Details

This document describes our community intents, game rules, governance processes, and other important details about Optimism Fractal. You can think of this document as an operating manual for Optimism Fractal that will evolve over time according to the community’s consensus.

The core intents and specifications below were approved via Optimism Fractal’s consensus processes and can be updated by using the consensus process defined below. You can learn about previous versions and proposals to change this document in the historical notes at the bottom of this page.

Table of Contents

• Core Intents
• Specifications
• 1. Respect Game meetings
• 2. Respect Game
• 3. Validity of break-out group result
• 4. Respect
• 5. Respect Distribution
• 6. Consensus process
• 7. Bootstrap stage
• Key Links
• Historical Notes

Core Intents

Optimism Fractal is a community dedicated to fostering collaboration, awarding public good creators, and optimizing governance on the Optimism Superchain.

Specifications

1. Respect Game meetings

1.1. Respect Game meetings happen weekly;

1.2. At the start of the meeting participants are randomly distributed into break-out groups of 3 to 6 people. Each break-out group plays Respect game, which lasts for 45 minutes;

2. Respect Game

2.1. Each participant of the group is given up to 4 minutes to present their contributions. Their presentation should answer the following question: "What did I do this week to help Optimism?"

2.2. After everyone has had time to present, the group tries to reach consensus on rankings of contributions;

2.2.1. The participant who has contributed the most gets Level 6, the second biggest contributor gets level 5 and so on;

2.3. Once the group reaches consensus, participants of the group signal it onchain by calling submitCons function of the smart contract;

3. Validity of break-out group result

3.1. Break-out group result consists of rankings produced by the Respect Game and a group number;

3.2. A break-out group result is said to be valid if all of the following requirements hold

3.2.1. At least 2/3rds of the break-out group participants submit this result onchain by calling submitCons contract function within 2 hours of Respect game start. If a participant submits two conflicting results within this 2-hour window, only the newer one is taken into account;

3.2.1. At least 1 council member calls submitCons signaling this result (they don’t have to be participants of a break-out group);

3.2.3. A break-out group result is not blacklisted by the council (by passing a proposal to do it - see item 6);

4. Respect

4.1. Respect is a non-transferable token representing respect (an opinion) that a community (in this case Optimism Fractal) has on a particular account;

4.2. Respect is not a property that can by owned by anyone (or anything) and no participating party owns Respect”

5. Respect Distribution

5.1. Every Respect Game meeting shall eventually result in minting of Respect to participants of valid break-out groups;

5.2. Level 6 of a valid break-out group receives 55 Respect;

5.3. Level 5 of a valid break-out group receives 34 Respect;

5.4. Level 4 of a valid break-out group receives 21 Respect;

5.5. Level 3 of a valid break-out group receives 13 Respect;

5.6. Level 2 of a valid break-out group receives 8 Respect;

5.7. Level 1 of a valid break-out group receives 5 Respect;

6. Consensus process

6.1. Every week, during Respect Game meeting, a poll is created for participants to register to take part in the consensus process of Optimism Fractal next week. This is “registration poll”. Participants can register throughout the whole week;

6.3. A proposal is said to be passed by Optimism Fractal if at least 2/3rds of council members signal approval for it;

6.5. Optimism Fractal does not have any control or any other kind of power over any participating parties;

7. Bootstrap stage

Key Links

• You can find a tutorial and more details about the Respect Game in this article.

• We play the Respect Game with an intuitive app called Fractalgram, which you can learn about in this blog post and article.

• After you reach consensus during your respect game, submit ranks to the OP Mainnet with this webapp.

• Explore the Navbar and Resources at the top of the page for more key links.

Historical Notes

There have been two changes to the core intents and specifications above since Optimism Fractal started in October, 2023. The initial version was created by the Optimystics team before the first Optimism Fractal event.

The Optimystics team made the first change in January 2024 via the legacy consensus process before the end of Optimism Fractal’s bootstrap phase. The main change at this time was the addition of the community consensus process defined above. You can learn more about this by exploring the article about our council and watching the videos linked in the article.

This intent document was most recently updated in June 2024 when a proposal was approved to update Optimism Fractal’s core intents. This added optimizing governance to the intents and clarified Optimism as the Superchain. The proposal was approved by the community via the consensus process defined above and you can learn more about this here.

You can find previous versions of this document here and create or review proposals to change this document in the Optimism Fractal snapshot space.