Optimism Fractal Season 2 Finale

What cosmic adventures await in Optimism Fractal’s new season? After the Sages Council summons a seasonal change, the community plays stellar Respect Games and celebrates six months of pioneering onchain coordination with gratitude and excitement 💫 🌻 🎆

Date: April 18th, 2024

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Timestamps

0:00 Welcome to Optimism Fractal's season 2 finale

0:36 Optimism Fractal Council's decision-making and governance, including the passed proposal to introduce seasons and the two-week upcoming break

4:38 Optimism announces the Onchain Builders part of Round 4 for Retro Funding. Optimism Fractal can help earn Retro Funding, and contributing to Optimism Fractal can also earn Retro Funding

5:15 Dan highlights new Notion community page with sections to learn how to contribute to public goods, while showing the education and development hubs.

5:33 Respect game rules

6:24 The respect game begins

10:17 Jason discusses his CryptOasis Meetup familiarizing people with decentralized technologies. He shares feedback that people who join Optimism Fractal events are positive and interesting and joins to support the end of the Season 2

16:01 Dan shares about updating the Optimism Fractal notion page, refining the website, and creating new projects/tasks. He has been working on the Optimystics team's respect game application, providing promotional feedback, responding to messages, organising tasks aiming to do a workshop at DAO Spring.

21:32 Natalie shares about attending the NFT NYC event where she hosted workshops. She shares about her public goods funding platform initially on Optimism but becoming multi-chain. She is onboarding the first creator cohort for the alpha, aiming to properly value web3 creators. She’s trying to fuel creativity onchain and aims to bring more DAOs to Optimism via Dao Spring.

25:33 Jake discusses his contributions to the Scaffold ETH 2 repository for web3 dapp development. He talks about his Rep and Roles project for tracking onchain trust, which received an Optimism grant. Jake discusses his work on an NFT project focused on supporting creators, explaining its vision of properly onboarding artists into web3 and providing the benefits of smart contracts and NFTs.

32:21 Dan begins the consensus process

33:40 Natalie asks Jake to share his project in chat. Natalie elaborates on her Pizza Dao project, aiming to onboard people into web3 through community pizza parties. She explains the goal of building a cultural layer on the blockchain and creating a reputation layer.

35:44 The group moves into the scoring part of the respect game

36:18 Dan asks Natalie about a high-level overview on her project.

36:39 Natalie responds to Dan how kickstarter was used in her projects, such as building a cultural layer on blockchain

41:33 Natalie links her "Rare Pees" project and the group discusses voting for the respect game rankings. Level 6-Jake, level 5- Dan, level 4-Natalie, level 3-Jason

46:22 Dan explains the process of submitting the consensus results onchain using the fractalgram app

46:15 Return to community room

51:00 Respect game ends. Start of the Planning Session where Dan shares information about the upcoming round of Retro Funding from Optimism and the alignment of optimism fractal seasons with these funding rounds.

56:15 Joe comments that he made it here right before break, a little out of the loop. Asked Dan what next step for next season will be.

56:53 Dan responds to Joe, shares screen on hint of next seasons structure. Seasons to align with retro funding, adding fun events and games, to promote public goods creators, retro pitches. Explains new tools initiatives, respect trees. Dan explains that the Respect Trees system will help rank contributions to the Optimism Collective and aid in funding allocation from the Optimism Collective.

1:00:00 Dan invites everyone to participate in the Optimism Fractal events, including retro pitches, planning sessions to evaluate impact, and discussions around the Respect Trees initiative led by Tadas for collective decision-making and resource allocation.

1:08:35 Abraham comments on the interview process for a position related to NFTs with MetaMask's portfolio product.

1:11:48 Dan congratulates Abraham and mentions Jake's work on a roles and reputation system using Hats Protocol

1:13:20 Information for season 2 and an upcoming season 3

1:17:12 Joe expresses appreciation for the thorough explanation and mentions needing to review the information

1:19:15 Abraham and Jake make a connection over hats protocol

1:20:57 Zaal expresses excitement about the Optimism Fractal’s progress made

1:22:42 Much gratitude and excitement for the next season starting on May 9th!

1:24:10 Go Optimism Fractal!

Feedback

10:17 Jason discusses his Crypt Oasis Meetup familiarizing people with decentralized technologies. He shares feedback that people who join Optimism Fractal events are positive and interesting and joins to support the end of the Season 2

47:34 Jake gives feedback and expresses his enthusiasm for the optimism ecosystem's culture and driving forces, Jake introduces himself to remainder of group. Met Dan in Denver, thanks Dan for introducing him to optimism fractal. 1:17:12 Joe expresses appreciation for the thorough explanation and mentions he’ll review the information about Optimism 1:20:57 Zaal expresses excitement about the Optimism Fractal’s progress made