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Optimism

$20,000

About

At Optimism, we're on a mission to scale Ethereum to the masses and sustainably fund public goods in the process!From the code to the values, we are Ethereum-aligned. We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. Since our initial inception as a non-profit research group, we have sought to scale both its technology and values.At present the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. We are building the most elegant solution to this problem. We do this out in the open because we believe in open source and its ability to accelerate innovation.Not only do we improve Ethereum's performance by orders of magnitude, we donate 100% of the profits generated from doing so to Ethereum public goods. We do this because we believe the future of the open internet is too important to be left to chance. By operating as a Public Benefit Corporation we're able to align private incentives with public good and create a positive-sum economic model that provides a sustainable future for the internet.

At Optimism, we're on a mission to scale Ethereum to the masses and sustainably fund public goods in the process!From the code to the values, we are Ethereum-aligned. We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. Since our initial inception as a non-profit research group, we have sought to scale both its technology and values.At present the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. We are building the most elegant solution to this problem. We do this out in the open because we believe in open source and its ability to accelerate innovation.Not only do we improve Ethereum's performance by orders of magnitude, we donate 100% of the profits generated from doing so to Ethereum public goods. We do this because we believe the future of the open internet is too important to be left to chance. By operating as a Public Benefit Corporation we're able to align private incentives with public good and create a positive-sum economic model that provides a sustainable future for the internet.

Prizes

Optimism$20,000

🏆 Optimism is offering:✨ Most Optimistic Hack, the Sort of Thing That Reminds You About the Reason Why We’re All Here in the First Place: To Use Crypto as a Tool and a Foundation to Change the World $4844

❤️ Most Public Goodiest Public Good, Something That Everyone Wants to Use But Literally Couldn’t Have a Token Even if You Tried Really, Really Hard $3675

🤪 Most Absurd Hack, Preferably Something That Reminds Us of the Weird Old Days of Ethereum in 2018 When People Did the Badger Dance On-Stage and Didn’t Care What Crypto Twitter Said About It Afterwards $3074 ⛓ A Hack That Shouldn’t Be on a Blockchain but Is Anyway Because It’s Fun to Put Things on the Blockchain and Vitalik Said It’s Cool to Put Things on the Blockchain $3668

🎉 Just Use Optimism in Literally Any Way to Do Literally Anything 4626 + 100 + 5 + 8 = $4739 [total prize pool] *Minimum $100 per team, remaining distributed to eligible teams via an Optimism team voteIf you win another prize, you don't also get this oneIf any of the major prizes above are not awarded, those amounts will land in this pool

Getting Started

Optimism Documentation

Workshop

Optimism 🛠 Deploying to Optimism in 1 minute...

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This workshop is happening in-person

04:30 PM EDT — Friday, Jun 24, 2022 in Metropolitan Pavilion - Room 2 (4th floor)