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Reading the tweets from the individuals and projects who received funding from RetroPGF 2 has us feeling some type of way.❤️✨ We could all use a dopamine boost to start the week, so we’re sharing a handful of them:

RetroPGF is a positive-sum game that makes the whole Collective better. Massive thanks to the citizen badgeholders who are creating an economic model where public goods are rewarded with profit equal to their impact.

10M OP was awarded through RetroPGF Round 2 to the builders and educators whose impact is essential to growing the Optimism Ecosystem. 🌞 🌱 RetroPGF is changing how impactful work is rewarded, and it’s made possible in large part by the efforts of the citizen bagdeholders.

Tomorrow on OP Radio we will be joined by none other than @lalalavendr. We'll discuss The Collective DAO Archives, an incredible open-source resource she created following months of research on DAO governance and policy. See you there! xitter.gq/i/spaces/1PlJQpXnAYaGE

Support NERDs provide human-to-human support on the Optimism Discord. They report spam and scams, flag issues and bugs, and answer questions in a friendly manner. Their efforts help keep the Optimism community safe and educate folks about the project. OP awarded: 93.6k

To provide a framework for badgeholders to vote for RetroPGF 2, eligible projects were placed in 1 of 3 categories: • Education • Infrastructure + Dependencies • Tooling + Utilities Projects & people in Education received 3,064,659 OP! This thread highlights the top 10.👩‍🎓

Tomorrow rounds out the top 10 highlights with RetroPGF’s third category: Tooling + Utilities! 🛠️ For the full list of distributions across all three categories, check out the results blog post: optimism.mirror.xyz/Upn_LtV2…

@ErigonEth is an execution client implementation of Ethereum on the efficiency frontier. Erigon has a fast and compact data model, pushing the boundaries of archive node performance and the team is constantly innovating to deliver a more optimized Ethereum. OP awarded: 141.6K

In RetroPGF 2, 10M OP was rewarded to those who supported the usage and development of the OP Stack! Infrastructure + Dependencies projects and people received 3,706,329 OP overall, and today’s showcase spotlights the category’s top 10 recipients!🏗️

We'll share more info in the coming weeks as we get closer to the actual upgrade. For now, taking a moment to celebrate. Feeling thankful. ❤️✨

We’re thrilled that the Token House has approved the Bedrock upgrade!🎉 This is a major milestone—not only as the Collective's first ever vote on a protocol upgrade, but also as a step towards the Bedrock-enabled, Superchain future. superchain.optimism.io

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And there here you have it: the top 10 Tooling + Utilities recipients! This wraps up the RetroPGF2 category recaps. Check out the results blog post for the full list of distributions: optimism.mirror.xyz/Upn_LtV2…

@nounsagora is governance public infrastructure for delegates and builders. Agora’s open source governance contracts and apps are increasing accountability, transparency, and decentralization for the Collective without trading off accessibility and UX. OP awarded: 101.9K

Of the 10M OP rewarded in RetroPGF Round 2, projects and people in the Tooling + Utilities category received 3,229,011 OP overall! Today’s showcase spotlights the category’s top 10 recipients! 🛠️

Happy Fri-yay, you beautiful nerds. You know what time it is--but this recap is built different. This week saw not one but TWO of the Collective’s most significant governance milestones since its launch almost a year ago. 🧵👇