Optimism Growth Grants

Forward-looking grants for already-launched Superchain apps: you submit a growth plan with KPIs and a requested allocation, reviewed by the Grants Council in a dated season window.

What you get

Season Budget 3.89M OPCash

Equity takenNone, non-dilutive

Time to decisionwithin 15 days

Strings attachedIf approved, the grant is delivered at intervals: 40% upfront and 60% upon completion of critical milestones.

Can you apply

VC backingnot stated

Referral or partnernot stated

Registered companynot stated

Individualsnot stated

Open sourcenot stated

CountriesOpen worldwide

Before you applyProject must already be launched with contracts deployed on a supported chain; submit a growth plan with milestones and KPIs via the Grants Council website.

My project has deployed contracts on a supported chain. My project aligns with TVL or tx fees.

When

Not open right now, and no next round has been announced.

Past rounds

Season 9closed 20 May 2026

What Optimism funds

Rewards impact after the fact: Retro Funding pays OP to projects that have already shipped and can prove their contribution to Optimism and the wider Superchain. The Collective has allocated 850M OP to Retro Funding and has rewarded 60,815,042 OP to contributors since 2022. A smaller forward-looking Growth Grants track funds growth plans from apps that have already launched.

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Details

Sits in Optimism's Retro Funding mission catalogue but is not retroactive: "Applicants submit a plan for growth, methods for measuring success, and their desired capital allocation to execute their plan." For Season 9 "plans should target at least one of the following success metrics: DEX TVL in Priority Pairs (Liquidity); DEX Fees in Priority Pairs." Applications go through the Grants Council website; "Review takes an average of 15 days." The mission page showed status Closed at time of capture. Published example awards: Moonwell 205k, Sake Finance 66.9k.

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