When Is Deliberation Useful for Optimism Governance? Experimental Evidence from Retro Funding 4’s Deliberative Process → Full draft of the academic paper (linked here soon) Summary One of the most important questions for Optimism governance is: How do we increase the quality of discussion and information exchange so that participants can make informed decisions? One idea is to facilitate spaces dedicated to deliberation, and deliberative processes are gaining traction as a democratic tool...| Optimism Collective
The Path Towards Open Metagovernance Design The Optimism Foundation stewards the development of the Optimism Collective’s governance system. The process by which the Collective takes on more responsibility for the system is iterative, facilitated by the Foundation based on community feedback. The Collective will gradually take on more governance responsibilities over time until the full system is maintained and managed by the Collective. It is at this point the system’s design must be ada...| Optimism Collective
Retroactive Public Goods Funding (Retro Funding) 6 was recently announced, and will award OP to contributions made to the Optimism Collective governance system. As part of Round 6, a set of Guest Voters will be invited t…| Optimism Collective
Retroactive Public Goods Funding 5 (Retro Funding) will reward contributions to the OP Stack. A high degree of knowledge is required to understand the OP Stack’s different components, the impact of protocol development initiatives and the usefulness of tools that support OP chain operators. The hypothesis that round 5 is aiming to test is if experts make better OP allocation decisions on OP Stack contributions compared to non-experts. Research Questions The Retro Funding 5 governance experi...| Optimism Collective
Special thanks to members of the Feedback Commission for discussion and review. This post outlines the main strategic goal of the Collective for 1H25 (Season 7 Intent) and highlights the contributions the Collective will support towards that goal. The audience for this post is all contributors towards the Collective. If you’re a builder and want to understand how to Get a Grant - skip to here. Don’t want to read? Watch the Season 7 Intents explainer video instead. Season 7 Intent The Foun...| Optimism Collective
Intro to Optimism’s Security Council Optimism is seeking to establish a Security Council to advance towards a more decentralized Optimism Superchain Network. The Security Council would assume control of the keys required to: Upgrade the L1 protocol contracts for all OP Chains participating in the Superchain (beginning with OP Mainnet); and Modify designations for certain important roles in the system, such as sequencers (i.e., batchers), proposers, challengers, and membership on the Securit...| Optimism Collective
