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OP Bulletin: Onchain Summer, ETHCC and Protocol Upgrade #9 | Jun 6th

Weekly news and insights on the Optimism Collective.

TL;DR

  • Onchain Summer is here!

  • Optimism at ETHCC

  • Lisk is on Mainnet

  • Ham Chain L3 šŸ¤Superchain ecosystem

  • Protocol Upgrade #9: Fjord Network Upgrade

  • Upcoming Election Town Halls

  • Protocol Upgrade #7 and #8 and Governor Upgrade #2 were approved

  • Chain Delegation Program Amendment Proposal

  • Anticapture Commission Amendment Proposal

  • Last call Retro Funding 4: deadline extended


šŸŒ Ecosystem News

Onchain Summer is here!

Coinbase and Base are hosting the second edition of Onchain Summer. You can submit and showcase your project by submitting it to the Onchain Registry and join the Onchain Summer Buildathon, with 200 ETH in prizes across 8 sponsored tracks and a bonus pool. Read more

Optimism will allocate 600,000 OP for Onchain Summer incentives! Onchain Summer Rounds will distribute 60k OP in weekly rounds to creators and builders across eligible Superchain networks during Onchain Summer, from June 3 to August 30. Learn how to join Rounds.

Optimism at ETHCC: Optimistic Gathering & Superchain Space

Connect with the Optimism community at ETHCC!Ā 

  • The Optimistic Gathering is a community driven event for the Collective organized by Node Guardians and Only Dust with 20+ panels, talks and workshops. Date: July 9th. Agenda coming soon!

  • Superchain Eco and Kolektivo Labs are organizing the Superchain Space, a collaboration hub for the Collective with roundtables, cow-working and more. Date: July 8th to July 9th.

Lisk Mainnet Launch

Lisk L2 is now on mainnet and officially joins the Superchain by contributing sequencer revenue towards the Optimism. ā€œLisk Devnet takes off as the first L1 to migrate to Optimismā€™s unifying network of rollups built with OP Stackā€. The Superchain brings asset bridging without fragmentation, OP Collective Governance, access to Retro Funding, among other benefits.
Read more

Ham Chain L3 šŸ¤ Superchain ecosystem

Built using the OP Stack and Celestia on Base, Ham Chain provides users and developers with fast, low-cost transactions and a robust platform for creating novel onchain social experiences. It will now benefit from the Superchainā€™s extensive network, technologies, and shared resources.

Read more about Ham


šŸ“° Governance News & discussions

Weā€™re in the Reflection Period: Candidate Week

Protocol Upgrade #9: Fjord Network Upgrade

Following Ecotone Network Upgrade, this upgrade proposal for OP Mainnet includes:

  • Implementation of Rollup Improvement Proposal 7212 (RIP-7212) which includes a new precompile for an elliptic Curve (secp256r1), widely used in devices such as Appleā€™s Secure Enclave or Webauthn. The introduction of this precompiled contract enables features in account abstraction which allows more efficient and flexible management of accounts by transaction signs in mobile devices. Read more about RIP-7212.

  • Introduces Brotli, a new compression algorithm, which would bring a 5-15%Ā  reduction in L1 data availability cost, resulting in cheaper transactions.

  • Introduces FastLZ, a compression algorithm. This implementation improves the estimation of the compressibility of each transaction, leading to more accurate pricing.

Parameter changes:Ā 

  • Increasing the time in ā€œMax sequencer driftā€, allowing for chain operators to have more time to respond to L1 node outage issues before the L2 chain stalls (30 minutes instead of 10 minutes).

  • Increasing the limit to 100mb of the channel, preventing the chance of a L2 block exceeding the current 10mb channel size and failing to post on L1 to progress the chain.

The proposal has received the required approvals and will move to a Token House vote on Special Voting Cycle #23b, from June 13th - June 20th.
Read the proposal

Upcoming Election Town Halls

Get to know the nominees for the Grants Council or Developer Advisory Board in the June 11th Town Hall, hosted by the Optimism Foundation.

  • Grants Council (1pm - 2pm ET / 5pm - 6pm GMT.)

  • Developer Advisory Board (2pm ET)

Elections will take place on Special Voting Cycle #23b, from June 13th - June 20th.

Submit questions for GC nominees | Submit questions for the DAB nominees

Protocol Upgrade #7 and #8 and Governor Upgrade #2 were approved

Proposals have been officially approved following the conclusion of the Citizens House veto vote yesterday.Ā 

L1 contracts will be upgraded to include Fault Proofs (Protocol Upgrade #7) and Guardian, Security Council Threshold and L2 ProxyAdmin Ownership (Protocol Upgrade #8). No action is required by node operators, as this change affects contracts only. The Optimism Foundation admin will set the new implementation of governor proxy to implement Governor Upgrade #2.

Chain Delegation Program Amendment Proposal

This proposal aims to amend the Chain Delegation Program increasing its size to 20M OP to support the first 15 OP Chains during their initial year of governance participation. Eligibility will be reassessed at the start of each season.

OP Chains can qualify for:

  • 250k OP delegation by generating over 1 ETH in sequencer revenue for at least two consecutive months and being listed in the Superchain Registry.Ā 

  • Additional 1M OP delegation if they achieve a transaction volume of at least 1M per month for two consecutive months.Ā 

  • Chains operating on the Standard Configuration can receive 500k OP, meaning a combined total of 1.5M delegation for these chains.

Chains must opt-in and commit to specific governance responsibilities to be added to the program. Read the full Amendment.Ā 

Anticapture Commission Amendment Proposal

The ACC aims to prevent the capture of the Token House by any single stakeholder group. Based on member feedback, amendments to the Commission Charter have been proposed to refine its goals. These include alerting the Citizensā€™ House to power imbalances, voting on proposals subject to veto. Membership criteria has also been updated, requiring high impact delegates with significant voting participation, and excluding Council Leads.Ā 

Amendment proposals will be voted on during Special Voting Cycle #23b (June 13th - June 20th).

Read the Amendment


šŸ—³ļøVoting Reminders

No active proposals at the moment. Voting will be back on June 13th with:


šŸ’µ Grant News

Last call Retro Funding 4: deadline extended

The application window was extended until June 7th 15 UTC!

Retro Funding 4 will reward onchain builders across the Superchain who have deployed contracts and generated demand for its blockspace between October 2023 - June 2024.

Round details and Eligibility |Ā  Application Process | Application Review Process | Apply now


Upcoming Calls

  • Grants Council Election Townhall [Tuesday, June 11th]

  • Developer Advisory Board Election Townhall [Tuesday, June 11th]

  • Builder Office Hours with the Foundation (Bi-Weekly): Are you a Builder? Come speak to the Optimism Foundation about what youā€™re building and get feedback. [Wednesday, June 12th]

  • ACC Office Hours [Thursday, June 13th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.


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