ZEROPOD #7- ”One Super Dream, One Super Team, One Superchain” - Binji Pande from the Optimism Collective (Video Version))

Zero Rights Reserved: A CC0 Podcast About Nouns, DAOs, NFTs & Ethereum

SEP 1 / 2023 ------ Welcome to Episode 7 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Binji Pande from OPLabs and the Optimism Collective. The quote in the title is from Jesse Pollak of Coinbase/BASE, and Binji said it sums up what it's like to work daily on scaling Ethereum alongside some of the best minds working on the OP Stack together. In this pod, we dig into Binji's background, talk about Optimism's commitment to broad collaboration and funding public goods, and we learn that the "Superchain" is a blueprint for an open source hat warehouse in New Jersey? Enjoy! --- Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode Teaser 1:32 - Intro to Zeropod 2:34 - The Binji Origin Story: Coconuts in Cost Rica 3:44 - College Days: Studying Behavioural Economics 5:49 - Incentives, Incentives, Incentives. 6:08 - Joined Coinbase 7:20 - Joined Optimism 8:14 - Impact Over Profit 9:10 - Is Optimism Nounish? 9:51 - Conviction + Optimism = Success 10:38 - What kind of challenges has Optimism faced recently? 11:23 - The Pros and Cons of Tribalism 13:20 - The Superchain Solution 16:00 - One Super Dream 16:43 - So what exactly is the Superchain? 17:22 - The Hat Store Analogy 18:58 - Optimism is a hat warehouse in New Jersey 20:43 - The Superchain is an open source hat warehouse blueprint 21:52- Builders can now build for all warehouses in the world at the same time 23:00 - Open Source Protocols allow a faster pace of innovation 25:13 - Why is OP Winning The Culture War? 30:05 - Based #OnchainSummer 32:35 - WTF is a PWA? 33:54 - The ease of launching and operating DAOs on L2 35:57 - The importance of Optimism’s Ethereum “sameness” 38:15 - Open source as a Nounish value 39:42 - Nouns + Optimism = Super Alliance? 40:20 - Solving for the current disincentive to working on public goods (great quote!) 42:12 - The importance of retro funding 44:56 - How can builders apply for Optimism retro funding? 47:44 - Where to find ideas to build for OP and information about the next Retro PGF: https://tinyurl.com/OP-PGF 48:58 - How can builders apply for Retro PGF? 50:18 - Telegram is awful and everyone agrees 51:45 - The Nouns x Optimism x Farcaster VIBE 53:04 - How interoperable will OP Stacks be? (NOMO Nouns example) 55:36 - wen Superchain? 59:51 - ZK vs Optimistic Proofs (Back to the hats!) 64:40 - The Farcaster OP Migration 70:00 - Of all the places you could work, why OPLabs? 72:00 - Possible OP x TNS Twitter Spaces Collaborations! --- Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Cohosted by Prof Werder aka The Nounish Prof. Zero Rights Reserved, remix any of our content as much as you like! Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more. Watch the episode in 4K on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/V4raMn3pCjQ