Optimism governance approved a proposal to move 546.9 million OP tokens, valued at roughly $49.7 million at the time of the vote, from an allocation reserved for future user airdrops into a Strategic Ecosystem Fund administered by the Optimism Foundation.
The change removes the remaining dedicated pool for future user airdrops and authorizes the Foundation to deploy the tokens for partnership deals, incentives and other initiatives intended to grow OP Mainnet and OP Enterprise. The proposal said no additional airdrops are currently planned and that tokens already distributed through Airdrops 1 through 5 are unaffected.
Approval hinged on Test in Prod, an Optimism core development team, casting 8.486 million OP in favor with 16 minutes and 52 seconds left. The onchain vote finished with 17.974 million OP supporting the proposal and 10.931 million opposing it.
Test in Prod's vote lifted support to 61.84% from 45.77%, according to CoinDesk's review of the tally. Without the team's position, final support would have been 46.47%.
Test in Prod described itself in a 2025 Optimism Security Council nomination as “a core development team of Optimism Collective” and said, “We are fully funded by the Collective.” The team has worked on the OP Stack since 2022, including its execution client, network upgrades and fault-proof infrastructure, according to the nomination.
