Description
Mission Request
Delegate Mission Request Summary: Mission Requests should be tightly scoped and well-specified. You can see examples here 7. You should describe your Mission Request in 1-2 sentences here.
S5 Intent 5: Please list the Intent your Request aligns with here
Proposing Delegate: Delegate name/pseudonym, linked to delegate profile
Proposal Tier 7: Please specify the Tier required for Mission Applications under this Request (ie. applications must be submitted by teams at the Fledging Tier)
Baseline grant amount: This amount should reflect the minimum amount required to execute the Mission. Additional rewards may be received via RetroPGF, based on impact/outperformance. We recommend a 50/50 split between Mission/RetroPGF rewards in Season 5 to incentivize quality execution. Over time, the proportion of baseline grant to retroactive rewards should shift towards RetroPGF until everything is funded by RetroPGF.
Should this Foundation Mission be fulfilled by one or multiple applicants: Select from: “One,” “Up to X” or “Multiple”
Submit by: To be set by Grants Council
Selection by: To be set by Grants Council
Start date: If applicable
Completion date: If applicable. Please note Missions must be completed within 12 months (i.e. marked as done).
Specification
How will this Delegate Mission Request help accomplish the above Intent?
- Please explain alignment with the relevant Intent
What is required to execute this Delegate Mission Request?
- Please list responsibilities and/or expected deliverables
How should the Token House measure progress towards this Mission?
- These measures should focus on progress towards completion. Including expected completion dates for each is recommended
- Please be as specific as possible in defining measures of progress so that Token House delegates can accurately track execution
How should badgeholders measure impact upon completion of this Mission?
- These measures should be focused on performance and may be used by badgeholders to assess your Misson’s impact in the next round of RetroPGF
- Please be as specific as possible in defining measures of impact so that Citizens’ House badgeholders can accurately measure the grant’s impact
- Have you engaged a Grant-as-a-service provider for this Mission Request? If so, please disclose the details of this arrangement, to the extent possible:
- Has anyone other than the Proposing Delegate contributed to this Mission Request? If so, who, and what parts of this application did they contribute to?
Application Instructions:
To be defined by the Grants Council in accordance with their internal operating procedures. Mission Applications must collect email addresses and twitter handles. Applications should specify whether they are applying for a growth or builders grants or a combination of the two (in which case, the proportion of rewards should be clear.) Suggested Template here 3.
Intent 4: Improve governance accessibility
Optimism Governance decides on protocol upgrades, allocates the token treasury, and stewards Collective profit. Optimism’s two-house system is designed to create healthy checks and balances and expand ownership to a diverse set of governance participants. For more on the scope and responsibilities of Optimism’s governance system, see the Future of Optimism Governance 4.
The Collective must prioritize accessibility in order to create governance structures that welcome a broad range of Optimists to participate. “Accessibility” includes enabling a diversity of perspectives to participate in governance, facilitating better knowledge sharing to develop more informed voters, and lowering barriers to participation for more culturally diverse involvement in the governance process. Increasing the votable supply and reducing the concentration of voting power are important byproducts of improved accessibility.
Collective Measurements
- Delegated supply of OP
- Average OP voted per governance proposal
How the Governance Fund Supports Intent #4:
The Governance Fund will support the majority of Mission Requests that advance this Intent.
Examples of * Delegate Mission Requests:
- Contributions that educate the broader community about Optimism governance and RetroPGF
- Contributions that increase the resiliency of core governance infrastructure
- User friendly interfaces to interact with governance programs
- Contributions that promote and maintain a welcoming governance community
- Contributions that increase the understandability of the governance system for new entrants
- Contributions that create transparency and accountability for grant recipients and governance participants
Intent 2: Grow the Superchain
Over the past year, Optimism has seen an exciting amount of ecosystem growth across many different verticals and communities, and across both OP Mainnet and OP Chains.
In Season 5, the Collective will focus on developer growth across the Superchain. Crypto is closer than ever to reaching its full potential, and it’s the Collective’s responsibility to create the conditions for developers around the globe to keep working towards a new version of the internet that puts power in the hands of people.
As Optimism expands and the Superchain grows, this Collective Intent is targeted at developer growth across the entire Collective: we care about developers deploying new applications on OP Mainnet; teams or ecosystems adding new OP Chains to the Superchain; and the growth of new and existing OP Chains.
Collective Measurements
Active Builders on the Superchain, defined as:
- Unique contract deployers across all OP Chains
- Unique contract deployers of contracts with interaction from >50 unique addresses
How the Governance Fund Supports Intent #2:
The Governance Fund will support this Intent in a limited capacity:
- The Governance Fund should focus on Mission Requests and/or grants that advance developer growth on OP Mainnet. The Governance Fund should not focus on grants to grow other specific OP Chain ecosystems.
- The Governance Fund may support projects that support developer experience on OP Mainnet and across the Superchain.
- The Governance Fund is a small, finite supply of tokens intended to bootstrap the Collective as it evolves to be supported primarily via retroPGF; RetroPGF, along with other mechanisms, is better suited to support the growth of other individual OP Chain ecosystems.
Examples of * Delegate Mission Requests:
- Builder and/or growth incentive grants for projects deploying on OP Mainnet
- Interoperability research
- Developer tooling that improves users’ ability to build, test, and deploy applications
- Contributions that improve wallet, block explorer, RPC, or other dev-centric product integrations
- Contributions that support development and adoption of account abstraction wallets
- Frontends to increase access to Optimism’s canonical bridge contracts
