How is the Superchain ecosystem celebrating its championship season? Enjoy community achievements—from deploying ORDAO's smart contracts on Base, to enhancing interoperability via the incubator program, innovative strategies for non-profit coordination, and dApps supporting open source players across the ecosystem 🏆 🤝🏽
Date: April 3rd, 2025
Table of Contents
- Timestamps
- Episode Summary
- Community Shared Resources
- Optimism Discourse
- X
- Related Posts
- OF 59: Public Goods Infrastructure
- OF 58: Rebuilding Economies
- OF 57: Regenerative Governance
Timestamps
0:00 Welcome to Optimism Fractal - last event of season 5
1:22 Dan shares presentation giving overview of OF. Optimism fractal is going on 2 event break returning on May 15. Dan shares community news, Eden fractal also going on 2 week break. Dan prepares for Respect game.
10:28 Zaal shares his contributions on drafting white paper, going hard on hard links for his community members. Working on documentary for event in Miami, working on plans to showcase members. Details event that he had.
14:14 Eric shares how he's trying to roll out governance piece by piece. He has 3 organization to commit. Start date is May 1st and preparing to get ready. Still plans on recruiting more, plans to roll out to non profit. Shares details on what's next. Role, validate, test. Hoping Natural history museum might get involved.
18:58 Jake shares his contributions, went to a lot of meetings. Shares Open Source collective aiming to be the community hub for open source builders for funding opportunities , Jake also shares that he and Dan are building optimism fractal software for the super chain incubator program. He's taking on technical lead role. Shares link for open source collective in chat.
25:00 Dan shares screen with his contributions, coordinating all events, coordinating with developers and Rosmari in mktg. made proposals for OPF season break and agreement documents. Dan comments on meeting Zain in Denver and being invited to join super chain incubator opportunity, he's been coordinating team all week. Came up with ideas to build. Also made Gitcoin application for our development team. Proposals for epoch 2 Eden fractal, fractal fellowship program. Had meeting with VDao manager about Respect game implementation.
30:03 Howard shares his contributions, was working on a liquidity program but decided to hold off. Shares he's trying an organic thing, to collaboratively draw pictures, will probably start coding tomorrow. Dan congrats Howard on hackathon at ETH Denver.
36:36 Jake shares screen again, base ran a mini hackathon using mini kits. His idea was dark Raider, Jake gives details and shares tackling problems similar to Eric, Eric chimes in as well.
Consensus
Level 6-Dan, level 5-Eric, level 4-Zaal, level 3-Jake, level 2 Howard
56:15 Return to break room, Dan comments on technical issues his group had. Tadas comments he thinks he created update for older fractalgram. Dan and Tadas have conversation on technical issues. Rosmari and Harvesto also adds to other issues.
1:01:36 Dan starts wrapping up Respect game, ending Optimism Fractal. Thanks everyone for an amazing season.
Go Optimism Fractal!
Episode Summary
The grand finale of Optimism Fractal Season 5 brought together builders to showcase significant contributions before the community's scheduled break. Dan announced that Optimism Fractal Season 6 will begin on May 15th following a two-event spring break, with formal proposals for the seasonal structure and community agreements already submitted and approved by the council. Tadas shared news about successfully deploying the Optimism Fractal ORDAO software on Base, enabling the community to initiate and execute actions across multiple chains with comprehensive documentation available in the ORDAO channel.
The Respect Game featured diverse ecosystem contributions, with Jake introducing the Open Source Collective—a new initiative creating centralized infrastructure for open source developers to receive sustainable funding. Dan revealed his participation in the Superchain Interop Incubator alongside Jake, Tadas, and other community members, developing applications to test cross-chain communication technology. Eric shared progress on his doctoral research implementing fractal governance for non-profit organizations, with three organizations already committed and potential participation from the Natural History Museum with 500 volunteers. Howard also mentioned developing a collaborative pixel art canvas on Base, building on his previous experiences developing blockchain-based applications.
Technical challenges during the consensus process highlighted ongoing developments in the community's coordination tools, with participants switching between the newer Fractalgram app and the original Telegram client to successfully reach consensus. The episode concludes the third season of both Optimism Fractal and Optimism Town Hall, marking a significant milestone in the community's growth before their synchronized return in mid-May.
Community Shared Resources
- Zaal: Paper.thezao.com and Nexus.thezao.com
- Jake Homanics : https://opensourcecollective.xyz
Optimism Discourse
X
Related Posts
OF 59: Public Goods Infrastructure
How is the Optimism ecosystem evolving its approach to resource coordination? Explore the new Optimism Fractal Split contract for donations, Respect Game fund distribution research, Superchain interop, respect-based systems for non-profits, GG23 onboarding, and building a robust fractal tripartite governance framework 🍎🌻🧑🏼🌾
OF 58: Rebuilding Economies
What innovative tools are builders developing to enhance governance on the Superchain? Discover the profoundly helpful Respect Game and learn about impactful contributions across the Ethereum ecosystem - from OP Atlas's retro funding interface to LobbyFi's governance marketplace and grassroots ecosystem growth at ETH Denver 🌱🏛️
OF 57: Regenerative Governance
What frameworks are regenerating civic cooperation in the Ethereum ecosystem? Builders showcase contributions through the Respect Game, exploring Allo Capital's DAOs competition, GFEL and ETH Denver events, and evolving technical infrastructure that strengthens Superchain coordination 🌈 🍄