OP Bulletin: New DA Options & Solving Interop | Aug 15th

• New DA options for the OP Stack 

• Solving Interoperability by OP Labs

• SuperBoring is live on Optimism

• Social Summer Week 4

• Security Council Nomination Approvals & Town Hall

• Trust Tiers 2.0

• Meet the OP Passport

• Retro funding 5: Guest voter selection & Method

• Apply for a Mission Request

• Cycle 25 Grants Roundup

Optimism expands the integrations with the OP Stack’s Alt-DA Mode for alternative data availability methods. Now, teams can also use Near DA and 0G. 

This means any team looking to build on the OP Stack can now use: EigenDA, Celestia, Avail, Near DA, or 0G for their data availability needs.

Read more | How to Run an Alt-DA Mode Chain

The OP Labs Team published a new post on Optimism’s push towards bringing interoperability to the Superchain to build a unified chain experience by adopting standardized cross-ecosystem interfaces. This aims to foster greater accessibility and more innovation.

“A multi-chain structure of the Superchain requires advanced technical capabilities to ensure a secure communication layer within the platform. This layer will comprise the message passing protocol, the Superchain token standard, interop fault proof, and a set of interoperable chains.”

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SuperBoring is a streaming DEX that allows you to DCA between any two tokens, earn and stake BORING tokens to earn a share of protocol fees. It’s live on Optimism offering DA between USDC/OP, ETH/OP, and USDC/ETH pairs.

This week Social Summer shines a spotlight into Cyber, the Social L2. This week, Social Summer features projects, including Link3, OpenSocial, XO, Phi, Phaver, and CollectPods.

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Nominations for the Security Council are officially closed! 

Each nominee can still receive the necessary approvals from 8 of the Top 100 delegates until August 19th. Approved candidates will then be part of an Election Town Hall hosted on August 20th. Elections will take place during Voting Cycle #26, 6 months before elected members take their position.

Trust Tiers will not be used in Season 6 in order to build a new, more effective reputation model that can predict whether a team will successfully complete a grant. New Trust Tiers will be built using a machine learning model, using various trust signals as input data to predict a continuous trust score for each project.

For now, the Collective will focus on developing new trust signals and recording existing ones (Persistent Profiles, Retro Funding awards, Mission Requests projects) with attestations.

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Showcase your digital identity, track governance participation, and earn badges with the OP Passport, a new initiative by Curia Lab. The OP Passport is powered by smart account wallets to record your contributions and allows you to publicly and anonymously endorse other community members.

Learn more | oppassport.xyz

No voting at the moment.

Round 5 will experiment with guest expert voters. These were selected based on their GitHub contribution graph using a modified EigenTrust algorithm, which can be run on graphs to measure the impact of recursive trust propagation. The algorithm was developed with Karma3Labs and Open Source Observer incorporating GitHub Repos and GitHub Users.

Sign up for Retro Funding 5 will begin on Aug 22nd (next Thursday!) until Sept 5th. If you're a contributor to the OP Stack, this round is for you! Learn more details about the round

Read more about the selection algorithm | Meet the Guest Voters

Delegate Mission Requests are a great way to develop a project that is aligned with Optimism’s current needs. Find an approved mission on the Mission Request List and apply by November 6th.

Missions v2.5 | Calendar S6 | Application guide | Application walkthrough 

The first report of the Grant Council’s activities was posted last Friday. This post summarizes applications submitted during Cycle 25, their scores and current status. You can check the report here. 

• Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, August 19th]

• Security Council Election Townhall [Tuesday, August 20th]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

• Forum discussions

• Optimism X account

• Optimism Governance X account

• Governance calendar

• OP Hub - home of optimistic resources

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!