The Optimism Collective
The Optimism Collective
Scaling Ethereum's Present to provide funding for its future.
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RetroPGF2: Learnings & Reflections
May 25th, 2023
Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) is one of the leading economic experiments to help decentralize and grow crypto ecosystems. While still in its very early days, the Optimism Collective is excited to lead the charge on RetroPGF experimentation, and we aim to inspire more builders to contribute to the Optimism ecosystem with the hope – and expectation – of getting funded retroactively for their contributions.
Season 4: Our next experiment in community governance
May 16th, 2023
The Optimism Collective is building community governance through experimentation. In Season 4, the Collective will run several key experiments designed to increase community involvement in the gradual decentralization of Optimism.
RetroPGF Round 2 Results
March 30th, 2023
RetroPGF 2 is the Collective’s next experiment in allocating public goods funding. In this round, approximately 70 badgeholders -- early "citizens" voted to allocate 10M OP. The results are in!
Optimism Goes m̶u̶l̶t̶i̶ Superchain
February 23rd, 2023
Optimism was built to empower humanity through decentralized blockchain technology. And there is a lot to celebrate. But if Ethereum is to rival the goliaths of web2, and take software’s next bite of the world, it needs internet-level scale.
OP Drop #2
February 9th, 2023
Today Optimism is announcing Airdrop #2: 11.7m OP have been distributed to over 300k unique addresses to reward positive-sum governance participation and power users of Optimism Mainnet.
Building Bedrock: The Design Philosophy Behind the First Release of the OP Stack
February 3rd, 2023
The design philosophy that went into crafting the Bedrock upgrade, why it is important, and how it translated into improvements on Optimism Mainnet at a protocol level.
Optimism 2022: Year in Review
December 20th, 2022
Wow. 2022 has been quite the decade.
Introducing the Citizens’ House: 10m OP to Public Goods
December 6th, 2022
Today, Optimism is announcing its second round of Retroactive Public Goods Funding, which dedicates 10m OP tokens to fund public goods. We’re also introducing the first iteration of the Citizens’ House to govern how this funding is allocated.
Introducing the OP Stack
October 17th, 2022
The OP Stack is a modular, open-source blueprint for highly scalable, highly interoperable blockchains of all kinds. Not just rollup. Not just optimistic.