OP Bulletin: Weekly news and insights on the Optimism Collective šŸ“°

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OP Bulletin: Zora, Mode and Metal are closer to Stage 1 | Aug 8th

Note: Seems I never hit publish here! Apologies, hereā€™s last weekā€™s newsletter:

TL;DR:

  • Polynomial & RACE join the Superchain
  • Zora, Mode and Metal are a step closer to Stage 1
  • Superchain Research Competition is on!
  • Zora connects with Hyperlane
  • Superfest: one month left!
  • Security Council Nominations ā€“ Last week!
  • Code of Conduct Council Election Results
  • Apply to Mission Requests
  • New Foundation Mission Request: Mediation Mission

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

Polynomial & RACE join the Superchain

Polynomial joins the Superchain with Polynomial Chain, a unique chain dedicated to scaling derivatives and Defi. Polynomial tackles liquidity issues as it has a native liquidity layer with a unified pool accessible across various financial products. Read more about Polynomial Chain

RACE Network is designed specifically for tokenizing and distributing real-world assets (RWAs). Read more about RACE

The Superchain keeps growing, now with 20+ Chains :raised_hands:

Zora, Mode and Metal are a step closer to Stage 1

This week Zora, Mode and Metal transferred ownership of upgrade keys over to the Security Council. This brings these OP Stack rollups closer to Stage 1 decentralization, where a council with team members and outsiders govern upgrades for each Superchain rollup.

Read more

Superchain Research Competition is on!

The Superchain Research Competition is organized by Superchain Eco in collaboration with PrimeDAO. To participate, submit your blog exploring topics on OP Governance and tokenomics.

Submissions: August 7th to August 28th

Top 5 prizes: $250 to $500

Explore focus areas

Zora connects with Hyperlane

The Zora is now connected to Hyperlane. This enables NFT bridging and building interchain apps. Learn more

Social Summer Week 3

This week Social Summer shines a spotlight into Account Abstraction and how itā€™s improving web3. Explore this weekā€™s Creative Bounties and mint daily NFTs to celebrate AA projects!

Learn more

Superfest: one month left!

Explore DeFi applications across the Superchain through available missions and earn rewards with Superfest. Live until the end of August, donā€™t miss the chance to participate! Learn more on superfest.optimism.io

:newspaper: Governance News & discussions

Security Council Nominations ā€“ Last week!

Last week to submit your nomination for the Security Council!

Candidates that meet the criteria of reputation, alignment, and technical competency, among others, may self-nominate until August 14th. Each nomination must then receive approval from 8 of the Top 100 delegates by August 19th.

Elections will take place during Voting Cycle #26, 6 months before elected members take their position. To self-nominate, follow instructions on this post.

Code of Conduct Council Election Results

@Oxytocin, @fujiar, @Pumbi, @alexsotodigital and @CryptoReuMD have been elected as members of the Code of Conduct Council. Members will join @juankbell, Council Lead.

Congratulations to the elected members!

Learn more about the Code of Conduct Council

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

No voting at the moment.

:dollar: Grant News

Apply to Mission Requests

Interested in applying for a Delegate Mission Request? Find an approved mission on the Mission Request List and apply by November 6th.

Missions v2.5 | Missions Calendar S6 | Application guide | OP Michealā€™s application walkthrough

New Foundation Mission Request: Mediation Mission

Mediators will manage early signs of conflicts or advanced conflicts within both the Token House and the Citizens House, as referred by supNERDs, govNERDs and the CoC Council. Applicants should be experienced in conflict resolution, de-escalation and mediation.

Submit your application by August 16th

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, August 12th]
  • Joint House Community Call [Tuesday, August 13th]
  • DAB Feedback, Ideation, and Conversation [Tuesday, August 13th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

:red_circle::sparkles: Optimism Collective Resources

:saluting_face: Stay Connected, Stay Informed

Every week, we analyze new proposals, summarize discussions, and provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective. Subscribe so you donā€™t miss the next one.

See you next week! (or today :wink: )

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OP Bulletin: New DA Options & Solving Interop | Aug 15th

TL;DR:

  • New DA options for the OP Stack
  • Solving Interoperability by OP Labs
  • SuperBoring is live on Optimism
  • Social Summer Week 4
  • Security Council Nomination Approvals & Town Hall
  • Trust Tiers 2.0
  • Meet the OP Passport
  • Retro funding 5: Guest voter selection & Method
  • Apply for a Mission Request
  • Cycle 25 Grants Roundup

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

New DA options for the OP Stack

Optimism expands the integrations with the OP Stackā€™s Alt-DA Mode for alternative data availability methods. Now, teams can also use Near DA and 0G.

This means any team looking to build on the OP Stack can now use: EigenDA, Celestia, Avail, Near DA, or 0G for their data availability needs.

Read more | How to Run an Alt-DA Mode Chain

Solving Interoperability by OP Labs

The OP Labs Team published a new post on Optimismā€™s push towards bringing interoperability to the Superchain to build a unified chain experience by adopting standardized cross-ecosystem interfaces. This aims to foster greater accessibility and more innovation.

ā€œA multi-chain structure of the Superchain requires advanced technical capabilities to ensure a secure communication layer within the platform. This layer will comprise the message passing protocol, the Superchain token standard, interop fault proof, and a set of interoperable chains.ā€

Read more

SuperBoring is live on Optimism

SuperBoring is a streaming DEX that allows you to DCA between any two tokens, earn and stake BORING tokens to earn a share of protocol fees. Itā€™s live on Optimism offering DA between USDC/OP, ETH/OP, and USDC/ETH pairs.

Social Summer Week 4

This week Social Summer shines a spotlight into Cyber, the Social L2. This week, Social Summer features projects, including Link3, OpenSocial, XO, Phi, Phaver, and CollectPods.

See more

:newspaper: Governance News & discussions

Weā€™re in Voting Cycle #26: Review Period

Security Council Nomination Approvals & Town Hall

Nominations for the Security Council are officially closed!

Each nominee can still receive the necessary approvals from 8 of the Top 100 delegates until August 19th. Approved candidates will then be part of an Election Town Hall hosted on August 20th. Elections will take place during Voting Cycle #26, 6 months before elected members take their position.

Trust Tiers 2.0

Trust Tiers will not be used in Season 6 in order to build a new, more effective reputation model that can predict whether a team will successfully complete a grant. New Trust Tiers will be built using a machine learning model, using various trust signals as input data to predict a continuous trust score for each project.

For now, the Collective will focus on developing new trust signals and recording existing ones (Persistent Profiles, Retro Funding awards, Mission Requests projects) with attestations.

Read more

Meet the OP Passport

Showcase your digital identity, track governance participation, and earn badges with the OP Passport, a new initiative by Curia Lab. The OP Passport is powered by smart account wallets to record your contributions and allows you to publicly and anonymously endorse other community members.

Learn more | oppassport.xyz

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

No voting at the moment.

:dollar: Grant News

Retro funding 5: Guest voter selection & Method

Round 5 will experiment with guest expert voters. These were selected based on their GitHub contribution graph using a modified EigenTrust algorithm, which can be run on graphs to measure the impact of recursive trust propagation. The algorithm was developed with Karma3Labs and Open Source Observer incorporating GitHub Repos and GitHub Users.

Sign up for Retro Funding 5 will begin on Aug 22nd (next Thursday!) until Sept 5th. If youā€™re a contributor to the OP Stack, this round is for you! Learn more details about the round

Read more about the selection algorithm | Meet the Guest Voters

Apply for a Mission Request

Delegate Mission Requests are a great way to develop a project that is aligned with Optimismā€™s current needs. Find an approved mission on the Mission Request List and apply by November 6th.

Missions v2.5 | Calendar S6 | Application guide | Application walkthrough

Cycle 25 Grants Roundup

The first report of the Grant Councilā€™s activities was posted last Friday. This post summarizes applications submitted during Cycle 25, their scores and current status. You can check the report here.

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, August 19th]
  • Security Council Election Townhall [Tuesday, August 20th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

:red_circle::sparkles: Optimism Collective Resources

:saluting_face: Stay Connected, Stay Informed

Every week we summarize news, discussions and proposals to provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective.

See you next week!

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This is my go to for all updates. Appreciated.

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Many of us.

Thanks for the updates @eugenia

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Thanks @Bubli.eth @gopal!! Glad you find them helpful

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OP Bulletin: Granite Network Upgrade | Aug 23nd

Edited Aug. 27th: Security Council members to be elected modified from 6 to 7

TL;DR:

  • Introducing The SUNNYs
  • Soneium to join the Superchain
  • OP Succint
  • Worldcoin connects to Hyperlane
  • Superfest: last days
  • Superchain Research Competition: last days
  • Upgrade Proposal #10: Granite Network Upgrade
  • Security Council Elections
  • Rolling Mission Requests
  • Retro Funding 5: Applications open today!
  • Superchain Grants Review Process
  • Apply for a Mission Request
  • Cycle 26 Preliminary Review Roundup

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem Updates

Introducing The SUNNYs

The SUNNYs is a decentralized awards ceremony across the Superchain. The Sunnys will recognize artists and builders based on on-chain data and distribute 540K OP in 20+ prizes.

Teams will sign up with your Farcaster on The Sunnyā€™s webpage, build their profile and are ranked based on their on-chain data leveraging Open Source Observerā€™s framework. Learn more at thesunnyawards.fun

Soneium to join the Superchain

Soneium, by Sony Block Solutions Labs is building an L2 focused on connecting Web2 with Web3. In the next days, Sony Block Solutions Labs will launch Soneim testnet with Op Stack and then join the Superchain

Learn more

OP Succint

Zach Obront, Council Lead to the Developer Advisory Board, shared OP Succinct the plan to upgrade an OP Stack chain into a ZK rollup. The upgrade would replace the dispute game allowing anyone to post the next rollup state providing a ZK proof of its validity.

Worldcoin connects to Hyperlane

After Zora, Worldcoin announced its partnership with Hyperlane. Worldcoin is now connected to Hyperlane, the open interoperability framework that connects chains and enables building interchain apps. Worldcoin can now access and prove humanity on other blockchain networks, World ID can expand beyond Worldchain and build interchain apps.

Superfest: Last days

The Superchainā€™s DeFi fest is live until the end of August, donā€™t miss the chance to participate! Explore DeFi applications through available missions and earn rewards with Superfest. Learn more on superfest.optimism.io

Superchain Research Competition: Last days

Superchain Eco in collaboration with PrimeDAO organized this competition focused on exploring topics on OP Governance and tokenomics. Explore focus areas and submit your research before August 28th.

:newspaper: Governance News & discussions

Upgrade Proposal #10: Granite Network Upgrade

Security vulnerabilities identified during third-party audits caused the permissioned fallback mechanism to be activated by the Foundation, following protocol. The vulnerabilities have not been exploited, and user assets were never at risk.

This upgrade addresses those vulnerabilities, includes an L2 hardfork to improve the stability and performance of the fault proof system, and proposes to extend Guardian and DeputyGuardian capabilities to prevent referencing invalid anchor states among other implementations to improve robustness.

If passed, the upgrade will undergo Citizenā€™s veto and then will be scheduled for September 10th. Node operators must upgrade their node software prior to September 11th. Any proof submissions within the last 7 days from the upgrade will be invalid and users will have to resubmit the proofs.
Read the full proposal

Security Council Elections

Elections began yesterday!

Delegates will elect 7 council members and a council lead for the Security Council Cohort A, six months before the actual membership turnover to allow enough time for candidate screening. Elected members will begin their term in February.

Edit: Given the modification from 6 to 7 members, delegates need to cast their vote again. Elections end Sept. 1st.

To learn more about the Security Council and their responsibilities: Intro to SC post | SC Charter

Meet the nominees | Election Townhall

Rolling Mission Requests

This proposal requests that the Token House allow the Grants Council to create and submit rolling Mission Requests, using unallocated budget from Intent 3A. Rolling Mission Requests would start from Voting Cycle #27 and still require a sponsorship from a member of the Grants Council and upon approval, sent to a Token House vote in the following Thursdayā€™s Voting Period.

Read the full proposal

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

Until August 28th, Token House delegates can vote on:

  • Upgrade Proposal #10: Granite Network Upgrade
  • Rolling Mission Requests

Until Sept. 1st:

  • Security Council Elections

Vote on vote.optimism.io

:dollar: Grant News

Retro Funding 5: Applications open today!

8M OP will be distributed to builders contributing to the OP Stack and core Ethereum builders across 3 categories:

  • Ethereum Core Contributions
  • OP Stack Research & Development
  • OP Stack Tooling

You can begin creating your profile on retrofunding.optimism.io and sign up with Farcaster to apply. Each project can only apply to one category and project applications are recommended (instead of individual applications for contributions to a specific project).

Submit your applications by September 5th. Learn more details about the round

Superchain Grants Review Process

The Grants Council introduced the Superchain Grants review process. This post outlines the evaluation criteria, scoring qualifications, a 3M OP grant cap and expectations that will be applied to all Superchain Grants.

Apply for a Mission Request

Delegate Mission Requests are a great way to develop a project that is aligned with Optimismā€™s current needs. Find an approved mission on the Mission Request List and apply by November 6th.

Missions v2.5 | Calendar S6 | Application guide | Application walkthrough

Cycle 26 Preliminary Review Roundup

The preliminary review for Cycle 26 has been published. This post summarizes the applications, score and resolution. The finalists for Cycle 26 will be selected and announced next Wednesday.

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, August 26th]
  • Token House Community Call [Tuesday, August 27th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

:red_circle::sparkles: Optimism Collective Resources

:saluting_face: Stay Connected, Stay Informed

Every week we summarize news, discussions and proposals to provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective. Subscribe so you donā€™t miss the next one.

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OP Bulletin: Bridged USDC Standard & Sonyā€™s Soneium | Aug. 29th

TL;DR

  • Soneium: Soneium Minato & Soneium Spark
  • Bridged USDC Standard for the OP Stack
  • Donatuz launch on the OP Stack
  • Balancer expands on the Superchain
  • Re-vote Security Council Election - until Sept. 1st
  • Security Council Lead Elected
  • Upgrade Proposal #10 to Citizenā€™s veto
  • Course: Optimistas al Siguiente Nivel
  • Retro Funding 5: Last week to apply
  • Foundation Mission Request: S6 Growth Grant Analysis

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

Soneium: Soneium Minato & Soneium Spark

Soneium, the L2 built by Sony Block Solutions Labs and Superchain member, launches their testnet Soneium Minato. It offers a fast and cost-effective environment for developers. Learn more through the Soneium Docs

Together with the launch the L2 announced Soneium Spark, a program to boost ecosystem builders through mentorships, infrastructure and strategic partnerships. The program will begin investing on builders with opening applications in the coming weeks.

Bridged USDC Standard for the OP Stack

OP Stack chains can now deploy the Bridged USDC Standard introduced by Circle. This standard was created to make sure chain operators can deploy a form of bridged USDC that is capable of being upgraded in-place to native USDC, which prevents fragmentation problems that might arise.

Read more

Donatuz launch

Donatuz launched last week! Donatuz is built on the OP Stack, uses Base as a settlement layer and leverages EigenDA for data availability. The L3 will focus on revolutionizing how creators interact with their audience and monetize their work.

Read more

Balancer expands on the Superchain

Balancer continues to expand across the Superchain, by deploying on Mode and Fraxtal, and Aura, a yield optimizer and meta-governance built on top of Balancer, expands to Base. Balancer also participated in SuperFest distributing ~45,000 OP.

Read more

:newspaper: Governance News & discussions

Re-vote Security Council Election

On Monday, the Security Council proposal was cancelled since the initial vote stated 6 spots were open for election on the Council, when 7 spots are being elected. The new vote was initiated on Monday, delegates who voted on the old proposal will need to vote again.

Voting is open until September 1st.

Security Council Lead Elected

Alisha.eth was re-elected as the Security Council Lead. The elected members on the re-vote will join Alisha as council members.

Upgrade Proposal #10 to Citizenā€™s veto

The Granite Network Upgrade was approved in the Tokens House, and moves to a Citizens House veto vote.

If you disagree with the upgrades, you may cast your vote on Snapshot. If you do not wish to veto but would like to register your participation in this voting cycle, you may select ā€œNo Vetoā€. If passed, the upgrade will be scheduled for September 10th.

Course: Optimistas al Siguiente Nivel

Dive Deeper into Optimism Governance with Optimistas al Siguiente Nivel!

SEED Latam and Optimism EspaƱol are organizing a free course to learn about Optimism Governance from scratch. Members from the Optimism Collective will share their experience, and participants can learn about Optimismā€™s vision, the Superchain, intents, grants and best practices to get involved and contribute to governance.

The course will be fully in Spanish.

Dates: Wednesdays 19hs (GMT-3) from September 4th to October 9th.

Learn more about the course | Register

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

Until September 1st, Token House delegates can vote on:

  • Security Council Elections

Vote on vote.optimism.io

Until September 4th, Citizens can veto:

  • Upgrade Proposal #10

Vote on Snapshot.

:dollar: Grant News

Retro Funding 5: Last week to apply

Are you a contributor to the OP Stack? Retro Funding 5 focuses on OP Stack contributors and core Ethereum Builders.

8M OP will be distributed across 3 categories:

  • Ethereum Core Contributions
  • OP Stack Research & Development
  • OP Stack Tooling

Creating your profile on retrofunding.optimism.io and sign up with Farcaster to apply. Submit your applications by September 5th. Learn more

Foundation Mission Request: S6 Growth Grant Analysis

This new Foundation Mission Request is seeking to fund a detailed, metrics-driven assessment of all growth grants issued in Season 6. This analysis should bring a better understanding of the performance of Growth Grants through answering the Missionā€™s specific questions and delivering a dashboard.

Baseline grant amount: 10,000 OP

Apply by: September 23rd

Learn more

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, September 2nd]
  • Blockspace Charter AMA [Tuesday, August 3rd]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

:red_circle::sparkles: Optimism Collective Resources

:saluting_face: Stay Connected, Stay Informed

Every week we summarize news, discussions and proposals to provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective. Subscribe so you donā€™t miss the next one.

See you next week!

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OP Bulletin: Security Election Results | Sep. 5th

TL;DR:

  • Derive expands to the Superchain
  • Apply to The Sunnys: Last Days
  • Security Council Election: Results
  • Upgrade #10 Scheduled for Next Week
  • Retro Funding 5: Last Day
  • Foundation Mission Request: Growth Grant Analysis
  • Apply for a Mission Request

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

Derive expands to the Superchain

Derive (prev. Lyra) is partnering with Optimism to bring scalable and decentralized trading to the Superchain.

Apply to The Sunnys: Last Days

The SUNNYs is a decentralized awards ceremony to recognize artists and builders across the Superchain. The awards will distribute 540K OP in 20+ prizes.

Teams will sign up with Farcaster on The Sunnyā€™s webpage, build their profile and will be ranked based on their on-chain data leveraging Open Source Observerā€™s framework. Register before September 9th.

Learn more at www.thesunnyawards.fun

:newspaper: Governance News & discussions

Security Council Election: Results

Elections to the Security Council finished last week. The 7 candidates that will join re-elected Council Lead Alisha.eth are: ethernaut, nenexcool, emiliano, pablito.eth, Agora, The Uniswap Foundation, and yoseph. The new Security Council will begin their term in February.

Check out the results and winning candidates here.

Upgrade #10 Scheduled for Next Week

The Granite Network Upgrade received no vetos in the Citizens House. Upgrade #10 is now scheduled for execution for September 11th. Read the Upgradeā€™s impact summary and action plan in the full proposal.

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

No voting at the moment.

:dollar: Grant News

Retro Funding 5: Last Day

Applications for round 5 close tomorrow after a 24-hour extension. Are you a contributor to the OP Stack? Create your profile on retrofunding.optimism.io and sign up with Farcaster to apply. Learn more

Retro Funding round 6 is coming up this month and will be focused on contributions in governance. More details soon!

Foundation Mission Request: Growth Grant Analysis

This mission is seeking to fund a detailed, metrics-driven assessment of all growth grants issued in Season 6. This analysis should bring a better understanding, answering specific questions and delivering a dashboard.

Baseline grant amount: 10,000 OP
Apply by: September 23rd
Learn more

Apply for a Mission Request

Delegate Mission Requests are a great way to develop a project that is aligned with Optimismā€™s current needs. Find an approved mission on the Mission Request List. Apply by: November 6th

Missions v2.5 | Calendar S6 | Application guide | Application walkthrough

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, September 9th]
  • Joint House Community Call [Tuesday, September 10th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

:red_circle::sparkles: Optimism Collective Resources

:saluting_face: Stay Connected, Stay Informed

Every week we summarize news, discussions and proposals to provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective. Subscribe so you donā€™t miss the next one.

See you next week!

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OP Bulletin: OP Succint is here | Sep. 12th

TL;DR

  • OP Succint is here
  • Soneium Spark
  • Granite Upgrade Implemented
  • Rolling Mission Requests
  • Rolling Mission Requests: Cycle 27
  • Retro Funding 6: Guest Voter Participation
  • Foundation Mission: Research Assistant ā€“ apply by tomorrow
  • Foundation Mission: Growth Grant Analysis
  • Cycle 27 Preliminary Grants Report

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem New

OP Succint is here

OP Labs and Succint announced OP Succint! OP Stack chains can now be upgraded in just 1 hour into a zkEVM rollup, using ZKPs with SP1, a general-purpose zkVM. OP Succinct provides:

  • Faster finality, ZKPsā€“proving latency can be on the order of tens of minutes ā€“ instead of a 7-day fraud proof window of standard optimistic rollups.
  • Great developer experience with customization in Rust.
  • Cost-effective proving

Learn more

Soneium Spark

Soneium Spark is a program to boost Soneium ecosystem builders through mentorships, infrastructure and strategic partnerships. The program is now receiving applications in DeFi, Web3 Experiences (including Social, NFT, Gaming) and an open category. The incubation period will start in mid-October.

Learn more | Apply

:newspaper: Governance News

Granite Upgrade Implemented

After governance approval, the Granite Upgrade was implemented yesterday and permissionless fault proofs are back on OP Mainnet.

Rolling Mission Requests

This proposal requests that the Token House allow the Grants Council to create and submit rolling Mission Requests, using unallocated budget from Intent 3A. Rolling Mission Requests would still require a sponsorship from a member of the Grants Council and upon approval, sent to a Token House vote in the following voting period.

Remember you can still apply to previously approved missions until November 6th using the application guide.

Read the full proposal

Rolling Mission Requests: Voting Cycle 27

The first batch of Rolling Mission Requests will be going to a vote. These are the top 8 mission requests, as ranked by the Grants Council:

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

Token House:

Vote on vote.optimism.io until September 18.

:dollar: Grant News

Retro Funding 6: Guest Voter Participation

As with round 5, Retro Funding 6 will experiment with guest voter participation. 100 guest voters will participate in this round, randomly selected from active Farcaster users ā€“ after filtering out businesses. Guest voters will participate alongside Citizens and will allow to test voting behavior among different groups. At the end, Citizens will vote on whether guest votes of will integrated equally or have reduced influence (by 25%, 50%, or 100%).

Retro Funding 6 details will be announced soon!

Read the full voter details

Foundation Mission: Research Assistant ā€“ apply by tomorrow

The Foundation is seeking two research assistants to support with a research project, conducting stakeholder interviews and tagging them to support analysis. Assistants must be high context individuals (govNERD, Top 100 delegates or Citizens). This project requires 5 hours a week over 4 weeks.

Grant amount: 1500 OP
Apply by: September 13th
Learn more

Foundation Mission: Growth Grant Analysis

This mission is seeking to fund a detailed, metrics-driven assessment of all growth grants issued in Season 6. This analysis should bring a better understanding, answering specific questions and delivering a dashboard.

Baseline grant amount: 10,000 OP
Apply by: September 23rd
Learn more

Cycle 27 Preliminary Grants Report

The preliminary review for Cycle 27 has been published. This post summarizes the applications, score and resolution.

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, September 16th]
  • Builder Office Hours with the Foundation (Bi-Weekly) [Tuesday, September 17th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

:red_circle::sparkles: Optimism Collective Resources

:saluting_face: Stay Connected, Stay Informed

Every week we summarize news, discussions and proposals to provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective.

See you next week!

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OP Bulletin: Retro Funding 6 Announcement | Sep. 19th

TL;DR

  • Shape Mainnet soon
  • Boba Network joins the Superchain
  • Base reaches 4.5 daily transactions
  • Rolling Mission Requests approved
  • Optimism Badgeholder Data
  • Retro Funding 6 Governance Announcement
  • Modification to Retro Funding 5 sizing
  • Foundation Mission: Growth Grant Analysis ā€“ Last days to apply
  • Cycle 27 Grants Final Report

*edited on Sep. 20th to include updates on Retro Funding 5

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

Shape Mainnet soon

Shape will join other OP Stack chains on mainnet on September 30th. Shape aims to be a chain for creators, where artists can design, build, and experiment to contribute to the web of creativity.

Boba Network joins the Superchain

Boba Network is a multichain layer 2 designed for intelligent hybrid applications enabled by HybridCompute technology. It will now join 33 other chains in the Superchain!

Base hit over 4.5 million in a single day

After surpassing 4m transactions on late August, Base continues its growth trajectory hitting over 4.5 million transactions in a single day.

:newspaper: Governance News

Rolling Mission Requests approved

The proposal to approve mission requests on a rolling basis throughout the season passed! Additionally, the first batch of 8 rolling missions was approved.

Optimism Badgeholder Data

The dashboard resulting from a Foundation Mission has been published. It explores badgeholderā€™s onchain activity measured as the 132 Badgeholder addresses that acted as voters for Round 3 in comparison to a non-badgeholder control group. The mission concluded that badgeholders are:

  • more engaged in governance across different DAOs,
  • more active on social platforms like Farcaster,
  • more involved in NFT creation and smart contract deployment.

Read the full report

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

No voting at the moment.

:dollar: Grant News

Retro Funding 6: Governance Announcement

Sign up for the new round will begin next week! Round 6 will be focused on contributions made to governance during October 2023 until September 18th 2024 in the following categories:

  • Governance Infrastructure & Tooling (including grants tooling)
  • Optimism Governance Analytics
  • Governance Leadership in the Collective, including councils, boards and commissions, as well as facilitation of critical governance processes

The round will distribute between 1.1m and 3.5m OP. Citizens will cast their vote on an amount and the median vote will be the final amount.

Sign up: September 26th - October 10th

Read the full post

Modification to Retro Funding 5 sizing

As the application process saw a lower than expected turnout, the Foundation has proposed that the Citizens vote on the OP allocation amount within the rounds voting. Round 5ā€™s initial funding was set at 8M OP. With the proposed process, Citizens would vote for an amount within the range of 2M - 8M OP and the final allocation amount would be the median amount.

To allow for more testing and preparation, voting for this round will start on September 30th.

Foundation Mission: Growth Grant Analysis ā€“ Last days to apply

This mission is seeking to fund a detailed, metrics-driven assessment of all growth grants issued in Season 6. This analysis should bring a better understanding, answering specific questions and delivering a dashboard.

Baseline grant amount: 10,000 OP
Apply by: September 23rd
Learn more

Cycle 27 Grants Final Report

The report for Cycle 27 grants has been published. Out of 53 applications, 16 will be receiving a grant. Missions continue to receive applications on a rolling basis.

Read the full report

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, September 23rd]
  • Token House Community Call [Tuesday, September 24th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

:red_circle::sparkles: Optimism Collective Resources

:saluting_face: Stay Connected, Stay Informed

Every week we summarize news, discussions and proposals to provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective.

See you next week!

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OP Bulletin: Retro Funding 6 coming up | Sep. 26th

Hi everyone! We created our profile on Metrics Garden, if you are a reader of OP Bulletin consider leaving your honest opinion. Enjoy this weekā€™s Bulletin! ā€“ @eugenia

TL;DR

  • QuickNodeā€™s Rollup Testnet Deployer :handshake: Superchain
  • Base Around The World
  • Discussion: Accelerating Decentralization
  • Retro Funding 6: Applications Open On Tuesday
  • Discussion: Retro Funding 5 rewards
  • Gitcoin to build Grants Claiming Tool for Optimism
  • Apply for a Mission Request

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

QuickNodeā€™s Rollup Testnet Deployer :handshake: Superchain

The Rollup Testnet Deployer now supports the Optimism Superchain! QuickNode allows to deploy and scale your rollups with enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Read more

Base Around The World

The Base Buildathon kickstarts tomorrow with sub-buildathons across 4 regions LatAm, Africa, India and South East Asia, and 100 ETH in total prizes. The prompt is to: "Build an onchain app that solves a challenge in your community, or use existing onchain tools to create real-world impact in your community by bringing them onchain."

Dates: September 27th to October 13th

Learn more

:newspaper: Governance News

Discussion: Accelerating Decentralization

Discussion continues around a petition put forward by GFX Labs to accelerate decentralization of governance in Optimism.

The petition divides a plan into three phases of decentralization with Phase 1 being the handover of control over funds, contracts and governance assets to governance. This led to an open conversation on decentralization of governance and a response from the Foundation addressing the petition.

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

No voting at the moment.

:dollar: Grant News

Retro Funding 6: Applications Open On Tuesday

The new round focusing on contributions to governance will open on Tuesday, October 1st and distribute between 1.1M and 3.5M OP. You can begin by completing your Optimist Profile on retrofunding.optimism.io and checking out the roundā€™s details.

Discussion: Retro Funding 5 rewards

As round 5 saw a lower amount of applications, the Foundation has proposed that Citizens vote on a new OP allocation amount. Round 5ā€™s initial funding was set at 8M OP. Citizens would vote for an amount within the range of 2M - 8M OP, with the median amount as the final round size.

Discussions on how to arrive to an exact amount are still ongoing. Read more in this post. Voting for round 5 will start on September 30th.

Gitcoin to build Grants Claiming Tool for Optimism

Gitcoin will collaborate with Optimism to build a Grants Claiming Tool, OG-Claim, for a Mission Request. OG-Claim will leverage Hedgey for payments and Gitcoinā€™s Allo Protocol for grant allocation.

Read more

Apply for a Mission Request

Reminder ā€“ Mission Requests are still available!

Delegate Mission Requests are a great way to develop a project that is aligned with Optimismā€™s current needs. Find an approved mission on the Mission Request List.

Apply by: November 6th

Missions v2.5 | Calendar S6 | Application guide | Application walkthrough

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, September 30th]
  • Builder Office Hours with the Foundation (Bi-Weekly) [Wednesday, October 2nd]
  • Collective Feedback Commission Retrospective Workshop (memebers only) [Wednesday, October 2nd]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

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OP Bulletin: Automata joins the Superchain & Retro 6 begins! | Oct. 3rd

Hi everyone! We created our profile on Impact Garden , if you are a reader of OP Bulletin consider leaving your honest opinion. Enjoy this weekā€™s Bulletin! ā€“ @eugenia

TL;DR:

  • Automata joins the Superchain
  • Integrate OP Succint on Conduit
  • Vote: Mission Requests Cycle 28
  • Collective Feedback Commission Pilot Retrospective
  • Super Contributor Cohort 0
  • Research: Concentration of Power
  • Applications Open for Retro Funding 6
  • Cycle 28 Grants Preliminary Roundup

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

Automata joins the Superchain

Automata Network is building a machine attestation layer that extends machine trust to Ethereum with TEE Coprocessors. Automata Network will launch Automata, an OP Stack chain, using its native token ATA as a custom gas token, along with the OP Stack implementation of Alt-DA using EigenDA for data availability.

Learn more

Integrate OP Succint on Conduit

OP Stack chains on Conduit can now implement OP Succint, bringing fast finality, type-1 EVM equivalence and lower fees to their chain. After deployment, Conduit can convert chains to integrate OP Succint and seamlessly switch validation to ZK proofs.

Learn more

:newspaper: Governance News

Vote: Mission Requests Cycle 28

During this voting cycle, only one mission request was approved by the Grants Council: Increasing the Prevalence of Non-USD/EURO Stablecoins. This mission focuses on growing the liquidity of stablecoins that are not pegged to the dollar or euro on OP Mainnet. Voting ends on October 9th.

Learn about rolling mission requests

Collective Feedback Commission Pilot Retrospective

During the last 6 months, the Collective Feedback Commission was consulted by the Foundation in the design process of Season 6 and round designs. This retrospective shares learnings initial thoughts on the next Iiteration.

Super Contributor Cohort 0

Become an elite contributor! The six-week co-learning track equips new and existing Optimism Collective members with the knowledge and skills needed to become a high context contributor. This program is organized by @SuperchainEco and supported by a Season 6 Mission Request.

Dates: October 9th - November 21st

Sign up

Research: Concentration of Power

Results of the Foundation Mission looking into the Concentration of Power in the Collective were published. The research report presents the Concentration of Power Index (CPI), an adaptation of Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), to measure its decentralization.

Read the report

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

Token House delegates can vote until October 9th:

:dollar: Grant News

Applications Open for Retro Funding 6

Retro Funding 6 will reward contributions to Optimism Governance, including governance infrastructure & tooling, governance analytics, and governance leadership. Citizens will vote to decide the final size of the round, which will range between 1.1M and 3.5M OP.

This round rewards contributions made between October 2023 and September 18, 2024. Apply on retrofunding.optimism.io

Application Deadline: October 14th.

Round details

Cycle 28 Grants Preliminary Roundup

The prelimenary report for Cycle 28 grants has been published. 41 applications will move forward to the final review, which will be announced next thursday.
Missions continue to receive applications on a rolling basis.

Read the roundup

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, October 7th]
  • Joint House Community Call [Tuesday, October 8th]
  • DAB Feedback, Ideation, and Conversation [Tuesday, October 8th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

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OP Bulletin: Airdrop #5 and Unichain | Oct. 10th

TL;DR:

  • OP Airdrop # 5
  • Unichain joins the Superchain
  • The Superchain Product Vision
  • Retro Funding 6: Last Days to Apply
  • Retro Funding 6: Application Review Process
  • Impact Attestation Experiment
  • Cycle 28 Grants Final Roundup

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

OP Airdrop #5

Yesterday Airdrop #5 allocated 10M+ OP to 54k+ unique addresses to reward users who have been involved in the growth of the Superchain Ecosystem. Criteria includes ā€œSuperchain power usersā€, who have interacted with at least 20 unique contracts, active delegators, SuperFest participants, and more.

Check eligibility here and claim on app.optimism.io/airdrops. If youā€™ve received OP consider parcipating in governance or delegating through vote.optimism.io/delegates.

Unichain joins the Superchain

Uniswap Labs announced Unichain, an L2 to become a home for DeFi and liquidity across chains.

Unichain is working to bring better interoperability, enabling seamless access to cross-chain swapping, and collaborating with Optimism to bring cross-chain message passing to the Superchain. With one-second block times at launch and upcoming 250ms Flash-blocks thanks to collaborations with Flashbots and OP Labs, Unichain promises faster, more efficient transactions.

Uniswap announcement | Optimism Collective announcement

:newspaper: Governance News & discussions

The Superchain Product Vision

The Foundation unveiled its vision for the Superchain over the next two years. Key points of the Superchain Vision include: standarization of chains, chains that feel like one but scale to 1000+, seamless user experience and governance that ensures security and fosters sustainable growth and development.

Read the Superchain Product Vision

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

No active proposals.

:dollar: Grant News

Retro Funding 6: Last Days to Apply

Retro Funding 6 will reward contributions to Optimism Governance between October 2023 and September 18, 2024. This includes governance infrastructure & tooling, governance analytics, and governance leadership. Learn more

Application Deadline: October 14th.

Apply on retrofunding.optimism.io

Retro Funding 6: Application Review Process

Reviewers will be selected via a combination of an opt-in process and random sampling. If you are a Citizen, you can opt-in to participate filling out this form.

Application Deadline: October 11th (Tomorrow!)

Impact Attestation Experiment

In Retro Funding 6, the Collective will experiment with collecting impact data of different governance contributions via attestations on Impact Garden.

This experiment asks top 100 Delegates, Citizens and other governance leadership members to issue attestations on projects applying to the governance infrastructure & tooling category. Resulting insights will be given to existing badgeholders to support the voting process.

Read more

Cycle 28 Grants Final Roundup

In cycle 28, 8 applications were approved and an additional 2 are pending approval. Missions continue to receive applications on a rolling basis.
Read the full roundup

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, October 14th]
  • Builder Office Hours with the Foundation (Bi-Weekly) [Wednesday, October 16th]
  • govNERD Office Hours [Thursday, October 17th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

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OP Bulletin: Onchain Governance Architecture & World Chain Launch | Oct. 17th

TL;DR

  • Introducing Supersim
  • World Chain launch
  • Superseed joins the Superchain
  • Long-term Onchain Governance Architecture
  • Working Models for Decentralization
  • Updates to the Standard Rollup Charter
  • Retro Funding 6: Review begins
  • Retro Funding 6: Impact Attestation Experiment

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

Introducing Supersim

Simulate the Superchain locally with Supersim! Test and observe cross-chain messaging locally between L1 and L2 and between OP Stack L2s. Tune in to the Supersim workshop on October 23rd.

Watch the demo | Supersim Github

World Chain launch

World Coin (now World) announced the launch of World Chain. At launch the OP Stack chain already has 15M+ users and World has committed 50M through the World Foundation Community Grants to support building real world apps.

Superseed joins the Superchain

Superseed, the L2 with a CDP lending platform offers to repay loans of users who borrow using the Superseed token as collateral. Currently, the Superseed testnet is live but will launch mainnet soon.

Learn more about Superseed

:newspaper: Governance News & Discussions

Long-term Onchain Governance Architecture

Last week, the Foundation published their vision for the future of onchain governance for the Optimism Collective. The governance model aims to bring the logic of the Operating Manual onchain, allowing for different types of proposals, and rules that can be dependent on specifics of the proposals.

The post opens some questions for the community on the topic of proposal submissions, ossification of voting cycles and how to accommodate proposal edits.

Read the full post

Working Models for Decentralization

The Foundation published models to provide context to the community, looking towards the upcoming Season.

Read the post

Updates to the Standard Rollup Charter

The Standard Rollup Charter has been updated to include:

  • History integrity checks to assess discrepancies between chains have been moved to offchain tooling. These checks ensure chains that were deployed before the Blockspace Charter or the Standard Rollup are implemented correctly and are consistent with the Law of Chains.
  • Temporary control structures have been added to a limited set of chains. Upgrades for Base and Unichain will be implemented through a 3/3 upgrade multisig, with the following signers: the Optimism Security Council, the Optimism Foundation, and the Chain Governor.

Implementation of the charter and these changes is subject to its approval.

Read more

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

No voting at the moment.

:dollar: Grant News

Retro Funding 6: Review begins

Application review for Retro Funding 6 is now underway. Voting on the final projects will take place from October 28th to November 7th.

Retro Funding 6: Impact Attestation Experiment

In Retro Funding 6, the Collective will experiment with collecting impact data of governance contributions via attestations. The experiment asks governance members to issue attestations on Governance Infrastructure & Tooling projects that they do not have conflicts of interest with. Resulting insights will be given to badgeholders to support the voting process.

Deadline: October 24th

How to provide your attestation | Attest via Impact Garden

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, October 21st]
  • Token House Community Call [Tuesday, October 22nd]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

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OP Bulletin: Kraken joins the Superchain | Oct. 24th

TL;DR

  • Kraken joins the Superchain
  • Fault Proofs are Coming to Base
  • Collective Feedback Commission: The Next Iteration
  • Standard Rollup Charter
  • Governor Update Proposal #3: Enable onchain treasury execution
  • Retro Funding 5 Results
  • Initial Reviews for Retro Funding 6
  • Available Missions

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

Kraken joins the Superchain

Kraken launches ā€œInkā€, the latest chain to join the ranks at the Superchain together with Base, Unichain among more than 30 other chains. Ink will offer 1-second block times. Ink will launch its testnet in November, with Mainnet set to launch during 2025.

Fault Proofs are Coming to Base

Base will upgrade to a fault proof system on October 30th, furthering its decentralization. This will bring permissionless output proposals, meaning anyone will be able to make claims about Baseā€™s current state instead of relying on a central party, and will also enable challenges to output proposals, meaning if makes a faulty or fraudulent claim, anyone can challenge it.

Read more in Preparing for Fault Proofs

:newspaper: Governance News & Discussions

Collective Feedback Commission: The Next Iteration

The CFC will continue to involve members earlier in the governance design process. The new commission will be split into three different tracks, each with its own lead: Operational, Organizational, and Design Research. Additionally, a Commission Lead will manage the CFC operations and hold the Foundation accountable to executing on this Charter.

Up to 18 members will be selected based on relevant qualifications to each track. All selected members will be informed and must opt-in to participate. The new iteration will begin on November 4th.

Learn more

Standard Rollup Charter

The Standard Rollup Charter with its latest updates, including history integrity checks moving to offchain tooling and added temporary control structures to a limited set of chains, will move to a vote.

Voting is available until October 30th.

Read the full proposal

Governor Update Proposal #3: Enable onchain treasury execution

This upgrade proposal updates the governance smart contract to allow the execution of token transfer proposals onchain directly. With it, transfer proposals will be executed automatically without relying on the Foundation. Non-treasury token transfer execution will continue to be overseen by the Foundation.

Voting is available until October 30th.

Read the full proposal

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

Delegates may vote until October 30th on:

Vote via vote.optimism.io

:dollar: Grants News

Retro Funding 5 Results

This round rewarded 8M OP 79 projects for their contributions to the OP Stack and Ethereum.

  • 3.1M OP for Ethereum Core Contributors
  • 2.8M OP for OP Stack Research & Development
  • 2M OP for OP Stack Tooling

Explore the full list of projects

Initial Reviews for Retro Funding 6

Initial reviews for Retro Funding are complete. Out of the 147 applications, 79 were approved. If your project was rejected you can submit an appeal by Friday October 25th, 23:00 UTC following these instructions.

Available Missions

Mission Requests are still available! Develop a project aligned with Optimismā€™s current needs.

Apply by: November 5th

Application guide | Available Missions

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, October 28th]
  • Builder Office Hours with the Foundation (Bi-Weekly) [Wednesday, October 30th]
  • Retro Funding 5: Retrospective [Wednesday, October 30th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

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OP Bulletin: ERC-7683 & Fault proofs on Base | Nov. 1st

TL;DR

  • Optimism supports ERC-7683
  • Fault proofs are live on Base
  • OP Succinct with Celestia Underneath
  • Fault proofs on Soneium Soon
  • Standard Rollup Charter Ratification
  • Membership for the Collective Feedback Commission
  • Voting begins in Retro Funding 6
  • Cycle 29 Final Roundup

:globe_with_meridians: Ecosystem News

Optimism supports ERC-7683

This standard was created by Across Protocol in collaboration with Uniswap and provides a framework for cross-chain actions based on intents. This unlocks better UX for users, easier swaps, and shared liquidity. Support for this standard pushes forward interoperability between the Superchain and Ethereum as a whole.

Read more about Solving Interoperability

Fault proofs are live on Base

Anyone can monitor and permissionlessly challenge invalid withdrawals, removing the need for a trusted third party and paving the way for greater community participation. With this, Base moves closer to Stage 1 decentralization, although a Security Council and modifications in the approval process for Base protocol upgrades are still needed. Base is on track to reach Stage 1 in the coming months.

Announcement

OP Succinct with Celestia Underneath

As a result of collaboration between Celestia, Conduit and Succint, OP Stack Rollups can now use an alternative data availability provider like Celestia while implementing ZKPs with OP Succint.

Read more about OP Succint

Fault proofs on Soneium Soon!

Soneium will enable Fault Proofs with an L1 contract upgrade to Soneium Minato on November 4th. This upgrade will extend the native bridge challenge period to 7 days.

Announcement

:newspaper: Governance News & Discussions

Standard Rollup Charter Ratification

The first charter of Blockspace Charters has been ratified by the Token House! The Standard Rollup Charter will now hold the onchain and offchain criteria for a ā€œStandard Rollupā€ and the charter be added to the Operating Manual.

Membership for the Collective Feedback Commission

Members for the new iteration of the CFC have been notified. Selected members can opt-in by November 1st to then participate on an onboarding call on November 4th.

:ballot_box: Voting Reminders

No voting at the moment.

:dollar: Grant New

Voting begins for Retro Funding 6

Badgeholders and guest voters will vote to determine the roundā€™s amount to be distributed within the range of 1.1M and 3.5M OP as well as the budget for each category. These votes should reflect the impact of the projects listed. Voters will then evaluate projects and allocate rewards through either one of the suggested methods or creating a custom one.

Voting on round6.optimism.io will be available until November 13th.

Cycle 29 Final Roundup

The grants final roundup for this cycle has been published. Out of 55 applications, 29 passed final review.
Applications for mission requests are open until November 5th.

Application guide | Available Missions

Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, November 4th]
  • Joint House Community Call [Tuesday, November 5th]
  • govNERD Office Hours [Thursday, November 7th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

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