After a spirited Respect Game, we introduce Optimism Town Hall and Cagendas - a community agenda game for prioritizing topics, deliberating key issues, and forming consensus to benefit the Optimism Collective 🍎 ⏱️ 💫

Date: May 9th, 2024

Show Notes

• Show Notes
• Timestamps
• Feedback
• Optimism Discourse
• Tweets
• Casts
• Related Posts
• OF 24: Optimism Fractal Season 2 Finale
• OF 23: Optimism Fractal Seasons
• OF 22: Retro Funding Optimism Fractal
• Introducing the Respect Game

Timestamps

0:00 Welcome to Optimism Fractal Season 3

1:00 Dan shares his screen, providing an overview of Optimism Fractal, noting it’s a great platform to promote work, as videos are produced and published weekly to highlight public goods creators.

4:10 Dan introduces a proposal to start planning a consensus game called "Cagendas" after each Optimism Fractal event and a new community forum, the Optimism Town Hall, to replace the planning session. He gives a quick overview of Cagendas.

6:47 Zaal asks for clarification on voting, questioning if it’s limited to the top 6.

7:10 Dan responds to Zaal, explaining with cagendas, anyone who votes can participate. He clarifies the role of the optimism fractal council and how to register.

8:40 The breakout groups begin, dividing the participants into two groups for the "respect game."

9:49 Will, founder of Kingfishers Media, discusses implementing Ethereum attestations and ERC-1155 tokens for course completions on their learning platform, integrating with tokens like OP for rewards. He highlights his work in the regenerative space, through a recent 24/7 live broadcast, showcasing impactful individuals and projects.

14:34 Zeugh has created an Optimism delegate profile to participate in decision-making. He discusses his collaboration with the Africa DeFi Alliance, setting up a DAO on Optimism to provide better loans in Africa, and exploring tools for community engagement and governance.

18:45 Min-Si Wang introduces her work on market-making and exchanges, and her recent focus on ZK technology before transitioning to regenerative finance. She discusses her project's emphasis on decentralized validation of ecological data and her role as a judge at ETHBerlin.

25:53 Dan discusses his planning efforts for Optimism Fractal Season 3, researching posts by Optimism Collective and Optimism Foundation to best support the collective. He's organizing projects and tasks on the Optimism Fractal Notion site, building an education hub, researching Holochain, the "Roles and Reputations" system, and designing an app for the Respect game. He’s been structuring Cagendas and Optimism Town hall. Dan has worked closely with Rosmari on creating promotional art.

30:07 Dan introduces the idea of an auxiliary respect token for delegates and badge holders to use in games like Cagendas and to guide decisions in the collective.

31:21 Fractalgram setup is introduced by Dan, who explains its function.

33:16 Dan inquires about Zeugh’s mural board, which outlines the structure for DAO members’ interaction with the Africa DeFi Alliance.

34:36 Zeugh clarifies that his work with the Africa DeFi Alliance predates his time at Block, and he has consulted on processes for various DAOs.

36:06 The group proceeds with the voting process.

45:13 Min-Si Wang provides feedback on the Respect game, appreciating the use of Telegram and Dan's guidance, and suggests an app could enhance the onboarding experience.

47:09 Will and Dan discuss Will's Optimism mission grant application and key takeaways from the process.

49:02 Will shares his recent appointment as a program manager for grants at Charmerse and his nomination as a Gitcoin steward

50:06 The group discusses Charmverse versus Discord.

52:46 Dan concludes the optimism fractal segment and continues with the planning session.

54:28 Deez introduces his background in web3 since 2017, detailing his involvement in the Helium ecosystem and Olympus DAO, his current role as a Head of Growth at Mode Network, and his efforts in building new economic systems alongside Optimism.

56:40 Deez praises Optimism Fractal as a nurturing community for builders, highlighting the accountability and recognition fostered by the Respect Game.

58:40 Dan appreciates Deez's feedback, discussing the aim to develop a great app and attract more builders for its development.

1:01:27 Hodlon joins, with Dan acknowledging the prospectus document created by Hodlon and BitBeckers about the Fractal app.

1:04:02 Dan and Hodlon discuss collaboration and coordinating on the Optimism Fractal app. Hodlon suggests a dedicated channel in Discord for app development, which Dan has recently created.

1:19:07 Dan shares updates and recommends reading the proposal for the optimism town hall. He provides a brief overview of the town hall and cagendas.

1:25:12 Dan clarifies that the Optimism town hall is open to the entire Optimism community, hosted by Optimism Fractal and utilizing respect voting to engage participants.

1:29:01 Go Optimism Fractal!

Feedback

Min-Si-Wang:

Min-Si-Wang shared feedback at 45:08, she’s observing and mentioned she likes the Fractal app as it makes things easier. She shared that working on the app is important with onboarding people who may have questions, such as why are we pushing onchain, etc. to hopefully guide new joiners throughout the process

Deez:

At 55:49 Deez gives a brief history on experience with fractals and refers to the marketing Safari Club’s saying that ‘everything starts with a community’ and relays how important is community building. At 56:40 he gives feedback about Optimism Fractal and mentions that what Optimism Fractal is doing is ‘the most beautiful seedlink portion of that’ - really nurturing each other and sharing what we’ve built. His opinion on the Respect Game is that it is incredible because it creates the settle accountability from week to week, as well as excitement because you want to grow with your peers and impress them. It’s important to have this environment and connections especially in the web3 remote industry. He continues that ‘so much of putting your heart and soul into something is just simply being seen and simply being recognised for what you’re passionate about building… and that is missing across the space. It’s that very simple recognition that get’s lots in these Telegram and Discord channels…’

Optimism Discourse

Tweets

Casts

Related Posts

OF 24: Optimism Fractal Season 2 Finale

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OF 23: Optimism Fractal Seasons

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OF 22: Retro Funding Optimism Fractal

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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 🤍