OP Bulletin: Social Summer & CoC Council Elections | Aug 1st

• Celebrate Social Summer

• Superchain Research Competition

• Altlayer launches NearDA testnet – with the OP Stack

• Superfest: one month left!

• Code of Conduct Council Elections

• Special edition Token House Call

• Security Council Nominations

• Apply to Mission Requests

Social Summer is Cyber's initiative to shine a spotlight to the web3 social scene across the Superchain.

Each week, Social Summer highlights a new theme and this week’s theme is Farcaster. Celebrate Social Summer by participating in weekly Creative Bounties, rewards that anyone can earn for creating content while participating in #SocialSummer.
Learn more

Superchain Eco in collaboration with PrimeDAO are organizing the Superchain Research Competition to accelerate the Superchain. Any researcher can submit blogs of 400-1200 words with at least one visual that explores one focus area:

• Analysis of Governance Fund Grants' Contribution to Intents and Target Metrics

• High-Signal OnChain Actions for Engaged Governance Participants

• Comparative Analysis of Grant Programs and Their Failure Modes

• Comparative Analysis: Optimism vs. Other Layer 2 Solutions

• Equitable Representation

• OP Staking

Submissions: August 7th to August 28th
Top 5 prizes: $250 to $500
Read more

This week, AltLayer announced the first ever NearDA public testnet!
The testnet was built in partnership with Nuffle and on the OP Stack. It offers lower costs and brings increased scalability.
Read more

Explore DeFi applications across the Superchain through available missions and earn rewards with Superfest. Superfest will be live until the end of August, don’t miss the chance to participate!

Learn more on superfest.optimism.io

During the voting cycle #25, delegates will elect five members to join the Council Lead. Voting will be live on vote.optimism.io until August 7.

Meet the nominees | Read the proposal and expectations for S6 CoC Council

The Token House Call was moved to Tuesday August 6th. Ben Jones will join to review information and answer on Blockspace Charters and the first charter proposal: The Standard Rollup Charter. This is a great opportunity to ask all of your questions on the topic. 

Find the call in the Optimism Governance Calendar.

If you are interested in becoming a Security Council member, nominations are open!
Candidates that meet the criteria of reputation, alignment, and technical competency, among others, may self-nominate until August 14th. Each nomination must then receive approval from 8 of the Top 100 delegates by August 19th.

Elections will take place during Voting Cycle #26, 6 months before elected members take their position. To self-nominate, follow instructions on this post.

Delegates vote on Agora from August 1st - August 7th:

• CoC Council Elections

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 | OP Micheal’s application walkthrough

• Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, August 5th]

• Token House Community Call & Blockspace Charters AMA [Tuesday, August 6th]

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 analyze new proposals, summarize discussions, and provide you with the tools to bring informed contributions to the Collective.

See you next week!