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08/20 19:21
Optimism Vote Redirects 546.9M OP From User Airdrops to Foundation‑Controlled Strategic Fund
Optimism approved redirecting 546.9 million OP, 12.7% of the total supply, from user airdrops to a strategic fund.
The decisive vote was cast by Test in Prod, a team funded by the Collective, with 8.486 million OP and just 16 minutes before the deadline.
Without that vote, the proposal would have ended at 46.47% approval and the funds would have remained allocated to users.
The Ethereum scaling network Optimism approved a proposal redirecting 546.9 million OP tokens —equivalent to approximately $49.7 million— from the airdrop allocation for users to a new Strategic Ecosystem Fund managed directly by the Optimism Foundation.
The official result was 17.974 million OP in favor against 10.931 million against, a difference that depended entirely on a single last-minute vote.
The Controversy Behind the Optimism Vote
The team known as Test in Prod, identified in its Agora profile as a core development team of the Optimism Collective and described in a 2025 Security Council nomination as “fully funded by the Collective”, cast 8.486 million OP in favor with just 16 minutes and 52 seconds remaining before the deadline. This raised approval from 45.77% to 61.84%. Without that vote, the proposal would have closed at 46.47% and the funds would have remained allocated to user airdrops.
The Foundation argued that mass airdrops no longer align with the institutional adoption strategy the network is pursuing, and that unused tokens could fund partnerships, incentives and corporate agreements. The cumulative deployment report was promised through the annual budget report.
Critical Voices and Lack of Transparency
Research platform L2BEAT objected to the open-ended authority granted by the proposal, noted the absence of a clear link to value for token holders and questioned the lack of a review of prior partnership spending. The researcher known as Polynya and others argued that the plan rewrote the user allocation without per-deal oversight.
Test in Prod defended the decision by appealing to the confidentiality that business competition demands. “We are in an uphill battle, the enterprise market is expensive and the window is now”, the team wrote, also requesting that the Foundation disclose aggregated deployment results after the fact. On social media, several users pointed to other address clusters linked to the Optimism team, suggesting that vote coordination may have been more organized than was publicly disclosed.
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