The Joy of Consensus

OF 21: The Joy of Consensus

How can onchain games bring joy to the world? We play the Respect Game and imagine creative game design optimizations to refine our consensus processes 👨🏽‍🎨 🍎

Date: March 28th, 2024

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Introducing the Respect Game

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome to Optimism Fractal 21

1:03 Dan shares a presentation about Optimism Fractal, the community, respect game, and most recent videos. Mentions planning session after fractal meeting

5:00 Dan promotes the upcoming rounds of RetroFunding for onchain builders on Optimism and the new developer console

8:46 Breakout rooms begin

10:35 Zeugh from Blockful introduces himself and shares about Blockful's work on AI governance and reputation systems for DAOs like Optimism. Working on Creating a governance mix between human and AI. Gives details on voting, proposals. He asks for tips on understanding the hottest discussions and dynamics within the Optimism collective's governance

17:09 Hodlon from PSE shares about their work with hats Hero Cast on a delegated forecaster account and the hats meme contest. He mentions an idea for governance integration between Optimism Fractal, hats, and earning hats tokens, gives details.

21:22 Abraham comments to Hodlon on hats. Abraham shares about researching the hats protocol and its potential uses in his software development. Researching projects to see where he can help optimism fractal. He discusses his work providing education services and fighting debt slavery for brick workers in Pakistan using Optimism and other technologies

26:42 Jimi from TreeGens explains their project for tokenizing mangrove tree regeneration and their recent collaboration on the front-end experience. He explains the funding sources for his organization's tree-planting initiatives, including Gitcoin grants and carbon credit sales. He also describes their gamifying tree tokens and dynamic semi-soulbound NFT concept tied to tree planting. Jimi shares that he is gearing up to break the world record for most trees planted by an individual on Earth Day and officially launch the "proof of plant" project

33:02 Dan has worked on reorganizing and managing the Optimism Fractal notion site, creating development hub, resources, responding to community members, and making project proposals. Created a developers hub, gives details. He discusses his work on the Optimystics website, creating educational resources, and developing a seasonal structure. Dan worked on designing the building of a respect game app, researching Alchemy and account abstraction for gasless transactions, coordinating with the community interested in tree planting, and exploring EAS integration ideas

38:16 Dan explains the process of reaching consensus and explains the ranking system.

40:36 Participants discuss the voting process, advocating for their choices, and provide reasoning behind their votes

52:12 The group discusses objective criteria for voting and whether a "vibe check" approach is more suitable

53:23 Jimi expresses confusion about the voting process due to jet lag but appreciates the iterative nature of the weekly meetings. Consensus votes - level 6-Jimi, level 5-Abraham , level 4-Zeugh, level 3-Dan, level 2 - Hodlon

54:41 The group submits their consensus results onchain, troubleshooting any technical issues that arise.

57:20 Return to main room

57:30 The group discusses issues with browser wallets and plugins, suggesting disabling other wallets if transactions are not popping up

59:19 OP fractal ends, planning session begins

1:00:40 Jesus share positive feedback, had good experience, Optimism Fractal is great

1:01:01 Pup shares feedback saying it’s a great way to build community and to meet other developers and its a great networking space

1:01:31 The group sum up some known tech issues

1:04:51 Dan tells group that the optimystics are working on an app the will solve these issues

1:06:20 Zaal brings up the idea of implementing a time limit for reaching consensus during the meeting as an incentive

1:07:29 Hodlon interested in discussing time limit further in the upcoming future.

1:08:19 Dan explains how the consensus process initially started, must be submitted within 2 hour window. Dan shares James Mart article about consensus, something the optimystics have been considering. Dan presents Game Rules and Intent page

1:12:30 Group discussion

1:13:56 Jesus heard about incentivizing for people running arbitrage bots, asks if group has any information on

1:16:49 Zaal proposes exploring new consensus games and forms of respect, collaborating with musicians to implement the respect game. He’s experimenting utilizing Z Talent community with onchain games such as the respect game with artists. He aims to curate weekly events that can earn different forms of points in games each month

1:19:53 Dan expresses excitement about collaborating with Zaal, providing solutions for implementing in different communities and shares info about fractal app being ready soon

1:25:43 Go Optimism Fractal