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Optimism Partner Fund

Time frame: Rolling basis

Grant amount: Negotiated on a case-by-case basis

The Partner Fund’s mission is to grow Optimism’s ecosystem for the benefit of the entire Collective.

Grant Scope

Most projects considered for the Partner Fund are live and looking at deploying and/or scaling on Optimism. The Partner Fund is designed for strategic grants aimed at partners who have already found their product-market fit.

Partner Fund grants are negotiated on a case-by-case basis and support the overarching goal to build a thriving ecosystem for developers. Areas of work include DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, as well as large-scale usage growth for the ecosystem.

“The Partner Fund may make grants used to provide tooling to the Optimism community, bring applications to OP Mainnet, promote education, experiment with liquidity mining programs, drive consumer usage, and/or support Optimism’s governance system.”

Funding Specifics

Grants are structured in one of two ways:

• User incentives: Grants are directly distributed to users of the project on the Optimism ecosystem (e.g., liquidity mining, rewards, etc.)
• Project Grant: These grants have a one-year token lockup, after which they may be used to support operational costs.

Grant Process

Apply here. Partner Fund applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Resources

• Partner Fund Overview
• Optimism Governance Calendar
• Optimism Grants Changelog