The State of Optimism | Ben Jones & Karl Floersch (SotN 8/10)

<p>Optimism is scaling Ethereum with its open-source Optimistic Rollup. Uniswap recently deployed on Optimistic Ethereum, officially kicking off Ethereum's Scalability Summer. Where does Optimism stand now? What's next?</p> <p>Optimists Ben Jones & Karl Floersch join to talk about working on Ethereum’s hardest problems and pioneering a better future for humanity.</p> <p>------<br /> 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: <a href= "https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/</a> <br /> 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: <a href= "http://podcast.banklesshq.com/">http://podcast.banklesshq.com/</a> </p> <p>------<br /> BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:</p> <p>💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/go-gemini">https://bankless.cc/go-gemini</a> </p> <p>🔀 BALANCER | EXCHANGE & POOL ASSETS<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/balancer">https://bankless.cc/balancer</a> </p> <p>👻 AAVE | LEND & BORROW ASSETS<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/aave">https://bankless.cc/aave</a> </p> <p>🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED FUNDING<br /> <a href= "http://bankless.cc/uniswap">http://bankless.cc/uniswap</a> </p> <p>------<br /> 📣 PoolTogether | DeFi's No-Loss Lottery Protocol<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/PoolTogether">https://bankless.cc/PoolTogether</a> <br /> ------</p> <p>Topics Covered:</p> <p>0:00 Intro<br /> 7:00 Ben Jones & Karl Floersch<br /> 9:10 Is Ethereum Scaling?<br /> 10:03 The History of Optimism<br /> 16:20 A Scaled Ethereum Chain<br /> 19:26 A Mental Model & Theme Parks<br /> 27:24 Governors & Contracts<br /> 29:29 Infrastructure & Use Cases<br /> 37:07 The Optimistic EVM<br /> 41:32 How Much Scale is There?<br /> 49:04 Latency & Liquidity<br /> 58:59 Layer 2 to Layer 2<br /> 1:06:29 Understanding Tradeoffs<br /> 1:09:18 MEV & Sequencing<br /> 1:19:17 Power & Responsibility<br /> 1:27:08 Saving Humanity<br /> 1:29:48 Fire Round Questions<br /> 1:34:54 Closing & Disclaimers</p> <p>------<br /> Resources:</p> <p>Optimism:<br /> <a href="https://optimism.io/">https://optimism.io/</a> <br /> B