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The Superchain Thesis: Scaling Ethereum with Optimism – A Deep Dive with Benjamin Jones – Crypto News
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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Episode Description
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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