Opening up the ballot box (Retro Funding 5 edition)

Optimism's Retro Funding Round 5 awarded 8M OP to 79 projects, out of about 130 applicants, and the article analyzes how voters and expert and non-expert badgeholders shaped the results. The round's distribution was the flattest of all five Retro Funding rounds, with top project go-ethereum receiving 235K OP (2.9% of the total) and the median project receiving 93K OP. The article states that 80% of the 111 voters funded every project in their assigned category, and that experts were more likely to produce steep, power-law voting patterns. Go-ethereum would have received 146K more OP if only experts had voted.