ZEROPOD #7- ”One Super Dream, One Super Team, One Superchain” - Binji Pande from Optimism (Audio-only Version for Spotify)

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Welcome to Episode 7 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Binji Pande from OPLabs and the Optimism Collective.

The quote in the title is from Jesse Pollak of Coinbase/BASE, and Binji said it sums up what it's like to work daily on scaling Ethereum alongside some of the best minds working on the OP Stack together.

In this pod, we dig into Binji's background, talk about Optimism's commitment to broad collaboration and funding public goods, and we learn that the "Superchain" is a blueprint for an open source hat warehouse in New Jersey?

 

Enjoy!

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Episode Teaser

1:32 - Intro to Zeropod

2:34 - The Binji Origin Story: Coconuts in Cost Rica

3:44 - College Days: Studying Behavioural Economics

5:49 - Incentives, Incentives, Incentives.

6:08 - Joined Coinbase 

7:20 - Joined Optimism

8:14 - Impact Over Profit

9:10 - Is Optimism Nounish?

9:51 - Conviction + Optimism = Success

10:38 - What kind of challenges has Optimism faced recently?

11:23 - The Pros and Cons of Tribalism

13:20 - The Superchain Solution

16:00 - One Super Dream

16:43 - So what exactly is the Superchain?

17:22 - The Hat Store Analogy

18:58 - Optimism is a hat warehouse in New Jersey

20:43 - The Superchain is an open source hat warehouse blueprint

21:52- Builders can now build for all warehouses in the world at the same time

23:00 - Open Source Protocols allow a faster pace of innovation

25:13 - Why is OP Winning The Culture War?

30:05 - Based #OnchainSummer

32:35 - WTF is a PWA?

33:54 - The ease of launching and operating DAOs on L2

35:57 - The importance of Optimism’s Ethereum “sameness”

38:15 - Open source as a Nounish value

39:42 - Nouns + Optimism = Super Alliance?

40:20 - Solving for the current disincentive to working on public goods (great quote!)

42:12 - The importance of retro funding

44:56 - How can builders apply for Optimism retro funding?

47:44 - Where to find ideas to build for OP and information about the next Retro PGF: https://tinyurl.com/OP-PGF

48:58 - How can builders apply for Retro PGF?

50:18 - Telegram is awful and everyone agrees

51:45 - The Nouns x Optimism x Farcaster VIBE

53:04 - How interoperable will OP Stacks be? (NOMO Nouns example)

55:36 - wen Superchain?

59:51 - ZK vs Optimistic Proofs (Back to the hats!)

64:40 - The Farcaster OP Migration

70:00 - Of all the places you could work, why OPLabs?

72:00 - Possible OP x TNS Twitter Spaces Collaborations!

 

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Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk.

Cohosted by Prof Werder aka The Nounish Prof.

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