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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