Governance Weekly Recap

Week of January 23, 2023

Summary

  1. As Grants Council Lead @danelund.eth explains, Season 3 of the Governance Fund will have two cycles. Those looking to apply for the first of those cycles, Cycle #10, should do so before 19:00 GMT on February 1, 2023. All Grants Council details can be found on their new landing page; the Council’s internal procedures are detailed here and their aims here.
  2. The latest version of the Operating Manual, which “describes the current governance proposal process of the Optimism Collective,” has been posted by @lavande.
  3. RetroPGF round 2 nominations continue through January 31st. Check out the categories of education, infrastructure & dependencies, and tooling & utilities.

Proposals

Special Voting Cycle #9b ended on January 18.

In the Forums

New delegate commitments from @Oxytocin, @0xtassilo.eth, and @WintermuteGovernance.

In Discord

If your proposal relates to governance funding…apply on the Grants Council form (see above); you don’t need to post in the forum.

Examples of successful applications to the governance fund (but not authoritative).

On Twitter

The Optimism AttestationStation “is a new building block for identity and trust, and ‘making blockchains human friendly’.”

This week in Optimism, and Bored Town Original NFT collection on OP Radio.

Optimism research study “to help inform how we can improve the experience on Optimism.”

Governance Calls

:speaking_head: The next community governance call will be on Tuesday, January 31st at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET on Zoom.

Quick Gov Links: Working Constitution | Operating Manual v0.2 | Proposal template | Delegates | Snapshot | Optimism on Boardroom

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