How do we award innovators building a protopian future? We play the Respect Game with open source tools to evaluate impact, build relationships, and foster collaborations in Optimism 🛠️ ❤️‍🔥

Date: January 8th, 2024

Happy New Year optimists! 🎊

Show Notes

Table of Contents

• Show Notes
• Optimism Discourse
• Timestamps
• Feedback
• Hodlon
• Bitbeckers
• Loring
• Optimystics in Octant Epoch 2
• Dan presenting Optimystics
• Tweets
• Related Posts
• OF 9: Impact Scores
• OF 8: Merry Measures
• Introducing the Respect Game
• Enhancing RetroPGF with Optimism Fractal

Optimism Discourse

Part 2

Timestamps

0:00 Dan welcomes everyone to Optimism Fractal 10th meeting and wishes happy New Year.

1:01 Dan shares screen and gives presentation. Gives update on optimism fractal, videos etc.

1:39 Dan encourages everyone to learn more about the optimism collective, summarizes the first 9 meetings of optimism fractal and goals going forward. Dan explains how the respect game works - members share what they are doing to help, then rank each other's contributions to reach consensus

5:47 Dan reminds that contributions can be over the past few weeks since the last meeting.

6:43 Loring asks a question about the scope of contributions. Dan answers that the Optimism Superchain is included as well as broader Ethereum ecosystem.

7:45 Abraham shares about his background and contributions - shares great feedback from Optimism Fractal, gives his background as a developer, working on an Angular starter kit for blockchain, created NFT art inspired by Vitalik's essay, shares thoughts. Shares screen on art created

12:07 Dan comments on Abraham's art and Vitalik's essay

13:07 BitBeckers shares update - working on hypercerts marketplace, reaching out to projects to integrate Hypersheets.

14:54 Loring introduces himself. Collaborated with a company called brain bot. Works with/for Shutter network; focusing on partnerships and fundraising. Supports GLO dollar and Public Goods Network actively. Working with optimistic rollups to create encrypted mempools, working with glo dollar team, member of PGN alliance.

19:53 Rosmari shares screen and shows her contributions - promoting today's event, and collaborating with Dan on multiple projects. Video editing, outreach, and participating in PGN community call, Octant Epoch 2 community call, looking into Greenpill Network. Participated and published a video for Eden Fractal. Worked on NFT drafts for We Love the Art Optimism competition

24:42 Hodlon shares screen about working on privacy tools and DAO governance. He published casts on Farcaster about reputation-based governance and Optimism Fractal. Hodlon shares about using Quests to track contributions, for example integrating Optimism Fractal with Hats Protocol. Also shared a book he’s reading on DAO governance

29:09 Dan shares his contributions - presenting at Optimism demo day, applied to Octant Epoch 2, research, promotion, brainstorming, working on tools, interactions. Regen learning, feedback on text and images. Working on strategy on sharing videos. Creating new games, vision quest, just founder meetings. Dan mentions he has been working on creating a formal role for leads who can help admin Fractalgram and lead rooms as the community grows. This will allow more capacity to grow with more people.

35:01 Hodlon and Abraham express interest in learning how to lead a Fractal room. Dan offers to share how it works, which is not too difficult.

37:00 Group jumps into consensus process for ranking contributions via Fractalgram Ranking: Level 6 - Loring, Level 5 - Dan, Level 4 - Rosmari, Level 3 - Hodlon, Level 2 - Abraham, Level 1 - BitBecker

48:44 Dan confirms consensus was reached, and asks Rosmari to generate a prompt to submit on-chain.

50:53 Abraham is having an issue submitting the transaction. Group troubleshoots

53:13 Hodlon mentions having an issue with a hardware wallet and will troubleshoot after the meeting ends

55:17 Dan explains what happens after transactions are submitted - Tadas will submit ranks so Respect tokens are distributed. Gives details

59:58 Dan confirms they have enough submissions for consensus. Still working on troubleshooting for others.

1:00:35 Dan emphasizes getting comfortable submitting transactions for scaling.

1:02:16 Dan comments on starting developer chat, also looked info about sign in issues. Dan asks Loring for feedback on his first experience with Optimism Fractal.

1:04:07 Loring provides feedback - enjoyed the process and hearing from new people, would come back again. May consider integrating Respect Game into Shutter community.

1:06:39 Dan thanks Loring for feedback, offers to collaborate further. Shares shutter protocol in chat.

1:09:00 Dan responds to Loring comment it was surprising people talked about past contributions rather than future plans.

1:09:24 Dan responds on retroactive nature of the respect game, but people can share future plans too.

1:12:38 Dan and Hodlon decide to continue the discussion offline about Hats Protocol integration.

1:13:15 Dan wraps up meeting. Grow Optimism!

Feedback

Hodlon

Bitbeckers

Loring

Feedback by Loring was shared during the event at 1:04:07. Loring enjoyed the process and hearing from new people, would come back again. He may consider integrating Respect Game into Shutter community.

Optimystics in Octant Epoch 2

Dan presenting Optimystics

• You can hear Dan's speech starting at 24:57 at Octant’s Community Call twitter spaces

Tweets

Related Posts

OF 9: Impact Scores

What’s the best way to evaluate public goods? In our last event of the year, we meet optimists, play a fun consensus game to rank each others contributions, and brainstorm about the future of Optimism Fractal 💫

OF 8: Merry Measures

What is the best simple signal to measure positive impact? We play the Respect Game to award public goods creators, welcome jolly newcomers, and discuss Optimism Fractal’s consensus process ☃️ 💯 

Introducing the Respect Game

The Respect Game is an elegant social game that anyone can play to grow their community. This profoundly helpful consensus game is at the heart of Optimism Fractal and our work at Optimystics 🤍

Enhancing RetroPGF with Optimism Fractal

How can Optimism Fractal enhance RetroPGF? We explore several ways that Optimism Fractal can relieve burden from badgeholders, raise awareness public goods creators, and help the Optimism Collective fairly reward impact 🔴 ✨