We're excited to announce that Pairwise is live and accessible at pairwise.vote!

With a fresh approach to voting for Retro Funding, Pairwise transforms the experience into something simple, engaging, and fun.

This community experiment invites Delegates, Token holders, Recipients, and Badgeholders to use Pairwise to express their preferences in a new and meaningful way.

The Role of Pairwise in Optimism Retro Funding

Pairwise is a decentralized app (DApp) designed for the Optimism ecosystem. It lets stakeholders signal how they think funds should be distributed to various projects involved in Retro Funding.

Our main goals are to expand the reviewer base and boost the impact of funded projects. We aim to make the work of these projects more visible to a broader audience, not just the current badgeholders. This exposure ensures that valuable projects get the recognition they deserve from a wider community. Additionally, by comparing the community's choices with official decisions, we deepen our understanding of how Pairwise is used and its effectiveness.

Using Pairwise, we strive to make the funding process more transparent and inclusive, allowing more people to have a say in important decisions. This approach helps ensure that diverse perspectives contribute to shaping the Optimism ecosystem.

Who Can Participate?

Everyone is invited to join Pairwise, and if you’re a badgeholder, delegate, recipient, or token holder, you have voting power. Once you log in, you'll be creating an account abstracted address where you can connect your voting power and receive badges based on your role.

How Does It Work?

Login and Connectivity: Start by tapping 'play' and log in with your preferred method. Connect your wallet once to gather your voting power—this session will be saved for ease of use on any device, at any time.
Collect Voting Power: You can collect your voting power from any addresses you hold and you will be attesting with the first account, protecting your identity using zk-tech.
Select a category: Choose a category where you have most expertise in.
Filtering Phase: Use this phase to choose which projects you want to move forward to the ranking phase. It's your opportunity to learn about the projects, filter out the noise and focus on what truly matters.
Start Ranking: Compare two projects at a time from your curated list and decide which one had more impact. This pairwise comparison helps in organizing your thoughts and preferences systematically.
Preview and Edit Your Rankings: Before finalizing your input, preview the ranked list of your top projects. Edit this list by dragging and dropping projects to better reflect your preferences.
Submit Your Vote: Once satisfied with your rankings, leave a pseudonymous comment if you wish, and submit your vote.
Review and Compare Categories: After ranking projects within a category, you'll be prompted to compare this category with others you’ve evaluated. This step helps identify which categories overall contain the more impactful projects.

Curious to see how Pairwise will revolutionize Retro Funding?

Together with our friends from Unitap we've prepared a detailed video explainer that walks you through the functionalities of Pairwise and how it integrates with the Optimism Retro Funding.

Protecting Your Privacy

All voting decisions and feedback are shared pseudonymously via attestation. Your identity is safeguarded throughout the process, providing peace of mind that your opinions are expressed freely and without any bias.

Earn Points and Win in Our Raffle

Every category you complete on Pairwise will directly affect the final results and also earns you points towards a special raffle. There are four different buckets, one for each stakeholder group, with 1000 OP tokens each allocated for 40 total winners. The more you participate, the better your chances of winning!

Dive deep into the rules by reading this forum post.

Be Part of The Experiment Championing Digital Democracy and Citizenship

Pairwise makes it easy for your voice to be heard and significantly contributes to the collective decision-making process within the Optimism ecosystem

Join us now at pairwise.vote and be part of redefining how community preferences shape the Optimism ecosystem.

Let’s make Retro Funding more democratic, together! ✨🔴

**While Pairwise offers a fresh perspective on community preferences, remember it’s experimental. The insights we gather are for learning and won't directly decide the funding outcomes.

Pairwise is Now Live – Join the Experiment in Optimism Retro Funding Round 4