Background The data team at OP Labs has been working on tracking OP distributions across governance grants, partner funding, and other sources. We aim to share grant program performance and insights on a monthly basis in #Monitoring. This doc serves to update data and case studies for monthly delegate call in May. We welcome the broader community to analyze & contribute to our open-source analytics repo. You can follow this brief guide on how to contribute here. A snapshot of program data was...| Optimism Collective
Huge shoutout to Thomas Bialek and @chuxin_h on the OP Labs data team, and @andyhall from Stanford GSB/ a16z crypto, for leading the design and analysis of Airdrop 5 summarized below! Summary We leverage the quasi-experimental design of airdrop 5 to study whether airdrop rewards increased subsequent user retention. We find that: (1) Receiving 50 OP through Airdrop 5 increased 30-day retention by 4.2 percentage points and 60-day retention by 2.8 percentage points. (2) Bonus categories that foc...| 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