Dear Members of the Optimism Collective,
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and enjoyed the break. I’ve been following the news about Optimism Season 9 and am excited to see the new direction taking shape. A lot has happened over the past couple months, and I have some exciting news to share with you—both personal and about Optimism Fractal.
First, I’d like to let you know that the video for Optimism Fractal’s Season 6 Finale—is now published on the Eden Creators YouTube channel and can now watch it here. This was an unusual event. For the first time ever in Optimism Fractal’s history, I was the only one present—which became an interesting signal about where to focus our resources. Since it was already the scheduled final event of the season, I decided to still record an episode and try something new: a solo Respect Game format.
The video starts with a funny little blooper reel of me trying to figure out how to host the show on my own without anyone else there. From there, I give an introductory presentation on Optimism Fractal and share some recent community news. I then explain why I see value in this solo Respect Game approach — it can help make fractals more resilient in early stages by allowing hosts to still run the game even when people can’t make it, as long as the community agrees through the ORDAO process.
In this experimental format, I ranked myself and five others who have recently contributed to Optimism Fractal’s mission. I’ve just created a belated ORDAO proposal to distribute Respect to these community members for this game—you can now vote on it at https://optimism.frapps.xyz if you’d like. You can watch the video to see my recent contributions to Optimism and rationale for giving respect to these community members. At the end of the video, there’s also a small town hall segment where I discuss the state of the Optimism Collective and Optimism Fractal.
Getting Married & Growing Together
Now for some very exciting personal news. During that event, I announced that I was engaged to Rosmari—and I’m thrilled to let you all know that we got married over the winter break!
For those who may not be familiar, @Rosmari is a co-founder of both Optimism Fractal and the Optimystics team. We actually met at Eden Fractal about three years ago, at the community’s 35th event. It’s truly amazing how fractals and Optimism can bring together people from across the world and lead to such meaningful connections. We had the pleasure of meeting Zaal (founder of ZAO Fractal) at the wedding, and we’re deeply grateful for all the times we’ve shared with the Optimism Fractal community. She’s planning to rejoin fractal community events once we resolve some visa restrictions, and we’re thrilled for our next steps together.
I apologize for the delay in releasing this video and the ORDAO proposal—usually these come out within a week of the event, but this is two months later. Between preparing for the wedding, family obligations over the holiday season, and working to support different members of the fractal ecosystem, I simply haven’t had the time to get to the video editing until now. I’ll aim to share future videos more promptly in the future, but frankly I just had too much on my plate and I’ve realized the need to focus more on the highest priorities. Which leads to the next announcement…
