Reflections on Filecoin's first round of RetroPGF
Filecoin’s first RetroPGF round ("FIL RetroPGF 1") concluded last week, awarding nearly 200,000 FIL to 99 (out of 106 eligible) projects.
For a full discussion of the results, I strongly recommend reading Kiran Karra’s article for CryptoEconLab. It includes some excellent data visualizations as well as links to raw data and anonymized voting results.
This post will explore the results from a different angle, looking specifically at three aspects:
- How the round compared to Optimism’s most recent round (RetroPGF3)
- How impact was presented to badgeholders
- How open source software impact was rewarded by badgeholders
It will conclude with some brief thoughts on how metrics can help with evaluation in future RetroPGF rounds.
As always, you can view the analysis notebooks here and run your own analysis using Open Source Observer data by going here. If you want additional context for how the round was run, check out the complete Notion guide here.
