These are some of the guidelines I’ll follow for Season 2:
- Doesn’t directly increase TVL and related economic metrics, to minimize regulatory and security risk. Note: this will likely disqualify most DeFi proposals.
- Related to the above, projects should not come with significant regulatory risk.
- Been live for over 1 year on other networks and has demonstrated adequate product-market fit, no dodgy history and such
- Live on Optimism and seen some initial traction
- Directly incentivizes lasting usage of the Optimism network, and onboarding new users
- Temporary incentives attracting mercenary farmers and the like are discouraged
- Co-incentives are a huge bonus, but the amount asked must be at most ~1% of the project’s token’s market cap. So, projects should request an amount of OP commensurate with their market cap.
- Not all projects fit these criteria, so subjective judgment will be used - but the project must directly benefit the Optimism ecosystem in some way or other