Voting power was snapshotted on Aug. 13 at block 155,526,433, one week before voting closed. Any OP bought or delegated after that snapshot could not count toward the proposal.
The Optimism Foundation said broad user airdrops no longer match Optimism’s institutional adoption strategy and that the unspent tokens could instead support partnerships, incentives and enterprise deals. It proposed reporting cumulative deployment through its annual budget report, according to the proposal.
Ethereum scaling research platform L2BEAT objected to the open-ended authority, an unclear link to tokenholder value and the absence of a review of earlier partnership spending, while pseudonymous rollup researcher Polynya and others argued that the plan rewrote the user allocation without deal-specific oversight.
Test in Prod argued that enterprise bidding requires confidentiality and that Optimism needed the fund to compete.
“We’re in an uphill battle, the enterprise market is expensive, and the window is now,” Test in Prod wrote. “We think we need the war chest today, and we should be careful about handing information to competitors.”
Test in Prod further asked the Foundation to disclose aggregate deployments and outcomes afterward. Various users on social media flagged other Optimism Team address clusters, suggesting more organized voting was ongoing.
