"One Super Dream, One Super Team, One Superchain" - ZEROPOD Ep. 7 with Binji Pande from Optimism!

Sep 1 2023

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!

Timestamps:

0:00 - Episode Teaser
1:32 - Zeropod Intro
2:34 - The Binji Origin Story: Coconuts in Cost Rica
3:44 - College Days: Studying Behavioural Economics
5:49 - Incentives, Incentives, Incentives
6:08 - Joining Coinbase
7:20 - Joining 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!

Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Cohosted by Prof Werder aka The Nounish Prof.

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