(Looking for feedback) Hedgey - Using our 50k OP RPGF to fund four new projects launching natively on Optimism

[Lindsey]

Thanks for the super thoughtful response @maenswirony ! Glad to see you’ve applied and that program could benefit you!

On the milestones / requirements to continue receiving funding, I’m pretty in line with what you’ve said. The main purpose of halting a stream (in my opinion) would be if someone wasn’t showing up or putting in the work on their idea. I’d hope that by the time we vote we have four teams that have a clear vision of what they want to do, as well as idea for how they’ll put the funding to work.

Looking forward to seeing what you build.

[limes.eth]

Love seeing this idea @Lindsey, I applied with an idea I’ve been brewing on for a bit and am excited to work on it throughout the period and provide value to Optimism!

[Lindsey]

Nice! Can’t wait to see what you build!

[KarlaGod]

Thank you for this update, I just applied.

[pfedprog]

I have tweeted the announcement

Pavel

Very curios if there is a way to organize teams similar to what happens at a hackathon

[thedevanshmehta]

@Lindsey

I’ll forward this on to Joey at Backdrop to make sure it gets flagged.

Thanks for doing this! We have been approved for the cohort

Looking forward to building this month alongside the other builders

[Lindsey]

Hey everyone! Absolutely floored by the turnout for this program. Have been chatting with Joey at Backdrop and it looks like we have a great turnout. Not everyone who joined the program on backdrop (and been accepted) mentioned Hedgey in their application, so if you got in and are in this program, drop a note here. Also, if you applied and did not get a confirmation email, send me a DM at @ goforlindsey on Telegram and I’ll do my best to help get you sorted out today.

Starting Monday, the month long program kicks off. In addition to the programming and updates on Backdrop. I’d like to keep the OP community in the loop over the coming four weeks. Here’s an idea on how we can keep track of who is in the program and your updates over the coming month.

To get started share a note on this thread. (If possible before Monday)

1. Let us know who you are, what you want to build, and why you want to build it.
2. Let us know how you think this idea is going to move the OP ecosystem forward.
3. What do you want to get out of this month? What can people do to help you get there? Need intros, insights, feedback, user interviews, etc? Let people know that.
4. What are you going to ship this month? Go big.
5. To set up the first week of updates, share your big rock for this coming week (Something you will do that will move you forward. Should be your biggest priority.) For example, if someone was building a platform to help delegates streamline the decision making process for voting you could say, “I’m going to interview 15 delegates this week to understand how they currently make decisions and discover opportunities to improve it” If you’re building a product you could say, “I’m going to ship a clickable prototype of X and complete 5 user interviews.”
6. (optional) Drop a 1-2 minute loom video link to talk through what you’re building or show a demo of any early prototypes.

Once you do that, we should all have a clear idea of who is building in this program, what we need help with, and what each team wants to accomplish this week.

On the Friday this coming week, I’d like everyone in the program to share:

1. What are your updates on the week. Let us know how things are going.
2. What did you accomplish on your big rock goals. What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?
3. How can the OP community help you?
4. What are your big rocks for the coming week?
5. (optional) share anything you want in a 1-2 minute loom video

• Every Friday until the program ends we can repeate this.

Hopefully, this gives us a good baseline for what everyone is building and how each project progresses over the coming month. If you all need anything I’ll be here to help you in any way I can (dm me on telegram.) Stoked to see what comes out of this!

[Jl_DefiEdge]

This is an amazing idea and something the entire builders community will find interesting

[FractalVisions]

Hello Glenn & Alicia here the cofounders of Fractal Visions. Current stage of development is closed alpha/beta. We are here to build an impact initiative platform for creators on the Superchain that reiterates the ethos of public goods funding!

Our project is aimed at onboarding creators who exist both in the web3 space and who are also new to blockchain technology. Fractal Visions’ goal is to attract builders or creators from the regenerative finance and decentralized science sector of the Gitcoin grants community who are also building their projects on the Superchain.

We want to get the most out of this month by utilizing this program to accelerate the launch of our project and provide an ample runway for the beginning of the deployment on Optimism so we can expand to other networks such as base later this year. The more resources that we have at our fingertips the better when it comes to tooling or dependencies that we might need help digging up. Our trip to ETH Denver is the first exposure to the immediate Ethereum developer community where we will be looking for security professionals who offer security audit services & potential team members, or grant participants.

Over the course of this next month we will be touching all bases in the realms of shipping our MVP.

• Traveling to our first crypto event in Denver to meet with partner integrations team representatives.
• Launching customized frames on Farcaster for physical merchandise.
• Finalizing our node setup for front end development.
• Beginning of beta testing smart contract functionality with the ui design prototype key features.

This week’s rock is meeting official representatives to help strengthen our relationship with individuals and developers that we have worked together with online over the past few years.

Here is a link to our prototype video from the end of the year.
DEMO VIDEO

We will provide an update to this post upon returning from the event Friday and look forward to the next month of work dedicated to building on Optimism.

[liang]

Applied! Backdrop Build - Builder
I’m Liang, leading US3R Network to tackle crypto’s identity fragmentation with a scalable social layer, aiming to unify user identities and enhance the decentralized experience. US3R will boost the OP ecosystem by merging user interactions, easing developer integration, and amplifying network effects, promoting a cohesive and innovative space.

Our immediate actions include launching Degencast, a proof of concept for our social interface, and starting RaaS development to showcase our project’s impact and feasibility. We’re building US3R’s foundation and need community feedback and user insights to refine our solutions and speed up progress.

This week, our focus is on rolling out Degencast and gathering user feedback through interviews, ensuring our approach meets the community’s needs

[b0ggs]

Hello! We applied and were accepted and are very excited to start. We’re an artist / developer duo.

We’re building Base →D[erivatives], pronounced Based Derivatives. It’s a art project / protocol on Base that explores composability, Remix Culture, and provenance. Users can compose NFTs they own and NFTs designed by artists into a new NFT. We are working on using on-chain SVGs in coordination with IPFS, so that once the new NFT is minted, users can go back and edit it (e.g. add, remove, remix, move things) without needing to mint again.

The idea of ‘Remix Culture’ as defined by theorist Lev Manovich, has become one of the key aspects of how people interact and belong in a digital culture. This project is a piece of art in the sense that its intent is to stimulate new ideas for production, distribution, and consumption of web3 art and media. We think this is hugely important and will be very helpful to moving the OP ecosystem forward. It’s literally all about the copying, editing, and proliferation of digital content on Base!

In this month we will have a testnet version up and running. We need testers and feedback (e.g. interviews, focus groups, surveys, and more). We also need to find more artists and art-based / media-based communities to partner with.

Our BIG goal is to ship the entire project at the end of 4 weeks.

Our goal this week is to get the contracts done (no unit or fuzz tests yet) and connect them to a usable front end.

[limes.eth]

1. Let us know who you are, what you want to build, and why you want to build it.

• I’m limes.eth, an ENS steward and DAO enthusiast. I’m partnering with my brother, ncale.eth, to ship a personalized data insights platform called Onchain Clarity Co. With Onchain Clarity Co., we want to provide helpful insights about Optimism users personalized using identity via ENS and the Farcaster social graph.

2. Let us know how you think this idea is going to move the OP ecosystem forward.

• Onchain Clarity Co. will make OP multiplayer. Blockchains are inherently multiplayer canvases of transactions, however, modern day UX doesn’t reflect this reality. Onchain Clarity Co will use the Farcaster social graph, where every user has at least one connected wallet, to surface onchain data based on who the querying user follows on Farcaster.

3. What do you want to get out of this month? What can people do to help you get there? Need intros, insights, feedback, user interviews, etc? Let people know that.

• Deliver an MVP at ETH Denver
• Gather feedback from fellow hackers
• Survey the OP and Farcaster community to figure out what they care about most

4. What are you going to ship this month? Go big.

• Ship onchainclarity.co, integrating OP mainnet, Farcaster, and ENS

5. To set up the first week of updates, share your big rock for this coming week (Something you will do that will move you forward. Should be your biggest priority.) For example, if someone was building a platform to help delegates streamline the decision making process for voting you could say, “I’m going to interview 15 delegates this week to understand how they currently make decisions and discover opportunities to improve it” If you’re building a product you could say, “I’m going to ship a clickable prototype of X and complete 5 user interviews.”

• Launch onchainclarity.co at ETH Denver

[Lindsey]

Great intros so far! Really appreciate the thought being put into this @limes.eth @b0ggs @liang @FractalVisions

[maenswirony]

Who I am, what I want to build, and why

I want to help accelerate the expansion of consciousness.

A single neuron has a handful of resources and methods to communicate with nearby neurons. It has no awareness of what it’s like to be a nervous system, though somehow many neurons together with the same simple features make up what we experience as thought, experience, and perception. If one neuron is a component of a brain, what is the next macro structure where one brain is the component? And what are the handful of resources and communication methods that can unlock it’s potential?

My project is an experiment in social design called Culture Blocks. A Culture Block is a small unit of information generated by gathering, focusing, merging and iterating a variety of perspectives in an equivalent manner. The process to create a Culture Block is called a Swirl. To expand:

• Gathering - A Swirl collects text inputs from users through a social interface (currently building a farcaster frame implementation).
• Focusing - The creator of a Swirl can add an optional first comment as inspiration for the responses that follow, and all of the existing content is displayed to a user before they can add their own. This way a user is free to add what they like, but they will be responding to the current state (if I say “taco” the first thing you think of is probably not “polar bear”).
• Merging - When the set number of responses is reached or when the creator chooses, the collection of responses is fed to AI to generate an output. The creator can add an optional modifier comment at the start to influence what kind of output the AI generates.
• Iteration - A simple rating of 1-4 can be applied by anyone to a Culture Block. Averages are calculated for participant ratings alone and for everyone together. This simple public feedback allows the group to steer dynamically towards what is more interesting and valuable and away from what is not.
• Equivalence - Farcaster frames have a text input limit of 256 characters, and frames are publicly accessible. This is a fairly universal way to contribute and sets an upper limit on how much one person can influence the interaction.

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Why this will move OP forward

Decentralization of power, cultural evolution, creative iteration, novel social organization, etc. are cornerstones of web3 which includes OP. Culture Blocks aims to create novel tools that enhance the overall process, ideally creating a cascade effect on the entire field.

Building CB on OP can also increase adoption.

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What I want out of this month and how you can help

I am building a Swirl Frame on Farcaster. You can join a Swirl and/or provide feedback in /culture-blocks, or start one by casting https://cultureblocks.space/swirl

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What I’m going to ship this month

I plan to have a complete proof of concept functional by the end of the month.

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Big rock of the week

This week I’m going to go deep into the Farcaster code and docs to understand what the foundation to build on is and where to put my focus.

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Demo

Swirl Frame - Tacos are tasty

[Jehee]

-Hi am Jehee,a blockchain researcher & web3 designer .
X - @defiprince_
I want to build ‘wagmiclub- a (web3 linkedin)platform where professionals can build reputation,job testimonials & records onchain , and recruiters can easily hire the best talents and verify their credentials onchain.
-I want to build this product because scouting the best talents for a job fit is a big problem today due to CV&Resume faking,no verifiable job history or testimonial.
Wagmiclub helps users to build career reputation that is tamper proof & verifiable .Also the platform would also have a feature that enables a company to place a staff off for hiring in a job marketplace maybe due to their financial constraints at the moment instead of laying off,this gives enough credibility for other prospect recruiters scouting for talents to hire.

-Each day over 1,000 talents are hired by employers,Building a more transparent&verifiable system for hiring and recruiting,is going to onboard a lot of companies & personal users to create and build a reputable profile onchain (on the OP ecosystem)

— I want to build an MVP of this idea & would be needing to conduct some user surveys and feedback to exploit challenges recruiters or professionals face in building career reputations,verifiable credentials & hiring

-Am going to ship wagmiclub to be a go platform for professional networking,verifiable credentials using Nft medals & badge,a leaderboard which ranks talents based on number of reputation badges&medals the have earned and makes it easy for recruiters to find the best trusted talents ! more could be done

-This week I am going to conduct an extensive user survey to understand the challenges people face with professional networking, hiring &building tamper-proof career testimonials & credibility.
Also I would make some progress in the UI design of this idea .

[daospace]

1. I’m Jaris James, an advanced web scraper and delegate for the Rari Foundation, the DAO behind Rarible, and I’m building “daospace”, a web3 social platform that aggregates discourse data from over 100 DAOs, with @Sixty, the Governance Lead for Push Prootocol, and previous Governance Lead for Index Coop. We’re building this platform because DAO coordination is fragmented, and reputation has to be built from scratch, with each new DAO a contributor decides to join. We decided to create a unified platform that contains every forum post for over 100 DAOs, so the reputation built on forum can be represented on a contributor’s profile through onchain achievement badges, and can serve as their portable web3 resume. We’ll also allow for DAOs to create forum posts on our platform. Logging in will be done through a wallet, as opposed to email/password like Discourse, so there will be no need to create a profile for each forum you decide to join. An EVM wallet is all you need to join any DAO forum you desire. We currently have over 250,000 forum posts with all engagement metrics included in our database and will scale considerably, once we move our local scraping operation to a cloud based solution, in order to provide real time data, along with every single metric on forum.

2. This will move the OP ecosystem forward because onchain achievement badges will live on Optimism; we’re starting with forum posts for creating achievement badges, but will get more granular over time, as we account for Discord posts, and contributions made to the DAO as well. DAO governance will be gamified in a way that’s sybil resistant for OP DAO members to increase high quality forum engagement, since posts has to meet a certain criteria to receive points for. Since we’ll have all OP forum posts, along with over 100 other DAOs within the Ethereum ecosystem stored in our database, we can perform deep sentiment analysis to identify opportunities, and pain points. Information from the OP forum will be easier to discover and sort through as well. Our platform functions as a search engine for DAOs, allowing for users to discover trending posts filtered by time, identify the top influencers for a given topic, and discover the top talent for specific roles.

3. What we would like to get out of this month is to interview 10 core members of the OP DAO, to get a strong understanding of what type of achievement badges to create for their top contributors.

4. We are going to ship a sybil resistant point system for DAO contributors this month, and present the overall points and ratings on the UI of our test app.

5. Our objective for this week is to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation.

6. 2 minute daospace Demo

[pjm]

1. Hey it’s Phil ‘PJ’ Murphy . I was ex-Dir of Product at SuperRare, and helped to experiment with web3 at Medal .com. Prior to that I had my own livestreaming company, created a few interactive liveshows on Twitch with over 50k unique viewers, and worked with many gaming content creators for the past 10 years.

In this program, I’m building PlayMini, a consumer social game platform combined with a trading protocol — an idea I had for a while and I believe that is only possible using crypto.

I’m fascinated with the social aspect of video games because they have become one of the best tools to stay in touch and hang out with your friends. Games represent a way to connect, interact, and spend time on something you can do with people you care about.

Gaming industry was worth ~$187.7 billion in 2023, but only a handful of these are actually social games that you can play with your friends, community, or family. The recent rise of Chess .com, GeoGuessr, and recently, Crypto: The Game, highlights the importance of having a way to interact with each other in a fun competitive way — and that people are ready to pay for that as long as it’s fun to play.

2. One of the fun aspects of the games mentioned above is that you can actually compete for money prizes or get some kind of reward. You have to show your knowledge, skill, or reaction time. And I believe crypto is the only way to make it feel organic and different from anything that social games have seen before.

That’s where the OP ecosystem comes in handy. We want to use OP/Base stack to build an underlying foundation for shared prize pools, rewards, and trading. We believe that the efficiency provided by OP/Base stack is what has been lacking in the industry for a long time, and now it’s possible to build fast reliable back-ends with crypto so that consumers won’t even feel like they are using crypto.

In exchange, we believe PlayMini has an opportunity to bring thousands of non-web3-players to utilize OP/Base technologies, as well as, a trading protocol that we want to develop down the road, allowing anyone to trade crypto assets super fast, efficiently, and cheaply (on PlayMini, players will be able to trade cards allowing them to participate in higher-reward tournaments and get more benefits).

3. We want to release our first MVP publicly and get the web3 community to play our first chapter. We’re seeking crypto people who like to play games and would love to help us with the initial game design feedback in the meantime.

4. We’re going to release a working mobile (browser/PWA) version of PlayMini with our first game (based on knowledge and reaction time), highlighting the potential of the platform should we continue working on this after. We also want to launch a public brand on Twitter in the coming weeks.

5. This week our goal is to solidify UI and early game design explorations. We’re going to interview people from our network, someone who likes social games and has web3 knowledge (we want to focus our first chapter on the crypto community).

More to come soon

[b0ggs]

@Lindsey

1. In the Backdrop settings do you want us to add Hedgey to our projects if we are going for the grant but not actually using Hedgey tech?

2. Do you want weekly updates here or on Backdrop or both?

Thanks!

[maenswirony]

Weekly Updates

• This week has been awesome, tons of interesting new threads opening up and really enjoying diving into Farcaster and Warpcast. I got a lot further than I was planning to, so super stoked about that.

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The Big Rock Review

• Read through most Farcaster docs, specs, watched intro vids, frame vids, and last two dev calls.
• Rifled through lots of content in David Furlongs Awesome Frames repo and branched out extensively from there to other frame builds.
• Created a Warpcast account, played with lots of frames, read discussions, generally explored the new space.
• Learned basics of Apache, JS, Node.js, Next, React, and more
• Set up a VPS virtual host for the domain cultureblocks.world
• Built, validated, and cast my first frame

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Help From OP Community

• Feedback on my repos to fill in the gaps of what I don’t know I don’t know
• Experiment with the discord bot by either joining the CB discord or adding it to your server
• CB github - bot and CB server invites are in the cb_discord_bot repo readme.

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Next Big Rock

• Figure out how to access and work with all the data in Frames
• Experiment with different Swirl flow designs
• Build an MVP Swirl frame that the community can actually play with

[daospace]

gm @Lindsey, here’s our weekly update, just created the logic for an algorithm that will distribute points to DAO members, based on high quality forum posts, and we also created a method to make sure it’s sybil resistant as well.

Week 1

1. What are your updates on the week? Let us know how things are going.

We succeeded in creating the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors based on forum participation. We also shared two updates on Backdrop this week!

The challenge we would like to address in the DAO space is the cultivation of a portable and authentic reputation system. So we got started by designing the logic for an algorithm that rewards valuable contributions within a DAO forum, to balance the emphasis of quality content, community alignment, and active participation while providing a system that is also resistant to sybil attacks.

2. What did you accomplish on your big rock goals? What went right? What went wrong? How is it going to impact what you do this next week?

We accomplished our big rock goal for the week: to create the logic for the Sybil Resistant Point System for DAO contributors.

What went right?

We created the logic for the algorithm that rewards and recognizes contributions that foster productive discussions and contributions that advance discussions while providing critical feedback.

What went wrong?

Full Sybil resistance is very difficult to achieve. There will always be actors who will try to game the system. However, this is just a realization, and not something that actually went wrong.

How is it going to impact what you do this next week?

Now that we have the logic for distributing Points to DAO contributors, we can create the algorithm for our meritocratic-based reputation system.

3. How can the OP community help you?

The OP Community can help us by providing feedback on the logic for our point system. We will get feedback from several contributors from different areas of the DAO.

4. What are your big rocks for the coming week?

Our goal for next week is to create the script for the algorithm based on the logic we created this week. By next week, we’ll be able to showcase the top contributors from the DAOs within our database.

5. Here’s a short video explaining how the logic for the algorithm works

Here’s a Google Doc that breaks down the logic in greater detail