Request for Grants: Growth Experiments

[TheDoctor]

@lavande

maximize the number of users interacting with applications on Optimism

I feel the Growth experiment expressed like this is about bringing more Defi users that don’t care about Optimism’s long-term sustainability and OP Constitution values.

I strongly suggest focusing more on building a social layer including governance experiments.

I proposed OP-native experiments (so more grants could stay on OP and not bounty-hunter teams) :

[DRAFT] [GF: Phase 1 Proposal] Entangled Optimism mDAOs - Cycle #10

Project name : Entangled Optimism micro-DAOs. Iteration 1: Babel m-DAO Author name and contact info Discord: TheDoctor#9791 | Telegram: @ateneo1 (Other OP collective members may join and participate from the beginning) I understand that I will be required to provide additional KYC information to the Optimism Foundation to receive this grant: Yes, and to any OP collective member who wants to check. L2 recipient address : TBD Which Voting Cycle are you applying for? :Phase 1 - Cycle 10 Whic…

For a proposal like that to succeed we need to onboard “normies” as @Axel_T pointed out, and we need them not to be overwhelmed for the complexity of a huge structure. People could easily participate in some simple OP microDAO of their interest and if that microDAO succeeds, you won’t have users, you’ll have citizens.

@Josey

Social bonding to foster community growth

Let’s strive for long-term, sustainable growth by applying a user-centric approach. I’d love to see more science-backed user studies as part of the Growth Experiments. Notably, there is a general lack of scientific knowledge on community stickiness & user retention in DeFi. OP could be the first to explore such questions for the Optimism Collective from a psychological perspective.

Sustained growth can only be achieved by means of a sticky community. In order to attract and retain highly committed members – and consequently, keep liquidity and TVL on chain – strong relational ties amongst OP citizens/group members and the more abstract city itself are needed. Questions of 'how to retain users long-term and in a meaningful way’ and ‘what makes people stick to a network and/or protocol long-term’ will become more important.

Moreover, and as we all know, the battle for attention and market dominance is high in DeFi. Identifying valid mechanisms of how to retain users will become particularly relevant once the novelty of existing projects starts wearing off and new shiny projects appear on the horizon.

Thanks for expressing what I feel. Isn’t it obvious? Why a majority of people don’t get it?

@Michael

Overall, I think we should bias towards experimentation this season, especially with smaller-sized grants. This is an iterative process and the more variety in grants we see now, the more data we’ll have moving forward on what works best.

Amen to this.