PoolCollective Updates

Hello fellow Poolers & Optimists,

another voting cycle has passed so it’s time for another Optimism token house update.

Special Voting Cycle #9b

Special Voting Cycle #9b concluded yesterday. Here are our votes:

Grants Council - Builders

  • Dhante
  • Juanbug (Penn Blockchain)
  • Krzystoph Urbánski (L2 BEAT)

Grants Council - Growth

  • GFX Labs
  • Bobbay (Stablenode)
  • Matt (Synthetix Ambassadors)
  • Michael Vander Meiden
  • Fig (Flipside Crypto)
  • Katie Garcia

Protocol Delegation Program

  • QiDao Protocol
  • Kyberswap
  • Thales
  • ENS
  • Code4rena
  • Agora
  • LIFI

Season 3

Season 3 begins with Voting Cycle #10 on January 26th.

For season 3, governance moves to on-chain voting. The Operating Manual will be updated to reflect the new structure for season 3 shortly.

As previously announced, PoolTogether qualified for the Protocol Delegation Program based on gas fees generated by the protocol during season 2. You can learn more about the Protocol Delegation Program here.
During Season 3 & 4 our PoolCollective will vote with an additional 244.5k OP.

RetroPGF Round 2 has started!

RetroPGF (Retroactive Public Goods Funding) round 2 will distribute 10 million OP tokens to public goods that support the development and usage of the OP Stack.
During this window, anyone can nominate a project or person for funding. Nominations are open from Jan 17 to Jan 31. You can read about the process here. The nominations take place in the Optimism governance forum.

Nomination Scope

For the category of Infrastructure + Dependencies you may nominate:

  • Software used to build or deploy the OP Stack;
  • Contributions to protocols or standards upon which the OP Stack runs
  • Experiments that support future development of the core OP Stack protocol

For the category of Tooling + Utilities you may nominate:

  • Work that helps builders create applications on Optimism mainnet
  • Work that helps builders build on the OP Stack
  • Work that helps builders interact with governance of the Collective
  • Work that helps builders use applications built on Optimism

For the category of Education you may nominate:

  • Work to spread awareness and knowledge of how Optimism works, whether technically or socially.

Learn more in the RetroPGF Project Manual.

Want to join the PoolCollective?

That’s great - we are always looking to bring new active members into the collective!

If you are interested in joining the PoolCollective, take a look at the Delegate Code of Conduct as well as our Delegate Commitment and reach out to us!

Dive Deeper

  1. Follow our discussions or chat with us in #poolcollective
  2. Check out our public Notion workspace
  3. Delegate your $OP voting power to the PoolCollective
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