
We talk about Ben’s love of music and Karl and I reminisce about our World of Warcraft days and how they informed our views on the metaverse. Optimism has implemented an automated, protocol-layer method for funding good development, and we discuss the philosophy and implementation behind that.įinally, I peel back the technical layers and get to the human side of Ben and Karl. This will allow this web app to look and behave like any other installed app. This app can be installed on your PC or mobile device. Sadly ETH l2s are currently still all centralized, an optimistic rollup allows anyone to challenge a block and receive a reward if it is invalid, hence the. Check out the Optimism community and join the conversation.

Optimism - In The Moment Tracking (Trailing Week by Hour) Optimism. They then have to pay fees on ETH mainnet for their transactions that secure Optimism. Optimism Bridge Activity: Layer 2 Is Only A Bridge Away. We also explore retroactive public goods funding and the need for supporting open source infrastructure that has been built and maintained for public good over the years. They are (currently) the only block producer so they receive all the fees you pay when using optimism. Karl and Ben dig into the ramifications of an improved developer experience for an improved end user experience.


Optimism explicitly has goals other than just. The Collective is a band of communities, companies, and citizens united by a mutually beneficial pact to adhere to the axiom of. Karl Floersch and Ben Jones delve into Optimism PBC’s EVM Equivalence, the metaverse, retroactive public goods funding and what that means for developers, end users, and the broader Ethereum ecosystem.ĮVM Equivalence refers to Optimism’s recent release of tooling that allows for deploying L1 Ethereum dapps with the exact same code on Optimism in order to maintain the scale benefits of Optimism L2 and the security benefits of Ethereum L1. This is a great example of why Im so proud of optimismPBC for adding non-token governance (the Citizen House). The Optimism Collective is a large-scale experiment in digital democratic governance, built to drive rapid and sustainable growth of a decentralized ecosystem, and stewarded by the newly formed Optimism Foundation.
