📪RetroPGF Round 2 (Retroactive Public Goods Funding by Optimism DAO)

RetroPGF - Mar 2022 - November 2022: GiveStation secured 1,102 OP Tokens as grant in the Tooling & Utilities category.

Link - https://twitter.com/GiveStation/status/1641555920327942145

Link - https://community.optimism.io/docs/governance/retropgf-2/#results

Following a period of significant growth and user adoption from our successful testnet event, GiveStation received another grant from Optimism FND which also helped us bootstrapped the platform.

Process and timeline overview (source - https://community.optimism.io/docs/governance/retropgf-2/#process-and-timeline-overview

1. Badgeholder selection - badgeholders have the power to distribute OP tokens to projects. They’re instrumental in running an effective RetroPGF round. For RetroPGF Round 2, badgeholders were selected across four different criteria.

   1. 14 badgeholders were selected based on their participation as badgeholders in round one of RetroPGF(opens new window)

   2. 21 badgeholders were selected by the Optimism Foundation

   3. 10 badgeholders were elected by Optimism’s Token House(opens new window)

   4. 29 badge holders were nominated by badgeholders from the three categories above

2. Nominations (Jan 17 - Jan 31st) - anyone could nominate a project on the forum (opens new window)by providing a name, impact description and link to Github/Twitter

3. Project profile creation (Feb 7th - Feb 21st) - Projects had to create a profile (opens new window)where they were asked for general information, as well as a description of their project and its impact. Information provided by Projects can be viewed on the RetroPGF discovery page (opens new window).

4. Voting (Mar 7th - Mar 21st) - Badgeholders were provided with a badgeholder manual (opens new window)and asked to evaluate and vote on nominated projects via a voting form. (Mar 7th - Mar 21st)