Voting Cycle #36:
(April 10 - April 30)
Apply, Build, Nominate
Retro Funding
Retro Funding Missions are rolling through Season 7!
For Season 7, we’re prioritizing projects that align with key on-chain success metrics, including:
- Increase Total Value Locked (TVL) denominated in ETH.
- Increase Stablecoin TVL across the Superchain.
- Increase Wrapped Asset TVL across the Superchain.
- Increase Bridged Asset TVL across the Superchain.
Grants Council
The Grants Council has decided not to request additional OP this season.
Grant submissions close April 18th
Remaining Budget (Cycle 36): 386,000 OP
Only if an exceptional application is submitted, one that exceeds the current budget and is clearly aligned with season goals, will the Council request more OP from the Token House to cover the excess.
—> Find everything you need—calendar, rubrics, and procedures— in the Grants Council Charmverse Space
Tune In
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Join us for our community calls:
- Joint House Community Call on April 22 at 18 GMT
- Delegate Onboarding Monthly Call on April 22 at 19 GMT
- govNERDs Community Check-in on April 29 at 19 GMT
- Token House Community Call on May 06 at 18 GMT
- Grants Council Office Hours on tuesdays at 17:30 GMT
(Meeting links will be provided on the Public Governance Calendar)
Engage
Voting cycle-36 runs from April 10 - April 30. Important dates for this voting cycle are:
April 10 - April 23: Review Period
April 24 - April 30: Voting period
- Season 8 and 9: Budget Board Member Ratification
- The Token House will ratify this proposal to approve the Token House representatives and Lead. Here the link to Agora.
- The Citizens House will ratify this proposal to approve the Citizens House representatives and Lead. Here the link to Snapshot.
- The Token House will ratify this proposal to approve the Token House representatives and Lead. Here the link to Agora.
May 01 - May 07: Veto Period
- Citizens can veto a Upgrade Proposal in case of approval in the Token House.**
Maintenance upgrade:
- Upgrade Proposal #15a - Absolute Prestate Updates for Isthmus Activation & Blob Preimage Fix
- has been posted to Agora. Here the link
- will run until 19:25 UTC on May 01
- This proposal aims to update the absolute prestates on OP Mainnet, Ink, Unichain, and Base to set the activation times for the Isthmus hard fork to
Fri May 9 16:00:01 UTC 2025, and to fix the incorrect blob preimages bug. - This proposal is optimistically approved. a.k.a. Will automatically pass unless 12% of the votable supply of OP is against. Currently 0% (493 OP) is against.
→ As a reminder: The Maintenance Upgrade Proposal Type is needed because L1 releases may not align with Optimism’s standard voting cycles. These votes will run concurrently in both houses during the duration of a one-week optimistic voting window. You can read more about these proposal types in the operating manual:
OPerating-manual/manual.md at main · ethereum-optimism/OPerating-manual · GitHub
- has been posted to Agora. Here the link
Protocol Upgrades and Maintenance Upgrades
Protocol Upgrades may begin their own separate governance process at any point in time. Once a valid Protocol Upgrade draft has been posted to the forum, a governance administrator will add a comment with the date the proposal will move to a vote, subject to the required approvals. The section below will be used to track any protocol/maintenance upgrades that have started their own voting cycle.
