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Benjamin Jones is the director of the Optimism Foundation, which is dedicated to scaling Ethereum and the team building Optimism Layer 2. Currently, Optimism sits in third place among Layer 2s with $6.42B in TVL. In this episode, we dive deep into the Superchain thesis and explore how Optimism aims to optimize Ethereum scalability. We start by discussing what Optimism is and its mission to scale Ethereum, moving on to the foundation’s end goal and its vision for the future.

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Benjamin Jones is the director of the Optimism Foundation, which is dedicated to scaling Ethereum and the team building Optimism Layer 2. Currently, Optimism sits in third place among Layer 2s with $6.42B in Total Value Locked. In this episode, we dive deep into the Superchain Thesis and explore how Optimism aims to optimize Ethereum scalability. We start by discussing what Optimism is and its mission to scale Ethereum, moving on to the foundation’s end goal and its vision for the future.

We also take a closer look at Benjamin Jones, his role, background and contributions. We also compare various scaling solutions, assess their effectiveness and potential, and discuss the future of zero-knowledge proofs (ZK). Benjamin also explains the philosophy underpinning Optimism’s Retro Funding approach.

Chapters

0:00 What Is Optimism?

2:04 End Goal

3:44 Security

5:50 Benjamin Jones

10:00 Open Source

13:02 OP Token

16:25 1 Human = 1 Vote

20:32 Scaling Solutions

30:00 Is ZK The Future?

36:27 Optimism Superchain

49:00 Retro Funding

57:34 Arbitrum

01:01:27 Building On Optimism

01:05:52 Mainstream

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