S 5 Intent:
Intent 4 : Improve Governance Accessibility
Proposing Delegate:
Oxytocin (ParaSwap)
Proposal Tier:
Eagle Tier
Baseline grant amount:
190 , 000 OP in total
Up to 150 , 000 OP distributed to mission contributors
Up to 40 , 000 OP distributed to service provider, covering tech, integrations, and support
Should this Delegate Mission be fulfilled by one or multiple applicants:
One
Submit by:
To be set by Grants Council
Selection by:
To be set by Grants Council
Start date:
TBD
Completion date:
July 31 st, 2024
How will this Delegate Mission Request help accomplish the above Intent?
Delegates and badgeholders are responsible for making decisions about how best to allocate OP in support of the future of our ecosystem. Yet we don’t have adequate resources to help us understand the value and impact of different proposals, and best vote on allocations.
This mission request is to incentivize our greater Optimism community to build infrastructure and content that helps us better perform our roles. By incentivizing our community to help us, and validating / rewarding when they do, we will do better work, create more value, and improve our governance.
Here’s how it works:
Delegates and badgeholders will clarify our most important support needs.
Mission Contributors will be incentivized to contribute projects that address those needs
Projects will be validated upon value creation and rewarded for their contributions.
Please explain alignment with the relevant Intent:
The Collective wants to prioritize accessibility to create governance structures that welcome a broad range of Optimists to participate, including new delegates and badgeholders. Accessibility, specifically, means making it feasible for smart, dedicated people to efficiently, and effectively do our jobs.
The biggest blocker to better governance is not desire. People want to help. It is making it easy for top people to help. This mission will clear barriers for existing and new talent to support, and to provide better support. Example of support needs might include:
Due diligence connected to mission proposals, rPGF, and more
Follow up data on how previous funding has created impact
Forming working groups to improve coordination and communication
What is required to execute this Delegate Mission Request?
We need feedback from delegates and badgeholders about the biggest needs and opportunities for content creation. We will get this via an engagement survey + follow up conversations.
We need technology and support to share, validate contributions, rewards, and attest on-chain, as well as a page to summarize and aggregate the content.
Please list responsibilities and/or expected deliverables:
Delegate and badgeholder feedback
Display of various sets of contribution activities to the Optimism community
Enabling people and teams to commit to contribution activities
Automating validations at various stages of value creation
Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain
Onboarding delegates and badgeholders to support infrastructure and content
How should the Token House measure progress towards this Mission?
Before/after delegate and badgeholder ratings on ease of performing governance responsibilities
Number of projects committed to and completed to support badgeholders and delegates
How should badgeholders measure impact upon completion of this Mission?
Improvement in governance accessibility index
Improvement in NPS of all delegates and badgeholders
Have you engaged a Grant-as-a-service provider for this Mission Request?
Yes. We have engaged ThriveCoin - they supported the Ambassador deployment in Season 4 , which far exceeded critical milestones 2 . They also support ApeCoin, Arbitrum, and other communities at scale.
Has anyone other than the Proposing Delegate contributed to this Mission Request?
Yes. Daniel Jacobs (thrivegiraffe) and Senad Dilji (senad.eth) contributed. They introduced and brainstormed this idea with me and other delegates. It reflects a clear need, and I feel comfortable they can execute on it after their successes with Ambassadors in Mission 4 .
The post outlines a proposal for a Delegate Mission on improving governance accessibility within the Optimism ecosystem. The proposal involves distributing a grant amount among mission contributors and service providers to enhance understanding, decision-making, and infrastructure building within the community. The mission aims to incentivize contribution projects, validate their impact, and reward contributors. The post details the alignment with the intent, requirements for execution, responsibilities, expected deliverables, progress measurement, and engagement with a Grant-as-a-service provider. Multiple individuals have contributed to the proposal, and there is a plan for feedback collection and engagement with Delegates and badgeholders.
jackanorak: thrivegiraffe:
Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and other delegates wish to move forward, but I am currently uninterested in any service provider role connected to this request.
How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin which entity are you referring to below?
Oxytocin:
Daniel Jacobs (thrivegiraffe) and Senad Dilji (senad.eth) contributed. They introduced and brainstormed this idea with me and other delegates. It reflects a clear need, and I feel comfortable they can execute on it after their successes with Ambassadors in Mission 4.
S 5 Intent:
Intent 4 : Improve Governance Accessibility
Proposing Delegate:
Oxytocin (ParaSwap)
P…
S 5 Intent:
Intent 4 : Improve Governance Accessibility
Proposing Delegate:
Oxytocin (ParaSwap)
Proposal Tier:
Eagle Tier
Baseline grant amount:
190 , 000 OP in total
Up to 150 , 000 OP distributed to mission contributors
Up to 40 , 000 OP distributed to service provider, covering tech, integrations, and support
Should this Delegate Mission be fulfilled by one or multiple applicants:
One
Submit by:
To be set by Grants Council
Selection by:
To be set by Grants Council
Start date:
TBD
Completion date:
July 31 st, 2024
How will this Delegate Mission Request help accomplish the above Intent?
Delegates and badgeholders are responsible for making decisions about how best to allocate OP in support of the future of our ecosystem. Yet we don’t have adequate resources to help us understand the value and impact of different proposals, and best vote on allocations.
This mission request is to incentivize our greater Optimism community to build infrastructure and content that helps us better perform our roles. By incentivizing our community to help us, and validating / rewarding when they do, we will do better work, create more value, and improve our governance.
Here’s how it works:
Delegates and badgeholders will clarify our most important support needs.
Mission Contributors will be incentivized to contribute projects that address those needs
Projects will be validated upon value creation and rewarded for their contributions.
Please explain alignment with the relevant Intent:
The Collective wants to prioritize accessibility to create governance structures that welcome a broad range of Optimists to participate, including new delegates and badgeholders. Accessibility, specifically, means making it feasible for smart, dedicated people to efficiently, and effectively do our jobs.
The biggest blocker to better governance is not desire. People want to help. It is making it easy for top people to help. This mission will clear barriers for existing and new talent to support, and to provide better support. Example of support needs might include:
Due diligence connected to mission proposals, rPGF, and more
Follow up data on how previous funding has created impact
Forming working groups to improve coordination and communication
What is required to execute this Delegate Mission Request?
We need feedback from delegates and badgeholders about the biggest needs and opportunities for content creation. We will get this via an engagement survey + follow up conversations.
We need technology and support to share, validate contributions, rewards, and attest on-chain, as well as a page to summarize and aggregate the content.
Please list responsibilities and/or expected deliverables:
Delegate and badgeholder feedback
Display of various sets of contribution activities to the Optimism community
Enabling people and teams to commit to contribution activities
Automating validations at various stages of value creation
Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain
Onboarding delegates and badgeholders to support infrastructure and content
How should the Token House measure progress towards this Mission?
Before/after delegate and badgeholder ratings on ease of performing governance responsibilities
Number of projects committed to and completed to support badgeholders and delegates
How should badgeholders measure impact upon completion of this Mission?
Improvement in governance accessibility index
Improvement in NPS of all delegates and badgeholders
Have you engaged a Grant-as-a-service provider for this Mission Request?
Yes. We have engaged ThriveCoin - they supported the Ambassador deployment in Season 4 , which far exceeded critical milestones. They also support ApeCoin, Arbitrum, and other communities at scale.
Has anyone other than the Proposing Delegate contributed to this Mission Request?
Yes. Daniel Jacobs (thrivegiraffe) and Senad Dilji (senad.eth) contributed. They introduced and brainstormed this idea with me and other delegates. It reflects a clear need, and I feel comfortable they can execute on it after their successes with Ambassadors in Mission 4 .
jackanorak: thrivegiraffe:
Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and other delegates wish to move forward, but I am currently uninterested in any service provider role connected to this request.
How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin which entity are you referring to below?
Oxytocin:
Daniel Jacobs (thrivegiraffe) and Senad Dilji (senad.eth) contributed. They introduced and brainstormed this idea with me and other delegates. It reflects a clear need, and I feel comfortable they can execute on it after their successes with Ambassadors in Mission 4.
S 5 Intent: Intent 4 : Improve Governance Accessibility Proposing Delegate: Oxytocin (ParaSwap) P…
S 5 Intent: Intent 4 : Improve Governance Accessibility Proposing Delegate: Oxytocin (ParaSwap) Proposal Tier: Eagle Tier Baseline grant amount: 190 , 000 OP in total Up to 150 , 000 OP distributed to mission contributors Up to 40 , 000 OP distributed to service provider, covering tech, integrations, and support Should this Delegate Mission be fulfilled by one or multiple applicants: One Submit by: To be set by Grants Council Selection by: To be set by Grants Council Start date: TBD Completion date: July 31 st, 2024 How will this Delegate Mission Request help accomplish the above Intent? Delegates and badgeholders are responsible for making decisions about how best to allocate OP in support of the future of our ecosystem. Yet we don’t have adequate resources to help us understand the value and impact of different proposals, and best vote on allocations. This mission request is to incentivize our greater Optimism community to build infrastructure and content that helps us better perform our roles. By incentivizing our community to help us, and validating / rewarding when they do, we will do better work, create more value, and improve our governance. Here’s how it works: Delegates and badgeholders will clarify our most important support needs. Mission Contributors will be incentivized to contribute projects that address those needs Projects will be validated upon value creation and rewarded for their contributions. Please explain alignment with the relevant Intent: The Collective wants to prioritize accessibility to create governance structures that welcome a broad range of Optimists to participate, including new delegates and badgeholders. Accessibility, specifically, means making it feasible for smart, dedicated people to efficiently, and effectively do our jobs. The biggest blocker to better governance is not desire. People want to help. It is making it easy for top people to help. This mission will clear barriers for existing and new talent to support, and to provide better support. Example of support needs might include: Due diligence connected to mission proposals, rPGF, and more Follow up data on how previous funding has created impact Forming working groups to improve coordination and communication What is required to execute this Delegate Mission Request? We need feedback from delegates and badgeholders about the biggest needs and opportunities for content creation. We will get this via an engagement survey + follow up conversations. We need technology and support to share, validate contributions, rewards, and attest on-chain, as well as a page to summarize and aggregate the content. Please list responsibilities and/or expected deliverables: Delegate and badgeholder feedback Display of various sets of contribution activities to the Optimism community Enabling people and teams to commit to contribution activities Automating validations at various stages of value creation Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain Onboarding delegates and badgeholders to support infrastructure and content How should the Token House measure progress towards this Mission? Before/after delegate and badgeholder ratings on ease of performing governance responsibilities Number of projects committed to and completed to support badgeholders and delegates How should badgeholders measure impact upon completion of this Mission? Improvement in governance accessibility index Improvement in NPS of all delegates and badgeholders Have you engaged a Grant-as-a-service provider for this Mission Request? Yes. We have engaged ThriveCoin - they supported the Ambassador deployment in Season 4 , which far exceeded critical milestones 2 . They also support ApeCoin, Arbitrum, and other communities at scale. Has anyone other than the Proposing Delegate contributed to this Mission Request? Yes. Daniel Jacobs (thrivegiraffe) and Senad Dilji (senad.eth) contributed. They introduced and brainstormed this idea with me and other delegates. It reflects a clear need, and I feel comfortable they can execute on it after their successes with Ambassadors in Mission 4 .
jackanorak: thrivegiraffe:
Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and other delegates wish to move forward, but I am currently uninterested in any service provider role connected to this request.
How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin which entity are you referring to below?
Oxytocin:
Daniel Jacobs (thrivegiraffe) and Senad Dilji (senad.eth) contributed. They introduced and brainstormed this idea with me and other delegates. It reflects a clear need, and I feel comfortable they can execute on it after their successes with Ambassadors in Mission 4.
Hi @Oxytocin, thanks for this proposal!
It’s difficult for me to understand what the specific, star…
Hi @Oxytocin, thanks for this proposal!
It’s difficult for me to understand what the specific, start-to-finish initiative is and what the concrete deliverables are. Mission Requests are not meant to support ongoing services or broad scopes of work.For example, the three examples listed below would require three separate Mission Requests:
Due diligence connected to mission proposals, rPGF, and more
Follow up data on how previous funding has created impact
Forming working groups to improve coordination and communication
*Additional note that the Collective very intentionally supports work via Missions and not working groups, as this model as failed at most other DAOs.
Looking at some of the suggestions here, it sounds like this could be de-scoped and refined to support research on the types of contributions the community finds valuable, suggestions as to how to validate those contributions with attestations, and then possibly a short implementation pilot.
The Tier to fulfill this request seems quite high.
Hi @Oxytocin, thanks for this proposal! It’s difficult for me to understand what the specific, star…
Hi @Oxytocin, thanks for this proposal! It’s difficult for me to understand what the specific, start-to-finish initiative is and what the concrete deliverables are. Mission Requests are not meant to support ongoing services or broad scopes of work.For example, the three examples listed below would require three separate Mission Requests: Due diligence connected to mission proposals, rPGF, and more Follow up data on how previous funding has created impact Forming working groups to improve coordination and communication *Additional note that the Collective very intentionally supports work via Missions and not working groups, as this model as failed at most other DAOs. Looking at some of the suggestions here, it sounds like this could be de-scoped and refined to support research on the types of contributions the community finds valuable, suggestions as to how to validate those contributions with attestations, and then possibly a short implementation pilot. The Tier to fulfill this request seems quite high.
Thank you for submitting your proposal.
I strongly agree with Lavande here, and this comes from som…
Thank you for submitting your proposal.
I strongly agree with Lavande here, and this comes from someone who used to complain about the lack of knowledge, documentation, processes, and a well-defined framework for delegates and the collective to share information via a feedback loop. However, this does not exist anymore; a major workload is being handled through the grant council, community calls, demo-day, and the gov-channel is active with quality conversations happening there. This season brings other commissions online (anti-capture, CoC, and others), which will solve other existing challenges.
Correct me if I am wrong, but if the intent was designed to solve a problem, it must have a goal, which seems to be missing here, or at least it’s not clear to me.
This is not related to your proposal specifically, but at this stage of governance, the goal should be scaling, which won’t happen just by asking for feedback from a few delegates; we need hypotheses and PoCs backed by academic research.
Thank you for submitting your proposal. I strongly agree with Lavande here, and this comes from som…
Thank you for submitting your proposal. I strongly agree with Lavande here, and this comes from someone who used to complain about the lack of knowledge, documentation, processes, and a well-defined framework for delegates and the collective to share information via a feedback loop. However, this does not exist anymore; a major workload is being handled through the grant council, community calls, demo-day, and the gov-channel is active with quality conversations happening there. This season brings other commissions online (anti-capture, CoC, and others), which will solve other existing challenges. Correct me if I am wrong, but if the intent was designed to solve a problem, it must have a goal, which seems to be missing here, or at least it’s not clear to me. This is not related to your proposal specifically, but at this stage of governance, the goal should be scaling, which won’t happen just by asking for feedback from a few delegates; we need hypotheses and PoCs backed by academic research.
Hi OPUser, great feedback. I believe Lavande and I are generally aligned as well. I’ve connected wi…
Hi OPUser, great feedback. I believe Lavande and I are generally aligned as well. I’ve connected with Oxytocin and made change suggestions based on your feedback and Lavande’s. Thank you. Additionally, I have a few clarification responses to your thoughts.
OPUser:
if the intent was designed to solve a problem, it must have a goal, which seems to be missing here, or at least it’s not clear to me.
The goal of the mission request is to provide delegates and badgeholders with diligence and support infrastructure that can help efficiency and effectiveness with moving through hundreds and hundreds of applications.
OPUser:
[I] used to complain about the lack of knowledge, documentation, processes, and a well-defined framework for delegates and the collective to share information via a feedback loop. However, this does not exist anymore.
I would love to kindly push you on this. Optimism is absolutely taking important strides to solve this problem. But it still exists (because it’s a really hard problem to solve).
In the last rPGF, as an example, badgeholders had to review over 600 applications. They had access to only basic diligence around the applications. Examples of important information they didn’t have: How accurate were the proposals (e.g. fact checking)? What was the impact created for the broader web 3 ecosystem? What is a framework for standardizing considerations of impact?
Without the tools or content to quickly understand this information and more, delegates and badgeholders have had to either do an impossible amount of research themselves or make suboptimal decisions with asymmetrical information. This mission is proposing to make more efficient (and scale) the process of getting the tools and content to badgeholders and delegates that are needed to make better decisions.
OPUser:
This is not related to your proposal specifically, but at this stage of governance, the goal should be scaling, which won’t happen just by asking for feedback from a few delegates; we need hypotheses and PoCs backed by academic research.
I agree. I am not the submitting delegate for the proposal, but I did support the conceptualizing (and can help to improve and clarify based on your and lavande’s important feedback). FWIW my own contributions to the thinking around this proposal have scale as one of the biggest considerations.
Here’s the work we’ve done with Optimism addressing an adjacent problem for Ambassadors. We’ve also supported ApeCoin, Arbitrum, and others at scale addressing adjacent problems. We started with PoCs and academic research, but at this point we also have supportive data from large-scale deployments.
Thanks again for your feedback, and for helping to improve this proposal!
I’ve got a bit of feedback generally on what appear to be underlying assumptions here but at minimu…
I’ve got a bit of feedback generally on what appear to be underlying assumptions here but at minimum this seems underspecified.
How is any of this expected to improve outcomes?
Delegate and badgeholder feedback
Already being collected internally to Foundation and reverberating basically everywhere
Display of various sets of contribution activities to the Optimism community
What does this mean
Enabling people and teams to commit to contribution activities
Or this
Automating validations at various stages of value creation
Or this
Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain
So pay badgeholders? community? team?
Onboarding delegates and badgeholders to support infrastructure and content
This appears to be in support of the other deliverables.
And, finally:
Delegates and badgeholders will clarify our most important support needs.
Mission Contributors will be incentivized to contribute projects that address those needs
Projects will be validated upon value creation and rewarded for their contributions.
Isn’t this literally just recreating RPGF?
Hi Jack, thanks for the feedback. I am just a supporter / contributor, but happy to answer your que…
Hi Jack, thanks for the feedback. I am just a supporter / contributor, but happy to answer your questions. I know there is a revision coming based on early feedback; it should integrate your feedback too. It seems most of the issues are around specificity and clearer definitions, which is very fair.
jackanorak:
Isn’t this literally just recreating RPGF?
No. Not at all. The concept was simply to provide diligence (and potentially other) support for badgeholders and delegates to support better decision-making and less work/stress connected to the enormous review needs for rPGF and Missions.
It is very similar to the Mission 4 proposal that we did - and that you supported - with OP Ambassadors, led by Reformed Normie. That Mission far exceeded its critical milestones. This is just a different use-case.
jackanorak:
What does this mean
Enabling people and teams to commit to contribution activities
Or this
Automating validations at various stages of value creation
Or this
Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain
I’ll share the definitions you requested in the same order, but numbered:
Incentivize talented Optimism contributors to support to badgeholders and delegates aligned with their needs and the clarifications / feedback of the foundation.
Validate that talented contributions supported badgeholders and delegates as needed (this is a technical process that can be either human or automated).
Reward badgeholders and delegates as needed (just as was done in the aforementioned Season 4 mission).
jackanorak:
Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain
So pay badgeholders? community? team?
No. It’s saying: reward contributions that people make to do diligence that lightens the load and improves decision making for badgeholders and delegates.
jackanorak:
Delegate and badgeholder feedback
Already being collected internally to Foundation and reverberating basically everywhere
Perfect. Then this piece should likely be eliminated from the next draft of the proposal; that will help simplify and clarify things even more. Thank you.
thrivegiraffe:
I am just a supporter / contributor, but happy to answer your questions.
You’…
thrivegiraffe:
I am just a supporter / contributor, but happy to answer your questions.
You’re the co-author and presumptive applicant for this mission. Think it’s more appropriate to call it what it is.
thrivegiraffe:
No. Not at all. The concept was simply to provide diligence (and potentially other) support for badgeholders and delegates to support better decision-making and less work/stress connected to the enormous review needs for rPGF and Missions.
It is very similar to the Mission 4 proposal that we did - and that you supported - with OP Ambassadors, led by Reformed Normie. That Mission far exceeded its critical milestones. This is just a different use-case.
This is what makes this a problematic mission request. This is a mission request that is tailor-made for Thrivecoin to fulfill, made all the more apparent by the fact that only one project is allowed to fulfill it. We do need more data to be brought to RPGF, but we have so many different outlets for it at this point that passing a mission like this would in my view be irresponsible.
thrivegiraffe:
Incentivize talented Optimism contributors to support to badgeholders and delegates aligned with their needs and the clarifications / feedback of the foundation.
Validate that talented contributions supported badgeholders and delegates as needed (this is a technical process that can be either human or automated).
Reward badgeholders and delegates as needed (just as was done in the aforementioned Season 4 mission).
One outlet, of course, is RPGF, which mirrors the exact structure that you’re proposing above. People offer meaningful contributions to benefit governance, and once the impact of these contributions is measured, they are rewarded. I for one do not want to replace badgeholders with a private enterprise such as your own, one that is paying itself 40 k OP for the effort.
But I’m glad you made explicit that this is a carbon copy of the other mission. Would love to see a more detailed report of the outcome of that program and what Thrivecoin contributed to it. I supported it not because the proposal was compelling but because I trusted that @Jrocki and @vonnie 610 knew what they were doing. I think at minimum it would be necessary to go through that with a microscope before handing Thrivecoin a contract such as this one.
Jack, thanks for the feedback.
jackanorak:
You’re the… presumptive applicant for this mission.…
Jack, thanks for the feedback.
jackanorak:
You’re the… presumptive applicant for this mission.
As I wrote, I’m a supporter and contributor. I appreciate you perceiving me as a “presumptive applicant”, but I will likely pass.
jackanorak:
I for one do not want to replace badgeholders with a private enterprise
Nowhere does this mission request suggest that. It proposes the opposite: supporting delegates and badgeholders.
jackanorak:
I supported it not because the proposal was compelling but because I trusted that @jrocki.bedrock and @vonnie 610 knew what they were doing.
Given that you trust Jesse and Vee (who are wonderful), ask them what it was like to work with me for months. Jessie also did some great updates on the impact of our work.
Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and other delegates wish to move forward, but I am currently uninterested in any service provider role connected to this request.
thrivegiraffe:
Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and …
thrivegiraffe:
Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and other delegates wish to move forward, but I am currently uninterested in any service provider role connected to this request.
How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin which entity are you referring to below?
Oxytocin:
Daniel Jacobs (thrivegiraffe) and Senad Dilji (senad.eth) contributed. They introduced and brainstormed this idea with me and other delegates. It reflects a clear need, and I feel comfortable they can execute on it after their successes with Ambassadors in Mission 4 .
jackanorak:
How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin whic…
jackanorak:
How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin which entity are you referring to?
Oxytocin clarified, as I’ve clarified, that I contributed to the request. Additionally, as was stated in the request: our team “can execute” on the request. But as I shared earlier: I am currently not interested in any service provider role connected to this request. This remains the case.
Okay @thrivegiraffe, do you commit not to apply for this as yourself, senad, Thank Optimism, Thrive…
Okay @thrivegiraffe, do you commit not to apply for this as yourself, senad, Thank Optimism, Thrivecoin, or anything that could be reasonably construed as connected to you, as the executor of this mission request or, for end grants as any assembly of individual contributors contributing to such an initiative (i.e., Thrivecoin wouldn’t be independently gathering contributors to claim rewards here)?
If you’re not the people serving this, I’m not really sure what sort of entity would be prepared to stand up such a process. In any case, as mentioned by @lavande, any committee in charge of this validation would amount to a separate working group, which isn’t in scope for mission requests.
Are there any other advocates for this mission request?
Hi OPUser, great feedback. I believe Lavande and I are generally aligned as well. I’ve connected wi…
Hi OPUser, great feedback. I believe Lavande and I are generally aligned as well. I’ve connected with Oxytocin and made change suggestions based on your feedback and Lavande’s. Thank you. Additionally, I have a few clarification responses to your thoughts. OPUser: if the intent was designed to solve a problem, it must have a goal, which seems to be missing here, or at least it’s not clear to me. The goal of the mission request is to provide delegates and badgeholders with diligence and support infrastructure that can help efficiency and effectiveness with moving through hundreds and hundreds of applications. OPUser: [I] used to complain about the lack of knowledge, documentation, processes, and a well-defined framework for delegates and the collective to share information via a feedback loop. However, this does not exist anymore. I would love to kindly push you on this. Optimism is absolutely taking important strides to solve this problem. But it still exists (because it’s a really hard problem to solve). In the last rPGF, as an example, badgeholders had to review over 600 applications. They had access to only basic diligence around the applications. Examples of important information they didn’t have: How accurate were the proposals (e.g. fact checking)? What was the impact created for the broader web 3 ecosystem? What is a framework for standardizing considerations of impact? Without the tools or content to quickly understand this information and more, delegates and badgeholders have had to either do an impossible amount of research themselves or make suboptimal decisions with asymmetrical information. This mission is proposing to make more efficient (and scale) the process of getting the tools and content to badgeholders and delegates that are needed to make better decisions. OPUser: This is not related to your proposal specifically, but at this stage of governance, the goal should be scaling, which won’t happen just by asking for feedback from a few delegates; we need hypotheses and PoCs backed by academic research. I agree. I am not the submitting delegate for the proposal, but I did support the conceptualizing (and can help to improve and clarify based on your and lavande’s important feedback). FWIW my own contributions to the thinking around this proposal have scale as one of the biggest considerations. Here’s the work we’ve done with Optimism addressing an adjacent problem for Ambassadors. We’ve also supported ApeCoin, Arbitrum, and others at scale addressing adjacent problems. We started with PoCs and academic research, but at this point we also have supportive data from large-scale deployments. Thanks again for your feedback, and for helping to improve this proposal!
I am a part of one entity, ThriveCoin. This is one of the wildest interactions I’ve had in web 3 . …
I am a part of one entity, ThriveCoin. This is one of the wildest interactions I’ve had in web 3 . I supported this request to be helpful. If our team had served it, we almost certainly would have lost money on it (ask Jesse, Vee, Kryz, Subli, Oxytocin, others about what we bring to our work with Optimism).
We considered helping because we care about Optimism, we admire many people here, and we are fierce advocates for web 3 . But after this interaction, we will not take any role connected to this request beyond the conceptual support I provided. I need to make dinner for my kids, so I’d like for us to be done. Thanks.
I’ve got a bit of feedback generally on what appear to be underlying assumptions here but at minimu…
I’ve got a bit of feedback generally on what appear to be underlying assumptions here but at minimum this seems underspecified. How is any of this expected to improve outcomes? Delegate and badgeholder feedback Already being collected internally to Foundation and reverberating basically everywhere Display of various sets of contribution activities to the Optimism community What does this mean Enabling people and teams to commit to contribution activities Or this Automating validations at various stages of value creation Or this Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain So pay badgeholders? community? team? Onboarding delegates and badgeholders to support infrastructure and content This appears to be in support of the other deliverables. And, finally: Delegates and badgeholders will clarify our most important support needs. Mission Contributors will be incentivized to contribute projects that address those needs Projects will be validated upon value creation and rewarded for their contributions. Isn’t this literally just recreating RPGF?
well if this single interaction where i’ve been pretty concrete with my concerns is enough for you …
well if this single interaction where i’ve been pretty concrete with my concerns is enough for you to overcome months of productive work with such great people I’d like to be shown where I’ve been out of line
in any case the line you’re pushing is certainly a far cry from @senad.eth DMing me and several other delegates (which you’re now hurriedly deleting) a few hours ago saying you intended to apply for this grant
I was gonna say take me off your mailing list but looks like you already have
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It would have been much easier for you to acknowledge that this mission request, which you appear to have intended to apply for when it was written, was misspecified and say you didn’t realize that they were not to be tailor-made for specific projects as though they’re grant applications. Wouldn’t have been a big deal, as a large number of mission requests have been like this, and that’s something to address structurally down the line. But it’s frustrating to be tapdanced at like this.
think i’ve said all i need to say here
Hi Jack, thanks for the feedback. I am just a supporter / contributor, but happy to answer your que…
Hi Jack, thanks for the feedback. I am just a supporter / contributor, but happy to answer your questions. I know there is a revision coming based on early feedback; it should integrate your feedback too. It seems most of the issues are around specificity and clearer definitions, which is very fair. jackanorak: Isn’t this literally just recreating RPGF? No. Not at all. The concept was simply to provide diligence (and potentially other) support for badgeholders and delegates to support better decision-making and less work/stress connected to the enormous review needs for rPGF and Missions. It is very similar to the Mission 4 proposal that we did - and that you supported - with OP Ambassadors, led by Reformed Normie. That Mission far exceeded its critical milestones. This is just a different use-case. jackanorak: What does this mean Enabling people and teams to commit to contribution activities Or this Automating validations at various stages of value creation Or this Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain I’ll share the definitions you requested in the same order, but numbered: Incentivize talented Optimism contributors to support to badgeholders and delegates aligned with their needs and the clarifications / feedback of the foundation. Validate that talented contributions supported badgeholders and delegates as needed (this is a technical process that can be either human or automated). Reward badgeholders and delegates as needed (just as was done in the aforementioned Season 4 mission). jackanorak: Rewarding contributors with OP and attesting to all contributions on-chain So pay badgeholders? community? team? No. It’s saying: reward contributions that people make to do diligence that lightens the load and improves decision making for badgeholders and delegates. jackanorak: Delegate and badgeholder feedback Already being collected internally to Foundation and reverberating basically everywhere Perfect. Then this piece should likely be eliminated from the next draft of the proposal; that will help simplify and clarify things even more. Thank you.
thrivegiraffe: I am just a supporter / contributor, but happy to answer your questions. You’…
thrivegiraffe: I am just a supporter / contributor, but happy to answer your questions. You’re the co-author and presumptive applicant for this mission. Think it’s more appropriate to call it what it is. thrivegiraffe: No. Not at all. The concept was simply to provide diligence (and potentially other) support for badgeholders and delegates to support better decision-making and less work/stress connected to the enormous review needs for rPGF and Missions. It is very similar to the Mission 4 proposal that we did - and that you supported - with OP Ambassadors, led by Reformed Normie. That Mission far exceeded its critical milestones. This is just a different use-case. This is what makes this a problematic mission request. This is a mission request that is tailor-made for Thrivecoin to fulfill, made all the more apparent by the fact that only one project is allowed to fulfill it. We do need more data to be brought to RPGF, but we have so many different outlets for it at this point that passing a mission like this would in my view be irresponsible. thrivegiraffe: Incentivize talented Optimism contributors to support to badgeholders and delegates aligned with their needs and the clarifications / feedback of the foundation. Validate that talented contributions supported badgeholders and delegates as needed (this is a technical process that can be either human or automated). Reward badgeholders and delegates as needed (just as was done in the aforementioned Season 4 mission). One outlet, of course, is RPGF, which mirrors the exact structure that you’re proposing above. People offer meaningful contributions to benefit governance, and once the impact of these contributions is measured, they are rewarded. I for one do not want to replace badgeholders with a private enterprise such as your own, one that is paying itself 40 k OP for the effort. But I’m glad you made explicit that this is a carbon copy of the other mission. Would love to see a more detailed report of the outcome of that program and what Thrivecoin contributed to it. I supported it not because the proposal was compelling but because I trusted that @jrocki.bedrock and @vonnie 610 knew what they were doing. I think at minimum it would be necessary to go through that with a microscope before handing Thrivecoin a contract such as this one.
Jack, thanks for the feedback. jackanorak: You’re the… presumptive applicant for this mission.…
Jack, thanks for the feedback. jackanorak: You’re the… presumptive applicant for this mission. As I wrote, I’m a supporter and contributor. I appreciate you perceiving me as a “presumptive applicant”, but I will likely pass. jackanorak: I for one do not want to replace badgeholders with a private enterprise Nowhere does this mission request suggest that. It proposes the opposite: supporting delegates and badgeholders. jackanorak: I supported it not because the proposal was compelling but because I trusted that @jrocki.bedrock and @vonnie 610 knew what they were doing. Given that you trust Jesse and Vee (who are wonderful), ask them what it was like to work with me for months. Jessie also did some great updates on the impact of our work. Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and other delegates wish to move forward, but I am currently uninterested in any service provider role connected to this request.
thrivegiraffe: Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and …
thrivegiraffe: Last clarification: I will continue to conceptually support Oxytocin if he and other delegates wish to move forward, but I am currently uninterested in any service provider role connected to this request. How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin which entity are you referring to below? Oxytocin: Daniel Jacobs (thrivegiraffe) and Senad Dilji (senad.eth) contributed. They introduced and brainstormed this idea with me and other delegates. It reflects a clear need, and I feel comfortable they can execute on it after their successes with Ambassadors in Mission 4 .
jackanorak: How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin whic…
jackanorak: How do you explain the statement at the end of the mission request? @Oxytocin which entity are you referring to? Oxytocin clarified, as I’ve clarified, that I contributed to the request. Additionally, as was stated in the request: our team “can execute” on the request. But as I shared earlier: I am currently not interested in any service provider role connected to this request. This remains the case.
Okay @thrivegiraffe, do you commit not to apply for this as yourself, senad, Thank Optimism, Thrive…
Okay @thrivegiraffe, do you commit not to apply for this as yourself, senad, Thank Optimism, Thrivecoin, or anything that could be reasonably construed as connected to you, as the executor of this mission request or, for end grants as any assembly of individual contributors contributing to such an initiative (i.e., Thrivecoin wouldn’t be independently gathering contributors to claim rewards here)? If you’re not the people serving this, I’m not really sure what sort of entity would be prepared to stand up such a process. In any case, as mentioned by @lavande, any committee in charge of this validation would amount to a separate working group, which isn’t in scope for mission requests. Are there any other advocates for this mission request?
I am a part of one entity, ThriveCoin. This is one of the wildest interactions I’ve had in web 3 . …
I am a part of one entity, ThriveCoin. This is one of the wildest interactions I’ve had in web 3 . I supported this request to be helpful. If our team had served it, we almost certainly would have lost money on it (ask Jesse, Vee, Kryz, Subli, Oxytocin, others about what we bring to our work with Optimism). We considered helping because we care about Optimism, we admire many people here, and we are fierce advocates for web 3 . But after this interaction, we will not take any role connected to this request beyond the conceptual support I provided. I need to make dinner for my kids, so I’d like for us to be done. Thanks.
well if this single interaction where i’ve been pretty concrete with my concerns is enough for you …
well if this single interaction where i’ve been pretty concrete with my concerns is enough for you to overcome months of productive work with such great people I’d like to be shown where I’ve been out of line in any case the line you’re pushing is certainly a far cry from @senad.eth DMing me and several other delegates (which you’re now hurriedly deleting) a few hours ago saying you intended to apply for this grant I was gonna say take me off your mailing list but looks like you already have image 1033 × 1280 141 KB It would have been much easier for you to acknowledge that this mission request, which you appear to have intended to apply for when it was written, was misspecified and say you didn’t realize that they were not to be tailor-made for specific projects as though they’re grant applications. Wouldn’t have been a big deal, as a large number of mission requests have been like this, and that’s something to address structurally down the line. But it’s frustrating to be tapdanced at like this. think i’ve said all i need to say here
Hi everyone,
First, I’d like to thank everyone for the discussion that’s been going on so far. I ap…
Hi everyone,
First, I’d like to thank everyone for the discussion that’s been going on so far. I apologise I have not been able to participate until now, but would like to thank the other contributors for answering some questions that have been made so far.
To give more context as to why I decided to sponsor this Request, I was looking at the prior success of content coordination and creation we saw with Ambassadors for the Thank Optimism proposal
[FINAL] Thank Optimism - powered by ThriveCoin ARCHIVED Mission Proposals
EDIT 6 / 23 / 2023 :
Updated estimate for weekly time commitment for the alliance role ( 3 - 5 → 1 - 3 )
Alphabetized Alliance Order
Note to potentially incorporate other educational content outlined in various mission proposals as part of the ambassador on-boarding process
S 4 Intent: Intent 3 - Spread Awareness of the Optimistic Vision
Proposed Mission: ‘Thank Optimism - powered by ThriveCoin’ will inspire impactful public goods contributions to Optimism by automating, rewarding, and bringing on-chain…
The way I saw it, the previous season’s mission had a very strong success in helping Ambassadors figure out what to write about, who to interview, and much more, as well as help activate the community. The idea of this request was mostly to extend this ‘matchmaking’ between delegates (asking what they need made) and content creators, who could step in to fill those gaps and have them validated by the delegates themselves.
Even if ThriveCoin has confirmed that they do not wish to participate in the proposal and has withdrawn from future involvement, I still think such a mission could help reduce work redundancies many delegates go through, so if any other delegate/author would wish to participate on this mission, I am still up for a complete revamp of the proposal scope if needed. Alternatively, I am also more than happy to merge my ideas with a similar mission request. The closest I have found is @kaereste 's request , so feel free to reach out if you need help!
Finally, if no one has interest in the rescoping or merging of the request, I’m more than happy to withdraw this proposal, let’s say by the end of next week?
Hi everyone, First, I’d like to thank everyone for the discussion that’s been going on so far. I ap…
Hi everyone, First, I’d like to thank everyone for the discussion that’s been going on so far. I apologise I have not been able to participate until now, but would like to thank the other contributors for answering some questions that have been made so far. To give more context as to why I decided to sponsor this Request, I was looking at the prior success of content coordination and creation we saw with Ambassadors for the Thank Optimism proposal [FINAL] Thank Optimism - powered by ThriveCoin ARCHIVED Mission Proposals EDIT 6 / 23 / 2023 : Updated estimate for weekly time commitment for the alliance role ( 3 - 5 → 1 - 3 ) Alphabetized Alliance Order Note to potentially incorporate other educational content outlined in various mission proposals as part of the ambassador on-boarding process S 4 Intent: Intent 3 - Spread Awareness of the Optimistic Vision Proposed Mission: ‘Thank Optimism - powered by ThriveCoin’ will inspire impactful public goods contributions to Optimism by automating, rewarding, and bringing on-chain… The way I saw it, the previous season’s mission had a very strong success in helping Ambassadors figure out what to write about, who to interview, and much more, as well as help activate the community. The idea of this request was mostly to extend this ‘matchmaking’ between delegates (asking what they need made) and content creators, who could step in to fill those gaps and have them validated by the delegates themselves. Even if ThriveCoin has confirmed that they do not wish to participate in the proposal and has withdrawn from future involvement, I still think such a mission could help reduce work redundancies many delegates go through, so if any other delegate/author would wish to participate on this mission, I am still up for a complete revamp of the proposal scope if needed. Alternatively, I am also more than happy to merge my ideas with a similar mission request. The closest I have found is @kaereste 's request , so feel free to reach out if you need help! Finally, if no one has interest in the rescoping or merging of the request, I’m more than happy to withdraw this proposal, let’s say by the end of next week?
Hey @Oxytocin I’m having a hard time understanding the purpose of this proposal, it sounds like it’…
Hey @Oxytocin I’m having a hard time understanding the purpose of this proposal, it sounds like it’s mostly aimed at collecting feedback which is something already being done on a massive and (quite effective) scale by the Foundation. The grant amount is also extremely high at 190 , 000 . I’m not going to be giving this one my approval but I’m wishing you the best and it’s great that you offered to sponsor!
Hey @Oxytocin I’m having a hard time understanding the purpose of this proposal, it sounds like it’…
Hey @Oxytocin I’m having a hard time understanding the purpose of this proposal, it sounds like it’s mostly aimed at collecting feedback which is something already being done on a massive and (quite effective) scale by the Foundation. The grant amount is also extremely high at 190 , 000 . I’m not going to be giving this one my approval but I’m wishing you the best and it’s great that you offered to sponsor!
Hi Katie,
The current version of the proposal was made by the co-authors I sponsored, so I cannot c…
Hi Katie,
The current version of the proposal was made by the co-authors I sponsored, so I cannot comment on the justification for the grant amount.
Thank you for sharing your feedback, if I do not receive any major suggestions to alter the proposal I will withdraw it by end of week!
Hi Katie, The current version of the proposal was made by the co-authors I sponsored, so I cannot c…
Hi Katie, The current version of the proposal was made by the co-authors I sponsored, so I cannot comment on the justification for the grant amount. Thank you for sharing your feedback, if I do not receive any major suggestions to alter the proposal I will withdraw it by end of week!
As I haven’t received any reachout to remake the quest, I’ve decided to withdraw it a bit earlier. …
As I haven’t received any reachout to remake the quest, I’ve decided to withdraw it a bit earlier. Thank you everyone for the discussion.
As I haven’t received any reachout to remake the quest, I’ve decided to withdraw it a bit earlier. …
As I haven’t received any reachout to remake the quest, I’ve decided to withdraw it a bit earlier. Thank you everyone for the discussion.
