Hello! In this thread, we’ll be sharing a condensed update every two weeks with forum highlights — straight to the point and packed with the essentials to keep up with the DAO. If we missed anything, feel free to add it!
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Optimism Gov Summary | April 1st - April 14th
We want to share the last activity on the collective for the past two weeks. You will find on this brief:
- Voting updates
- Commissions & Councils Updates
- Forum updates
- Upcoming Calls
- Opportunities
Voting Updates
There were two votes who took place during the week of April 4th till April 9th. Both proposals were approved:
- Upgrade Proposal #14: Isthmus L1 Contracts + MT-Cannon
- This proposal introduced MT-Cannon, removing memory constraints for fault proofs and adding an Operator Fee as a first step towards flexible fee structures for rollups.
- Upgrade Proposal #15: Isthmus Hard Fork
- This proposal aligned the network with L1 improvements and added features like Pectra support and the OperatorFeeVault.
Commissions & Councils Updates
Grants Council
Final results for Cycle 35 grants were announced by @Gonna.eth, Grants Council Lead. This cycle, 20% more proposals were approved, with 6 applications approved, 6 deferred to Cycle 36, and 9 applications declined in the final step. You can read more about it here: Cycle 35 Grants Council final report. Also the Cycle 35 Audit Grants final report was just posted today.
Anti-Capture Commission
The ACC unanimously voted FOR two protocol upgrades (Upgrade Proposal #14 and #15) after voting on Snapshot and executing the transactions through the Safe. A clearer timeline was set to better organize voting, meetings, and execution. On April 8th, the ACC held its third internal meeting (VC#35) to review the proposals, share updates and explore ways to improve workflows for future seasons. Read the oficial ACC update here Anticapture Commission Communication Thread - #27 by ACC
Milestones & Metrics Council
@mel.eth from StableLab stepped down from the M&M Council and handed over their seat to @mmurthy. Read more here: https://gov.optimism.io/t/s7-milestones-and-metrics-council-communication-thread/
Forum Updates
New discussions and important announcements on the forum:
- Allow the Optimism Foundation to Stake a Portion of Sequencer ETH Through Season 8: The Foundation shared an update that 20% of the approved ETH has already been staked with BitGo.
- Season 8/9 Budget Board Charter: We have a new Board! Season 8 will kick off with the Budget Board, which will advise on budgeting and develop treasury management tools. The Board will operate from May 1, 2025, to May 1, 2026.
- Season 8 and 9: Budget Board Member Ratification: Foundation proposed the first members of the initial Budget Board cohort. They selected individuals with experience in finance and data analysis. The members will be ratified by the Token House and the Citizens’ House in Voting Cycle #36.
- Governance Update #10: A halfway check-in to dimension where we are, what we’ve achieved, and where the Collective is headed next: New milestones unlocked. Also new experiments underway: updates on grants, governance security, citizenship, and what’s coming for Season 8.
What’s New in the Collective?
- Kudos to @Soneium for their introduction on the forum, and @GoBOB here as well.
- Read the govNERDs Weekly Update here.
- About the Futarchy experiment: read the latest Butter update here.
- @SEEDGov hosted an interview with @lavande where we did a mid-season check-in to review key initiatives and talk about about Season 7’s Intent, Interop challenges, the Chain Delegation Program, AI delegates, decentralization milestones, the Futarchy experiment and the future of Superchain governance. It was fun, watch it here!
Next Calls
- govNERDs Community Office Hours will be on April 15th at 19:00 UTC.
- DAB Office Hours will be on April 22th at 14:00 hs UTC and will be hosted in the Optimism Discord.
- Our next Joint House Community Call will be on April 22th at 18:00 hs UTC
- Delegate Monthly Onboarding Call will take place on April 22th at 20: hs UTC
Save the dates and stay tuned to the agenda. Finde the calendar here: OP Governance Calendar
Opportunities
The call for submissions to Foundation Mission Requests is still open! 
EIP-7702 UX & Developer Tooling
- Goal: Improve wallet UX and dev tools for EIP-7702 on the Superchain.
- Grant: Up to 115k OP split across up to 3 teams.
- Submit by: April 11
- Selection by: April 21
- Start date: April 22
ERC-7683 Integration with Native Interoperability
- Goal: Build a settlement system using Superchain’s native cross-chain features, standardizing cross-chain intents.
- Grant: 26k OP for one team.
- Submit by: April 11
- Selection by: April 21
- Start date: April 22
Interop Oracle Standards & Infra for OP Superchain
- Goal: Define standards and build infra for cross-chain oracles on the Superchain.
- Grant: 154k OP for one team.
- Submit by: April 11
- Selection by: April 21
- Start date: April 22
- Goal: Build autonomous AI Delegates that can understand governance proposals, reason transparently, and vote.
- Grant: 8,000–14,000 OP per team, up to 4 teams.
- Submit by: April 25
- Selection by: May 6
- Start date: May 6
- Completion date: June 25
Are we missing something? Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
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Thanks for doing this @SEEDGov
Great way to see if we missed anything!
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