https://gov.optimism.io/t/final-regenscore/6167

S4 Intent: Governance Accessibility (Intent 4)

Proposed Mission: RegenScore - Attestations for the Citizen’s House

Proposal Tier 29: Ember Tier

Please verify that you meet the qualifications for your Tier: I am a new community member that has not worked with or for the Optimism Collective before.

Baseline grant amount: 95k OP

% of total available Intent Budget: 3%

Alliance name: Trusted Seed

Alliance Lead: Max Semenchuk

Contact info: Telegram: Contact @maxsemenchuk

L2 recipient address: 0xeCd54dB84c80f451b8dbC91ac31f6b7b900b61C0 (we’re considering using a multisig for partners, but need to figure out how to do it. We would like to have an opportunity to revise the address it by the time of approval)

Please list the members of your Alliance and link to any previous work:

• Max Semenchuk (Trusted Seed) Social Entrepreneur, Strategist, Researcher and Change Agent.
• Ivy Bagay (Trusted Seed) Fully immersed in the web3 and crypto space since 2021, Ivy leads operations at Commons Stack and marketing at Trusted Seed and is an active Board Member at the Trusted Seed Association. In addition to her current roles, Ivy has made significant contributions as a previous steward in the Transparency WG of the Token Engineering Commons.
• Yineisy Mota (Trusted Seed) - A skilled and experienced communications professional with a passion for web3 and blockchain technology. Yineisy is a Communications Support & Gardener.
• Nuggan (General Magic) - a skilled data science and solidity developer who currently contributes to Inverter Network and General Magic. One of the original python devs behind the Commons Configuration Dashboard in the TEC.
• Sponnet (Avado) - tech rockstar
• Tosin (General Magic) - Designer
• Lawrence Mosley (Omni Analytics Group / Omniacs.DAO) – Executive Data Scientist with deep Web3 experience as an Ethereum Foundation grant recipient, Gitcoin Passport contributor, and Aave Grants DAO reviewer.
• Ben – Long-term web3 community member and aspiring full-stack blockchain developer under mentoring from Atris (GitcoinDAO)

Advisors

• Griff Green - Co-founder of Commons Stack, Giveth, General Magic & DAppNode; Top Steward in ENS, Gitcoin, Optimism, Arbitrum, TEC as well as many other Ethereum community projects.
• Atris (Gitcoin DAO) - Co-founder of the original RegenScore. Senior full-stack blockchain developer, currently core contributor at GitcoinDAO.
• Morten (Supermodular.xyz, Buidlbox) - Co-founder of the original RegenScore, ex Gitcoin Foundation, General Manager at supermodular, working on buidlbox

Please explain how this Mission will help accomplish the above Intent:

TL;DR

Creating a RegenScore can help qualify members for Optimism’s Citizen’s House, it promotes a transparent, fair, and data-driven approach to giving governance to regen actors across the web3 ecosystem. We will create an easy website for people to claim their own RegenScore attestation which can be used as a criteria for earning membership to the Citizen’s House.

OP pitch

OP pitch

Broken down further:

Democratization of Governance: With the help of the RegenScore, Optimism’s Citizen’s House can qualify its members based on their blockchain activity, allowing for an automated inclusion into the Citizen’s House. This score, if used as part of the inclusion assessment can provide lesser-known pseudonymous regens an equal opportunity to participate and have their voices heard, provided they are active and contribute positively to the regen web3 space.

Transparent Individual Evaluation: The RegenScore provides a clear and comprehensive measure of individual behavior on the blockchain, taking into account factors such as interaction with airdrops, POAPs, interactions with well-known regen economies and other key elements of participation.

Gamification of Public Goods: The RegenScore will also incentivize more active participation within the public goods ecosystem. Tracking and creating leaderboards and on-chain attestations of the REGEN Score will create non-monetary incentives to be a positive force for good in the web3 ecosystem.

Accountability and Trust: The RegenScore can act as a reputation system, verifying that an individual’s actions align with the standards and values of the Citizen’s House, and the responsibility entrusted to them to distribute Retroactive Public Goods Funding. This can lead to increased trust within the community, making governance more widely accessible based on a system of merit.

Data-Driven Decision Making: By providing objective, data-driven scores, the RegenScore can assist in making informed decisions about the Regen-ness of an address. This can foster a more open and inclusive governance system for Optimism, and for other organizations throughout the ecosystem. Decisions about who to give airdrops to, and include in participatory governance can be made based on hard data rather than incomplete subjective judgment.

What makes your Alliance well-suited to execute this Mission?

Being active contributors to Trusted Seed for years, Max, Yineisy and Ivy have extensive experience in curating a network of trusted individuals who have access to the initialization of Commons and regen economies. The Trusted Seed members played an important role in the governance and initial fundraising of the Token Engineering Commons (TEC) using their CSTK score, which has been migrated to $TRUST. Currently, ~80% of the $TEC token is held by former/current Trusted Seed members and its price has been performing about as well as Ethereum, which is largely in part because they excluded non-trusted members of the community

Nuggan, Sponnet and Tosin are part of the Trusted Seed and we have worked with them in the past on Commons Stack and Trusted Seed projects, and we are confident we can make an excellent product. Laurance will hold down the data science responsibilities on the team. Griff Green will give us insight into the regen community, Atris will help us kick start this project on top of his hackathon prototype here: https://regenscore.vercel.app/, with Morten providing ideation and guidance based on his original idea of Regenscore.

Please list the critical milestone(s) that should be tracked to determine if you should receive your grant in one year:

Critical milestone(s) demonstrates the proposal has been executed (a clawback is possible for failure to execute on critical milestones)

• Milestone 1: Conceptual Design of the RegenScore presented for feedback. Collaborate with the team to establish the parameters and elements that the RegenScore will measure. This includes defining how the system will measure an individual’s blockchain behaviour such as:
• Interaction with regen tokens e.g. $GIV, $PAN , $KLIMA, $GTC, $UBI, $BCT, $NCT, etc
• Holders of POAPs for regen events e.g. Regens United, ETHBarcelona, ETHGlobal hackathons, etc
• Interactions with regen NFTs e.g. Greatest LARP, ETHbot, MoonshotBots, Rainbow Rolls, World of Women, Pooly NFTs etc.
• Donations on Gitcoin, clr.fund, Giveth, Unchain Fund, Earthquake Relief, etc.
• Voting on Snapshot for regen orgs, being a delegate protocols
• Management of airdropped tokens for $OP, $ENS, $GTC, $UNI, etc

We will post updates on this forum post, but mostly we will use Twitter to request feedback on missing regen on-chain activity.

Milestone 2: Prototype Development and Testing. Develop a working prototype of the RegenScore system and conduct initial testing during EthGlobal Hackathon (Paris). Modify and refine the algorithm based on test results.

Milestone 3: Development of the Scoring Algorithm. Using the parameters defined and crowd-sourced, we will develop the scoring algorithm. This involves creating a mathematical model that will calculate the REGEN Score based on the predefined parameters. We will present this on the forum for feedback.

Milestone 4: Pilot Phase. Implement the RegenScore system on a small scale. Collect feedback and make further refinements to the UX and scoring algorithm.

Milestone 5: Full Implementation and Launch. After the system has been thoroughly tested and refined, roll out the RegenScore system and enable on-chain attestations.

Post launch

• Milestone 6: Post-Implementation Review and Refinement. Gather feedback from users and conduct a comprehensive review of the system’s performance. Make any necessary adjustments and improvements based on this feedback.
• Milestone 7: Continued Maintenance and Improvement. Regularly review and update the RegenScore system to ensure that it remains accurate, relevant, and effective.

How should Token House delegates measure progress towards this Mission:

This project launch is expected to be completed in 2.5 months.

• Milestone 1
• Target completion: July 26
• Milestone 2
• Target completion: Aug 9
• Milestone 3
• Target completion: Aug 23
• Milestone 4
• Target completion: Sept 6
• Milestone 5
• Target completion: Sept 20

How should badgeholders measure impact upon completion of this Mission?

End User Adoption: The rate of RegenScores that have been calculated. A growing rate signifies the successful implementation and acceptance of the system within the community. We want to see people spreading this organically on social media (not a trustworthy metric though).

Number of Integrations: The RegenScore should also be useful to crypto organizations besides Optimism. Airdrops, NFT premints & voting permissions are only the most obvious use cases; we are excited to see what ReFi projects will do when this data is easily generated on-chain.

Breakdown of Mission budget request:

This project is expected to be completed in 2.5 months.

• Milestone 1
• Target completion: 20k OP
• Milestone 2
• Target completion: 20k OP
• Milestone 3
• Target completion: 20k OP
• Milestone 4
• Target completion: 15k OP
• Milestone 5
• Target completion: 20k OP

I confirm that my grant will be subject to clawback for failure to execute on critical milestones: Yes

I confirm that I have read and understand the grant policies: Yes

I understand that I will be required to provide additional KYC information to the Optimism Foundation to receive this grant: Yes

I understand that I will be expected to following the public grant reporting requirements outlined here: Yes