2nd Weekly Twitter Space covering the Optimism Ecosystem: Quixotic NFT marketplace, Dapps, and more.
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Crypto is how you program money. Money is how you program people.
The answer is incentives.
"Incentives motivate behavior."
The ecosystem needs developers to actually BUILD DAPPS on Optimism.
Why should a developer want to use Optimism as opposed to any other blockchain network?
Incentives to build on Optimism: the “Optimism Governance Fund” donates money to teams and projects that have built useful things for the community.
These useful projects are known as “public goods”.
The idea here is to reward those that contribute in positive ways.. incentivizing new developers to launch their dapps on Optimism.
***jrocki.eth ***- Twitter Spaces Co-host. supported Optimism during OptiPunks launch because of Public Goods Funding Infrastructure.
Mark, Co-Founder of Quixotic.io:
Mark was a software engineer at an ad-tech company. Later learned about ETH, Optimism, and the possibility to host projects on IPFS.
Even though the markets are down it feels like the builders are full-steam ahead.
On the Space, Mark raised the question: what do users need for adoption to increase?
One specific need was brought up: we need a decentralized app store / decentralized app platform.
IPFS - communication and naming protocol. Similar to bittorrent, everyone can access files on IPFS thru peer to peer network.
Warp speed bridge - standard protocol level bridge for optimism…Eth in escrow / burns the eth etc. Came out of a project called teleportal.
Storj - startup for decentralized storage. They encrypt your file.. many copies of the data in little chunks. Users of dropbox could move to something like this - around $7 per month for $1 TB.