TL;DR
OP Succint is here
Soneium Spark
Granite Upgrade Implemented
Rolling Mission Requests
Rolling Mission Requests: Cycle 27
Retro Funding 6: Guest Voter Participation
Foundation Mission: Research Assistant – apply by tomorrow
Foundation Mission: Growth Grant Analysis
Cycle 27 Preliminary Grants Report
🌐 Ecosystem New
OP Succint is here
OP Labs and Succint announced OP Succint! OP Stack chains can now be upgraded in just 1 hour into a zkEVM rollup, using ZKPs with SP1, a general-purpose zkVM. OP Succinct provides:
Faster finality, ZKPs–proving latency can be on the order of tens of minutes – instead of a 7-day fraud proof window of standard optimistic rollups.
Great developer experience with customization in Rust.
Cost-effective proving
Soneium Spark
Soneium Spark is a program to boost Soneium ecosystem builders through mentorships, infrastructure and strategic partnerships. The program is now receiving applications in DeFi, Web3 Experiences (including Social, NFT, Gaming) and an open category. The incubation period will start in mid-October.
📰 Governance News
Granite Upgrade Implemented
After governance approval, the Granite Upgrade was implemented yesterday and permissionless fault proofs are back on OP Mainnet.
gov.optimism.io/t/upgrade-prop…
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Rolling Mission Requests
This proposal requests that the Token House allow the Grants Council to create and submit rolling Mission Requests, using unallocated budget from Intent 3A. Rolling Mission Requests would still require a sponsorship from a member of the Grants Council and upon approval, sent to a Token House vote in the following voting period.
Remember you can still apply to previously approved missions until November 6th using the application guide.
Rolling Mission Requests: Voting Cycle 27
The first batch of Rolling Mission Requests will be going to a vote. These are the top 8 mission requests, as ranked by the Grants Council:
Optimism Dominance in Yield-Bearing Assets - DEX Liquidity for YBAs
Decentralized Solvers and Aggregators on OP Mainnet / Superchain
🗳 Voting Reminders
Token House:
Vote on vote.optimism.io until September 18.
💵 Grant News
Retro Funding 6: Guest Voter Participation
As with round 5, Retro Funding 6 will experiment with guest voter participation. 100 guest voters will participate in this round, randomly selected from active Farcaster users – after filtering out businesses. Guest voters will participate alongside Citizens and will allow to test voting behavior among different groups. At the end, Citizens will vote on whether guest votes of will integrated equally or have reduced influence (by 25%, 50%, or 100%).
Retro Funding 6 details will be announced soon!
Foundation Mission: Research Assistant – apply by tomorrow
The Foundation is seeking two research assistants to support with a research project, conducting stakeholder interviews and tagging them to support analysis. Assistants must be high context individuals (govNERD, Top 100 delegates or Citizens). This project requires 5 hours a week over 4 weeks.
Grant amount: 1500 OP
Apply by: September 13th
Learn more
Foundation Mission: Growth Grant Analysis
This mission is seeking to fund a detailed, metrics-driven assessment of all growth grants issued in Season 6. This analysis should bring a better understanding, answering specific questions and delivering a dashboard.
Baseline grant amount: 10,000 OP
Apply by: September 23rd
Learn more
Cycle 27 Preliminary Grants Report
The preliminary review for Cycle 27 has been published. This post summarizes the applications, score and resolution.
Upcoming Calls
Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, September 16th]
Builder Office Hours with the Foundation (Bi-Weekly) [Tuesday, September 17th]
You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.
🔴✨ Optimism Collective Resources
OP Hub - home of optimistic resources
🫡 Stay Connected, Stay Informed
Every week we summarize news, discussions and proposals to provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective.
See you next week!
