AnthiasLabs is a risk and technical contributor at a variety of other protocol governances. M4rio.eth is a security reviewer with more than 100 reviews to date.

GFXlabs, Katie, MattL, Michael, MoneyManDoug, Jackanorak, and Mastermojo are all incumbent Grants Council members. We believe that all of them (which includes ourselves) have done a good job, and retaining experienced members is important for the continued improvement of the Optimism grants process. Tane is a group with technical background and that has been active in governance across several projects. Sov has grants experience from Gitcoin. Jrocki is a former Optimism Foundation employee, and has been engaged with governance. He co-hosts an L2-focused Twitter Spaces with Michael. Derbygold.eth has grants experience from Polygon. Brichis is the current Anticapture Commission lead, and we think moving her to a more active role would better utilize her energy and commitment to Optimism

These are all incumbent Grants Council members. We believe that all of them have done a good job, and retaining experienced members is important for the continued improvement of the Optimism grants process.

This program was not utilized in Season 5, so we don’t see a need for expansion. We also don’t want a large number of new Superchain members to be able to dominate governance decisions on expenditures when they may have varying amount of skin in the game for Optimism mainnet’s success.

This mostly clarifies and slightly reduces the scope of duties for the ACC. In particular, it is now clearly stated that the ACC is not required to vote on proposals that are not technical upgrades or subject to Citizen’s House veto, though it may still choose to do so if it prefers.

We still think this is too much OP, but at this point require a budget for the Code of Conduct Council to continue operating. We would have preferred a number much closer to the 18,000 OP budget of last season.

These changes have been reviewed and recommended by OP Labs and Coinbase engineers.

Blockdev has experience with ZK and security, having done audit work for projects like Blast, LIFI, and zkEVM. Wildmolasses (aka Ed) is a Coinbase engineer who is already a contributor to the OP stack. Devtooligan is a developer with security experience. Alextnetto.eth has significant web2 development experience and currently works with his a team of 10 developers for the web3 company he founded, Blockful. Noah.eth is the Head of Security Reviews at Spearbit.

This is a fix for a possible issue where more complex actions with partial delegation would result in the delegate receiving lower voting weight than expected. It also introduces new possible capabilities around sub-delegation.

This council operated with a budget of 18,000 OP last season. The nature of its work means most of the time there are few tasks for the council to do - it only needs to be active when a complaint has been raised. Because of this, payment is mostly a retainer, and not intended to be compensation for large amounts of work.