OP Radio

On this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Dan Romero, co-founder of decentralized social network Farcaster. The conversation covered a lot of ground: from Dan's take on the future of social media, to Farcaster's current growth strategy, to their decision to launch on OP Mainnet. Enjoy!

On this episode of OP Radio we're joined by James Ross of Mode: an OP Stack Chain that is designed to reward people that help grow its ecosystem.

On this episode of OP Radio we have some of the Optimists who will be at Devconnect Istanbul to talk about Onchain Summit and Superchain Social events.

This episode of OP Radio features Lucas, the founder of Pods: a platform for putting podcasts onchain. Together we get in to the value proposition of onchain media and how this new paradigm it empowers both creators and collectors alike.

On this episode of OP Radio we're joined by Justin, representing Ancient8: a gaming guild which is launching their own gaming-focused OP Chain. We spoke with Justin about the origins of Ancient8, the implications of blockchain-based gaming, and more.

Optimism co-founder and OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch visits us on OP Radio to discuss the alpha release of the OP Stack's fault proof system. Karl walks us through what a fault proof is, the purpose it serves, and how the modular OP Stack is designed to for redundancy in every component of the system.

In this week's episode of OP Radio we spoke with OP Labs' team member and Optimism Collective contributor Binji about a wide variety of topics, including AI, deep fakes, consumer facing crypto products, and Retroactive Public Goods Funding.

RetroPGF rewards the people and projects who have contributed to the development and adoption of Optimism. In RetroPGF 3 30,000,000 OP will be allocated to builders, content creators, developers, evangelists, and more. In this episode we spoke with Jonas, the RetroPGF Lead, to get the full details on RetroPGF Round 3 and provide some tips on how to sign up.

One of the most powerful aspects of the open-source and MIT licensed OP Stack is its modularity which, among other things, enables it to integrate a diversity of proving systems, including ZK (zero knowledge proofs). On this episode of OP Radio we spoke with members of the O(1) Labs and RISC Zero teams, whose Foundation Mission Proposals were both accepted to build a ZK proof system for the OP Sta...

In this episode of OP Radio we sat down with Isaac--a product manager at Nouns Builder, a no code DAO creation tool used to launch DAOs in the Nouns model. Nouns DAOs are unique in that they come with onchain governance and treasury management built in, making it easy for anyone to create an onchain community and coordinate it.

In this episode of OP Radio we sat down with 3DNS, a decentralized domain name service provider recently arrived on OP Mainnet. We discussed what traditional DNS is and the advantages of moving DNS onchain.

In this episode of OP Radio we're joined by Jesse from Base, a Layer 2 rollups incubated by Coinbase and built on the OP Stack, and Ben Jones, co-founder of Optimism. We went over Base's early success, the shared values underpinning the collaboration between Base and the Optimism Collective, some of that collaboration's details, and more.

In this episode of OP radio we talked with Alex Poon, co-founder of Charmverse: a collaboration platform for Web3 communities. We were also joined by a member of the Optimism Grants Council to talk about their use of Charmverse and provide some insight into the Optimism Grants process.

In this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Alex and Greg, two of the main contributors to Friends With Benefits and organizers of FEST: an IRL gathering and exposition of onchain culture. We discussed the vision behind FEST, how this year went, as well as its future.

In this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Andy Bromberg, CEO of Beam: a purpose-built global payments wallet that's simplifying the experience of sending and receiving crypto payments.

In today's episode of OP Radio we spoke with Zack and Zemm, two contributors to Coordinape: praise and recognition toolkit for distributed teams. We talked about the current state of remote work and how organizations can leverage Coordinape to dole out recognition and work together more effectively.

Zuzalu is a pop up community and social experiment. We spoke with the always interesting Mark Tyneway about what Zuzalu is, what it aims to be, and what it may become. We also covered a lot of interesting ground in this episode covering topics such as credible commitments, good habit creation, and cold plunging. Enjoy!

In this week's episode of OP Radio we spoke with Charlie and Will, Co-founders of NFT infrastructure platform Decent. The Decent duo told us about their origin story, their multi-chain NFT minting product called the Box, and what the future has in store.

This episode of OP Radio features Richerd, Co-founder of Web3 creative platform Manifold. We talked with Richerd about his thesis on NFTs, Layer 2s, and Manifold's recent move to OP Mainnet.

In this week's episode of OP Radio we spoke with Bobby and Jonas to learn more about the announcement of RetroPGF Round 3: 30M OP for builders, creators, and educators who have provided positive impact to the Optimism Collective.

This week we sat down with David Greenstein, Co-founder of Music NFT platform Sound.xyz to talk about the music industry, music publishing, music discovery, and the current OPportunity onchain music presents for creators and collectors alike.

In this episode of OP Radio we talk with OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch and Optimism Co-founder Ben Jones about the the Bedrock upgrade. Bedrock is a big deal for a number of reasons, not the least of which is it lays the foundation for the OP Stack with a simplified, modular codebase. Hear about this significant Optimism milestone from two of the individuals who have been at Optimism from the very beg...

In this episode of OP Radio we talked with some of the team at Celestia, who have have leveraged the OP Stack's modular design to separate the Data Availability layer from the ordering layer.

On today's episode of OP Radio we're joined by Mattie Fairchild, who spent years working in the video game industry before joining OP Labs as Head of Developer Relations. We cover a lot of interesting ground in this conversation, including Mattie's background, how she approaches DevRel, and some of the prize winners from the ETHGlobal Lisbon Hackathon.

In this episode of OP Radio we spoke with Remco, one of the many smart people building Worldcoin, an identity and financial network which aims to democratize access to the global economy. We touched on Remco's long history in the crypto space, his love of bicycles, and why he's dedicating his valuable time and energy to Worldcoin, which recently announced it's bringing its World ID and...