Projects: Round 2

RetroPGF Round 2 took place in Q1 of 2023. In this round, a total of 195 projects were nominated, and all 195 were awarded funding by the badgeholders. The median OP received was 22,825, with the top 10% of projects receiving over 140k OP.

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25,407.48 OP Layer 2 Landscape L2 is a collective term for Ethereum scaling solutions that handle transactions off Ethereum L1, while still taking advantage of the robust decentralized security of Ethereum L1

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26,447.32 OP ITU Blockchain ITU Blockchain Club was founded in 2018 by students interested in blockchain technology as "Turkey's first Blockchain Club" at Istanbul Technical University. It aims to inform everyone who wants to explore blockchain about this technology and create an environment where they can improve themselves.

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27,567.62 OP BanklessDAO Projects Bankless is a global community to help you on your crypto journey

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27,607.95 OP Jrocki – YouTube & Podcast Jrocki - YouTube & Podcast is an Optimism Foundation Contributor and share a valuable information about Optimism community.

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28,260.70 OP Small Brain Games Small Brain Games builds a new on-chain game every 6 weeks.

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31,170.72 OP hildobby’s Dune dashboards Dune is a web-based platform that allows you to query public blockchain data and aggregate it into beautiful dashboards.

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31,481.75 OP diligit Optimist. SP

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45,349.22 OP IC3 IC3 uniquely meets the blockchain community's urgent need for world-class expertise in computer science that spans cryptography, distributed systems, programming languages, game theory, and system security techniques.

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45,993.28 OP Optimism en Español Optimism en Español twitter account where you can find all the updated information from the Optimism community.

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52,240.79 OP Optimism Ambassador collection The Ambassadors of Optimism collection is a group that creates educational content, memes, infographics and in general make the optimistic vision their mission to spre

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55,061.82 OP SEED LATAM (formerly DeFi LATAM) SEED LATAM is an ecosystem that aims to promote knowledge and critical thinking about Web3 in Latin America, as well as to foster the Web3 leaders of the future.

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56,339.40 OP Michael Vander Meiden Michael Vander Meiden you can find him on twitter or Youtube as @elblockchainguy.He is dedicated to fundamental analysis, and DeFi tutorials.

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57,564.71 OP TE Academy TE Academy is the first educational organization dedicated to this new crypto-native discipline of token engineering, which was first ever mentioned in 2018

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58,066.79 OP Bankless Academy Bankless Academy is on a mission to ensure every web3 Explorer is ready for their crypto-verse voyage.

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63,437.90 OP EthernautDAO EthernautDAO are a developer's bridge from web2 to web3

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63,907.22 OP Cryptocurrency and Friends Cryptocurrency and Friends is an educational initiative. Their goal is to understand the ins-and-outs of how a blockchain system like Ethereum works and churn out digestible insights

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65,055.77 OP Where has the OP Gone?

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70,988.29 OP RadicalXChange RadicalxChange (RxC) is a global movement for next-generation political economies. We’re committed to advancing plurality, equality, community, and decentralization through upgrading democracy, markets, the data economy, the commons, and identity.

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85,657.06 OP Translators collection

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93,683.95 OP Support NERDs collection The NERDs responsibilities range from moderation to support, sharing important information, reporting & removing scams, keeping the peace and spreading the ever important optimistic vibe

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98,824.31 OP Polynya Polynya is a blog about rants and musings on blockchain tech.

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121,700.47 OP Week in Ethereum News Week in Ethereum News" is a popular newsletter and online resource that provides regular updates and summaries of the latest developments, news, and events in the Ethereum ecosystem. I

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130,577.81 OP CryptoZombies CryptoZombies is an interactive school that teaches you all things technical about blockchains. Learn to write smart contracts by making your own crypto-collectibles game.

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132,035.12 OP Kernel Kernel is an 8 week program, and we'll be covering a new learning module each week. Each module is made up of two sections: Crafted Reading, which they encourage you to have read before the beginning of each new week; and Curated Briefs which are made up of articles, videos, and the occasional podcast that we highly recommend you go over before the Fireside Chat each week.

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188,573.93 OP ZachXBT ZachXBT is a passionate blockchain enthusiast dedicated to uncovering rug pulls and exposing malicious individuals within the crypto space. His tireless efforts have made a significant impact in keeping the industry safe for everyone.

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206,053.62 OP 0xPARC The xPARC Foundation's core areas of focus encompass research and development of experimental crypto applications, the promotion of open-source tools and infrastructure, and the facilitation of education and community growth within the decentralized technology space.

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224,174.11 OP BuidlGuidl BuildlGuidl is a curated group of Ethereum builders creating products, prototypes, and tutorials to enrich the web3 ecosystem.

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230,005.52 OP ETHGlobal Eth Global is in charge of organizing hackathons around the globe.

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256,294.36 OP L2BEAT L2BEAT is an analytics and research website about Ethereum layer two (L2) scaling.

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985.61 OP MUX Protocol The MUX Protocol Suite is a complex of protocols with features that will offer optimized trading cost, deep liquidity, a wide range of leverage options and diverse market options for traders.

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2,217.50 OP BwareLabs BwareLabs is a web3 infrastructure company providing decentralized RPC/WSS APIs, validator, indexing and bridge operator services. Their core objective is to improve the developer experience within a blockchain ecosystem.

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2,552.76 OP RockX RockX is a blockchain fintech company that helps our customers embrace web 3.0 effortlessly through the development of innovative products and infrastructure.

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2,619.19 OP Odos Odos Smart Order Routing (SOR) is a patented algorithm that optimizes decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, helping traders save on token swaps.

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3,424.26 Launchifi Launchifi´s goal is to empower creators, giving them the power of ownership over their smart contracts, and let anyone with any technical knowledge break into the web3 industry

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6,696.53 OP Orbiter Finance Orbiter Finance is a ZK-tech Based Ethereum Acceleration Engine that boosts L2s' performance and decreases gas consumption.

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7,588.94 OP Fractal Visions Fractal Visions mission is to help educate or assist other creators about crucial information and proper guidance when choosing deployment on the Optimism network for NFTs. This begins with basic 101 eduction on safety & security about blockchain technology before bringing them into the ecosystem.

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8,603.48 OP Ankr Ankr is the leading Web3 infrastructure company. It has a set of different products for building, earning, gaming, and more — all on blockchain.

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12,115.61 OP Crate-Crypto Crate-Crypto is a collection of open source cryprographic implementations and documentation, including but not limited to EIP4844 and verkle tries.

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17,983.16 OP Gelato Gelato is a Web3 infrastructure platform; empowering builders to create zkL2s that are automated, gasless & off-chain aware.

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19,056.60 OP Flexible Voting Flexible Voting is an extension to the widely used OpenZeppelin DAO Governor that enables novel voting patterns for delegates

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19,785.18 OP Web3j web3.js is a collection of libraries that allow you to interact with a local or remote ethereum node using HTTP, IPC or WebSocket.

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21,521.52 OP NiceNode NiceNode is a community made open source project.

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23,531.25 OP Ipsilon Ipsilon is a research & development team funded by the Ethereum Foundation.The team’s core concern is the execution environment / engine of Ethereum (aka the EVM or any future versions or replacements of it).

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24,704.11 OP Optimism DAppNode Package Optimism on DAppNode

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25,954.85 OP Token Terminal Token Terminal is a platform that aggregates financial data on the leading blockchains and decentralized applications.

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34,177.99 OP Umbra Umbra is a protocol for stealth payments on EVM blockchain networks. It enables privacy preserving transactions where the receiver's identity is only known to the sender and receiver.

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39,663.82 OP Akula Akula is a new Ethereum implementation designed to revolutionize speed and efficiency of Ethereum clients. Users can maintain full Ethereum archive nodes with lower disk footprint, below 3TB

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40,012.19 OP Blobscan Blobscan is a blockchain explorer for those EIP-4844 blobs, providing the necessary infrastructure to scale Ethereum.

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40,614.00 OP blst by Supranational blst by Supranational is a highly optimized, cross-platform library designed to facilitate the implementation of the BLS12–381 signature standard in blockchain applications.

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58,180.59 OP Pocket Network Pocket Network is an open protocol that empowers developers with reliable, performant, and cost effective RPC access to the open internet, served via infrastructure that is owned and governed by its users

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58,260.33 OP MerkleTreeJS MerkleTreeJS is a library to construct Merkle Trees and verify proofs in JavaScript

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61,332.92 OP Infinitism (ERC-4337) – Account Abstraction ERC-4337(Account Abstraction via Entry Point Contract specification) is a specification that aims to use an entry point contract to achieve account abstraction without changing the consensus layer protocol of Ethereum.

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62,838.16 OP Keccak hashing Keccak is a versatile cryptographic function.Although Keccak may be used for other purposes, it is best known as a hash function that provides increased levels of security when compared to older hash algorithms, like SHA-1 and SHA-2.