Welcome to @jing, co-founder of @optimism!

She's kindly agreed to do an AMA (starts in 45 minutes).

Reply with your questions. :)

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Manifesting being a "gen-z" thing is hilarious 😂

How fucking hard it would be LOL. Actually jk, if I knew how hard it would be, I probably wouldn't have done it.

There are many, many things I wish I had known earlier. One thing I am continuously realizing is what the gen-z kids call "manifesting". A simple but effective trick: say what you want out of your day, or meeting, or quarter at the beginning, and repeat it. That level of clarity and repetition will influence behaviors, and you'll end up attaining what you want most of the time.

What is something important you wish you knew earlier when founding Optimism?

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because ditto is the most powerful pokemon! it can be whatever it wants to be!

I am not sure how to solve the "rich get richer problem" quite yet.

But right now, there is SO MUCH extremely low hanging fruit that really anybody can get funded by RPGF. This is true for now, and one day tools/teams will have enough network effects (either of usage or reputation). Right now, the traditional economy solves for this by having VCs whose job it is to identify the "small guy" and take bets. Whether or not that works perfectly is different question, and improvements on that are certainly possible. I'm excited for us to get to a level of maturity to even begin thinking about those problems.

distributing profits from sequencer fees, in the form of retroactive grants, proportionally among developers who drive txn vol seems fair and reasonable

downside is that it tends to reward teams who already have a strong capital position, and leave out the ones that dont, making the relatively rich even richer. are you happy with the current approach? if so, why? if not, what changes would you like to see?

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i love this: "how happy and creative everybody is when we can just be humans together."

thanks for answering xx

As of the last year, I've done a 180 on the value of in-person work. I used to avoid it, because Optimism started right at the beginning of the pandemic and I got used to being a hermit loner on my computer, sitting like a little shrimp hunched over my bluelight machine. 

Now I see how much information and context gets lost over text communication, and how happy and creative everybody is when we can just be humans together.

what is the last thing you changed your opinion about and why?

Elevating onchain creators 

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Sony is a technology company, and so are we. The OP Stack offers a way for Sony to continue innovating at the forefront as it has for the last 80 years. Sony knows the world will change, and they know they need to adapt to the bleeding edge of that change. Otherwise, obsoletion is the default path.

Can you talk a bit about the process of bringing non-crypto organizations like Sony into the OP stack ecosystem? What problems are you solving for them that require a blockchain?

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I hear you -- it's been a roller coaster and you guys have done a great job threading the needle between public benefit and shareholder benefit

Love the 2nd answer, it's all narcissism of petty differences between plasmas, rollups, validiums, etc.

It was demoralizing and exhilarating both at the same time. I naively thought we could persist as a nonprofit and people would throw money at us because of the value we were bringing to the whole ecosystem. It was exhilarating because for the first time in my life I felt like I had purpose and could see the future.

I have hopes for plasma, zk, and many other solutions. All these fancy names are really mostly the same concepts with sometimes very small differences in design tradeoffs. More adoption and more usecases will elucidate which tradeoffs make the most sense, and the OP Stack is built modularly so that it can adapt quickly to changing tides.

What was it like to transition plasma group into optimism?

Do you still have hopes for plasma based solutions? Or is that dream dead?

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Much much simpler devtools and abstractions so that the average application developer can simply think about their application logic without thinking also about the interactions with the underlying protocol.

What's #1 thing you'd change about Optimism (which is not Superchain interop)?

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100%, we already support both. We made our protocol modular from the get-go explicitly so that we could integrate any proof system and not just be resilient to change, but enable innovation to be parallelized at all levels of the stack.

Do you think both OP roll ups and ZK roll ups can win together? Why or why not?

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We need to do for game theory what we did for cryptography.

There's a whole industry and massive community of economists, game theorists, public goods theorists who I think would be absolutely crushing it in crypto, but avoid it because of the negative reputation that the industry has (at least in many parts of the US). I don't have the brainpower to think of the most creative experiments myself, but I think Ethereum could use its legitimacy as the "most above board crypto project" to recruit and attract the talent that can think of cool experiments.

I think a lot of these game theorists don't realize how insanely interesting and new these mechanisms are, how it can challenge traditional game theory, and how well-funded their ideas would be!!

How can we take public goods funding to next level in Ethereum ecosystem this year?Any experiments she would like to see?

Founder of https://jubjubapp.com/, tokenizing media ownership rights and delivering payments to support the future creator economy

Thank you for the insight and knowledge here @jing

You have to explicitly build a culture and represent it yourself if you want your community to be like that too. The internet can smell defensiveness and posturing from a mile away. Be prepared to do a lot of self-work to be a resilient person yourself if you want that for your community.

Asking on behalf of @jubjub since he can't make this time:

What advice do you have for builders trying to ship in public and build resilient communities?

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This is sounding wild already! 🚀 Hoping the Superchain vision includes virtual worlds too so game tokens, pixel pets 🐉 and wearables can move across games like it's nothing. Interop for the metaverse will be legendary. Ready for my inventory to follow me everywhere! 🧙

The way apps are written today are not the way that apps will be written next year. The Superchain will fundamentally change application development and design paradigms. 

Even as the internal team experiments with the interop devnet, we're blowing our own minds. It's wild and fun.

Welcome @jing! 

What’s one thing you think the Optimism community is underestimating right now about the Superchain vision?

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doing the right thing.
working hard.
being optimistic.
putting the team over the individual.
pushing boundaries with creativity.

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If the Superchain is successful, they should know absolutely nothing.

fast forward and we have mass adoption of onchain tech: what should the layman crypto user know about the superchain (if anything)

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We've faithfully implemented the original Rollup-Centric Roadmap. My defensive answer is: hey, I'm accruing value the way you guys said should happen!

My more thoughtful answer is: In order to extract value, you must first provide value. So I think you are correct. We need more adoption, but for that to happen, a loooooot needs to get better/faster/cheaper and easier to use. When the pie is big, everybody can eat. Right now we're fighting over scraps, and rather than infighting we need to work together to reach the masses.

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Glad to hear! Sounds like most of the community is aligned and it’s just executing that’s left.

We've faithfully implemented the original Rollup-Centric Roadmap. My defensive answer is: hey, I'm accruing value the way you guys said should happen!

My more thoughtful answer is: In order to extract value, you must first provide value. So I think you are correct. We need more adoption, but for that to happen, a loooooot needs to get better/faster/cheaper and easier to use. When the pie is big, everybody can eat. Right now we're fighting over scraps, and rather than infighting we need to work together to reach the masses. 

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-roadmap/4698

Curious on your thoughts on the L1 and L2 debate and value accruing to L2s? Or is it just the only reason it’s a debate is because we haven’t brought enough people on chain? Maybe I answered myself lol

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where's your favorite instance of the op stack?

what IRL enterprise is the most optimism-inducing for you? which of them should be more onchain than they currently are?

father, meditator and (freelance miniapp builder and consultant). this month working for $runner

if you died tomorrow, what album would you take to the other side?

In what ways did it play out to your advantage?

contrarian take that was correct: being mit licensed is strategically advantageous

incorrect: good leaders represent the will of the people in an early stage startup. (I've learned that the actual hard thing to do is to bear the responsibility of hard decisions rather than absolve responsibility through groupthink!)

What core assumptions did you make when starting optimism that turned out to be correct? 

Which turned out to be incorrect?

Co founder BantR- on chain attention economy powered by infofi. Documenting my journey to become 100x AI first founder. Growth nerd, part time guitar player

Direct, genuine, stupidly optimistic and relentlessly hardworking.

Our internal team values are:
1. obsess over improvement - feedback is gold
2. be a force multiplier - adding you to the team is a 1+1=3
3. be optimistic - framing shapes reality
4. ask stupid questions - the courage to show stupidity will make you smarter

What will you say is the culture of Optimism?

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excellent story! I hope you've given Joanna a lot of gratitude for this!

I was ranting about crypto at a non-crypto event many years ago, and a woman came up to me and grabbed my arm and said, "I'd like to get to know you."

I was 22, kinda lost in life, and she believed in me more than I did myself. Her name is Joanna and she introduced me to her network and said, "I'll write you a $50k check for anything you want to do."

By the time I raised money, there were many people who wrote checks for us, but Joanna's confidence in me fueled me when I had none for myself. She changed my life and continues to be a mentor and close friend.

what's a kind thing someone did for you that had an outsized impact on your life?

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RPCs are much better since I'm just using Rabby I believe it automatically updates RPCs

Are you still having issues with that today? All of our RPCs have improved over time, but if you're still having problems please let me know and I'll follow up in DMs.

@jing welcome, there's only one thing which bothers me about Optimism is the RPC as a former Metamask user I always had some problems with Op RPC, what's the reason and what's the best solution? (these days I use Rabby mostly which is much better)