OP Radio: Recent Episodes
The Optimism Collective
OP Radio is a podcast on anything and everything related to Optimism, a low-cost and lightning fast Layer 2 blockchain.
On this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Dan Romero, co-founder of decentralized social network Farcaster. The conversation covered a lot of ground: from Dan's take on the future of social media, to Farcaster's current growth strategy, to their decision to launch on OP Mainnet. Enjoy!
On this episode of OP Radio we're joined by James Ross of Mode: an OP Stack Chain that is designed to reward people that help grow its ecosystem.
On this episode of OP Radio we have some of the Optimists who will be at Devconnect Istanbul to talk about Onchain Summit and Superchain Social events.
This episode of OP Radio features Lucas, the founder of Pods: a platform for putting podcasts onchain. Together we get in to the value proposition of onchain media and how this new paradigm it empowers both creators and collectors alike.
On this episode of OP Radio we're joined by Justin, representing Ancient8: a gaming guild which is launching their own gaming-focused OP Chain. We spoke with Justin about the origins of Ancient8, the implications of blockchain-based gaming, and more.
Optimism co-founder and OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch visits us on OP Radio to discuss the alpha release of the OP Stack's fault proof system. Karl walks us through what a fault proof is, the purpose it serves, and how the modular OP Stack is designed to for redundancy in every component of the system.
In this week's episode of OP Radio we spoke with OP Labs' team member and Optimism Collective contributor Binji about a wide variety of topics, including AI, deep fakes, consumer facing crypto products, and Retroactive Public Goods Funding.
RetroPGF rewards the people and projects who have contributed to the development and adoption of Optimism. In RetroPGF 3 30,000,000 OP will be allocated to builders, content creators, developers, evangelists, and more.
In this episode we spoke with Jonas, the RetroPGF Lead, to get the full details on RetroPGF Round 3 and provide some tips on how to sign up.
One of the most powerful aspects of the open-source and MIT licensed OP Stack is its modularity which, among other things, enables it to integrate a diversity of proving systems, including ZK (zero knowledge proofs). On this episode of OP Radio we spoke with members of the O(1) Labs and RISC Zero teams, whose Foundation Mission Proposals were both accepted to build a ZK proof system for the OP Stack.
In this episode of OP Radio we sat down with Isaac--a product manager at Nouns Builder, a no code DAO creation tool used to launch DAOs in the Nouns model. Nouns DAOs are unique in that they come with onchain governance and treasury management built in, making it easy for anyone to create an onchain community and coordinate it.
In this episode of OP Radio we sat down with 3DNS, a decentralized domain name service provider recently arrived on OP Mainnet. We discussed what traditional DNS is and the advantages of moving DNS onchain.
In this episode of OP Radio we're joined by Jesse from Base, a Layer 2 rollups incubated by Coinbase and built on the OP Stack, and Ben Jones, co-founder of Optimism. We went over Base's early success, the shared values underpinning the collaboration between Base and the Optimism Collective, some of that collaboration's details, and more.
In this episode of OP radio we talked with Alex Poon, co-founder of Charmverse: a collaboration platform for Web3 communities. We were also joined by a member of the Optimism Grants Council to talk about their use of Charmverse and provide some insight into the Optimism Grants process.
In this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Alex and Greg, two of the main contributors to Friends With Benefits and organizers of FEST: an IRL gathering and exposition of onchain culture. We discussed the vision behind FEST, how this year went, as well as its future.
In this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Andy Bromberg, CEO of Beam: a purpose-built global payments wallet that's simplifying the experience of sending and receiving crypto payments.
In today's episode of OP Radio we spoke with Zack and Zemm, two contributors to Coordinape: praise and recognition toolkit for distributed teams. We talked about the current state of remote work and how organizations can leverage Coordinape to dole out recognition and work together more effectively.
Zuzalu is a pop up community and social experiment. We spoke with the always interesting Mark Tyneway about what Zuzalu is, what it aims to be, and what it may become. We also covered a lot of interesting ground in this episode covering topics such as credible commitments, good habit creation, and cold plunging. Enjoy!
In this week's episode of OP Radio we spoke with Charlie and Will, Co-founders of NFT infrastructure platform Decent. The Decent duo told us about their origin story, their multi-chain NFT minting product called the Box, and what the future has in store.
This episode of OP Radio features Richerd, Co-founder of Web3 creative platform Manifold. We talked with Richerd about his thesis on NFTs, Layer 2s, and Manifold's recent move to OP Mainnet.
In this week's episode of OP Radio we spoke with Bobby and Jonas to learn more about the announcement of RetroPGF Round 3: 30M OP for builders, creators, and educators who have provided positive impact to the Optimism Collective.
This week we sat down with David Greenstein, Co-founder of Music NFT platform Sound.xyz to talk about the music industry, music publishing, music discovery, and the current OPportunity onchain music presents for creators and collectors alike.
In this episode of OP Radio we talk with OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch and Optimism Co-founder Ben Jones about the the Bedrock upgrade. Bedrock is a big deal for a number of reasons, not the least of which is it lays the foundation for the OP Stack with a simplified, modular codebase. Hear about this significant Optimism milestone from two of the individuals who have been at Optimism from the very beginning.
In this episode of OP Radio we talked with some of the team at Celestia, who have have leveraged the OP Stack's modular design to separate the Data Availability layer from the ordering layer.
On today's episode of OP Radio we're joined by Mattie Fairchild, who spent years working in the video game industry before joining OP Labs as Head of Developer Relations. We cover a lot of interesting ground in this conversation, including Mattie's background, how she approaches DevRel, and some of the prize winners from the ETHGlobal Lisbon Hackathon.
In this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Remco, one of the many smart people building Worldcoin, an identity and financial network which aims to democratize access to the global economy. We touched on Remco's long history in the crypto space, his love of bicycles, and why he's dedicating his valuable time and energy to Worldcoin, which recently announced it's bringing its World ID and World App offerings to Optimism.
In this episode of OP Radio we sat down with Steve Dakh, Chief Technical Officer of Ethereum Attestation Service, an open-source infrastructure public good for making attestations on or off-chain. We were also joined by Zain Bacchus, Product Manager at OP Labs, to discuss upgrading the AttestationStation to the EAS Standard.
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In this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Tam, one of the members of Test In Prod, creators of alternative execution client op-erigon and contributors to the Optimism Collective. Listen in to hear about the importance of client diversity and how the Test In Prod crew chose Optimism as the place to devote their time and efforts.---------------------------Optimism Links:Website: https://www.optimism.io/Twitter: @optimismFNDMirror: https://optimism.mirror.xyz/
In this episode we chatted with Jamie, a member of Perpetual Protocol's marketing team, about some of the project's recent updates.
In this episode of OP Radio we sat talked with Miguel Morel, Co-Founder and CEO of onchain data analytics platform Arkham Intelligence.
This episode of OP Radio features a conversation with Justine Humenansky, who is involved with all things governance related at Optimism. Come learn all about the great work Justine is doing with governance, including an extensive body of research on DAOs she compiled and open sourced.
In this episode of OP Radio we're joined by members of the Optimism Foundation, as well as a handful of projects, delegates, and badgeholders from RetroPGF round 2.
Come learn about the experience of some of the key participators in RetroPGF 2, and get hyped about a concept key to the Optimism Collective's ethos!
OP Labs engineer Mark Tyneway dropped by OP Radio to discuss ERC-4337, the Superchain, and the possibilities around op chains.
On this episode of OP Radio we sat down with the product manager or Coinbase Wallet to discuss their new Quests on Coinbase Wallet initiative, featuring Optimism.
This special edition of OP Radio hosts OP Labs CEO Liam Horne and Coinbase Senior Director of Engineering Jesse Pollak to talk about Base: Coinbase's new Layer 2 blockchain built on the OP Stack.
In this episode of OP Radio we sat down with the product lead at Fjord Foundry, a liquidity bootstrapping platform that helps projects build communities from the ground up.
In this episode of OP Radio we sat down with one of the co-founders of Rainbow Wallet to discuss the current state of crypto wallets, the importance of good UX, and the Rainbow Wallet OP incentives program.
A member of the Binance BUSD team sits down to talk with us about native integration of Binance-Peg BUSD on Optimism.
A chat with a few of the winners from the Metaverse Hackathon hosted by Encode Club and sponsored by Optimism and OpenSea.
Joins us for another interesting conversation on OP Radio, this time with the Thai author, entrepreneur, fashion designer, visual artist, and the creative mind behind the Bored Town NFT collection.
On this episode of OP Radio we sat down with the project lead at Tally Ho to talk all about Web3 wallets: what they are and what makes one different from another. Throughout this fascinating conversation we also touched on community ownership, privacy in Web3 (or lack thereof), and the cultural alignment between Tally Ho and Optimism.
We sat down with members of the Synthetix DAO to discuss the history of the protocol as well as recent and upcoming updates perps v2 and synthetix v3.
OptiChads is an Optimism-native NFT collection which encourages it's holders to be the best version of themselves.
We sat down with the creator of OptiChads to talk about art, community, and why he decided to launch his collection on Optimism.
On this episode of OP Radio we're joined by Denis Nazarov, founder of Web3 publishing platform Mirror. We talked about what the future of internet publishing looks like, the promise of Web3, and more!
The notorious smart contractor extraordinaire Kelvin Fichter joins this episode of OP Radio to discuss his Ethereum origin story and why he's dedicated his life to building Optimism.
A chat with Mike Boyle, OG Optimism builder and co-founder of Web3 creator toolkit rebel.
A chat with the Atlantis World team on their alpha release and alignment with Optimism.
A chat with Jing--executive director of the Optimism Foundation--on the past, present, & future of the Optimism Collective.
A chat with the sharp chaps at Lattice, creators of the MUD on-chain gaming engine and OPCraft--a fully on-chain voxel based game.
A chat with the co-founder of Quix NFT Marketplace in the inaugural episode of OP Radio.