The State of Optimism | Ben Jones & Karl Floersch (SotN 8/10)
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🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Optimism is scaling Ethereum with its open-source Optimistic Rollup. Uniswap recently deployed on Optimistic Ethereum, officially kicking off Ethereum's Scalability Summer. Where does Optimism stand now? What's next?
Optimists Ben Jones & Karl Floersch join to talk about working on Ethereum’s hardest problems and pioneering a better future for humanity.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
7:00 Ben Jones & Karl Floersch
9:10 Is Ethereum Scaling?
10:03 The History of Optimism
16:20 A Scaled Ethereum Chain
19:26 A Mental Model & Theme Parks
27:24 Governors & Contracts
29:29 Infrastructure & Use Cases
37:07 The Optimistic EVM
41:32 How Much Scale is There?
49:04 Latency & Liquidity
58:59 Layer 2 to Layer 2
1:06:29 Understanding Tradeoffs
1:09:18 MEV & Sequencing
1:19:17 Power & Responsibility
1:27:08 Saving Humanity
1:29:48 Fire Round Questions
1:34:54 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Optimism:
https://optimism.io/
Ben on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ben_chain?s=20
Karl on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/karl_dot_tech?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to another episode of State of the Nation today. |
| 0:11.2 | I am psyched to have the optimistic team on the state of the nation. |
| 0:16.0 | David, this one's been a long time coming. |
| 0:17.8 | I think optimism is maybe the most hyped scalability tech in crypto. |
| 0:24.0 | Definitely, and optimistic rollups are as well. |
| 0:26.8 | And I don't know what to say about these guys, |
| 0:28.8 | but they're incredibly optimistic about both their technology, Ethereum, |
| 0:34.4 | but and also the future of humanity. |
| 0:36.3 | This is really insightful episode for me. |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah, these guys are some of the deepest pioneers of the Ethereum space days. |
| 0:43.2 | They've been working on the same, the same problems. |
| 0:45.8 | Sustainability and scale for Ethereum, Carl and Ben from the optimism team, |
| 0:50.8 | they understand the relationship between actually scaling throughput |
| 0:54.4 | and the ability to actually scale out Ethereum to more and more people. |
| 0:57.9 | Those things are connected. |
| 0:59.3 | And one of the, these are some of my favorite conversations |
| 1:01.9 | where we bring on the developers who are actually coding the code, |
| 1:05.9 | and then they can connect it out to the more significant meetings |
| 1:08.6 | of what it means for humanity. |
| 1:10.1 | And so this is kind of how this podcast goes. |
| 1:12.4 | The first half of the show, we all talk about the details and the specifics |
| 1:15.9 | of the optimism L2 roll out. |
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