Optimism opens Retro Funding 5 providing 8 million OP

• Optimism’s Retro Funding spherical 5 is open for purposes till September 5, 2024.
• The Optimism crew has additionally welcomed new Ethereum Layer-2 Soneium to the Superchain.

Optimism has introduced that its Retroactive Public Items Funding (Retro Funding) 5 spherical is now open for purposes.

In line with the platform’s announcement on August 23, Optimism (OP) contributors have till September 5 at 19:00 UTC to submit purposes.

Eligible tasks will win a part of the 8 million OP the brand new spherical has out there to Ethereum core builders, OP Stack analysis and improvement groups and OP Stack tooling builders.

Who’s eligible for Retro Funding 5?

The Retro Funding 5 spherical will supply rewards to tasks which have generated impression throughout the OP ecosystem between October 2023 and August 2024. Ethereum core contributors embrace sensible contract languages, execution shoppers, EVMs, testnets, and cryptography researchers.

In the meantime, OP Stack researchers embrace tasks that instantly contribute to the OP Stack and the Optimism protocol. These embrace consumer Implementations, modules and audits. Integration and cargo testing infrastructure and RaaS suppliers are amongst OP Stack tooling tasks eligible for the funding.

Optimism welcomes Soneium

Different information developments for Optimism associated to Sony’s launch of the Soneium, an Ethereum Layer-2 chain leveraging the OP Stack. In an announcement following Soneium’s unveiling, Optimism stated the L2 was now a part of the Superchain.

GM! Welcome @soneium to the Superchain! ✨

Soneium is an Ethereum Layer 2 constructed by Sony Block Options Labs on the OP Stack. pic.twitter.com/arvajOqJpJ

— Optimism (@Optimism) August 23, 2024

Soneium shall be a general-purpose community that may search to bridge Web2 and Web3.

“Sony Block Options Labs, the three way partnership between Sony Group and Startale selected to construct with Optimism for its world-class tech, robust builder group, and thriving ecosystem,” Sota Watanabe, director of Sony Block Options Labs, stated in a press release.

Watanabe can be the CEO of Startale, the platform behind Astar zkEVM and which plans to transition it to Soneium’s L2 community.