gm Optimism Collective 
This week saw an even larger surge in forum activity with 27 new topics covering a wide range of discussions and initiatives. Key highlights include the “Optimism Dominance in Yield-Bearing Assets” series, aimed at making Optimism the leading platform for trading yield-bearing assets. Other significant discussions focused on empowering small active delegates, using random sampling to reduce bias in the Citizens’ House, and developing an on-chain review system. Notable projects included a governance summarizer and chatbot, microgrants for experimental projects, and new developer tools. Efforts to grow the developer community through community events, educational programs, and engaging onchain social games were also prominent. These discussions reflect a vibrant and engaged community focused on innovation and collaboration within the Optimism ecosystem.
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[Mission Request] Optimism Dominance in Yield-Bearing Assets (2 of 4)
Created: 2024-07-01
Author: GFXlabs
Summary
Summary:
The mission aims to make Optimism the dominant platform for trading and creating yield-bearing assets. It encourages organizations on Optimism to diversify their onchain asset holdings by offering incentives and subsidies. The goal is to attract a user base for yield-bearing assets on Optimism, ensuring financial security for DAOs and other organizations on the platform.
[Sponsorship Request] Empowering small active delegates
Created: 2024-07-01
Author: @jengajojo
Summary
Summary: The proposed mission request aims to delegate unallocated tokens to active but underrepresented delegates for six months with the goal of increasing participation from 55% to 80%. The request highlights the need to improve strategies for active participation and utilizes a rubric for selecting delegates and measuring impact.
[Mission Request] Optimism Dominance in Yield-Bearing Assets (1 of 4)
Created: 2024-07-01
Author: GFXlabs
Summary
Summary: The Delegate Mission Request aims to establish Optimism as the primary platform for trading and creating yield-bearing assets, including real-world assets, DeFi tokens, and staked ETH. The mission focuses on attracting high-quality assets by subsidizing the cost of acquiring credit ratings for promising projects, facilitating engagement with rating agencies, and ensuring funds are used for intended purposes. It also seeks to measure progress through the deployment of rated assets on Optimism.
[Mission Request] Optimism Dominance in Yield-Bearing Assets (3 of 4)
Created: 2024-07-02
Author: GFXlabs
Summary
The post outlines a proposal to make Optimism the leading venue for trading and generating yield-bearing assets. The mission aims to bring $70 million worth of yield-bearing assets to Optimism and incentivize their importation by offering additional rewards in OP tokens. Whitelisted assets and DeFi protocols are key components, and guidelines for whitelisting, application processes, and progress measurement are detailed.
Experimenting with Random Sampling in the Citizens’ House
Created: 2024-07-02
Author: system
Summary
In this post, the concept of random sampling is explained as a statistical method where all members of a population have an equal chance of being selected, allowing for valid conclusions to be drawn about the entire population based on a sample. The post discusses the importance of random sampling in the context of the Citizens’ House, emphasizing its role in reducing bias and distributing power evenly among Citizens. Random sampling is proposed as a method to avoid the concentration of power in the Citizens’ House and ensure a more effective check on the Token House.
[Sponsorship Request] Intent 1: Opinion harvesting spaces
Created: 2024-07-02
Author: @alexsotodigital
Summary
Summary: The mission request aims to increase citizen confidence in voting on upgrade vetos by creating spaces for citizens to listen to opposing opinions and share doubts. Multiple applicants, led by alexsotodigital and Opus Collective, propose structured sessions for discussion and Q&A to promote understanding and participation. This initiative seeks to strengthen citizen engagement and decision-making in the Citizens’ House governance system.
New Explorer for the OP Stack: Milestone 1 submission and request for feedback
Created: 2024-07-03
Author: @romanm
Summary
Optimistic Announcement:
The Walnut team has achieved Milestone 1 of the OP Scan project, which received an OP grant in Season 5, cycle 19. This post provides details on what has been delivered, describes OP Scan as a lightweight, local, and open-source explorer for the OP Stack, and invites developers to provide feedback. The post includes screenshots of the project, upcoming milestones, how to run the explorer, and ways to provide feedback or request features. Additionally, they are preparing to showcase the project at the Optimistic Gathering in Brussels. The project uses a tech stack that includes Next.js with React Server Components, Node & Prisma for the indexer, and utilizes third-party APIs like sourcify and 4byte.directory. Contact information is provided for those interested in engaging with the project further.
Building an On-Chain Review System with EAS
Created: 2024-07-03
Author: @MaximeServais
Summary
Summary: The post provides an update on the progress of Season 5 Builder’s Grant, which aims to create an onchain review web app with an Attestation-Based Dapp Rating System. The post details the objectives, milestones achieved, development progress, including wallet connection, user interface development, on-chain publishing, reputation system, algorithm enhancement, and Farcaster frame integration. The team focuses on creating a transparent and composable onchain review system for dApps.
S5 grantee: x23.ai - governance summariser + chatbot
Created: 2024-07-04
Author: daveytea
Summary
The post introduces a project awarded a grant for the AI Assistance for governance mission in Season 5 to aid participation in Optimism governance. They have created a newsfeed and a chatbot/assistant, available in beta versions, aimed at providing easy governance participation for delegates and community members. The products cover a range of governance activities with plans to expand coverage and improve functionalities. The post encourages community feedback for further enhancements and bug reporting.
[Mission Request][Draft, looking for feedback] Microgrants for Experimental Projects
Created: 2024-07-05
Author: @Michael
Summary
In a mission request for microgrants for experimental projects, the intent is to support innovative developments in user applications, developer tools, games, art, and DeFi primitives on OP Mainnet. The grant amount is set at 50 k OP with a maximum of 2,500 OP per grant, encouraging applicants to request 80% of the impact they believe they will generate. Grantees are incentivized with the possibility of retroactive rewards based on the quality of execution in future funding rounds.
[Mission Request] Optimism Dominance in Yield-Bearing Assets (4 of 4)
Created: 2024-07-05
Author: GFXlabs
Summary
In the final part of the “Optimism Dominance in Yield-Bearing Assets” series, a mission is outlined to make Optimism the leading platform for trading yield-bearing assets. The proposal involves supporting the Grants Council and providing technical assistance in growing application developers on the Superchain. The Delegate Mission Request aims to list whitelisted assets, provide bridge incentives, and measure progress through asset whitelisting and bridging quantities. Milestones include maintaining an updated webpage and timely rewards distribution. Impact measurement involves assessing capital inflows, RWAs deployed on Optimism, trading activity, and the economic strength of organizations. The mission is contingent on the success of previous related missions.
Intent 1 Mission Sponsorship
Created: 2024-07-05
Author: system
Summary
Post requesting mission ideas to be sponsored by the Feedback Commission. Members are encouraged to fill out a provided template, create a new forum post with the filled template, tag it with “S 6 mission request,” and then share the link to the completed request in the original post.
[Mission Request] Voting Analysis
Created: 2024-07-05
Author: @Gonna.eth
Summary
In this mission request, the purpose is to enhance the decentralization and security of the Collective’s governance process by conducting research and analysis on governance attacks, voting mechanisms, non-plutocratic governance systems, and bicameral governance systems. The proposal, made by Gonna.eth, seeks a grant of 50.000 OP to be fulfilled by multiple applicants. The mission involves defining objectives, analyzing past governance attacks, exploring voting mechanisms, identifying attack vectors, and providing recommendations in a final report for a more secure and transparent governance process. Impact measurement includes identifying and mitigating governance risks, adopting best practices, and improving security and decentralization, ultimately benefiting the Collective.
[Mission Request] Grants Claiming Tool
Created: 2024-07-05
Author: Gonna.eth
Summary
Summary: The mission request aims to develop a tool for claiming grants that enhances decentralization and supports governance in the Collective. The tool will drive delegation, require approvals from The Grants Council and The Foundation, and include a clawback option. The proposal emphasizes progress towards decentralization by incentivizing stakeholders to participate actively in governance.
[Mission Request] Farcaster social graph
Created: 2024-07-06
Author: Gonna.eth
Summary
This post outlines a Delegate Mission Request to analyze social graphs and attestation data to identify potential Sybil accounts within the Farcaster network. The request aims to enhance decentralization by improving Sybil detection accuracy through the development and implementation of an algorithm. The post details the requirements, execution steps, impact measurement criteria, milestones, and metrics associated with fulfilling this mission.
[Mission Request] Grants-as-a-Service (GaaS)
Created: 2024-07-06
Author: Gonna.eth
Summary
Summary: The post outlines a proposal to create a Grants-as-a-Service (GaaS) Provider Network within the Superchain ecosystem. This network aims to simplify grant processes, distribute funds efficiently, and support application developers. It details the intent, goals, requirements, execution plan, impact measurement, collaboration, eligibility criteria, implementation strategy, and resource allocation for this mission request.
[Draft for feedback] Sequencer commitment games
Created: 2024-07-06
Author: Gonna.eth
Summary
Summary: The Mission Request is to research the impact of integrating commitment games into the Optimism Sequencer within the Superchain network. The goal is to enhance composability, liquidity, and transaction speed for end users and attract more developers to the Superchain. The research will focus on the benefits, implementation methods, and potential outcomes of adding commitment games.
[Mission Request] Developer Tools
Created: 2024-07-06
Author: Gonna.eth
Summary
Summary: The post outlines a Mission Request aimed at incentivizing developers to enhance smart contract development and security tools on the Superchain. The proposal seeks to attract more developers to the ecosystem, improve the quality of smart contracts, foster collaboration, and enhance overall security. It provides details on the required tools, milestones, metrics for measuring impact, and the anticipated outcomes of completing the mission. Additionally, it highlights the importance of dev tooling for smart contract development and lists specific impacts and metrics to gauge success.
[Mission Request] Increase project accounts
Created: 2024-07-06
Author: Gonna.eth
Summary
Mission Request Summary: Gonna.eth has proposed to increase Optimism Project Accounts with the intention to grow application developers on the Superchain. The mission request involves a grant amount of 200,000 OP and is to be fulfilled by two applicants. The aim is to encourage and track the registration of new projects in the Project Account Registry to boost the number of developers identifying as Superchain developers.
[Mission Request] Subsidized Audit Grants
Created: 2024-07-06
Author: @AnthiasLabs
Summary
Summary: The mission request aims to gather smart contract auditors to provide subsidized audits for promising projects chosen by the Grants Council. The total grant amount is 250,000 OP, and multiple applicants can fulfill this request. It will assist in growing the number of active developers in the Superchain by supporting new projects in the Optimism ecosystem. The execution involves qualified auditors, project assessment system, and a pool of eligible projects. Impact measurement includes milestones like forming an Audit Reviewer committee and metrics such as the number of audit grants and quality of audit teams.
[Mission Request] Cross Chain Voting
Created: 2024-07-06
Author: Gonna.eth
Summary
Summary: The mission request aims to enable cross-chain voting by creating a module for voting on Layer 2 and executing on Layer 1, contributing to decentralization progress. The proposed implementation involves utilizing an L1 block hash to enable cross-chain verification and voting on multiple chains. The task includes defining requirements, designing, implementing, testing, and monitoring the module, with measurable impacts including increased votes executed on L1, more participants in governance, improved security, and reduced voting time/cost.
[Mission Request] Optimism as base for LRTs
Created: 2024-07-07
Author: Boardroom
Summary
Summary: The mission request aims to enhance the presence of Layer-2 Rollup Tokens (LRTs) on Optimism by shifting liquidity from Mainnet to Optimism. The proposal involves providing grants to multiple applicants to encourage the development of projects that will increase liquidity on Optimism, leading to structured product integrations and improved developer concentration. Grantees are required to achieve specific milestones within the grant period, focusing on incentivizing users to utilize the projects effectively.
[Draft for feedback] Analysis of Grant Programs
Created: 2024-07-07
Author: @brichis
Summary
Summary: The post details a mission request to conduct a comprehensive analysis of grant programs and their failure modes to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of future grant cycles for Superchain participants. The request aims to support progress towards decentralization by providing insights for the Grants Council and the Collective DAO Archives, ensuring robust governance. Key components include defining research scope, data collection, case studies, framework development, reporting, and dissemination. Metrics and milestones are outlined to measure the impact of the request on governance and grant program efficiency.
[Sponsorship Request] Grow Developers on Optimism via Community Events
Created: 2024-07-07
Author: @DanSingjoy
Summary
Summary: The post describes a mission request to organize engaging community events aimed at onboarding new developers to the Optimism ecosystem. This initiative, proposed by Dan Singjoy, aims to grow application developers on the Superchain by fostering engagement, knowledge sharing, collaboration opportunities, inspiration, feedback collection, showcasing opportunities, and more. The execution of the mission involves event planning, experience design, developer outreach, technical setup, participant engagement, and feedback evaluation. Governance participants can measure the impact of the mission through milestones, metrics related to participation, engagement, retention, and impact, and by assessing developer growth, project initiation, engagement quality, community feedback, and ongoing involvement.
[Sponsorship Request] Develop Onchain Social Games that Attract Builders to Optimism
Created: 2024-07-07
Author: DanSingjoy
Summary
Summary: The post details a Mission Request to develop engaging onchain social games on the Superchain to attract and nurture builders, fostering a vibrant community of developers who create valuable applications on Optimism. It outlines the intent, proposal by Dan Singjoy, grant amount, execution requirements, milestones for measuring impact, and metrics to determine success. The post explains the importance of game design, integration with the Optimism ecosystem, incentives, community engagement, documentation, and ongoing impact assessment to achieve the goal of increasing application developers on the Superchain.
[Sponsorship Request] Create Educational Programs that Empower Developers on Optimism
Created: 2024-07-07
Author: DanSingjoy
Summary
Summary: The Mission Request aims to produce and distribute educational resources to attract and support application developers on Optimism, encouraging the growth of a robust and innovative developer community on the Superchain. The request includes initiatives such as skill development, lowering barriers to entry, community building, encouraging innovation, continuous learning, and increasing retention rates. Responsibilities include content development, Optimism integration, community engagement, and measurement and improvement. Governance participants can measure impact through milestones related to planning, execution, evaluation, and comprehensive review, along with metrics like developer participation, onchain transactions, retro funding involvement, feedback, retention metrics, and outcomes.
[Sponsorship Request] Create and Distribute Videos about Optimism Collective Governance
Created: 2024-07-07
Author: DanSingjoy
Summary
Summary: The mission request proposes creating educational and entertaining videos to raise awareness for the Optimism Collective, aiming to involve more people in Optimism, inspire future leaders, and progress towards decentralization. The grant amount is 60,000 OP, to be fulfilled by multiple applicants. The mission focuses on community education, fostering community, and simplifying complexities of Optimism governance, aiming to enhance accessibility and inclusivity. The execution requires video production skills, alignment with Optimism’s vision, social media promotion, and research. Milestones and metrics are outlined to measure the impact of the mission.