Our general cost breakdown is as follows:
- Quarterly reports x4: $25k/per
- Governance season recaps x4: $25k/per
- Initiation of coverage: $30k
- Ecosystem report: $50k
This brings the total to $280k to cover the various roles involved as outlined above. Add on a 5% premium we use when accepting native tokens to account for added costs to do so and we back into the 420k OP
The idea is Optimism is paying for an investor relations service with these deliverables. We only produce these types of freely available reports with DAOs where we’re able to receive funding since they’re not monetized behind any paywall (like Messari Enterprise which is totally separate; ie. more subjective, thematic research compared to this objective reporting)