Season 8 Developer Advisory Board Charter amendment

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Developer Advisory Board: Seasons 8 Charter Amendment

Proposed Council or Board Lead: Ed (wildmolasses)

Please link to any previous work or qualifications to be Council or Board Lead:

  • Atlas profile
  • DAB member S6
  • DAB Ops lead S6
  • DAB foundation missions S7
  • DAB Ops lead S7
  • DAB interim lead S7

Link to community contributions:

Relevant Work Experience:

  • Lead Engineer at ScopeLift
  • Multi-domain smart contract contributions that overlap with the S7 intent and roadmap:
  • Some less relevant but noteable work:
    • Flexible Voting, an extension of OpenZeppelin Governor.
    • Umbra: privacy preserving stealth payments on mainnet, Optimism, etc.
    • UniStaker: allows Uniswap Governance to enable and manage fees on pools, permissionlessly distributing fees to UNI stakers.
    • L2 Optimizoooors: An awesome hackathon project that minimized calldata on popular L2 contracts to make transactions cheaper.
  • Citizen and Badgeholder since RPGF3

Please list any conflicts of interest: None

Proposal Type: Charter Amendment

Original Proposal: OPerating-manual/Developer Advisory Board Charter v1.1.md at main · ethereum-optimism/OPerating-manual · GitHub

Proposed Amendments: DAB charter amendment, Seasons 8 & 9 by wildmolasses · Pull Request #49 · ethereum-optimism/OPerating-manual · GitHub

Change Log

This amendment proposes a revised Charter for the Developer Advisory Board (DAB) to align its mandate with its expanded role in the Collective for Seasons 8 and 9. The changes formalize the DAB’s evolution from a purely advisory body to a core component of the Collective’s governance and growth engine.

1. Formalized Primary Function: Protocol Upgrade Approval
The charter now enshrines the DAB’s most critical new responsibility: serving as the primary technical approval body for all Protocol Upgrades. This codifies the new optimistic approval process, where a 5/7 approval vote from the DAB is required for an upgrade to pass, subject to a stakeholder override.

2. Secondary Function: Developer Adoption Grants
The charter now includes a clear, consolidated secondary function that grants the DAB ownership over its grant-making programs. This new “Developer Adoption Grants” mandate gives the DAB broad authority to drive developer adoption through initiatives like the Audit Grants Program and strategic Mission Requests, with the discretion to define its own processes and criteria.

3. Updated Board Structure and Eligibility
To support its expanded mandate and ensure accountability, the charter updates the board’s structure:

  • Board Size: The board is required to consist of at least seven (7) members.
  • Elections: Members will be elected via a Joint House election, making them accountable to the entire Collective.
  • Conflicts of Interest: The charter institutes new COI rules, prohibiting members from being affiliated with core development entities (including OP Chains or organizations with long-term Foundation grants) to ensure independence.

4. General Housekeeping and Term Updates

  • The charter’s term is updated to 12 months to cover Seasons 8 and 9.
  • All references to outdated Season 7 roles, processes, and responsibilities have been removed to reflect the new structure.
  • The charter version has been updated to v1.4 to reflect these revisions.
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