Week of December 26, 2022
Summary
Happy New Year, Optimists. 
Applications are due January 4th 19:00 GMT for the Grants Council Lead, for Grants Council reviewer self-nominations, and for protocol delegation self-nominations. (We have five Grants Council reviewer nominations so far, check them out.)
As noted last week: See Update #5 for more details on RetroPGF2 and an outline of “what to expect in Season 3” — which officially starts on January 26th.
Proposals
Voting Cycle #9b takes place from January 5th 19:00 GMT to January 18th 19:00 GMT.
In the Forums
New delegate commitments from @0xMauri, @revmiller, @Oxytocin, @Benjamin.lens.
Delegate updates from @jackanorak and @Joxes.
Protocol delegation self-nominations are being added to this thread.
Can we get a final list of the protocols that will be getting the delegated OP?
Rebalance delegate tokens for more decentralization? @Gonna.eth wonders.
In Discord
How to be included in Voting Cycle #10?
On Twitter
Crypto predictions for 2023, from @protolambda.
Governance Calls
The next community call is Tuesday, January 10 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET. See the forum post for more info (and here’s the Zoom link).
Quick Gov Links: Working Constitution | Operating Manual v0.2 | Proposal template | Delegates | Snapshot | Optimism on Boardroom