OP Bulletin: Retro Funding 5 announcement | Jul 25th

• Superhack 2024

• Asia’s Superchain Pioneers in Tokyo 🇯🇵

• Superfest all summer

• Code of Conduct Town Hall

• Special edition Token House Call

• Retro Funding 5 details

• Mission Requests: Cycle 25 applications

• Foundation Mission Request: TechNERDs

• OSS Retro Funding 4 insights

• New update for the Optimism Grants Tracker

Hack on the OP Stack and get access to $175,000 available in prizes from Optimism, Worldcoin, Base, Celo, Mode and 10 more partners.

Superhack 2024 is a virtual hackathon from August 2nd to August 4th. Project submission deadline is on Sunday, August 4th 2024 at 12 pm EDT.

Deadline to apply: August 1st
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The first Superchain gathering in Asia is happening in Edcon. Connect with other Optimism and Superchain members at the meeting hosted by Kroma, Mint, and Akindo.
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Superfest, the Superchain’s DeFi festival, celebrates builders developing apps in the DeFi space and delivering value back to the Optimism Collective. Explore DeFi applications across the Superchain through available missions and earn rewards.

Learn more on superfest.optimism.io to begin participating.

Delegates will elect five positions for the Code of Conduct Council during voting cycle #25, beginning in August. Get to know candidates at the Town Hall before voting.

Date: Tuesday July 30th – before the Token House Call
Optimism Governance Calendar

Next Tuesday Ben will join the Token House Community Call to review information on Blockspace Charters. This is a great opportunity to ask all of your questions on the topic. 

Date: Tuesday July 30th
Find the call in the Optimism Governance Calendar.

Retro Funding 5 will allocate 8M OP to reward the impact of OP Stack contributors across 3 main categories: 

• Ethereum Core Contributors, 

• OP Stack research & Development,

• OP Stack Tooling.

This round rewards contributions between October 2023 - August 2024.

Retro Funding 5 will experiment in voting by creating groups according to expertise. Expertise will be measured through their GitHub activity relating to the OP Stack. 

The round will include random sampling of existing badgeholders and a selection of one-time-guest voters with expertise. Voters will then be arranged into three groups: badgeholders with expertise, without expertise and guest voters. This design allows the observation of differences in voting patterns between experts and non-experts in allocating rewards for OP Stack contributions.

Round details | Read more about voting group design | Become a guest voter

Applications are open for Delegate Mission Requests! Season 6 will have 6 cycles with 6 submission periods where applicants can apply for approved missions.

Interested in applying for a Mission Request? Find an approved mission on the Mission Request List and apply by November 6th.

Missions v2.5 | Missions Calendar S6 | Application guide

This Foundation Mission Request expands the existing techNERD program, which provides decentralized developer support for the Optimism Collective. Apply for the mission request by Friday July 26th.
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Dive into Open Source Observer’s insights into Retro Funding 4. Through analysis on ballot data from different angles, OSS presents trends among voters, voter preferences, and clustering analysis.
Read the full report

The Tracker aggregates all the Optimism grants data in one place.The new update includes data for cycle 19, which awarded a total of 2.53 Million OP to 42 Applicants.
Check it out

• Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, July 29th]

• Code of Conduct Council S6 Election Townhall [Tuesday, July 30th]

• Token House Community Call [Tuesday, July 30th]

• [BADGEHOLDERS] Retro Funding 5: Application workshop [Wednesday, July 31st]

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

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