Optimism Fractal

This article provides an introduction to Optimism Fractal. Please note that this article is a work in progress and will be updated soon. Enjoy!

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We’re thrilled to introduce Optimism Fractal, a new community on mission to grow Optimism!

Optimism Fractal is inspired by Eden Fractal and Fractally, trailblazing communities of brilliant innovators that have been perfecting processes for community cooperation for over two years. After months of development, the creators of Eden Fractal are now starting Optimism Fractal to foster public goods, promote collaboration, and grow communities with Optimism!

Optimism Fractal is deeply aligned with the Optimistic Vision of rewarding helpful work with retroactive public goods funding and the axiom of Impact = Profit to create a sustainable future for all. We are pioneering an innovative ‘consensus game’ where community members rank each other’s contributions to Optimism during weekly meetings and earn respect for helping the collective. We call it the Respect Game. In addition to being super fun and a wonderful way to meet amazing people, this consensus game has proven to be profoundly helpful in empowering communities to fund public goods, foster meaningful collaborations, and coordinate to create mutual benefit.

We’ve been avidly focused on retroactive public goods funding and improving governance for years, so we became fascinated when we discovered Optimism. We created a grant proposal that outlined plans to start Optimism Fractal in August and followed up with an addendum of more details for the reviewers of the Optimism Grants Council. We discussed our progress and shared educational content with community members in Eden Fractal meeting each week, then produced awesome videos and created comprehensive show notes about each meeting to help everyone enjoy the benefits of Optimism. You can see our epic journey experience starting Optimism Fractal and learn all the exciting details by exploring show notes for the 66th, 67th, 68th, and 69th episodes of Eden Fractal.

In the past few months, talented developers from Eden Fractal have built tools that enable anyone to grow their community with social consensus games, fractal collaboration, unprecedented independence on Optimism. This includes a set of smart contracts, web app, and intuitive app called Fractalgram where players can play consensus games on leading computing platforms like the EVM and OP Stack. This sets the stage for the next step in the evolution of human collaboration, powered by Optimism.

We believe that Optimism provides an ideal environment to foster the growth of fractal communities and are stoked about how Optimism Fractal can create profound benefits by helping countless communities to grow with Optimism. We are planning to host the first Optimism Fractal event in mid-October and more Optimism Fractal events every week. Stay tuned for more details coming soon!

Since our 66th meeting, Eden Fractal has focused on Optimism Fractal in each episode. You can watch full episodes and explore detailed show notes featuring Eden Fractal’s collaborations with Optimism Fractal in the following episodes:

Hip hip hooray! Our mythical heroes approved three proposals to update the eden.fractal permissions and explored an introduction to the Optimism Collective, a new type of community designed to reward public goods and build a sustainable future for all 🌞 

What are the synergies between Eden Fractal and Optimism? In the next stage of our epic journey we explore opportunities to help humanity flourish and summon Ether’s Phoenix with innovations in retroactive public goods funding 🌱 🌞

What are the best ways to grow communities that create public goods? We explore the new Optimism Fractal proposal, RetroPGF, and other exciting opportunities for public goods creators in the Optimism ecosystem 🌱 🌻

What are the best ways to build a more regenerative society? We explore Optimism Fractal, RetroPGF Round 3, and the Interplanetary Unconference to help create a peaceful, sustainable future for all 🌻 🌞

We’re working with an exciting Ethereum L2 community called Optimism that is highly aligned with our goals of funding public goods and coordinating humanity for everyone’s benefit. The Optimism Collective is pioneering a fascinating bicameral governance system focused on rewarding positive impact with profit, building a Superchain with some of the most world’s most successful companies (including OpenAI and Coinbase), and running the world’s largest system for retroactive public goods funding (RetroPGF). The first rounds of RetroPGF have been highly acclaimed by many brilliant thought leaders (including Vitalik Buterin) and they just started Round 3 to fund public goods creators with 30 million OP. You can learn more about Optimism in our draft article linked below.

An introduction to the Optimism Collective, a new type of community designed to reward public goods and build a sustainable future for all 🌞

A pioneering community that creates innovative games, shows, and tools!

An introduction to some of our favorite games and a philosophical exploration of how games can create profound benefits for all!

Eden Fractal tools empower communities with unprecedented potential for creative collaboration, independence, and mutual benefit!