🔴The deadline to self-nominate for the the Season 6 Grants Council and Developer Advisory Board is tomorrow June 5th at 19:00 GMT 🔴 Self-nominate for Grants Council: gov.optimism.io/t/season-6-nom… Self-nominate for Developer Advisory Board: gov.optimism.io/t/season-6-nom…

🔴 Retro Funding 4 applications close at 1900 UTC, June 6 🔴 10m OP for Onchain Builders, who have deployed contracts on the Superchain: retrofunding.optimism.io 280+ teams have applied, meet some of them in this thread.

The OP Collective will be all over Brussels during EthCC - Ethereum Community Conference this year. Our friends at Optimistic Gathering are organizing a day of workshops and networking with fellow Optimists on July 9. RSVP here: lu.ma/e1dx5gig

Gov nerds - catch Eliza Oak 🌳's latest research on how web3 governance can serve as a lab for democracy.

👇Speakers' applications are now live. Talks, workshops, and panel participation. The Collective is a story of vibes - it's your moment. One condition: Stay Optimistic. optimistic-gathering.com

Self-nominations are officially open for the Code of Conduct Council in Season 6 🔴 Anyone is able to publicly nominate themselves to be a member of this Council. In Season 6 - the Council will help the Collective by:  • Enforcing the rules of engagement  • Facilitating the

🔴Retro Funding 4 results are here!🟣 10M OP is rewarded to 200+ projects that deployed contracts on the Superchain according to their onchain impact. (Base Mode 🟡 Zora Frax Finance ¤⛓️¤ @metal_l2 and OP Mainnet) Check the results: retrofunding.optimism.io/round/results

The Security Council plays one of the most critical roles in Optimism Governance, preventing any single party from upgrading the L1 protocol contracts, modifying L2 state, and censoring L2 users from transacting onchain. The Security Council now satisfies the multisig

The deadline to apply to the Season 6 Code of Conduct Council has been extended to July 24th! Apply with the link below 👇

Curious which RF4 metrics were most popular with voters? (spoiler: gas fees) How about the metrics most correlated with the final funding allocation? (spoiler: not gas fees) Our last post on Optimism Retro Funding opens up the ballot box to answer these & other questions! 1/5

Undermined legitimacy is an existential failure mode for DAOs, but that word gets thrown around a lot Today, at #SBC24, we open sourced the Legitimacy Framework we use internally at Optimism to evaluate how different decisions may increase or decrease legitimacy

Calling all mediators 📢 New Optimism Foundation Mission Request just dropped! This mission is to mediate early signs of conflicts within Optimism Governance, both in the Token House and Citizens House!Applicants should be experienced in conflict resolution, de-escalation and

Calling all data nerds🔎 🔴New Mission Request🔴 Create a detailed, metrics-driven assessment of all growth grants issued in Season 6 of Optimism governance! Come help the Collective measure the effectiveness of growth grants by building a more meritocratic and extensive

We just completed our very first round of the Optimism Superchain Grants! As a reviewer, I wanted to share some feedback on how chains can strengthen their proposal: 1. Decrease your ask - We are using sequencer revenue as a framework for grant amounts. The more revenue you are