Based on Round 3 learnings 14, Retroactive Public Goods Funding (Retro Funding) is transitioning from broad scoped rounds to more narrowly scoped rounds; you can find out more about this transition here.To provide more transparency into the Retro Funding design process, in line with Optimism’s path towards Open Metagovernance 3, we’re sharing plans and considerations for Retro rounds for all of 2024. You can find the announcement of upcoming rounds here 8.

501 builders, writers, creators, educators, and contributors from across the Optimism ecosystem have been allocated a portion of 30M OP! RetroPGF Round 3 rewarded contributors for the impact they provided to the Optimism Collective across four categories: OP Stack, Collective Governance, Developer Ecosystem, and End User Experience and Adoption. View the full list of awarded contributors here.

Bedrock update is coming to Optimism, but none of our team knew Bedrock exactly. We couldn’t also find a blog that explains Bedrock exactly. Everyone is talking about block time and gas cost, but we felt it’s more than block time or gas cost.

Optimism’s vision is to create a global economy with a profit motive for public goods.