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TL;DR

• QuickNode's Rollup Testnet Deployer 🤝 Superchain

• Base Around The World

• Discussion: Accelerating Decentralization

• Retro Funding 6: Applications Open On Tuesday

• Discussion: Retro Funding 5 rewards

• Gitcoin to build Grants Claiming Tool for Optimism

• Apply for a Mission Request

🌐 Ecosystem News

QuickNode's Rollup Testnet Deployer 🤝 Superchain

The Rollup Testnet Deployer now supports the Optimism Superchain! QuickNode allows to deploy and scale your rollups with enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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Base Around The World

The Base Buildathon kickstarts tomorrow with sub-buildathons across 4 regions LatAm, Africa, India and South East Asia, and 100 ETH in total prizes. The prompt is to: "Build an onchain app that solves a challenge in your community, or use existing onchain tools to create real-world impact in your community by bringing them onchain."

Dates: September 27th to October 13th

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📰 Governance News

Discussion: Accelerating Decentralization

Discussion continues around a petition put forward by GFX Labs to accelerate decentralization of governance in Optimism.

The petition divides a plan into three phases of decentralization with Phase 1 being the handover of control over funds, contracts and governance assets to governance. This led to an open conversation on decentralization of governance and a response from the Foundation addressing the petition.

🗳 Voting Reminders

No voting at the moment.

💵 Grant News

Retro Funding 6: Applications Open On Tuesday

The new round focusing on contributions to governance will open on Tuesday, October 1st and distribute between 1.1M and 3.5M OP. You can begin by completing your Optimist Profile on retrofunding.optimism.io and checking out the round's details.

Discussion: Retro Funding 5 rewards

As round 5 saw a lower amount of applications, the Foundation has proposed that Citizens vote on a new OP allocation amount. Round 5’s initial funding was set at 8M OP. Citizens would vote for an amount within the range of 2M - 8M OP, with the median amount as the final round size.

Discussions on how to arrive to an exact amount are still ongoing. Read more in this post. Voting for round 5 will start on September 30th.

Gitcoin to build Grants Claiming Tool for Optimism

Gitcoin will collaborate with Optimism to build a Grants Claiming Tool, OG-Claim, for a Mission Request. OG-Claim will leverage Hedgey for payments and Gitcoin's Allo Protocol for grant allocation.

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Apply for a Mission Request

Reminder – Mission Requests are still available!

Delegate Mission Requests are a great way to develop a project that is aligned with Optimism’s current needs. Find an approved mission on the Mission Request List.

Apply by: November 6th

Missions v2.5 | Calendar S6 | Application guide | Application walkthrough 

Upcoming Calls

• Grants Council Office Hours [Monday, September 30th]

• Builder Office Hours with the Foundation (Bi-Weekly) [Wednesday, October 2nd]

• Collective Feedback Commission Retrospective Workshop (memebers only) [Wednesday, October 2nd]

You can add Optimism governance calls to your calendar here.

🔴✨ Optimism Collective Resources

• Forum discussions

• Optimism X account

• Optimism Governance X account

• Governance calendar

• OP Hub - home of optimistic resources

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