Seeing a lot of discourse over the ongoing @optimism Onchain Builder round. 

The Foundation wants to reward builders - defined as protocols deploying factory contracts.

This means most creators and teams like @cooprecs driving usage to Zora or Sound etc. don’t qualify.

Thoughts?

Onchain is the new online - FID 206 -  cooprecords.xyz

This is a tough - I see both sides. 

I would argue driving volume to contracts is more impactful than the deployment of those contracts.

We drove 150k mints across 50+ artist wallets from 200+ songs but since they are Sound contracts - they likely don’t qualify. 

Tough pill to swallow but that’s showbiz

The funny part is the biggest driver of mints was us using Boosts to reward people with OP we got from RetroPGF Round 3.

Good case study to reinforce that you always need to be evolving and it’s important to not be reliant on grants.

Will be interesting to watch unfold!

Builders is a broader concept so limiting to "deploying contracts" is a rigid restriction, the teams that are working to promote onchain movement deserve to not be left out.

Otherside, what ab onchain users? A provision where builders must commit to allo a portion of reward to users will attract more participants imo.