genuine q: any tips on where I can read the best explanation for why user's shouldn't be concerned about the lack of fraud proofs on optimism? cc

Building. Prior: VP at Adobe, GM of Behance, co-founder of the Content Authenticity Initiative, early days at TED. https://williamallen.com

Contributor to crypto, building at World / TFH, co-founder of PoolTogether Inc, instigator of pleasrDAO

https://leighton.mirror.xyz/

The nuance is that there is almost no security benefit to fault proofs unless: 1. anyone can submit a challenge
2. the admin multisig cannot push an upgrade that preempts a challenge

Arbitrum’s upcoming BOLD mechanism is the first that can actually enable this. Optimism plans to spend less time with training wheels.