<aside> 👋 TLDR

• Voting is live! See instructions on how to vote here: How to vote
• Voting in RetroPGF 2 vote takes place Mar 9 - March 23 19:00 GMT
• You’ll help allocate 10m OP tokens to public goods projects. Together with roughly 70 badgeholders you will vote on the distribution of 10M OP
• This requires a ~4-6 hour time commitment spread out over several weeks
  • 2x community calls, discussion in Discord, and voting on funding.
• Each voter will be able to mint an Optimist PFP ahead of public mint in 2023 ✨ </aside>

Welcome 🔴✨

Dear Badgeholders,

If you’re reading this manual, you likely are already familiar with the context around OP’s RetroPGF experiments. If you’d like a refresher, please read through our recent RetroPGF Round 2 announcement post or visit our governance documentation.

We are excited to welcome your expertise into the initial iteration of the Optimism Citizens’ House. As a citizen, your primary responsibility at this stage is to help allocate public goods funding in the Optimism ecosystem.

This document is your guide to voting in RetroPGF 2.

📌 The Basics

RetroPGF 2 consists of several phases. Your primary responsibility is in Step 3. Voting.

1. Badgeholder distribution

From Dec 3 → Jan 15, the Optimism Foundation will reach out to potential badgeholders to collect voting addresses and contact information. If you accept your voting badge, you will be given write access a public Discord channel that we’ll use as our primary communication channel.

• ✨ More info on Voting Badge distribution criteria
• 🗣 More info on badgeholder outreach and comms

2. Project Nominations

From Jan 17 → Jan 31, any community member can nominate a project or person for funding by posting on the **Optimism Governance Forum.** Nominated projects must complete a profile in the RetroPGF application manager in order to be eligible for voting.

As a badgeholder, you are welcome to nominate projects yourself. You’re also welcome to engage in public discussion on the types of nominations you’d like to see.