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ChainCatcher news, Filecoin announced that it will launch the second round of the FIL-RetroPGF (Retroactive Public Goods Funding) program in the fall of 2024. This program is inspired by Optimism and aims to provide retroactive impact funding for the Filecoin ecosystem.The first round of FIL-RetroPGF has distributed over 200,000 FIL (approximately 1 million USD) to 95 projects.The second round will provide more funding, simplify the application, voting, and allocation processes, and improve the user experience. Funds will be distributed via Drips on the FVM. FIL-RetroPGF-2 will continue to cover multiple categories such as infrastructure, tools, education, protocol development, governance, and products, with a particular focus on Filecoin data ingress, applications that enhance usability, on-chain payment development for FVM, progress in protocol development, cross-network connection projects, and reliable tools such as high-quality RPC providers, browsers, and dashboards.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum's Layer 2 scaling solution Optimism announced the results of its third round of retroactive public goods funding (RetroPGF 2), with a total of 30 million OP tokens to be allocated to contributors of public goods in the Optimism Collective.RetroPGF primarily rewards individuals and projects that create infrastructure, tools, and content to promote the flourishing of the Optimism ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news, Optimism announced that it will distribute 30 million OP to fund projects and developers in RetroPGF 3. Participants can be nominated based on the following four categories of contributions: improving the efficiency, security, and resilience of the OP Stack; influencing governance participants of the Optimism Collective or helping to bring in new governance participants; work that impacts application developers within the Optimism Collective; and work that impacts end users within the Optimism Collective.ChainCatcher previously reported that Optimism announced the voting results of RetroPGF 2, which will distribute 195 grants to individuals and projects, totaling 10 million OP. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Optimism announced the voting results of RetroPGF 2, which will distribute 195 grants to individuals and projects, totaling 10 million OP. The median OP received by RetroPGF 2 projects was 22,825, while the top 10% of projects will receive over 140,000 OP, with funds evenly distributed among three categories: education, infrastructure, and tools and utilities.In the education category, 70 individuals or projects were funded, with the top three recipients being L2Beat, ETHGlobal, and BuidlGuidl; the infrastructure category funded 43 projects, with the top three recipients being Protocol Guild, geth, and Solidity; the tools and utilities category funded 82 projects, with the top three recipients being OpenZeppelin, DefiLlama, and wagmi. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Optimism announced the launch of the Optimist NFT series. The Optimist NFT is currently in the testing phase and is initially open for minting to users who voted in the second round of the retroactive public goods funding (RetroPGF 2). Starting in early 2023, hundreds of active addresses will be invited to mint each month.Optimism stated that the Optimist NFT is a customizable PFP project that can represent user identities within the Optimism ecosystem. The Optimist NFT is also one of the first applications built on AttestationStation (a reputation contract on Optimism). (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Optimism announced its second round of retroactive public goods funding (RetroPGF 2). RetroPGF 2 will distribute 10 million OP tokens in January 2023 to fund public goods that support the development and use of the OP Stack. Optimism will also introduce the first generation of the "Citizens' House" to manage the allocation of funds.From January 3 to 17, 2023, anyone can nominate projects or individuals for funding on the Optimism Governance Forum. To be eligible for funding, nominated projects or individuals must complete their project profiles on the Gitcoin Grants Hub between January 3 and 24. Holders of the RetroPGF 2 badge will vote on how to allocate funds to the projects, with voting taking place from January 31 to February 10.It is reported that the voting badges for RetroPGF 2 will be distributed to 90 community members: each RetroPGF 1 holder will receive one RetroPGF 2 badge, the Optimism Token House will select 10 badge holders, and the Optimism Foundation will distribute 21 badges to community members. (source link)