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Curia has developed a Governance Analytics Dashboard for the Optimism Collective. The Dashboard focuses on key governance metrics including participation, voter behavior, and power structures, thereby democratizing information and encouraging informed participation in governance processes.
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OP Radio is a podcast on anything and everything related to Optimism, a low-cost and lightning fast Layer 2 blockchain.
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Cryptoversidad has produced an exemplary educational video library dedicated to Optimism.
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Learn through this lesson how the Optimism Collective is changing the way impact is rewarded with RetroPGF.
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The “Optimism Vision Reservoir” is a collection point for the diverse interpretations, expressions, and reflections of Optimism’s vision.
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Discover the latest updates and changes to the grants programs of the Optimism Collective.
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Blockchain@USC built this Dune Analytics Dashboard to give an overview of the delegates a16z selected for their Optimism Delegate Program.
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The Optimism Academy is a place where people can learn about Optimism in a structured and engaging way. They created a series of to-the-point, engaging video courses combined with interactive quizzes and “real-world” assignments to facilitate understanding of the Collective and its underlying vision and tech.
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Unofficial Ecosystem page for Ethereum and its Layer 2s featuring 900+ dApps and tools across Optimism, Base, Starknet and more.
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Build your first app on Optimism!
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The Optimism Governance Dashboard by Blockchain@USC provides real-time tracking of proposals and participation statistics for the Optimism Collective. By visualizing metrics like total proposals, votes cast, and voter involvement over time, the dashboard enables bi-cameral members to analyze trends and delegate activity in Optimism's on-chain governance system.
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A podcast spotlighting delegates from Optimism's DAO.
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A weekly podcast telling the stories of participants in RPGF2 with the goal to broaden awareness and understanding of how to contribute to future rounds of RetroPGF.
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The easiest way to run an Optimism node
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This is a really nerdy breakdown of the differences between Optimism Bedrock and Arbitrum Nitro.
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Shortly before Optimism burst into much of crypto consciousness last year with its first OP token airdrop and the establishment of the Optimism Collective as a playground for digital governance experiments, it published what I called a “short but powerful blog post — Ether’s Phoenix — about building infrastructure to support public goods funding,” positing that public-goods-focused building is “a mindset: that optimism prevails, that better systems are possible, and that humankind will be rewarded for its cooperative revolution”.
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The OP Stack, the codebase that powers Optimism, is the most overpowered public good in the game. But don’t take our word for it; you can take Ben Jones’ - aka Weird ETH Yankovic - who covered all things RetroPGF and how the OP Stack fits into the broader Ethereum ecosystem.
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At both ETHDenver, and Schelling Point, Justine shared findings from her months long research into DAO governance and policy. Not only did she organize her research results into 10 categories and bless us with actionable takeaways for each, she also open sourced her work! Check out her presentation and dive into The Collective DAO Archives, a searchable library of DAO policies, programs, and processes.
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Web3 opens the door to a new cyberspace—one not only occupied, but governed, by its citizens. The Optimism Collective is our attempt to correct meatspace's market failures with an L2.
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In this video Justine from the Optimism Foundation talks to delegates involved with Optimism governance about their experience thus far. The talk touches on a few different Optimism governance initiatives including the Grants Council and Protocol Delegate Program, with the overall theme being the iterative nature of Optimism governance.
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Today, we welcome back Optimism founder and Public Goods champion Karl Floersch to join Kevin for a rousing conversation around the next phases of Public Goods. The conversation touches upon the current state of affairs of Ether's Phoenix, what a world looks like with many different 'competing' public good services available, and we end on discussing the future of AI alignment and Karl's take.
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I'll cover the learnings of 2 rounds of RetroPGF and what the challenges and opportunities are we're facing
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From the OP Labs DevRel team, Kelvin Fichter talked about building decentralized, attestation-based identity onchain. Come for the knowledge, stay for the slide art.
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Cannon is our next-gen EVM-equivalent fault proof system. It's what will keep your funds secure when you use Optimism. Read to know more!
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This talk covers the OP Stack chain software, and how the Bedrock release will enable deployments of op-chains which serve new use cases, are future proof, and will all one day fit together to form the Superchain.
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This talks covers bedrock’s architecture. It explains how redesigning the rollup architecture in bedrock reduces fees & increases implementation simplicity. It also covers the various components of the system & how they interact.
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In this video you learn the design space around two design choices related to sequencing: who sequences (decentralization), how they sequence (MEV!)
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In this talk protolambda explains how the next OP Mainnet upgrade improves the rollup with modular design, and how this can be utilized to quickly adopt future scaling improvements like EIP-4844 (a.k.a. proto-danksharding). OP Labs is contributing to L1 research and development to increase the data availability used for securing all L2s.
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Today, Optimism is announcing its second round of Retroactive Public Goods Funding, which dedicates 10m OP tokens to fund public goods. We’re also introducing the first iteration of the Citizens’ House to govern how this funding is allocated.
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The OP Stack was built to be the most forkable, modular scaling infrastructure out there. When we introduced it, we explained that it was our bet on the ingenuity of the entire Ethereum community.
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Optimism was built to empower humanity through decentralized blockchain technology. And there is a lot to celebrate. But if Ethereum is to rival the goliaths of web2, and take software’s next bite of the world, it needs internet-level scale.
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The OP Stack is a modular, open-source blueprint for highly scalable, highly interoperable blockchains of all kinds. Not just rollup. Not just optimistic.
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The design philosophy that went into crafting the Bedrock upgrade, why it is important, and how it translated into improvements on Optimism Mainnet at a protocol level.
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It's time for a new chapter. Scaling the technology alone is not enough. We have a duty to scale our values along with our networks. In pursuit of this mission, we are excited to announce the Optimism Collective.
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In a moment where coordination is overshadowed by defection how do we choose the path which leads to a better future? Enter Ether’s Phoenix.
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RetroPGF 2 is the Collective’s next experiment in allocating public goods funding. In this round, approximately 70 badgeholders -- early "citizens" voted to allocate 10M OP. The results are in!
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The Optimism Collective is building community governance through experimentation. In Season 4, the Collective will run several key experiments designed to increase community involvement in the gradual decentralization of Optimism.
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In this video you learn how to use OP Mainnet (or a test network) for your own development.
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Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) is one of the leading economic experiments to help decentralize and grow crypto ecosystems. While still in its very early days, the Optimism Collective is excited to lead the charge on RetroPGF experimentation, and we aim to inspire more builders to contribute to the Optimism ecosystem with the hope – and expectation – of getting funded retroactively for their contributions.
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The Optimism Collective is excited to announce the third round of RetroPGF. This fall, 30 million OP will be distributed to builders, creators, and educators who have provided positive impact to the Optimism Collective. If you want to get started building, head to our Ecosystem Contributions board to find a project.
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The Optimist is the singular, distinctive media platform focusing on DeFi on the Optimism Superchain
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The Optimism Collective is governed by a two-house system. This post provides an overview of the goals, design principles, and problem spaces of Optimism Governance.
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// TL;DR: The Optimism Collective is a large-scale experiment in non-plutocratic governance and funding public goods for a more aligned internet. In this post, we explain our agile approach to governance—relentlessly iterating until we form a system which can stand the test of time.
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OP Labs' CEO, Liam Horne joined Jesse from Base, Eva from The Graph Foundation, and Stani from Aave for a panel covering how L2s are scaling Ethereum for global adoption, moderated by Molly from Protocol Labs.
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This blog post explores the modular design of the OP Stack's Fault Proof System, featuring a deep dive into the system’s pre-image oracle.
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