacity as a Grants Council reviewer, we found their input useful. Skeletor is a co-founder of Wonderland, and Danyal is a core contributor hailing from the Base team.
Developer Advisory Board Governance Mission Team Elections
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates to elect to the Developer Advisory Board (Governance Mission Team). There are 3 open seats.
Candidates:
Will
[Jepsen
](Season 7 Nominations: Governance Mission Team on the Developer Advisory Board - #3 by Jepsen)Blockdev
Godspower
Cooper01
Beskay
Shubham
Iain
Recommendation: Vote Will, Jepsen, Blockdev. Will and Blockdev successfully served on the DAB in Season 6. Jepsen successfully served on the DAB in Season 5. We would enjoy working with them again.
Developer Advisory Board Audit Request Team Elections
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates to elect to the Developer Advisory Board (Audit Request Team). There are 2 open seats.
Candidates:
M4rio.eth
Noah.eth
Sujith
Gjaldon
Vagner
0x73696d616f
Shogoki
Unsafe_call
Recommendation: Vote gjaldon, 0x73696d616f, m4ario.eth, noah.eth. Gjaldon has successfully located bugs in Optimism itself, and 0x7369 has an impressive background as the former head of Three Sigmas. M4ario and Noah both also have exceptional experience through Spearbit.
[Milestones and Metrics Council Reviewer Elections
](Milestones and Metrics Council Review...)Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates to elect to Milestones and Metrics Council. There are 3 open seats.
Candidates:
mel.eth (StableLab)
LauNaMu
AnthiasLabs
Mmurthy
Pavel
v3naru_Curia
Takeshi (Tané)
Pumbi (SEEDGov)
Angela
Recommendation: Vote Takeshi (Tane), AnthiasLabs, v3naru_Curia. Takeshi and AnthiasLabs both served on the Grants Council in Season 6, which means they will have a good understanding of how grants were awarded and will be measured. v3naru_Curia is an experienced member of the Milestones & Metrics Committee in Season 5 and 6 when it was part of the Grants Council.
Grants Council Final Reviewer Elections
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates to elect to the Grants Council as final reviewers. There are 4 open seats.
Candidates:
MattGov.eth
GFX Labs
Michael
Jackanorak
Areta
MoneyManDoug
JashFi
Recommendation: Vote GFX Labs, MattGov.eth, Michael, Jackanorak, MoneyManDoug. Matt, Michael, Jack, and MoneyManDoug have successfully served on the Grants Council for multiple seasons. Jack served with us on the Superchain Grants subcommittee last season as well. We have also successfully served for the entire existence of the Grants Council and vote for ourselves to advance Optimism.
Grants Council GrantNerd Elections
Summary: This poll asks OP holders which candidates to elect to the Grants Council as GrantNerds. There are 3 open seats.
Candidates:
Megalod
Kumahada
Ramadhan
Brichis
Jrocki
Mastermojo
Sov
Marcus01
Debbie
Ugbuericsam
Liliop.eth
glory_Sherlock
Recommendation: Vote Jrocki, Mastermojo, Brichis. All three of these candidates successfully served on the Grants Council in Season 6. While we can only fill three seats, we also want to recognize Sov, who successfully served last season as well.
Season 7: Chain Delegation Program Amendment
Summary: This poll asks OP holders if they support amending the Chain Delegation Program to prioritize satisfying the Standard Rollup Charter criteria as the most important criteria instead of the last criteria. The Standard Rollup Charter can be found here.
Recommendation: Vote For. This is a reasonable amendment and should encourage chains to migrate to more technically robust features in some cases.