During the last community call we went into detail about Retro Funding 5: OP Stack and the guest voting experiment that will be implemented during the round, share your insights about the topic in this thread.
Questions to answer:
What projects are eligible for Round 5 of retrofunding?
What is the main experiment for Round 5 of retrofunding?
In case you didn’t attend the call you can read the recap and watch the recording here.
As a reminder, thoughtful responses are 20 points. Spam or low-effort posts will not count towards the point total.
Hi @Michael ((please tell me if I am over-tagging you - I know this a thing over on Discord)
Generally speaking Retroactive Public Goods Funding is designed to reward contributions to the OP stack.
Specifically in Round 5 it looks like there are three categories of projects that can qualify for the 8m of OP tokens that are available namely:
Ethereum Core contributions
OP Stack R&D
OP Stack tooling
All three categories are subject to various exclusions including (but not limited to) qualifying for previous or future rounds of RPGF funding.
The main experiment being conducted this round is to test whether experts make better grant decisions vs non-experts.
Two points immediately jump out to me: firstly - I think it’s quite a bold move to conduct a live test with 8m OP tokens ‘up for grabs’ - I wonder if a smaller ‘test’ sample could have been used to protect OP Treasury funds.
Secondly - I was interested to see the prominence of Github usage as a measure of ‘expertness’. Whilst I don’t challenge this in terms of dev / technical work (although are other measures available) I do think that expertise - perhaps such as my own - may derive from other sources e.g. traditional higher education; banking & finance; psychology / behavioural science etc etc
Also expert and non-expert perhaps aren’t super-inclusive terms and are indeed quite subjective.
What projects are eligible for Round 5 of Retro Funding? Ans : Projects that are eligible for Round 5 include those contributing to Ethereum Core, OP Stack Research & Development, and OP Stack Tooling. These projects must align with the OP Stack ecosystem and its growth.
What is the main experiment for Round 5 of Retro Funding? Ans: The main experiment for Round 5 is the expert voting experiment, where voters are divided into three groups: badgeholders with expertise, badgeholders without expertise (randomly selected as a control group), and guest voters with expertise. The goal is to evaluate how expertise impacts voting outcomes.
