This month marked a momentous first for Ethereum: a publicly listed US company launched its very own OP Chain powered by Optimism ..read more

The OP Stack was built to be the most forkable, modular scaling infrastructure out there. When we introduced it, we explained that it was our bet on the ingenuity of the entire Ethereum community ..read more

The Optimism Collective is governed by a two-house system. This post provides an overview of the goals, design principles, and problem spaces of Optimism Governance ..read more

The Optimism Collective is excited to announce the third round of RetroPGF. This fall, 30 million OP will be distributed to builders, creators, and educators who have provided positive impact to the Optimism Collective. If you want to get started building, head to our Ecosystem Contributions board to find a project.  ..read more

Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) is one of the leading economic experiments to help decentralize and grow crypto ecosystems. While still in its very early days, the Optimism Collective is excited to lead the charge on RetroPGF experimentation, and we aim to inspire more builders to contribute to the Optimism ecosystem with the hope – and expectation – of getting funded retroactively for their contributions ..read more

The Optimism Collective is building community governance through experimentation. In Season 4, the Collective will run several key experiments designed to increase community involvement in the gradual decentralization of Optimism ..read more

RetroPGF 2 is the Collective’s next experiment in allocating public goods funding. In this round, approximately 70 badgeholders -- early "citizens" voted to allocate 10M OP. The results are in ..read more

Optimism was built to empower humanity through decentralized blockchain technology. And there is a lot to celebrate. But if Ethereum is to rival the goliaths of web2, and take software’s next bite of the world, it needs internet-level scale ..read more

The design philosophy that went into crafting the Bedrock upgrade, why it is important, and how it translated into improvements on Optimism Mainnet at a protocol level ..read more

Wow. 2022 has been quite the decade ..read more