🌻 A New Chapter: Optimism Fractal Is Paused
After two incredible years of pioneering the Respect Game and fractal governance on the Superchain, the Optimism Fractal Council has approved an indefinite pause to consolidate our efforts on Eden Fractal. You can read the full proposal and announcement post for details.
We're deeply grateful for everyone who contributed to Optimism Fractal and helped advance the future of decentralized coordination. The journey continues with Eden Fractal, the foundational community implementing fractal decision-making processes throughout society. The community also hosts Eden Town Hall, a vibrant forum for fractal governance innovation.
You're welcome to join us! RSVP for weekly events on the Eden Creators Events Calendar, connect on Telegram, and explore this website to discover the rich history of Optimism Fractal through our videos and resources. We look forward to seeing you in the Eden Fractal community!
Get Started
OptimismFractal.com is your portal into the world of Optimism Fractal. Through biweekly events, collaborative games, and open-source tools, we're creating new ways for builders to thrive on Ethereum and the Superchain. Here's what we recommend to get involved.
Join Events
We host biweekly events that provide a perfect place to network, make friends, and collaborate with talented builders on the Superchain.
Our interactive format combines structured games, open discussions, and live demonstrations of new tools and projects. These events are designed to help you maximize impact, foster meaningful relationships, and develop thriving communities. Join us to play your part in building a better internet:
Earn Respect
At each event we play the Respect Game, an innovative onchain social game pioneering new forms of community coordination.
Participants share what they've recently done to help Optimism, collaboratively rank each other's contributions, and earn Respect - a soulbound token that provides growing benefits as our reputation system expands. Learn how you can play and start building your onchain identity today:
Watch and Play
Step into the our interactive stage to start collaborating and share your thoughts, or join the audience as builders share their work on the Superchain.
Our vibrant videos capture unique game show events where you can earn Respect and help shape the future. Whether you're here to present your latest innovation or learn from others, there's a role for you in our show.
Build with Respect
Optimism Fractal implements and tests the Optimystics Toolkit, an open-source suite of tools for community coordination and decentralized governance.
Meet developers building this software at our biweekly events and learn how your community can benefit from innovative social games and reputation systems. You can explore and start building with these tools here:
Develop your Onchain Career and Business
Whether you're new to Web3 or an experienced builder, Optimism Fractal provides a perfect environment for growth. Our events provide regular opportunities to showcase your work, forge valuable connections, and build your reputation through peer recognition on Ethereum. For organizations and community leaders, these events demonstrate how the Respect Game and its associated tools can enhance your community's coordination and decision-making capabilities.
Grow your Reputation
Respect, a revolutionary soulbound token pioneered by Optimism Fractal, provides a powerful foundation for measuring impact and building reputation on the Superchain. At the heart of our Respect Game, this innovative primitive enables contributors to earn verifiable recognition through peer evaluation, permanently recorded on the OP Mainnet.
Learn how Respect is transforming community coordination in this article.
Enjoy the Harvest
At Optimism Fractal, every other week brings new opportunities to reap the rewards of collaboration and contribution. Through consistent participation, you'll experience firsthand why our community has inspired builders to build together for countless hours and develop innovations across the Superchain.
Explore our benefits overview and discover heartfelt feedback from participants to understand how Optimism Fractal creates profound value for everyone who engages with our ecosystem.
Build in Public
Discover the Optimism Fractal notion site, where you can learn more about our community and explore various ways to get involved. Our development hub provides comprehensive resources for understanding and implementing our tools, while our educational materials help you navigate opportunities across the Superchain.
Explore the open-source repositories to see how we're building in public and contributing to the future of decentralized coordination.
Earn Funding
The Respect Game provides powerful ways to measure and showcase your contributions to the Superchain. Through peer evaluation and transparent reputation building, you can demonstrate your impact to help earn from various funding sources like RetroFunding.
Explore our tools and join our events to learn about opportunities and build your track record of verifiable contributions.
Pioneering The Future of Governance
Optimism Fractal represents the culmination of years of development from hundreds of leaders working to create a more free and fair society. The Respect Game serves as our foundation for an inclusive governance system where anyone can earn influence through meaningful contributions, providing critical infrastructure for scaling both houses of the Optimism Collective.
Through consistent experimentation with fractal democracy processes — carefully adhering to our protocol specifications — we're developing proven solutions for how communities of any size can coordinate effectively while maintaining true democratic principles.
Our History and Core Intents
Explore Optimism Fractal's rich history to discover how we're creating the future of collective decision-making. From our early experiments with fractal democracy to our current role supporting Optimism governance, we've consistently pushed the boundaries of how communities can coordinate effectively at scale.
Read our details page to learn our core intents, protocol specifications, and how we cooperate through community consensus. Our operating manual outlines how we foster collaboration, award public goods creators, and optimize governance on the Superchain through innovative social processes and onchain coordination systems.
Optimism Fractal Sages Council
Our trailblazing Council leverages the Respect token to guide Optimism Fractal's development and optimize collective decision-making for all. Council members collaborate to evaluate proposals, express consensus, and help evolve our governance processes.
Through democratic peer selection and onchain attestations, the Optimism Fractal Sages Council demonstrates how reputation-based governance can work effectively at scale. This model provides a template for how reputation-based governance can effectively scale while maintaining democratic principles. The implementation of Respect with fractal decision-making creates a powerful governance system.
Fractal Democracy, Onchain
Optimism Fractal began with an open-source toolset that enabled our Respect Games, and has evolved to include two innovative full-stack applications with advanced EVM infrastructure.
The Fractalgram app integrates ORDAO, featuring an elegant set of contracts for optimistic onchain execution, while the Respect Games app enables formation of democratic councils. This infrastructure provides ideal scaling solutions for both the Token House and Citizens' House, while offering essential coordination tools for all communities.
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Respect-Based Role Allocation
Our award-winning Optimism Fractal Hats Tree demonstrates how communities can programmatically assign roles and permissions based on reputation earned through the Respect Game.
By integrating Hats Protocol with Respect tokens, we've created a framework that enables dynamic role management while maintaining democratic principles. This innovative system provides a model for how reputation-based governance can effectively distribute authority across the Superchain and beyond.
Optimism Town Hall
Immediately following Optimism Fractal events, we support Optimism Town Hall - a collaborative forum where Token House delegates, Citizens' House badge holders, and Optimism Fractal members vote to democratically choose discussion topics.
This innovative bi-weekly event that implements our governance tools provides a model for how communities can coordinate conversations effectively and structure meaningful discussions about Ethereum and the Superchain's future.
Impact Evaluation
As Optimism Fractal celebrated its one-year anniversary, we expanded our impact evaluation framework.
While the Respect Game provides biweekly peer-reviewed impact measurement, RetroSeason introduces new ways for Respect holders to evaluate impact through RetroPolls for RetroFunding. These initiatives (and others like Respect Trees) further demonstrate how reputation systems can effectively measure value creation and facilitate public goods funding.
Community Origins
Optimism Fractal emerged from years of experimentation in decentralized governance and prosocial coordination. Originally inspired by More Equal Animals and ƒractally, our unique approach combines state-of-the-art tools and profound insights from two pioneering initiatives that have been at the forefront of blockchain-based social coordination.
Founded and Presented by Optimystics
Optimism Fractal was founded in October 2023 by the Optimistics, a team of builders creating open-source software, organizing events, and developing prosocial games on the Superchain.
You can explore their blog featuring dozens of articles about Optimism Fractal, learn about the software we use at our events and how they can empower your community, and find upcoming gatherings in their calendar at Optimystics.io.
Educational Resources by Eden Fractal
Founded in June 2022, Eden Fractal is an independent community dedicated to optimizing collective decision-making with prosocial games and fractal consensus processes.
Many of the tools and processes used at Optimism Fractal emerged from Eden Fractal's pioneering experiments. You can discover educational resources about implementing these innovations in your community at EdenFractal.com.
Building the Superchain, Together
The Superchain is an interconnected network of blockchains scaling Ethereum on a open-source codebase called the OP Stack.
Optimism Fractal supports this vision by fostering collaboration between builders across multiple networks, including OP Mainnet, Base, World, Soneium, Ink, Unichain, Zora, Mode, Redstone, and others joining the ecosystem.
Through our events and tools, we're helping create a more secure, equitable, and fair internet that enables everyone to thrive.
Growing with Optimism
Optimism is a Collective of companies, communities, and citizens working together to build the Superchain. It is united by the Optimistic Vision, where public goods creators are rewarded for benefiting society and power is more evenly distributed amongst many networks.
Learn more at Optimism.io
Building with Ethereum
Ethereum is the leading decentralized programmable computing platform for innovative apps and one of the largest open source communities in the world. The Optimism Collective is scaling the technology and values of Ethereum, with over 70% of L2 transactions processed on the OP Stack.
Learn more at Ethereum.org
Join Optimism Fractal Biweekly Events
The best way to get involved with Optimism Fractal is to join our biweekly events and play the Respect Game. You can reach out with any questions on our Discord or Farcaster channel. Thanks for exploring the site. Hope to see you at the events!