Governance Update #9

Governance Update #9

It’s been a while since our last governance update, but we wanted to bring these posts back in order to keep the Collective updated on the progress we’re making towards decentralization.

Season 6 Recap

As a reminder, in Season 6, we made important steps towards continued decentralization:

  • Three out of the past six protocol upgrades were proposed by core development teams other than OP Labs.
  • Multiple OP Chains are now governed by Optimism governance
  • Base and Ink are now running our permissionless fault proofs
  • All Security Council members are now elected
  • Governance Fund proposals now execute onchain, via Governor Update #3
  • The Token House ratified the Standard Blockspace Charter, taking a major step towards shared Superchain upgrades
  • We onboarded first OP Chains to governance via the Chain Delegation Program
  • We piloted the Collective Feedback Commission, the first step on the path to open metagovernance
  • We experimented with Citizenship selection methods via guest voter experiments
  • We published working models for decentralization

Season 7

In Season 7, we’re focused on the below milestones or dependencies.

Decentralization Milestones

All milestones or dependencies highlighted in yellow (and, in the case of dependencies, bolded) are focus areas for Season 7.

Technical Layer

All Milestones in Phase A are completed. The first Milestone we are gradually working towards in Phase B is:

  • Stage 1 + multiple proof systems running

Economic Layer

All Milestones in Phase A are completed. We are now working to reduce the dependencies between Phase A and B:

Social Layer

A few Milestones remain to be completed in Phase A.

We are also making progress towards more operational autonomy with the onchain transfer of the Governance Fund Mission to a Collective Multisig managed by the Milestone and Metrics Council as well as the onchain transfer of an Operating Budget to the Security Council.


This fits into the broader System Diagram as outlined below:

Vision

The entire Collective has aligned around one Collective Intent, with measurable Success Metrics! The way the north star is determined will continue to evolve in future Seasons.

Impact Evaluation

Selection Mechanism

Who Should be a Citizen


We’ll post another update at the mid-point and end of Season 7 and are happy to join any conversations facilitated by the Anticapture Commission on our progress towards the above milestones!

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