Season 6: Retro Governance Participation Rewards

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Season 6: Retro Governance Participation Rewards

Thank you

A huge thank you is due to delegates and Citizens for their continued dedication to experimentation and iteration.

This Season, the Collective took important steps to adapt governance to better support the Superchain. Governance welcomed the first OP Chains to governance via the Chain Delegation Program, ran the first Security Council elections, experimented with Superchain grants, and ratified Blockspace Charters to support shared upgrades. The Citizens’ House rewarded ~20M OP in Retro Funding Round’s 4-6, further refining our ability to measure impact. We took steps towards further decentralization with governance approval of permissionless fault proofs, the transfer of the Governance Fund onchain, and the publication of working models for decentralization. These are significant steps forward, which the Collective will build on in future Seasons.

Rewards are made retroactively (see why here) in accordance with the Collective Rewards Framework, which has been updated for Season 7. The highest impact contributions will align with the Collective Intents. Thank you for your continued dedication to this experiment to retroactively reward impact. Being a governance participant requires a serious time commitment and the Collective strongly benefits from your engagement.

The governance participants that meet the below criteria are eligible to receive a rewards as outlined in the below chart (snapshot as of November 20th, the end of the last Voting Cycle of the Season.)

Criteria Definition Intent Reasoning OP
Active delegates in the Token House Top 100 delegate with >70% voting participation in Season 6 (abstain votes count towards participation). Progress towards Decentralization (1) Voter turnout is critical to the resilience of the governance system 4,000 OP
Delegates that participation in Reflection Period Top 100 delegate with > 70% voting participation during Special Voting Cycle #23a AND #23b Progress towards Decentralization (1) Engagement during Reflection Periods is a crucial part of the feedback process, which enables iterative improvement and metagovernance 2,000 OP
Delegates that were active members of Anticapture Commission Lead, and Members that maintained > 50% voting participation on Upgrade votes Progress towards Decentralization (1) and Bring Chains to the Superchain (2) The Anticapture Commission plays a critical role in balancing power among stakeholders, especially as we onboard new OP Chains with substantial voting power 3,000 OP**
Active Citizens in the Citizens’ House Citizens that cast a vote on >70% of veto proposals. Progress towards Decentralization (1) Being aware of veto proposals is a critical component of capture resistance 250 OP
Citizens that participated in Retro Funding Citizens that actively voted in Rounds throughout Season 6 Grow Application Developers (3) Citizen participation allows Retro Funding to reward builders in the ecosystem 2,000 OP total* — Round 4 = 400 OP Round 5 = 800 OP Round 6 = 800 OP
Retro Funding application reviewers [Link to list] Progress towards Decentralization (1) Community led application review removes the Foundation from this process and is critical to the ongoing operation of Retro Funding [Linked list will include variable reward amounts since they are calculated per review]
Guest voters in Retro Funding Guest voters that voted in Round 5 OR Round 6 Progress towards Decentralization (1) Experimenting with guest voters allows the Collective to learn about Citizenship selection criteria 800 OP
Citizens that participated in the deliberative process experiment [Link to list] Progress towards Decentralization (1) Participation in governance experiments is critical to the further development and decentralization of the system 1,000 OP; 500 OP if could not attend all sessions
  • Citizen rewards for voting on vetos should be considered experimental and may not continue in the future as we further develop and assess vetos. If continued in future Seasons, these rewards may be qualified by a measure of comprehension / quality in the future.
  • *The Collective Rewards Framework suggests 2,000 OP per Round, based on the median time spent per badgeholder in Round 3. Rounds 4-6, combined, required a similar amount of time and rewards have been adjusted accordingly.
  • **While the Season 6 Collective Rewards Framework suggested 4,000 OP for the Anticapture Commission’s Impact Rating, rewards have been adjusted to 3,000 OP based on survey of ACC members about what their rewards for the Season should be. The Collective Rewards Framework has been updated to reflect this for Season 7.

Qualifying Governance Participants

Consistent with other grants, all rewards will be subject to a KYC and claims flow process.

This round of retroactive governance participation rewards will be allocated from the “Unallocated” portion of the Ecosystem Fund and is therefore not subject to governance approval.

[The list of qualifying participants will be added shortly]

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While im glad that we are rewarding our participants. If im incorrect please tell me but it seems as if we are favoring the top 100 delegates more so than any other group. Yes they carry a great amount of the voting power , optimism and the collective sadly does not favor the small holders that self delgate and try to contribute there voting power and participate in the governance process. You say and i quote “Optimism empowers teams and businesses to harness the power and economics of blockchains while being part of a movement that’s growing the pie for everyone.” But i challenege you are we truly growing the pie for everyone ? How can you grow the pie for everyone but only reward certain individuals? What brought me to optimism many years ago was the very 1st airdrop, that I qualified for because you deemed my wallet address as being priced out of ethereum. While most sold off i held onto the amount that was rewarded to me. I participated in delegation and utilized the network by bridging and doing transactions a nd recieved another airdrop. It was smaller but i was thankful for that. Ive kept at it and have delegated and participated in as many voting cycles as i can remember. I was surprisingly rewarded for the 3rd airdrop, again i was thankful. This is where things changed in the optimism network and rewards started going to other people like developers projects on other networks that while we may have been trying to attract groups and devs to help grow the network, they dumped on us. I participated in the superchain and superfest and still continued to delegate and vote on the differerent line items in the voting cycles airdrop 5 happened and it specifically said that voting / delgating and voting wouldnt be rewarded because its considered “normal” governance, which i disagree with especially when it was rewarded before in previous airdrops. Lastly it sounds , unless im misunderstanding that people who participated in the voting cycles , top 100 delagates and special voting councils will be rewarded with this upcoming airdrop, while it sounds like others that have participated will not.be rewarded , how is this fair at all ? How does this include everyone and share the " pie" with everyone. At least in airdrop 3 if you participated and werent a top 100 delegate as long as your voting percentage was over a certain percentage you were rewarded optimism. I have sold none of my allocations of optimism and have participated where i can and how i can. I dont have any dev skills but have been willing to help the collective however i could. I challenge you to check my wallet address if you doubt me : 0xf75Be3127Cf9f5c2aAA754E334cbCB5B5fc12e4F

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I need clarification on the statement: “Top 100 delegates with >70% voting participation.”

Does this mean rewards will be given to delegates ranked in the top 100 by voting power, but only if they also have >70% voting participation? If interpreted this way, it could result in fewer than 100 delegates being rewarded if some in the top 100 fail to meet the participation threshold.

Or does it mean rewards will be given to the top 100 delegates by voting power from the pool of delegates with >70% voting participation? This interpretation would ensure that more active delegates(100) are rewarded, compared to the first.

Could someone clarify which approach will be used?

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Actually, it means that. The top 100 delegates who voted more than 70% of the votes will be rewarded.

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Thats exactly what i was thinking and if we go off of past precidents , thats the way it was done before was you had to be at or above the set percentage to qualify. So if your a top 100 delegate and your not at or above the percentage, you will not qualify