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1. Voting Mechanics
2. Lists
3. Voting Apps & tools

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Voting Mechanics

This graphic shows how results for each application are calculated using the median and votes are private.

You vote in RetroPGF by expressing how much OP each application should receive to fill the gap between the amount of impact they created for the Optimism Collective and the profit they received (see Impact = Profit Framework). Your aim should be to vote on as many applications as possible!

1. The RetroPGF rewards for each application are calculated by applying the median to badgeholder’s votes on the application.
2. You can allocate up to 30m OP among all applications, and you can allocate between 0 and 5m OP to a single application.
3. If you’re not voting on an application, you’re expressing indifference as to how much OP this application should receive. In other words, applications are not penalised if you abstain from voting on them.
4. Results are calculated using the median. Each application needs to receive a minimum quorum of votes from 17 badgeholders to qualify. If an application does not meet that threshold they will not be able to receive RetroPGF rewards. Voting Applications will enable you to discover how many ballots an application is included in, giving an important signal if they’re likely to meet the quorum.
5. Results will be scaled to match the round size of 30m OP. For an application to qualify for payouts, it needs to receive more than 1500 OP.
6. Votes are private. They are only revealed to the Optimism Foundation, and selected third parties involved in the RetroPGF voting process, to calculate results and to enforce the Code of Conduct.

Lists

Untitled Database

There are hundreds of applications in RetroPGF 3. You are not responsible for reviewing all of them or knowing everything about every contribution category! Instead, this round of RetroPGF empowers badgeholders by introducing Lists - a new form of flexible delegation.

• A List contains a set of applications, chosen from the total set of RetroPGF applicants, together with a suggested OP allocation for each application.
• Lists facilitate knowledge sharing among badgeholders, you can use Lists to defer to experts on applications you’re less familiar with by easily replicating or modifying votes.
• Each List should reference some methodology for allocating OP to each application based on the List creator’s expertise and evaluation of relevant data.
• Only badgeholders can create Lists

Lists allow badgeholders to leverage the expertise of other badgeholders when they cast their own votes, while maintaining the agency to combine or modify their votes based on individual preferences. You should expect to spend the first 2 weeks of the voting period (Nov 6th - Nov 20th) on creating Lists and the second half of (Nov 20th-Dec 7th) on voting using Lists of others.

Lists - Code of Conduct

• ****Badgeholders are free to create Lists which include any applications.
• As per the Optimism Code of Conduct, badgeholders must disclose any actual or reasonably anticipated conflicts of interest. You can do your disclosure here
• It is recommended for badgeholders to include a link to their conflict of interest declaration in their List description for full transparency. This will allow other badgeholders to consider this information when using Lists.

Voting Apps & tools

Voting Applications

In Round 3, you’re presented with two different voting applications which you can use to review RetroPGF applications, create Lists and vote. Pick and choose which you like better:

→ Agora’s RetroPGF implementation

→ West’s RetroPGF implementation

Useful tools

Open Source Observer Data for analyzing off- and onchain impact of OSS projects

Pairwise Gamifying list creation by categorizing applicants into small groups for experts' pairwise comparison.