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Round 4: Onchain Builders
Applications are closed
This category will reward onchain builders who contribute to the success of Optimism. This round seeks to expand the...
Upcoming
Round 5: OP Stack
Upcoming
Aug 2024
The OP Stack is the heart of Optimism, and the Superchain. Contributions to the OP Stack and improvements to the...
Round 6: Governance
Upcoming
Sep 2024
Improving the capture resistance and resource allocation of Optimism Governance is the primary objective of this...
Round 7: Dev Tooling
Upcoming
Oct 2024
Supporting Optimism builders with developer tooling is the focus of this category. From SDKs to testing frameworks...
Past
Round 3
Past
Oct 2023
Round 2
Past
May 2023
Round 1
Past
Nov 2022
About Retro Funding
Retroactive Public Goods Funding (Retro Funding) offers a sustainable model for individuals to receive rewards for their contributions to Optimism's success, ensuring that efforts are not only recognized but also effectively rewarded.
Retroactive Funding is based on the idea that it's easier to agree on what was useful in the past than what might be useful in the future. This is a series of experiments where members of the Citizens' House allocate rewards to projects they deem have provided positive impact to the Optimism Collective.
This is core to Optimism's value of impact = profit: the idea that that positive impact to the collective should be rewarded proportionally with profit to the individual.
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40,000,000 OP
Retro Funding rewarded to Optimism Collective contributors since 2022