Optimism Fractal Season 6: Expanding Democratic Coordination Across the Superchain

Updates and Announcements 📢 Community Calls
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Welcome to Season 6 of Optimism Fractal!

After an exceptional journey of fostering collaboration through innovative onchain social in our first five seasons, we’re excited to embark on a new chapter with enhanced tools and strengthened community bonds across the Superchain ecosystem :world_map:

Optimism Fractal continues its mission of fostering collaboration, awarding public goods creators, and optimizing governance on the Superchain. Through our weekly Respect Game events, we create an engaging platform where builders showcase their work, form meaningful connections with fellow innovators, and earn Respect tokens — the foundation of our reputation-based democratic coordination system.

Since 2023, our community has brought together over 75 builders creating transformative solutions for Optimism, catalyzing countless collaborations while pioneering powerful frameworks for impact recognition and collective decision-making. We invite you to join this thriving ecosystem as we expand our reach across the Superchain!

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Weekly Events

Join us every other Thursday at 17:00 UTC starting today to play the Respect Game where you can:

  • Share your contributions to Optimism and the Superchain
  • Network with innovative builders across multiple ecosystems
  • Present your projects in supportive breakout rooms
  • Earn Respect through peer evaluation and consensus
  • Participate in our interactive, gameshow-style events

Whether you’re actively building on the Superchain or just beginning your journey, our events provide valuable opportunities for networking, learning, and amplifying your impact. We welcome builders of all experience levels and encourage you to invite friends who could benefit from our supportive community.

RSVP here to join our next event!

Season 5 Highlights

Looking back at our achievements from the previous season:

  • Completed 60+ Events and Videos: We’ve now hosted 60 Respect Game events since our inception, producing an extensive library of educational content showcasing Superchain builders and governance innovations.
  • ORDAO Implementation: Successfully launched our optimistic governance smart contract infrastructure, allowing community-driven onchain execution through truly democratic processes based on earned reputation in our prior seasons.
  • Democratic Fund Distribution Research: @DanSingjoy is continuing to deliver research on democratic fund distribution using Respect tokens and fractal structures, creating blueprints for effective funding allocation that benefits the Optimism Collective and broader Superchain.
  • ETHDenver and In-Person Expansion: For the first time, we brought the Respect Game to physical events, hosting live sessions at ETHDenver that demonstrated the adaptability of our coordination frameworks.
  • Cross-Community Adoption: Witnessed growing implementation of the Respect Game across communities like ZAO Fractal, which is approaching its one-year anniversary of using our coordination mechanisms.

Explore more in our Season 5 forum thread for videos and insights from previous events!

Looking Ahead to Season 6

This season brings several exciting developments:

  • ORDAO Front-End Deployment: @Tadas is launching a comprehensive front-end interface for ORDAO in the coming weeks, making it significantly more intuitive for community members to submit proposals for onchain actions, distribute Respect, and participate in governance.
  • Enhanced Fractalgram Interface: After building many important features for playing the Respect Game in Season 5, @Father-abraham is planning to improve the Fractalgram interface to work seamlessly with any ORDAO implementation, making it easier for different communities to adopt our coordination tools.
  • Superchain ORDAO: @Jacobhomanics is developing Superchain ORDAO as part of the Superchain Interop Incubator program, making our smart contracts for Respect distribution, reputation, and governance interoperable across the Superchain.
  • Mobile-Compatible Interfaces: Initial testing of the Fractalgram app showed promising results for mobile accessibility, significantly lowering barriers to participation in governance processes.
  • Cross-Superchain Collaboration: Expanding outreach to communities across Base, Zora, Unit Chain, World, and other Superchain networks to provide a unified collaborative space for builders throughout the ecosystem.

Related Initiatives

Following Optimism Fractal Respect Games, community members are welcome to join Optimism Town Hall at 18:00 UTC, now entering its fourth season. This complementary forum for governance discussions provides another avenue for engagement with the Optimism ecosystem. You can explore the Season 3 thread for detailed discussions and insights from previous events.

Eden Fractal hosts bi-weekly events on alternating Thursdays at 17:00 UTC focused on advancing coordination tools and processes. Entering Epoch 2 and preparing for its 3 year anniversary, Eden Fractal will deploy ORDAO on Base with over 75 contributors eligible to claim their Respect tokens. This initiative will test the fund distribution system outlined in our research, providing valuable insights for Optimism Fractal’s future development.

The ORDAO Office Hours playlist now features eight recorded sessions where community members can learn about the technical infrastructure powering our governance systems. These sessions pave the way for the upcoming launch of ORDAO Fractal, a community space where contributors earn Respect by supporting ORDAO development.

Everyone is welcome to join all of these events to contribute to the broader ecosystem and pioneer new forms of governance on the Superchain. Subscribe to the Optimystics Events Calendar to stay informed, track upcoming events, and receive email reminders for all these activities.

Getting Involved & Resources

Optimism Fractal continues as a pioneering community doing crucial work to help the Collective achieve its vision—from attracting builders and fostering collaboration to pioneering democratic coordination at scale. We welcome engagement in various forms:

This thread will serve as a central place for event invitations, recordings, and key updates throughout Season 6. We appreciate all forms of support in making Optimism Fractal as valuable as possible for the entire Superchain ecosystem.

Feel free to share any questions or thoughts below. We look forward to seeing you at our events as we work together to build the future of the internet :potted_plant:

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Hey Optimists!

I’m thrilled to welcome everyone back for the launch of Optimism Fractal Season 6 today, May 15th at 17 UTC! After our refreshing month-long break, I can’t wait to reconnect with all of you, play the Respect Game together, and hear what everyone’s been up to.

Over the past seasons, we’ve built something truly special together. From our amazing community of dedicated contributors to the significant improvements in our software and educational resources, we’ve created solid foundations that position us to make this our most impactful season yet. I’m deeply grateful for everyone’s contributions so far and stoked about what we’ll accomplish together in this new season.

After the Optimism Fractal Respect Game, we’ll kick off Optimism Town Hall Season 4, where we’ll have an open discussion to welcome everyone back, recap our recent accomplishments, and explore some draft proposals including the Optimism Fractal participant agreement and new Cagendas rules. I’ve put together a topic proposal for today’s Town Hall with more details about what we’ll discuss.

As always, you can register for these events on the Optimystics Events Calendar and feel free to invite friends. Thank you for your continued support — I’m excited to grow Optimism Fractal, build on the Superchain, and share more amazing experiences with you all this season. Looking forward to seeing everyone!

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