- The projects name: Patrick McCorry / Cryptocurrency and Friends
- A description of how the project has supported development and usage of the OP Stack:
Over the course of a few years, he has helped support the development of rollups - not specifically the OP stack by itself - but all rollup projects. He has done this by writing articles, papers and presenting at conferences to help explain how rollups work to a technical (and at times general) audience.
For example, even the idea that a rollup is a special type of bridge, and all we are working on is bridge engineering, is slowly coming into the terminology used by rollup projects. A lot of it seems obvious, but his writings has helped shaped that narrative.
Some of the articles include two SoKs on layer-2 protocols (one from 2018 and another in 2021), an online class dedicated to layer-2, several blog posts about mental models of bridges / rollups as an sdk. For presentations, he has iterated on the same talk about rollups which was presented at Ledger, Devcon, a16z, L2beats, BanklessDAO, etc.
Alongside a host of non-recorded talks, panels and general shilling of technical explainers/discussion on twitter. He isn’t associated with any rollup projects - which is why his content is so good, educational and honest. It is a bit strange that he does it all for free. Which is why it would be great to nominate him for this retrospective grant.
- A link to the project’s GitHub or Twitter: https://twitter.com/stonecoldpat0/