I’ll leave my feedback on the Season 8 documents here to avoid spamming multiple threads.
All relevant Councils and Boards from Season 7 were required to publish a retrospective by June 12th. This gives the Collective visibility into what worked, what didn’t, and the overall progress that is essential context for the next round of approvals.
However, I’m not seeing any reports related to the initiatives outlined in the Season 7 Intent by The Foundation. I assume the Foundation isn’t required to report on how it spends the budgets it proposes for The Foundation treasury but the more opaque things get, the more it feels like we’re drifting toward an ivory tower dynamic.
To illustrate: roughly 60M OP are expected to be allocated from the Foundation Fund to ship interop, grow TVL, and drive dev adoption for Season 8. But I can’t find any public updates for the following Season 7 budgets:
| Development Projects | Budget |
|---|---|
| Deliver the MVP for interop (at least two OP Chains and audited) | 4M OP |
| Upgrades to reach Stage 1 | 1.5M OP |
| Infra/processes to scale Superchain upgrades | 1.5M OP |
| Alternate Rust stack & Stage 2 progress | 1.5M OP |
| ERC7802 adoption + interoperable ETH | 1M OP |
| Decision Market Mission (Futarchy) | 1M OP |
| Retro Funding | 16M OP |
| Superstacks | 2M OP |
These were real budgets with big expectations. Yet I see no reports, no outcomes, and no lessons learned. Meanwhile, the Collective is now being asked to optimistically approve (meaning if someoen is not paying attention it passes) the Futarchy mission again, and it’s unclear whether Citizens have any say in the future of Retro Funding.
As someone analizing a proposal for the Grants Council S8, with a clear vision and the expectation to be held accountable six months from now, I’d really like to know if that same mentality exists across the board.
Unchecked use of funds, OP tokens in this case, inevitably breeds complacency, especially when there’s no public accountability. If I had failed in any of the five seasons I’ve served, Token House wouldn’t give me a second chance to get elected. Meanwhile, Retro Funding is on its seventh iteration with no indication of being sucesfull during S7, and Interop MVP was promised back in November 2024 with no clear delivery or post-mortem.