Foundation Mission Request: NumbaNERD S8 [CONTRIBUTIONS] #284
Description
Proposed Foundation Mission Request: This Mission proposal is to create a bounty board for governance related analytics. The bounty program will be managed by the proposal Sponsors. Some bounties may be restricted to contributors who have previously contributed (numbaNERDs). The entire requested grant goes towards program participants and not to Sponsors. All program participants will need to complete KYC before receiving grant rewards (after a year lock).
Intent: A set of interoperable Stage 1 chains doing $250M in cross-chain asset transfers
Total grant amount: 15,000 OP
Should this Foundation Mission be fulfilled by one or multiple teams: Multiple
OP Labs or Optimism Unlimited Sponsor: [email protected]. Mission supported by opjulian.
Submit by: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Selection by: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Start date: July 24 2025
Completion date: Start date of S9.
How will this Mission help accomplish this Season’s Intent?
No DAO is truly transparent without comprehensive data analysis. How do we know if what we are doing is pushing us forward? How do we know if the Superchain is succeeding without clear data? This mission proposal is to fund new issues on the NumbaNERDs bounty board. These issues will be maintained by the Sponsors. Issues can be added by The Milestones & Metrics subcommittee, GovNERDs, OP Labs, The Optimism Foundation & OSO (as it relates to Optimism and RetroFunding). All participants must complete KYC before claiming an issue. Some issues will be gated to known contributors due to complexity or context requirements.
What is required to execute this Mission?
NumbaNERDs:
The NumbaNERDs are independent community members who volunteer to participate in Optimism focused analytic tasks and projects. Anyone with an analytics or data scientist background can participate by joining the NumbaNERD community in the Optimism Discord (see the become-a-numbaNERD channel).
Applicants need to meet the following criteria:
All NumbaNERDs are required to pass KYC before they can claim an issue. All rewards are locked for a year (from data of Mission start).
- Complete and pass KYC. This is a requirement to be able to claim an issue.
- Get the wannabe-NumbaNERD role from the become-a-numbaNERD channel in the Optimism Discord.
- Have a background or understanding of basic data analytics or data sciences. This program is not intended to educate or onboard new data scientists.
- For new contributors to claim “hard” issues they will need to successfully complete at least 1 easy and 1 medium tasks, as well as provide a portfolio or project showing their ability to complete advanced data tasks.
NumbaNERDs Requirements:
- Attend NumbaNERD calls for QnA and task checkin. These calls are not compulsory, but failure to attend and late/delayed task completion may result in losing the NumbaNERD status. These sessions are intended to assist in the timely completion of tasks.
- NumbaNERDs successful completion of an issue will be rewarded by the corresponding difficulty of the issue. All rewards are locked for a year and subject to KYC.
- All issues are subject to quality guidelines. These will be provided with the issues.
How should progress towards completion be measured?
Token House milestones are mostly about accountability, so they should measure progress towards completion.
- The program is able to complete at least 10 tasks, reducing the backlog for involved issue issuers.
- Claimers: Are there sufficient resources and context provided on issues to complete them.
- Ease of use: Is the program easy for issuers to use? Can one reliably delegate tasks to this group?
- Quality of “hard” issues completed (is the quality sufficient to be considered done? How much post-issue work is required to use the data?)
- External teams & council impact: Is this program having a positive impact on external data teams, are they willing to continue engaging with NumbaNERDs?
Please note: All of the contributor roles and associated rewards described here are intended for independent and engaged community members who volunteer to provide their knowledge and expertise to the Collective and receive an honorarium in the form of OP. These volunteers are not employees of the Collective, the Foundation, or any of its affiliates for any purpose.
Application Instructions
NumbaNERDs:
To apply for this Foundation Mission, please complete the [application form](https://app.deform.cc/form/d868b2ef-7be8-4ba9-974e-afb438155021). Existing NumbaNERDs MUST reapply through the same link (even if you have filled this application form in before).