RetroPitches: Showcasing Retro Funding Round 6 Projects

Introducing RetroPitches! :rainbow:

Hey all! We’re thrilled to announce RetroPitches, an initiative to support Retro Funding Round 6 by helping showcase and evaluate the impact of public goods creators who are advancing governance infrastructure & tooling, analytics, and leadership on Optimism! This round will distribute up to 3.5M OP to reward these contributions :sun_with_face:

RetroPitches are friendly competitions where governance contributors can present their projects, demonstrate their impact, and advance governance innovation on the Superchain. These games provide public goods creators with a platform to showcase their work while helping badgeholders gain deeper insights into contributions being evaluated in Retro Funding Round 6.

Event Overview

At each RetroPitches event, contributors have up to 5 minutes to showcase their project’s impact on Optimism governance. All presentations are recorded and timestamped, enabling badge holders and community members to easily discover and evaluate various contributions. Participating applicants can share their screen during the presentation, and we’re happy to display any helpful websites to promote their grant while they speak.

We invite everyone to join these events and help recognize impactful work in the ecosystem by sharing your thoughts. You’ll have the opportunity to learn about innovative projects and connect with governance leaders across the Superchain. Time permitting, we’ll open the floor for questions and discussions. Don’t forget to RSVP on the Optimism Town Hall event page. We can’t wait to see you there!

Register to Pitch Your Project

If you have a grant in RetroFunding Round 6, we encourage you to register here now to select your preferred date and reserve your spot:

  • Tuesday, November 5th at 17 UTC
  • Wednesday, November 6th at 17 UTC
  • Thursday, November 7th at 14 UTC

We’re happy to add more events if these times don’t work for you—just let us know, and we’ll do our best to accommodate everyone.

Benefits for RetroPitchers

For RetroFunding Round 6 applicants, RetroPitches offers:

  • A platform to showcase your work to badge holders and the wider community
  • High-quality video content with timestamps to help promote your contributions
  • Feedback from the community to refine your impact messaging
  • An audience of governance enthusiasts and connections with other innovators
  • Participation in pioneering new evaluation methods for RetroFunding

In addition, participating in RetroPitches helps the broader Superchain ecosystem by promoting governance innovation with engaging video content that attracts more people to learn about Optimism’s Collective governance.

These RetroPitch competitions build on a rich history of successful public goods evaluation experiments in the Collective. Learn more about past RetroPitches events, our exciting enhancements for RetroFunding Round 6, and how this initiative helps optimize governance evaluation at scale below.

Origins and History

RetroPitches began during RetroPGF Round 3, showcasing public goods and connecting contributors with the community. To get an idea of what to expect in the upcoming events, check out this video from our pilot season below.

We also invite you to see our past forum post or explore our RetroPitches blog post to learn about the first season of RetroPitches, preceding experiments over the past two years, and how RetroPitches fits into our broader vision for public goods games and the future of impact evaluation.

RetroPolls: Onchain Impact Evaluation

For RetroFunding Round 6, we’re enhancing RetroPitches with new features that specifically focus on governance impact evaluation. Building on our learnings from the past year, we’re introducing RetroPolls - an onchain voting system that enables diverse stakeholders across the Optimism ecosystem to participate in impact evaluation.

RetroPolls will allow Token House members, Citizens’ House badgeholders, and the Optimism Fractal community to help evaluate the impact of RetroFunding projects by voting in onchain polls on Snapshot X. Stay tuned for details on how you can get involved in RetroPolls!

About RetroPitches

RetroPitches are hosted by Dan Singjoy and organized at Optimism Town Hall, a collaborative forum for Superchain discussions. These initiatives are brought to you by Optimystics, a team of builders building open-source software, orchestrating events, and developing prosocial games on the Superchain. All sessions will be recorded and shared on social media to maximize visibility for participating projects.

Get Involved

Everyone is welcome to RSVP in the Optimism Town Hall event page, where you’ll find the zoom link and more details.

We invite you to read our RetroPitches article linked above to learn more and explore our RetroSeason article to discover more about our exciting impact evaluation experiments. If you have a project in RetroFunding Round 6, remember to register here to reserve your spot.

Feel free to reach out with any questions. We’re looking forward to seeing your pitches and hope you enjoy the events! :studio_microphone::red_circle::sparkles:

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Will the Town Hall meeting (Optimism Town Hall · Zoom · Luma) be recorded? I’d love to see this as a Guest Voter for RF6 but the event is happening at 1 am local time for me :sweat_smile:

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Hey Zenrobot,

Thanks for reaching out and welcome to the Optimism Gov Forum! :blush:

It’s great to hear that you’ll be a Guest Voter for RF6 and that you’d love to see the events! I’ll make a note that you’d prefer an earlier event time in case you’d like to join live. If more people prefer an earlier time, we’re happy to add additional events to accommodate everyone.

Yes, to answer your question about recordings—all RetroPitches events at the Town Hall will be recorded and shared on social media to maximize visibility for participating projects. You can find them on the Eden Creators YouTube channel.

Let me know if there are other questions, happy to help!

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Thank you to all the amazing presenters who joined RetroPitches this past week! Over 20 projects showcased their impact to Optimism governance across three sessions and it was awesome hearing from everyone :raised_hands:t4:

We’ll release the videos with timestamps for each presentation as soon as possible to make it easy for badge holders and guest reviewers to evaluate each project’s impact before the Retro Funding round ends. These concise 5-minute presentations provide a great way to understand each project’s contributions to Optimism in an engaging format.

Special thanks to @rosmari for all the excellent work reaching out to all applicants, coordinating schedules, and producing these events. Looking forward to sharing the videos soon! :movie_camera::red_circle:

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Thank you @DanSingjoy - watching these now and will be voting later today!

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Hi friends! The first RetroPitches event is ready to watch :stadium:

Congrats and thank you to OpenRank, Optimism Fractal, Optimism Security Council presented by Alisha, and SEEDGov for the awesome pitches! :raised_hands:t4:

RetroPitches is an initiative to support Retro Funding Round 6 by helping showcase and evaluate the impact of public goods creators who advanced governance infrastructure & tooling, analytics, or leadership on Optimism!

Timestamps :sunflower:

9:01 OpenRank pitches by @gloriakw

24:25 Optimism Security Council pitch by @Alisha

33:12 Optimism Fractal pitch by @DanSingjoy

43:09 SEED Gov pitch by @delphine

You can learn more about how RetroPitches showcases impact in the Optimism Collective in this comprehensive article.

Retro Funding Round 6 Project Links :sun_with_face:

  1. Optimism Fractal Respect Game Events link
  2. Optimism Security Council [Season 5] link
  3. Optimism Security Council [Season 6] link
  4. Retro 5 Expert Voter Selection: Developer Reputation Score using Recursive Trust link
  5. Retro 5 Metrics: Trusted Github Contributors/Stars/Forks link
  6. SEED Gov link

RetroPitches

You’re welcome to watch the next two RetroPitches episodes at EdenCreators Youtube channel and stay tuned for more forum posts about RetroPitches 2 and 3 🫶🏽

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Hi optimists! The second RetroPitches event is ready to watch :stadium:

Congrats and thank you to CharmVerse, Delegate Match, Deliberative Process on the definition of profit presented by Antoine, GovXS, and Tribuni Telegram Bot for the awesome pitches!

RetroPitches is an initiative to support Retro Funding Round 6 by helping showcase and evaluate the impact of public goods creators who advanced governance infrastructure & tooling, analytics, or leadership on Optimism!

Timestamps :sunflower:

11:09 Delegate Match pitch by @suede

18:13 CharmVerse Grants pitch by @ccarella

22:17 CharmVerse Retro Funding Application Review pitch by @ccarella

27:55 GovXS (Token Engineering Academy) pitch by Idrees

35:04 Deliberative Process on the definition of profit pitch by @antoine

42:35 Tribuni Telegram Bot pitch by @ken12138

Retro Funding Round 6 Project Links :sun_with_face:

  1. CharmVerse Grants link
  2. CharmVerse Retro Funding Application Review: link
  3. Delegate Match: link
  4. Deliberative Process on the definition of profit: link
  5. GovXS: link
  6. Tribuni Telegram Bot: link

RetroPitches

You’re welcome to watch all RetroPitches episodes at EdenCreators Youtube channel. Learn more about how RetroPitches showcases impact in the Optimism Collective in this comprehensive article. Enjoy! 🫶🏽

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Hi gov enthusiasts! The third RetroPitches event is ready to watch :stadium:

Congrats and thank you Boardroom, DeepDAO, Fracton Research, Grant Round Analysis (S5R2) presented by Arnold, Growthepie, IDriss, Lighthouse, Pairwise, Retrolist app, and x23.ai for the awesome pitches!

RetroPitches is an initiative to support Retro Funding Round 6 by helping showcase and evaluate the impact of public goods creators who advanced governance infrastructure & tooling, analytics, or leadership on Optimism!

Timestamps :sunflower:

12:24 DeepDAO pitch by @eyal

19:16 Growthepie pitch by Tobsch

25:23 Boardroom pitch by @kevinknielsen

30:44 Lighthouse pitch by @1a35e1

33:54 Grant Round Analysis (S5R2) pitch by @1a35e1

37:42 Pairwise pitch by @moenick

45:38 Optimism Newsfeed + Assistant (x23.ai) pitch by @daveytea

50:13 Governance widget for X and Farcaster (IDriss) pitch by @geoist

54:37 Fracton Research - Retrospective Quantitative Review of Grants pitch by Morley Sheen

1:01:52 RetroList app pitch by Patrick

Retro Funding Round 6 Project Links :sun_with_face:

  1. Boardroom: here
  2. DeepDAO: here
  3. Fracton Research - Retrospective Quantitative Review of Grants: here
  4. Grant Round Analysis (S5R2): here
  5. Governance widget for X and Farcaster: here
  6. growthepie :pie::straight_ruler: RetroPGF 3 tracker - Clarity for Badgeholders and Project Owners: here
  7. Lighthouse | Native Governance: here
  8. Optimism Newsfeed + Assistant: here
  9. Pairwise: here
  10. RetroList: here

RetroPitches

You’re welcome to watch all RetroPitches episodes at EdenCreators Youtube channel. Learn more about how RetroPitches showcases impact in the Optimism Collective in this comprehensive article. Enjoy! 🫶🏽

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Hello,
thanks a lot for the opportunity to present our deliberative process. Hope it will convince you!
Antoine

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Thank you for watching, @zenrobot! I’m glad these presentations could help inform your review process!

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You’re very welcome @Antoine, it was wonderful meeting you and learning about your team’s work with deliberative processes. The parallels between our approaches to democratic decision-making are fascinating and I’m looking forward to further exploring how we can collaborate. Thanks again for joining and sharing your work with us!

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Hey all,

For anyone who would like to support community-driven initiatives like RetroPitches and Optimism Town Hall, you can do so through the Optimism Fractal Respect Games application. We’ve detailed how these projects have created a distinct value for the collective in this post about recognizing impact and would greatly appreciate your consideration.

We’ve also shared three threads on the Optimystics X account featuring timestamps of presentations, application links, and tags for each of the projects and speakers to make it easy to share specific pitches and help raise awareness for all the amazing governance innovations presented.

I really enjoyed learning about all the excellent public goods projects and hope that everyone enjoys the videos. Looking forward to seeing y’all next RetroSeason! :sun_with_face::red_circle:

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Hi Dan, will contact you!
Antoine

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