Delegate Mission Request: Microgrants for Experimental Projects

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Delegate Mission Request: Microgrants for Experimental Projects

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Microgrants for Experimental Projects

Delegate Mission Request Summary: Experimental development of user applications, developer tools, games, art, and defi primatives on OP Mainnet.

S6 Intent : Intent 3a: grow application devs on OP Mainnet

Proposing Delegate/Citizen: Delegate name/pseudonym, linked to delegate profile

Total grant amount: 50k OP, maximum 2,500 OP per grant.
We have suggested applicants request 80% of the amount of impact they believe they will generate, incentivizing the rest to be rewarded retroactively based on quality of execution in future Retro Funding Rounds.

For clarity, additional Retro Funding is never guaranteed and applicants should not submit applications on the assumption that they will receive more than the upfront grant.

Should this Mission be fulfilled by one or multiple applicants: Multiple

How will this Mission Request help accomplish the above Intent?

• The goal of this mission is to offer support to newer and more experimental projects that may not otherwise be competitive under the larger grant mission requests.

What is required to execute this Mission Request?

• Grantees must launch their proposed project by the end of mission period, which in this case is 6 months.
• Project should be useable end-to-end by the desired user, whether that is consumers or developers.

How should governance participants measure impact upon completion of this Mission?

• Milestones: Milestones should represent tangible progress towards the deployment of the tool or application, and also also clearly define the features that will be complete and useable by the end of the grant period.
• Metrics: Did the project succesfully deploy? Is the project useable end-to-end as described in the application? Is the project reaching it's desired users?
• Impact: How many users did the grantee bring on with their project? How large is the design-space in applications unlocked by this project? How has this project contributed to developer growth?

Has anyone other than the proposer contributed to this Mission Request? Not at this time.

Which metric will the success of this Mission Request be evaluated against?

The North star metric against which this Mission Request should be evaluated is # of active addresses interacting with grantee’s contracts, as this Mission Request plans to grow the number of active developers on the Superchain through the adoption of improved infrastructure and better open standards. This metric was suggested by the Foundation and approved by the Grants Council.