Retro Funding 5
What is Retro Funding?
RetroPGF or Retro Funding identifies and rewards builders for past contributions to the Optimism ecosystem. It aims to reward the goal of "impact = profit”.
Scope
Since RetroPGF3, rounds have narrowed their scope.
Retro Funding 5 rewards contributors to the OP Stack, across three main categories.
Ethereum Core Contributions
Contributions to Ethereum infrastructure that supports or is a dependency of the OP Stack.
- Ethereum client implementations,
- Infrastructure to test and deploy chains,
- Research to inform development,
- Smart contract languages.
OP Stack Research & Development
Direct R&D contributions and contributions that support protocol upgrades.
- Work on core components of the stack (client implementations, modules, modifications),
- Security audits on the OP Stack and its components,
- Research to include new features.
OP Stack Tooling
Tooling projects that support its accessibility and usability.
- Tools that facilitate the deployment, operation, or testing of the OP Stack. This includes integration tools, load testing infrastructure, and scripts for node management.
- Documentation and tutorials of the OP Stack’s components and its development.
- Services for deploying and hosting an OP Chain.
Out of Scope:
- Projects to develop or deploy contracts or apps. These may be rewarded in Retro Funding 7: Dev Tooling.
- Optimism Monorepo contributions.
Funding
Retro Funding 5 will allocate 8M OP to reward the impact of OP Stack contributors.
- Funding relies on the amount of votes received by badgeholders and guest voters.
- Grants will be streamed to recipients over 100 days, following the announcement of results and approval of KYC.
- Grantees must receive a minimum of 1,000 OP to be eligible for rewards.
Requirements
This round rewards contributions generated between October 2023 - August 2024. All builders and developers that meet the scope of this round may apply.
Grant Process
Application
Apply to the round from August 15th to August 29th on retrofunding.optimism.io
Review
Applications will be reviewed from August 30th to September 13th.
Voting on approved applications will happen from September 14th to September 28th. Voters will include a random sampling of 90 badgeholders and 30 guest voters. Voters will be sorted into smaller voter groups according to expertise.
Results will be published on October 3rd.
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