I included a total of 237 projects in my ballot. My largest vote was 1M OP and my median was 95K OP. I used this spreadsheet for filtering and calculations.
Here’s what the overall distribution breakdown looked like.
And here are some details on the strategy I employed…
X Prize Winners
I created two “X Prizes” to recognize exceptional contributions that I believe deserve outsize rewards and have never received RetroPGF before.
- 🏆 Most Valuable Protocol (MVP): I voted to award 1M OP to one protocol on OP Mainnet that catalyzed both significant new user activity and a range of creative new use cases.
- 🎗️Hall of Fame Induction: I voted to award 1M OP to one open source software project that was more than five years old and ranked very highly in my “OSS page rank” list.
Open Source Impact
I created four groups to reward high impact open source software contributions.
- ⛓️ Core Infra: I allocated 4.5M OP across 15 projects that provide critical infrastructure for Ethereum, the OP Stack, and the surrounding developer ecosystem. These projects were all highly ranked on a variety of infrastructure-related lists. Every project in this group received the same allocation.
- ⌛Lindy Projects: I allocated 4.5M OP across 30 projects that were on my “Lindy list”, ie, projects that have been around for a long time. There was high overlap with projects in the Core Infra group. Every project in this group received the same allocation.
- 📈 Impact Vectors: I allocated 4.5M OP across 50 projects that were on my “Ecosystem Impact Vectors” list. I gave priority to projects with onchain deployments and/or that have popular packages. Projects were allocated between 10K and 250K OP based on impact. Projects in this group could not be included in any of the above groups.
- 🤩 Rising Stars: I allocated 3M OP across 21 projects that were on my “Rising Stars” list. These were all projects that began in the last two years and have shown steady developer activity. Every project in this group received the same allocation. Projects in this group could not be included in any of the above groups.
Key Breakthroughs
Over the last 6 months, there were two breakthroughs that I believe deserve special recognition: onchain summer (the launch of Base, Zora, and PGN) and account abstraction going mainstream.
- 🔵🟣🟢 Onchain Summer: I awarded 3.9M to 102 initiatives providing infrastructure and driving user growth on Base, Zora, and PGN. These projects were sourced primarily from Jesse’s “Base” list and followed the same allocation ratios among projects. Projects in this group may also have been included in an open source impact group.
- 👓 Account Abstraction: I awarded 1M to 7 projects contributing to account abstraction research and applications. These projects were sourced primarily from Wombat’s Account Abstraction list. Projects were allocated between 50K to 300K. Projects in this group could not already be included in any of the open source impact groups.
Vibes
I created three final groups for contributions that form the glue for the community.