Explore how builders are advancing fractal governance on Optimism through innovative research on volunteer appreciation, a live ORDAO software voting demo on OP Mainnet, and brilliant designs for cumulative respect tokens that elevate onchain community collaboration 🏞️
Date: Oct 16th, 2025
Table of Contents
- Timestamps
- Episode Summary
- Optimism Discourse
- Proposal to start Season 7 on Jan
- X
- Related Posts
- OF 69: Ethereum Journey
- OF 68: Collaborative Governance
- OF 67: Welcome Back & Discussion on Eric’s Initiatives
Timestamps
0:00 Dan welcomes everyone to Optimism Fractal's 70th event and introduces the two-year anniversary coming up
1:08 Dan introduces the Optimism Town Hall topics including the 2-year anniversary celebration and Eric's research study
2:11 Dan explains how the Respect Game works as an innovative onchain social game helping communities coordinate better
3:00 Dan discusses the Optimystics toolkit for community coordination and decentralized governance.
6:02 Dan shares community news and shares blog with events, revival of Optimism town hall, two year anniversary of optimism fractal.
11:17 Eric begins sharing his contributions by discussing the importance of storytelling and creating narratives that enroll people
17:14 Eric shares about San Diego Startup Week where thousands of people attended various events he helped organize
18:37 Eric explains he needs to get 100 people from organizations to make the study statistically significant
22:00 Zaal shares his excitement about ORDAO implementation and how it tracks cumulative respect across seasons
22:46 Zaal explains his plans for creating a cumulative respect token system with multipliers for different years
25:41 Zaal proposes creating a "fractal cheat sheet" to help people fully participate in fractals
28:07 Dan begins sharing his contributions to help Optimism over the past couple weeks
30:13 Dan discusses writing comprehensive articles about Optimism Fractal's impact and governance processes. Dan also mentions talking with Vlad on a new fractal app.
33:06 Dan explains his contributions to Eden Fractal including creating timestamps and promoting videos
35:10 Dan mentions his work on documentation, creating guides, and supporting the ORDAO implementation.
37:05 group discusses anniversary plan
40:11 The group reaches consensus with Eric receiving Level 6, Zaal receiving Level 5, and Dan receiving Level 4
41:33 Zaal works with the Telegram Fract client to generate results for the ORDAO application
43:25 Dan demonstrates the ORDAO voting process and explains the onchain distribution of respect tokens
44:27 Dan thanks everyone and announces Optimism Fractal's 2-year anniversary celebration coming on October 29th
45:01 Dan transitions to the Optimism Town Hall to discuss anniversary planning and Eric's research orientation
45:53 Go Optimism Fractal!
Episode Summary
This session showcases amazing contributions, including: Eric's university doctoral research on appreciation and volunteer motivation,We kick off planning for our anniversary celebration and dive into Eric's doctoral study examining how appreciation transforms nonprofit organizations. The episode concludes with Optimism Town Hall's 40th episode, exploring how fractal processes can revolutionize community coordination.
Key highlights include Zaal's vision for cumulative respect tokens with yearly multipliers, plans for a "fractal cheat sheet" to maximize participation, Eric's university doctoral research on appreciation and volunteer motivation, while exploring storytelling strategy to enroll new community members. Dan shares comprehensive documentation efforts, cross-community collaboration initiatives, and the Dam demonstrates the live ORDAO voting process on OP Mainnet, recently built by Tadas!
Optimism Discourse
Proposal to start Season 7 on Jan
X
Related Posts
OF 69: Ethereum Journey
Builders scale Ethereum's peaks through collaborative infinite games! Bryan creates experimental decay tokens, Dan expands coordination via Eden Fractal, Eric leads Aquillius Institute making fractals accessible, Will launches Base books while integrating Respect Game into Treegens DAO, Sebastian returns studying Fractally, and Tymed unites builders at LA Tech Week 🏔️
OF 68: Collaborative Governance
How do we build a playful protopia where builders gradually improve through collaborative coordination? Watch community builders demonstrate this vision of ongoing progress - not a perfect utopia, but a state where we're making things a little better every day through the Respect Game 🧩🌳
OF 67: Welcome Back & Discussion on Eric’s Initiatives
Welcome back to Optimism Fractal! In this episode, we return from our summer break to kick off the second half of Season 6. Participants share updates from the past month and a half, play the Respect Game to recognize contributions to the Optimism ecosystem, and have an extended discussion about Eric's new Simbiosyx platform for connecting startups with experts through sweat equity arrangements 🌻