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RetroPGF voting is live! Learn about the nominated projects that are eligible to receive retroactive public goods funding.

Optimism's RPGF - OP Holders

RainbowKit Login for WordPress is a full-featured, open source, and easy to use integration layer that empowers builders to leverage the composability of Ethereum and L2s on a WordPress site. The project prioritizes extensible, test-driven, and secure code.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/rainbowkit-login-web3-integration-for-sign-in-with-ethereum/
https://github.com/davisshaver/wp-rainbow

RainbowKit Login for WordPress

This project includes various Dune dashboards I have created as a contribution to the Optimism ecosystem. I have also recently created an open source wash trades filtering method that can be used on Optimism NFT trade data. I intend to share more methods like this one going forward which will be usable on Optimism data within Dune and open sourced so it can easily be ported out of Dune.

hildobby's Dune dashboards

Apetimism Launchpad is a no-code NFT launchpad platform that provides highly secure smart contracts and minting systems. This helps NFT project owners to streamline the launch process from weeks to just a matter of minutes.

Apetimism Launchpad

Giveth is a donation platform built on Ethereum, rewarding and empowering those who give to projects, to society, and to the world. We are building a business model that provides value in the nonprofit sector and public goods. We were founded in 2016 and have a core team consisting of ~20 with 50+ regular Giveth contributors, including many well-known names in the space.



Giveth

Blocktrend is a Taiwan-based independent media that focuses on blockchain and Web3. We have been publishing original and explanatory articles and podcasts since 2017 to help readers understand Web3 in a simple and easy-to-understand way and encourage them to gain hands-on experience. Blocktrend have produced over 500 articles and 200 podcast interviews to date, ranking #1 on Apple Podcast in TW.

Blocktrend (區塊勢)

For the past 5 years Gitcoin has been focused on building and funding digital public goods. By popularizing these concepts, it's helped spark a trend across the industry of giving back and supporting Ethereum developers. Through its implementation of quadratic funding specifically, it's helped fund projects like ethers.js, Hardhat, POAP, Prysm, and even Optimism itself. 

Gitcoin

Infinity Wallet is the first all-in-one non-custodial wallet ecosystem and Web3 browser of its kind on desktop ('a Super Wallet'), launched in 2019, and supporting hundreds of thousands of users. Not a browser extension, but a complete standalone desktop application providing a one-stop solution for seamless access and usability of DeFi, NFTs, cross-border payments and Web3 applications. 

Infinity Wallet & Web3 Browser

Node Guardians is an RPG that caters to seasoned Solidity devs.

We provide over 60 hours of Solidity in the form of CTF & programming problems for free.

We've built a custom pipeline to evaluate the users code and verify whether it meets certain criteria. 

Hackers can unlock soul-bound (off-chain) collectibles that represent their progress in the game.

Node Guardians

Web3 is hard to use. Self-custody and interacting directly with the blockchain today is overly complicated for the consumer, leading to the average user losing their funds and quitting the ecosystem. UX today is fraught with 'gotchas' and pitfalls.

Fire - the Chrome extension that simulates transactions, showing you exactly what will go in and out of your wallet before you sign the contract.

Fire

Frame is a web3 platform that creates a secure, system-wide interface to your chains and accounts, giving any browser, command-line, or native application the ability to access web3. Our routing architecture, Omnichain, simplifies the user experience by eliminating the concept of "being on a chain" and allowing dapps to route requests to any of the user's available chains in parallel.

Frame

IC3 is an initiative of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Cornell Tech, EPFL, ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley, University College London, UIUC and the Technion. IC3 leads multidisciplinary research and members publish peer reviewed research in many areas of blockchain systems relevant to the functioning and future of the OP Stack. 

delegation.tools allows you to see who you are delegating your OP to, and to change delegate in a couple of clicks.

It was created shortly after the OP token was launched: there was some confusion on how to change delegate after completing all the steps in the airdrop process, so I made delegation.tools to make the process as easy as possible.



delegation.tools

NiceNode aims to provide an easy set up to run an Ethereum node in no-time on every modern computer without any technical knowledge. By running a node you become part of a global movement to decentralize a world of information. NiceNode is being designed to easily support new node types such as layer 2 and web3 nodes. It is FOSS and available on Mac, Windows, and Linux. 

NiceNode

Otterscan is a self-hosted, fast, local, private, block explorer. It has a very small footprint, does not require installing additional DB, middleware, etc. It works together with your Erigon node.

It relies only on onchain data and offline data sources. All custom information it needs from Erigon is available as custom APIs, so other dapp can make use of them too.

Otterscan

0xSplits is a suite of smart contracts & tools that allows devs and end users to securely and efficiently share onchain revenue. Our current offerings include splits (immutable, mutable, & liquid), waterfalls (preference stacks), and vests (multi-stream, single beneficiary) as well as the accompanying subgraphs, sdk, & UI.

0xSplits

We offer no code solutions for (digital) artists, collectors and crypto projects, allowing them to deploy crypto focused websites. Clients that use our white label tool can customize everything within the app: look and feel, fees, customize pages, add custom domains, among others. This specific tool is a CMS focused on crypto content.

We also provide a  collection wizard powered by AI.

DexKit

Erigon is an implementation of Ethereum (execution client), on the efficiency frontier. Archive Node by default.

Erigon

I have my YouTube Channel containing Optimism only content including a tutorial series for the Optimism Quests. In addition, I co-host a weekly Twitter space for the Optimism community which began as an Optipunk's NFT community call. When a project joins us the space is recorded and posted on an RSS feed known as "The Web3 Experience" podcast.

Analytics:
https://bit.ly/3KoGJGu

Jrocki - YouTube & Podcast

Umbra is a stealth address protocol for EVM networks. Umbra enables privacy preserving payments where the receiver's identity is not revealed. Umbra is simple, low gas solution for getting paid privately, that's been in development for nearly 3 years.

Umbra

Hello, Badgeholders.

What are Optinames?

Optinames are tradable and transferable sub-domains deployed on Optimism that are fully integrated with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). They can be resolved on popular web3 wallets i.e Coinbase Wallet by utilizing an off-chain ENS resolver. 

We built the Optinames toolset to enable anyone to easily and cheaply create ENS subdomain-based communities.

Optinames | ENS on Optimism

NFTEarth is an NFT marketplace for buying and selling NFTs on L2. In addition to being a marketplace, the protocol has a native token, $NFTE, and is building out the NFTEarth "NFT Hub" - which aims to server as a one-stop-shop for NFT creators, collectors, and DAOs looking to generate NFT art, deploy and manage contracts, and create allowlists as well as Mint embeds for their NFTs.

NFTEarth

Fractal Visions market is an Optimism centric platform intended to house core native ecosystem NFT collections from select artists.

Users evolve into committee members for our future DAO voting structure related to the NFT market & FV Public Goods Funding mechanism.
Expanding into a high level niche category art & music marketplace as we curate artists who align with the impact over profit ethos.

Fractal Visions

We are a developer's bridge from web2 to web3. We pair senior solidity devs with senior web2 devs for a 2-month crash course to expand the blockchain teams. We also started the distribution of a soulbond token called EXP on optimism to have an on-chain attestation of developer contributors. 


EthernautDAO

Praise is a community intelligence system that promotes active participation and collaboration through peer recognition and rewards. We help communities become more intelligent, productive and inclusive by providing a simple way for community members to acknowledge, praise and reward each other’s contributions.

Praise

Would you like to help us impact more women? Our next project is focused on carrying out free courses that open the doors to Web 3, even if they don’t know anything about this world.
We want at least 10 women from different cities outside of Lima participating.

Block 1: Introduction to web 3 - I
Block 2: Basic concepts about metaverse, networks, smart contracts, tokens. 
Block3: Specialization

Women Biz - Optimism education

The Optimism Translators are a group spanning 25 languages. They translate the Optimism User Help documentation, as well as translating blog posts and tweets as they are published. To find the full list of Translators and the weighting of their contributions click on the website link at the top of the profile ⬆️

Optimism Translators Collection

Ethers is a complete and compact library for Ethereum and related chains, providing all functionality required for dapps, wallets and any other utilities and scripts.

It is widely used throughout the community and is a dependency for a large portion of the ecosystem with over 4 million npm downloads monthly.

Ethers

eth.limo is a privacy-preserving ENS gateway, enabling users to access Ethereum-native dApps and content. LIMO represents a shift in dweb adoption by providing an alternative means of accessing ENS resolvable content. LIMO takes public gateway services a step further by enforcing strong privacy guarantees such as never logging IP addresses or engaging in TCP fingerprinting.

eth.limo

A set of Optimism-unique smart contracts that can price any ERC20 asset that exists in a liquidity pool on Optimism, completely replacing the need for centralized price APIs. Supports pricing that requires complex routes with many hops, supports non-standard ERC20 implementations and non-standard AMM curves, and allows for fetching the prices of hundreds of tokens in a single RPC call.

Optimism Prices Contracts

Orbiter Finance is a decentralised cross-rollup bridge that aims to offer infrastructure at Layer 2 and permits instant, low-cost transactions of Ethereum-native assets.

We support cross-rollup transfers among Ethereum, Optimism, StarkNet, zkSync, Loopring, Arbitrum, Arbitrum Nova, Polygon, BNB Chain, ZKSpace, Immutable X, dYdX, Metis and Boba.

Orbiter Finance

CANDIDE is an open-source smart contract wallet based on ERC-4337, the account abstraction standard for censorship resistant contract wallets. It supports social recovery, sponsored transactions for gasless/ERC-20 based payments, and batched transactions for one click dapp experiences. 

CANDIDE Wallet

A prefiltering platform for RPGF, based on the bicameral governance model from Optimism. Developers are able to mint PG Projects as NFTs and set multiple development stages to be retroactively funded. These stages are tracked from GitHub milestones, any user can get rewards by donating to these, while stakeholders can mint SBT to evaluate the progress and deliver funds after completing each stage.

Eneagon by zenbit.eth

This nomination is for a collection of contributors to EIP4844. EIP-4844 introduces a new kind of transaction type to Ethereum which accepts 'blobs' of data to be persisted in the beacon node for a short period of time. These changes are forwards compatible with Ethereum's scaling roadmap, and blobs are small enough to keep disk use manageable. EIP-4844 is project-neutral and being developed 100% in the open by a wide mix of developers across different teams, this collection aims to reward that network of contributors. To find the list of contributors and the weighting of their contribution click on the website link at the top of the profile ⬆️

EIP-4844 Contributors Collection

Cryptoversidad is an organization that educates people about web3 so that they can use, contribute and build with web3 tools. Our mission is to accelerate the masive adoption of web3, and we believe that educating people about web3 values and tools will have a positive impact on society. We’ve published educational YT videos, hosted online events and we're in the process of developing a fullcourse

Cryptoversidad

The crypto world suffers from general over-complication and unbearable user experience that dissuade people from getting involved.

Nested is a crypto trading/investing platform that breaks that trend by revolutionizing the accessibility to web3 in a way that is unprecedentedly simple, social and safe.


Nested

OptimismGuru is a Twitter account that works as an information aggregator regarding the Optimism chain, the Optimism Collective, and the OP Stack.

OptimismGuru

Forta is a real-time detection network for security monitoring of blockchain activity. 
Forta comprises a decentralized network of independent node operators that scan all transactions and block-by-block state changes for outlier transactions and threats. Developers can build detection bots (piece of script that monitors the activity) and machine learning models, and run them on the network.


Forta

Revoke.cash is a suite of web3 security tools. It offers a dashboard to manage token and NFT allowances on Optimism and 30+ other chains. It also provides a browser extension that warns users when they are about to perform potentially harmful actions, such as approvals or NFT listings.

Revoke.cash

I created several dashboards for Optimism chain on Dune Analytics platform. Some of them are quite popular. These dashboards are helpful for users to know better about OP chain and for project team to understand their users better from a public onchain data perspective.

OP Dashboards  by Springzhang

A curated group of Ethereum builders creating products, prototypes, and tutorials to enrich the web3 ecosystem.

We mentor developers and orgs through the SpeedRun and beyond.

BuidlGuidl

What is GiveStation ?
A multi-chain Give-To-Earn grant platform where contributors get rewarded for funding public goods, ideas and projects in web3. 

GiveStation

Ipsilon is a research team focusing on the execution environment of Ethereum (aka the EVM or any future versions of it).

We provide analysis and implementation of own and third party proposals (i.e. new EIPs proposing changes to the EVM), provide tooling (evmc, evmone, fizzy), and support existing teams (e.g. Solidity, go-ethereum, Silkworm, Erigon) with implementation and analysis.

Ipsilon

Proof of Integrity offers #aPRENDOcripto, an educational program that provides blockchain and personal finance training to vulnerable sectors. It consists of 4 workshops with practical and theoretical content, and hands-on experience w/decentralized tech. We aim to bring the benefits of blockchain tech to underprivileged communities. Last year 8 editions were made in Argentina and plan 26 for 2023

Proof of Integrity

Ethereans is a decentralized nation that uses secure DeFi routines for seamless transactions, self-sovereign on-chain governance with granular control over its resources, and specialized assets that are interoperable across marketplaces and DEX’s. Everything in the nation is powered by generalized smart contract factories built on EthereansOS.

EthereansOS

Flexible Voting is an extension to the widely used OpenZeppelin DAO Governor that enables powerful new voting patterns for voting through client contracts. This new building block allows arbitrary delegate contracts to be developed which can unlock all kinds of new use cases.

Flexible Voting

See: https://gov.optimism.io/t/tooling-utilities-nominations-for-rpgf2/4639/15?u=jonas

Foundry

Scrys Open Oracle Frameworks an infrastructure for oracles for developers to access external data in a fully permissionless and decentralized way. The infrastructure allows devs to self deploy high scale oracles for any API with the contracts, nodes and front end all ready to use in <15m. This allows devs to create oracles using their own reputable signers in their communities. Uniswap for data.

Scry

Ante is a protocol framework that allows anybody to create on-chain guarantees for any smart contract system. Ante tests can be written to test any on-chain condition with payouts handled without any third parties. With enough coverage and tests on a given project, a decentralized and visual trust can then be gathered on that respective project.


Ante

Akula

Hop Protocol is a modular stack for building cross-chain applications within the Ethereum ecosystem. To date, the Hop Token Bridge has bridged over $3.4B across Ethereum, Ethereum rollups, and adjacent chains.

With our initial OP grant, Hop pioneered a fee refund program enabling users to recoup 80% of onboarding costs while gaining ownership in the Optimism network.

Hop Protocol

Using Dune Analytics (and other analytics platforms), i surface data about the Optimism ecosystem. On a overall level, but also on in-depth on projects, to provide insights on users, transactions, volume, earnings etc. 

Examples are: 
- https://dune.com/Marcov/Optimism-Ethereum
- https://dune.com/Marcov/Optimism-After-Bridge
- https://dune.com/Marcov/OP-Optimism

MarcoV (Optimism Dashboards)

GasHawk enables free, automated, and non-custodial savings of up to 95% on Ethereum transaction fees.

GasHawk

Beaconcha.in is an open source Ethereum explorer which makes the beacon chain and execution layer accessible to non-technical users. In addition, beaconcha.in provides an open source mobile app for iOS and android for validator monitoring.

beaconcha.in

For almost two years I've been learning everything I can about cryptocurrency and distilling it down to entertaining critiques, deep dives, and tutorials to help people understand and engage with cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and web3 protocols safely and productively. 

Thumbs Up Finance

Rigoblock is a fully open source and free to use smart contracts protocol that facilitates the interaction with DeFi applications and the organization of tokens and group of token holders in smart wallets. It has been live on Optimism since November 2022. Rigoblock liquidity has generated more than 50MM USD token swap volume on Ethereum mainnet.

Rigoblock

Hyperledger Besu is an open-source Java implementation of Ethereum's EL. Built initially for enterprise adoption, Besu has private and permissioning features. It's an actively developed Mainnet client. Besu has helped in shaping standards & core development since its beginning as Pantheon. Besu's unique Bonsai tries maintain the lowest storage requirements on Mainnet and it has a stand-alone EVM.


Hyperledger Besu

The project proposes participating in the Basic Course in Crypto Literacy and Blockchain to meet the increasing demand for quality information on virtual assets in Ukraine. The course aims to create more virtual asset professionals and offer practical education. Platform based on real industry tasks with necessary theory and automation will provide accessible, practical, and automated learning.

Basic course in crypto literacy

The Keccak project started in 2008 for the development of the Keccak hash function, winner of SHA3 competition and used in Ethereum. The project is a multi discipline effort of cryptography, software and hardware development. All the developments are open source, no patents and several incentives for 3rd party security analysis. The project is still active for providing improved implementations

Keccak hashing

Small Brain Games is focused on quickly iterating on casual games. These games:

1. Are open source and fully on-chain

2. Strive to be accessible to anybody–not just crypto-native users

3. Are about persistence and composability (less so than ownership)

We've launched Words3, a fully on-chain word game on Optimism. We have 2 more games queued up for Q1 2023.

Small Brain Games

We onboard Latin American womxn from scratch into Web3 through Virtual and IRL Workshops teaching them the basics of blockchain and its scaling solutions, we build partnerships to offer scholarships for women to learn about development, blockchain technology, and tech skills.

We need help to keep educating about Ethereum and Layer2 Optimism! :)


H.E.R. DAO LATAM

Sourcify is a decentralized and open-sourced contract verification service. It leverages and fosters the adoption of Solidity’s contract metadata and 'full verification' of contracts. The contract repository is publicly served on IPFS. Through the metadata and the NatSpec docs of the contract, Sourcify aims to enable human-readable transactions for Ethereum users instead of bytes and hex strings

Sourcify

Open source, permissionless, privacy conscious.
A portfolio tracker, the llama way!

LlamaFolio

Nethermind is a team of world-class builders and researchers. We empower enterprises and developers worldwide to access and build upon the decentralized web. Our work touches every part of the Web3 ecosystem, from our Nethermind node to fundamental cryptography research and application-layer protocol development. We’re passionate builders solving Ethereum’s most difficult challenges.

Nethermind

This is a package I created that lets home users easily run an Optimism node on their DAppNode.

3 clicks (and a few days while it syncs) will get you a full node. It is now part of the official collection of packages in the DAppStore.

Funds will be used to allow me to dedicate more time getting the package ready for the upcoming Optimism Bedrock update.

A little funding will go a long way here!

Optimism DAppNode Package

Optimism FM is a collaborative and open (unofficial) community dedicated to promoting the adoption of Optimism by disseminating information about its technology,ecosystem,governance processes and public goods, in Chinese. Our goal is to reach all China citizens and Chinese speakers in general, so that they can learn about the benefits of this Ethereum scaling solution.

Optimism FM

web3beach is dedicated to accelerating web3 education and adoption through impactful onboarding in communities where banking services are unavailable. In short, onboarding LatAm through Public Goods. Some of these initiatives include beach clean ups, educational events meet ups, health services

Web3beach

Chainlist tracks all public RPCs available for each EVM network, along with their latency, blockheight and the privacy policy of the provider, which we summarize into easy-to-compare snippets.

This allows users to switch networks/RPCs safely and to maintain privacy without having to spend hours sifting through legal docs.

Chainlist

We are working on two things:
- A website specialized in publishing original and translated articles related to Optimism in Arabic.
- An academy with many interactive features that contains courses related to blockchain and Optimism.
We target users and developers in Arab countries such as UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain.

OptimismArabia

The NERD program provides human to human support on the Optimism Discord. They report spam and scams, ensure questions get answered and do so in a friendly manner. They flag issues and bugs to the team, helping the Optimism community stay safe, smart, and learn about the project. This program has been running for just over a year. They have answered hundreds of user questions while maintaining high answer satisfaction, with an average support rating of 4.75/5. To find the full list of NERDs and the weighting of their contributions click on the website link at the top of the profile ⬆️

Optimism Support NERDs Collection

Gelato is Web3’s decentralized backend empowering builders to create augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless and off-chain aware on all major EVM-compatible blockchains.

Gelato has already emerged as the preferred choice for some of the most important Web3 projects and is powering 200+ decentralized applications and handling tens of thousands of transactions each day. 

Gelato

Say goodbye to endless forum scrolling and hello to easy, efficient and fun community signaling with Pairwise! Our open-source, snapshot-style voting dapp, based on the big brain algorithm research out of Colony in 2018, offers a fast-paced and intuitive experience, perfect for the next generation of DAOs. Join us in revolutionizing governance with the power of algorithms.

Pairwise

Solady

ETHGlobal is the largest developer focused community in Ethereum. Most known for their hackathons, ETHGlobal has run 50+ hackathons around the world and online.

To support builders at any point in their journey, ETHGlobal builds products for its developer community's success including: Hackathon (online/in-person), Guides (self-directed education), Summits (online/in-person), Jobs, and more.

ETHGlobal

WTF Academy is a web3 open-source university for developers, aiming to onboard 10,000 developers to web3. We provide free and open-source tutorials, tests, and certificates for developers. 
1. WTF Solidity (6,000 stars): https://github.com/AmazingAng/WTF-Solidity
2. WTF Ethers (1,200 stars): https://github.com/WTFAcademy/WTF-Ethers
3. Education platform: https://wtf.academy

WTF Academy

My work for the Optimism Collective falls into two categories:

* 1st is my volunteer contributions to Optimism Governance, mainly planning, hosting, and recapping the bi-weekly governance calls. 

* 2nd is my youtube channel, 'The Blockchain Guy', making hype-free & high-quality educational content focused on the Optimism and Ethereum ecosystems.

Michael Vander Meiden

My name is Amin from Thailand.
I have been creating original content in Thai based on Optimism's blogs&tweets (incl. from the core team) since June 2022

Optimism community is growing bigger
I want to fill my part by making Optimism communication more User-friendly for local new users & devs, which I think it will attract them to join & create new possibilities for Optimism

thesleeper.eth Thai OP contents

Bankless Academy has been providing a growing range of free-to-access education packets for over a year - featuring tight writing & infographics, quizzes, and on-chain quests with proof-of-knowledge badges.
Our mission is to continue Public Good operations on Ethereum, building w/ communities like Gitcoin Passport, Mintkudos and Optimism, and developing community content via our Writers Cohorts.

Bankless Academy

Flipside Crypto has worked alongside the OP Labs team to make Optimism data more accessible and help bootstrap Optimism’s ecosystem-wide attestation / identity efforts.

The data tables, SDK, API, and other core services are offered as free public goods - enabling the creation of a wide range of products and tools for Optimism.

Flipside is also an active and devoted OP delegate.

Flipside Crypto

L2BEAT is an Ethereum Layer Two (L2) scaling analysis and research website. We compare Ethereum L2s  by monitoring their usage & TVL-related metrics, verifying their documentation against the source code, and manually assessing associated risks. We have created a risk framework for L2s and bridges, along with open-source monitoring tools that check for changes in their smart contracts' parameters.

L2BEAT

I write a blog and twitter profile about a variety of topics related to blockchain - scalability, sustainability, economics etc, and participate in various rollups-related research/discussion venues. I'm also a delegate for the Optimism Collective Token House and badgeholder-elect for the Citizen House. 

Polynya

Blockscout is the first fully-featured open-source blockchain explorer available for use by any EVM chain. Blockscout currently supports 120+ different chains. 

We are currently working on 2.0 version: https://docs.blockscout.com/about/roadmap/blockscout-2.0 

WIP: https://eth-goerli.blockscout.com/

OP instances will be among the first where 2.0 will be deployed in Q2 this year. 

Blockscout

Enabling the bottom of pyramid through empowering pharma companies and the medical eco-system to do medicine trial testing, clinical trials via Optimism and Ethereum blockchain enabled EMTTRs (Electronic Medicine Trial and Test Records as a Service), EHR and Radiology services. Developer Tools to to build solutions in medicine, healthcare, improve transparency in drug testing using Optimism tools.

OP Medicine

RadicalxChange (RxC) is a global movement for next-generation political economies. We’re committed to advancing plurality, equality, community, an decentralization through upgrading democracy, markets, the data economy, the commons, and identity. Founded by economist Glen Weyl in 2018, the RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing the RxC movement.

RadicalxChange Foundation

We create virtual and IRL workshops to teach about Ethereum and technologies across its ecosystem. We share the latest updates and we inspire builders to create amazing projects in Ethereum in México! We'd like to keep teaching about Optimism. Provide scholarships for people to learn about tech and code, visit universities across México, teach how to become a validator node, and more for 2023!



ETHEREUM MÉXICO

Kernel is peer-to-peer learning environment, growing one block at a time. Traditionally, each block accommodates 250 individuals and runs for 8 weeks. 

In two years, and after 7 Kernel blocks, there are:

- 1,800 Kernel fellows (see more here: https://www.kernel.community/en/love) 
- 470 Kernel "adventures": web3 projects, protocols, writings & research
- 70+ Kernel projects who have raised $1MM

Kernel

TrueBlocks creates a shared, naturally sharded index of addresses for any EVM-based chain (including Optimism). This allows ultra-fast access to the underlying chain data and runs 100% locally. The near-zero cost of operation promotes a true public good.

A video explainer is here: https://loom.com/share/fd75d19f1dc946498c4ea0344517c2c6.

For detailed info, see here: https://urlis.net/i98eydu0.


TrueBlocks

Teku is an Ethereum consensus client, fully open source and Apache 2 licensed. Teku has been in production on the beacon chain since genesis and contributes significantly to client-diversity on the consensus layer, which is vital for the security and safety of layer 2 solutions built on Ethereum.

Teku

The 0xPARC Foundation promotes application-level innovation on Ethereum. Our primary areas of focus are:
- Cryptography: ZK, MPC, and more. 
- Autonomous Worlds: funding projects like Lattice, Dark Forest, DFDAO, etc
- Education: we organize learning residencies, hackathons, and conferences on ZK and AW.
0xPARC funds infrastructure work, research, and groups that would otherwise be underfunded.


0xPARC

This project provides a no-code solution for builders and community members to directly interact with the AttestationStation smart contract. 

Attestation Station Interface

Atlantis World is an exploratory web3 social metaverse that transforms everyday people into web3 super users, one fun & rewarding quest at a time.

Atlantis World

OptiChads is an 10K NFT Collection that utilizes art and human psychology to promote health & wellness culture on OP. 

OptiChads

blst is a BLS12-381 signature library focused on performance and security. The library has undergone security audits and formal verification, and supports assembly backends for x86 and ARM platforms. Currently blst is used by all of the Eth2 / Ethereum consensus clients (Prysm, Lighthouse, Teku, Nimbus, and Lodestar). blst is a critical component for enabling scalability and performance of PoS.

blst by Supranational

JiffyScan is the first (and only) block explorer built for EIP-4337 confirming transactions.
It shows the transactions as per the new entities introduced: userOp, Bundle, Bundler, Entrypoint, etc. 
This is needed for the wallets which will onboard users leveraging this new Smart Contract Wallet standard.
PS: Candide Wallet is launching on Optimism and we will support its adoption.

JiffyScan

SEED LATAM is a space with the primary objective of creating an environment where its members collectively benefit from shared knowledge. We cover all these needs with quality content and events.

Today's crypto ecosystem in LATAM follows trends; our goal is to raise the bar of knowledge in this part of the world and provide all the necessary tools so that every participant can feel part of it.

SEED LATAM (formerly DeFi LATAM)

RockX is an institutional-grade global node operator for business to build, scale and stake with ease.
RockX provide access node API for Optimism and helps accelerate your growth by providing you instant and secure on-chain data access via APIs, giving you more time to focus buliding

RockX

The project consists of 3 parts:

Optimism-Resolver: a trustless resolver for ENS utilizing CCIP. The verification is done using Merkle-proofs for all used slots.

dm3 – web3 messaging protocol: a lean messaging protocol with focus on e2ee, decentralization, scalability, and interoperability.

dm3 embedded components: messaging components to embed in dApps to add interoperable messaging to dApps.


dm3 protocol 

I make deep-dive video explainers on complex topics within the Ethereum space. 

With every video I try to completely understand the topic I am studying, then condense that understanding down to diagrams and images that convey the concept in a simple way. 

I strive to produce videos with high production value, detailed and accurate diagrams, and a compelling delivery.

jordanmmck

OpenZeppelin provides security products to build, automate, and operate decentralized applications. We also protect leading organizations by performing security audits on their systems and products.

OpenZeppelin

We as community constantly hosts ad-free educational podcasts about crypto concepts and translates various educational videos, including videos about optimistic rollups.

cp0x

CULT MERCH optimism is an exclusive T-shirt collection consisting of several themes: 

1. optimism Cultists.
2. optimistic Evil 
3. Opti Samurai. 
+ a few bonus ones: for the OPLabs team and minimalistic ones with different lettering

Each print is hand-drawn by me with love. 
The t-shirts will be two colors, white and black. 

Optimism Cult Merch

Geth (go-ethereum) is a Go implementation of Ethereum - a gateway into the decentralized web.

Geth has been a core part of Ethereum since the very beginning. Geth was one of the original Ethereum implementations making it the most battle-hardened and tested client.