Optimism allocated a total of 850 million Optimism tokens worth $3.3 billion for grants to its blockchain builders.

4 rounds of Retro Funding in 2024:

▫️Round 4 (May) - Onchain Builders. This includes builders who bring new users to the Superchain, drive network effects and protocol usage.

▫️Round 5 (August) - OP Stack. Contributions to the OP Stack and improvements to the foundational elements of Optimism's infrastructure will be rewarded in this round.

▫️Round 6 (August) - Governance. This round will focus on rewarding key governance infrastructure that enables continued decentralization.

▫️Round 7 (October) - Dev Tooling. Supporting Optimism builders with developer tooling is the focus of this category.

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