OP Bulletin: Retro Funding 6 Announcement | Sep. 19th

• Shape Mainnet soon

• Boba Network joins the Superchain

• Base reaches 4.5 daily transactions

• Rolling Mission Requests approved

• Optimism Badgeholder Data

• Retro Funding 6 Governance Announcement

• Foundation Mission: Growth Grant Analysis – Last days to apply

• Cycle 27 Grants Final Report

Shape will join other OP Stack chains on mainnet on September 30th. Shape aims to be a chain for creators, where artists can design, build, and experiment to contribute to the web of creativity.

Boba Network is a multichain layer 2 designed for intelligent hybrid applications enabled by HybridCompute technology. It will now join 33 other chains in the Superchain!

After surpassing 4m transactions on late August, Base continues its growth trajectory hitting over 4.5 million transactions in a single day.

The proposal to approve mission requests on a rolling basis throughout the season passed! Additionally, the first batch of 8 rolling missions was approved.

The dashboard resulting from a Foundation Mission has been published. It explores badgeholder's onchain activity measured as the 132 Badgeholder addresses that acted as voters for Round 3 in comparison to a non-badgeholder control group. The mission concluded that badgeholders are:

• more engaged in governance across different DAOs,

• more active on social platforms like Farcaster,

• more involved in NFT creation and smart contract deployment.

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No voting at the moment.

Sign up for the new round will begin next week! Round 6 will be focused on contributions made to governance during October 2023 until September 18th 2024 in the following categories:

• Governance Infrastructure & Tooling (including grants tooling)

• Optimism Governance Analytics

• Governance Leadership in the Collective, including councils, boards and commissions, as well as facilitation of critical governance processes

The round will distribute between 1.1m and 3.5m OP. Citizens will cast their vote on an amount and the median vote will be the final amount.

Sign up: September 26th - October 10th

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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
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The report for Cycle 27 grants has been published. Out of 53 applications, 16 will be receiving a grant. Missions continue to receive applications on a rolling basis.

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• Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, September 23rd]

• Token House Community Call [Tuesday, September 24th]

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!