Delegate Mission Request: Subsidized Audit Grants

[opjulian]

Delegate Mission Request: Subsidized Audit Grants

Application Link

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Delegate Mission Request Summary

This is a continuation of this Mission Request from last season: gather smart contract auditors to provide subsidized audits for promising projects determined by the Grants Council.

S6 Intent

Intent 3A

Proposing Delegate/Citizen

Anthias Labs

Total grant amount

250,000 OP

Should this Mission be fulfilled by one or multiple applicants?

Multiple

How will this Mission Request help accomplish the above Intent?

This Mission Request will help accomplish Intent 3A (helping the Collective grow the number of active developers across the Superchain) by helping with the cost of audits for new projects launching in the Optimism ecosystem. By assisting with the cost of audits for nascent but promising projects, we can grow the number of sustainable projects and developers across the Superchain.

What is required to execute this Mission Request?

To execute this Mission Request, we will need a pool of qualified auditors, multiple of which supported this Mission Request and its applicants in Season 5. We will also need a system to assess how projects are determined eligible for an audit grant–this will be handled primarily by our team at Anthias Labs and M4rio.eth, as the Audit Reviewers of the Grants Council for Season 6. Finally, we will need a pool of qualified projects to apply for audits. This program saw significant adoption in Season 5, so we do not envision this posing an issue for Season 6.

How should governance participants measure impact upon completion of this Mission?

• Milestones
  • Audit Reviewer committee in place
  • Pool of qualified auditors elected
  • First pool of project applicants
  • First round of audit grants awarded
• Metrics
  • Number of audit grants given
  • Quality of audit teams we are working with
  • Number of auditors working with
• Impact
  • Usage data (per-project) for funded projects
  • Total TVL and/or fees generated by funded projects
  • Total team members of teams funded for audit grants that are now building across the Superchain

Has anyone other than the proposer contributed to this Mission Request?

No

Which metric will the success of this Mission Request be evaluated against?

The North star metric against which this Mission Request should be evaluated is # of active addresses interacting with grantee’s contracts, as this Mission Request plans to grow the number of active developers on the Superchain through the adoption of improved infrastructure and better open standards. This metric was suggested by the Foundation and approved by the Grants Council.

[vlady-hacken]

gm Julian! Vlady from Hacken here.
Thanks for crafting this RFP.

• What is the deadline for submitting the auditor candidacy?

• Also, could you confirm that the 'Application link' is intended for auditors or OP projects seeking subsidy?

Based on the questions from the Application, it seems it's more targeted at projects and their products seeking subsidy (e.g., questions about the user base, monetisation model, OP tokens distribution).