Delegate Mission Request Summary
This mission requests a full audit of all of Optimism Collective’s financials so that the DAO can better understand the current financial state of Optimism: how much in assets the DAO currently holds, the breakdown of these assets, the DAO’s annual burn rate, where this burn is going, what value the sources of this burn are driving back to the DAO, and more. This research will then tie to the other mission request our team shared titled [Mission Request] Optimism Treasury Diversification Research. This research into Optimism’s financials will be necessary before making any recommendations regarding the Optimism treasury.
A model report by the team at r3gen Finance was completed earlier this year for Arbitrum. Links to that report can be found here:
S6 Intent
Intent 3A
Proposing Delegate/Citizen
Total grant amount
20,000 OP
Should this Mission be fulfilled by one or multiple applicants?
One
How will this Mission Request help accomplish the above Intent?
The goal of the relevant intent to this mission is to get more developers building on the Superchain. By understanding the current expenses and incomes of the collective, we can more effectively utilize incentives and other programs to bring more developers to the Superchain.
What is required to execute this Mission Request?
- A financial analysis of Optimism Collective, likely completed in collaboration with members of the Optimism Foundation and OP Labs
- The analysis should cover trailing 12 months revenue and expenses for the DAO as well as forecasts for the next 12 months
- The analysis should provide clear insight into the assets, liabilities, and cash flows of the Optimism Collective
- The analysis should provide insight into estimations of token price impact based on OP sell pressure due to DAO expenses
- The analysis should walk through each expense and then provide frameworks for estimating the value these expenses are returning to the DAO, especially for any incentives given out or DAO service providers paid
How should governance participants measure impact upon completion of this Mission?
- Milestones
- First research team funded
- First research piece reviewed
- Metrics
- Amount of expenses that can be adjusted after report
- Impact
- Growth of Optimism treasury (post-implementation of research)
Has anyone other than the proposer contributed to this Mission Request?
No
Which metric will the success of this Mission Request be evaluated against?
The North star metric against which this Mission Request should be evaluated is The North star metric against which this Mission Request should be evaluated is TVL as this Mission Request will help understand the current financial status of Optimism and grow current Optimism TVL.