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• Retro Funding 5: Application Review Process by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: Sept. 11, 2024, 12:46 p.m.
  Content: When is the deadline for receiving an email to know whether the application is approved or not?
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• Security Council Member Nomination: Node Guardians by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: Aug. 14, 2024, 1:50 p.m.
  Content: Please indicate if you are running to be the Council Lead or a Council Member: Council Member Does this nomination represent an individual or organization: Organization (sam here representing Node Guardians) Candidate country of residence (or, if an entity, incorporation and principal place of business): British Virgin Islands Have you previously served on Optimism’s Security Council: No Have you previously served on any other Council or Board in the Collective: No Are you a representative of OP Labs: No Are you a representative of another OP Chain: No If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile: Not Applicable If you are a member of the Citizens’ House, please link to your most recent attestation here: Not Applicable Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date: Launched a programming challenge to highlight the work and progress made by OP Labs on the fraud-proof mechanism. Interactive Fraud Proofs - Learn Solidity - CTF - Node Guardians: Level up your programming skills x.com Organized a series of programming challenges focused on the OP Stack, aimed at onboarding developers and familiarizing them with launching their own OP Stack chain. Playing with OP Stack - Learn Solidity - Node Guardians: Level up your programming skills x.com Hosted the community-driven event “Optimistic Gathering” to bring together fellow optimists and provide updates on ongoing developments within the Collective. x.com https://www.youtube.com/@opgathering/videos Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role: We have served on the Security Council of Kroma for almost a year, which has provided us with valuable experience as part of our journey in governance and security council roles. Please elaborate on your technical background, including your GitHub handle (this will be used to calculate your GitHub expertise score and will be added to your nomination before it goes to a vote by the Foundation): Node Guardians has been live for over 2 years and our team consists of a core engineering group responsible for creating intermediate to complex programming challenges across various Ethereum ecosystem stack components. Additionally, we have a DevOps team with experience in key management as we serve as validators across multiple networks. GitHub Node Guardians Node Guardians has 28 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. Please elaborate on your experience with relevant member (or Lead) requirements: Serving on the Security Council of Kroma, maintaining vigilant oversight of the validator network by promptly addressing and reporting any performance or security anomalies. Actively engaging in deliberations and decision-making processes related to L 1 and L 2 contract modifications. Operating as validators across various networks, emphasizing careful key management. Managing multisig operations on Debridge, Lido x Obol, and Lido x SSV. Participating in governance within the Cosmos ecosystem. Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Security Council member: A good Security Council member should have a strong attention to detail and a clear routine for monitoring and verification. The principle of “don’t trust, verify” has never been more real when you are a security council member. Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: None Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual: I understand Please verify that you understand that election is subject to successful completion of a Foundation screen which may include KYC/AML, sanctions screening, and a requirement to sign a standard contract: Yes Please verify that you are able to commit approximately 5 active hours per month to fulfill the Member Responsibilities. Please note that there is an “on-call” aspect to this role that is not fully encompassed in the active hours estimate: Yes
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• Security Council Member Nomination: Node Guardians by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: Aug. 14, 2024, 1:50 p.m.
  Content: Please indicate if you are running to be the Council Lead or a Council Member: Council Member Does this nomination represent an individual or organization: Organization (sam here representing Node Guardians) Candidate country of residence (or, if an entity, incorporation and principal place of business): British Virgin Islands Have you previously served on Optimism’s Security Council: No Have you previously served on any other Council or Board in the Collective: No Are you a representative of OP Labs: No Are you a representative of another OP Chain: No If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile: Not Applicable If you are a member of the Citizens’ House, please link to your most recent attestation here: Not Applicable Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date: Launched a programming challenge to highlight the work and progress made by OP Labs on the fraud-proof mechanism. Interactive Fraud Proofs - Learn Solidity - CTF - Node Guardians: Level up your programming skills x.com Organized a series of programming challenges focused on the OP Stack, aimed at onboarding developers and familiarizing them with launching their own OP Stack chain. Playing with OP Stack - Learn Solidity - Node Guardians: Level up your programming skills 1 x.com Hosted the community-driven event “Optimistic Gathering” to bring together fellow optimists and provide updates on ongoing developments within the Collective. x.com https://www.youtube.com/@opgathering/videos Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role: We have served on the Security Council of Kroma 2 for almost a year, which has provided us with valuable experience as part of our journey in governance and security council roles. Please elaborate on your technical background, including your GitHub handle (this will be used to calculate your GitHub expertise score and will be added to your nomination before it goes to a vote by the Foundation): Node Guardians 1 has been live for over 2 years and our team consists of a core engineering group responsible for creating intermediate to complex programming challenges across various Ethereum ecosystem stack components. Additionally, we have a DevOps team with experience in key management as we serve as validators across multiple networks 1 . GitHub Node Guardians 2 Node Guardians has 28 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. Please elaborate on your experience with relevant member (or Lead) requirements: Serving on the Security Council of Kroma 2 , maintaining vigilant oversight of the validator network by promptly addressing and reporting any performance or security anomalies. Actively engaging in deliberations and decision-making processes related to L 1 and L 2 contract modifications. Operating as validators 1 across various networks, emphasizing careful key management. Managing multisig operations on Debridge, Lido x Obol, and Lido x SSV. Participating in governance within the Cosmos ecosystem. Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Security Council member: A good Security Council member should have a strong attention to detail and a clear routine for monitoring and verification. The principle of “don’t trust, verify” has never been more real when you are a security council member. Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: None Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual: I understand Please verify that you understand that election is subject to successful completion of a Foundation screen which may include KYC/AML, sanctions screening, and a requirement to sign a standard contract: Yes Please verify that you are able to commit approximately 5 active hours per month to fulfill the Member Responsibilities. Please note that there is an “on-call” aspect to this role that is not fully encompassed in the active hours estimate: Yes
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• Superchain and the Monolithic Experience - A cross-chain guide for Superchain by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: May 28, 2024, 3:46 a.m.
  Content: hey @sandman very interesting can you elaborate on the differences between shared validity sequencing and shared sequencer networks? is one of them the fact that the former is stateful while the latter is stateless? curious to learn more! sandman: If OP Stack chooses to turn into a zk-rollup, this solutions seems to be the best option available. any thoughts on the feasibility/complexity of this? i guess this would not be trivial… sandman: This may limit what dApp Developers can build on Superchain. can you elaborate which type of dapps would be limited? feel like for most apps synchronous composability isn’t crucial since you can create user interfaces that are asynchronous and yet still appear and works as if they are synchronous - what do you think? sandman: The next evolution of shared sequencing, which is based sequencing, is the best solution to the Ethereum interop problem. how would based sequencing/composability look like if there are both optimistic and validity rollups opting into Ethereum as a shared sequencer? (or are you assuming a world with essentially validity based rollups?)
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• About L3s and the Superchain by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: March 14, 2024, 2:17 p.m.
  Content: jaack: So it seems that Gold chain is an L 3 built on top of Base, and I don’t see it posting data on another DA. By any chance, can you share link to their doc? jaack: So maybe they’re not adhering openly to the Law of Chains, but they are: contributing to Sequencer Fee Revenue being secured by the Superchain sequencer set Right, how about the bridging experience? Is it seamless, similar to the experience between all the other L 2 s that are part of the superchain, thus acting as a single logical chain? How is it?
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  • jaack: sam.ng: By any chance, can you share link to their doc? There’s just the website… https://www.gold.dev/ sam.ng: Right, how about the bridging experience? Is it seamless, similar to the experience between all the other L2s that are part of the superchain, thus acting as a single logical chain? How is it? yes, there’s a canonical bridge from Base L2 to Gold L3. But you can’t bridge from Gold to other OP Chains, for example. This is the difference that I’m talking about.
• About L3s and the Superchain by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: March 14, 2024, 10:17 a.m.
  Content: jaack: So it seems that Gold chain is an L 3 built on top of Base, and I don’t see it posting data on another DA. By any chance, can you share link to their doc? jaack: So maybe they’re not adhering openly to the Law of Chains, but they are: contributing to Sequencer Fee Revenue being secured by the Superchain sequencer set Right, how about the bridging experience? Does it aim to be seamless, similar to the experience between all the other L 2 s that will be part of the Superchain, thus acting as a single logical chain? How is it?
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  • jaack: sam.ng: By any chance, can you share link to their doc? There’s just the website… https://www.gold.dev/ sam.ng: Right, how about the bridging experience? Is it seamless, similar to the experience between all the other L2s that are part of the superchain, thus acting as a single logical chain? How is it? yes, there’s a canonical bridge from Base L2 to Gold L3. But you can’t bridge from Gold to other OP Chains, for example. This is the difference that I’m talking about.
• About L3s and the Superchain by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: March 11, 2024, 4:20 p.m.
  Content: Hey, interesting topic! I’d like to share a few thoughts. jaack: Are L 3 s that run a single-sequencing scheme still OP Chains? My mental model regarding L 2 s and L 3 s, especially in the case of Optimism, is that the ultimate objective is to have various L 2 s closely “integrated” with each other acting as a single logical chain for the end user, thereby creating what is referred to as the Superchain. For this to happen, I believe it’s necessary for these L 2 s to share the same sequencer + the same bridge contract on Ethereum L 1 and to adopt the Law of Chains. jaack: Are L 3 s that post data on OP Chains still OP Chains? My understanding is that OP Chains are essentially execution layers, so I don’t think L 3 s would be in a position to post data into an OP Chain but are more likely to do so on a dedicated Data Availability Layer, such as Celestia or EigenDA. jaack: Are L 3 s that settle on OP Chains still OP Chains? jaack: Are L 3 s that run non-EVM VMs but follow 1 . and 2 . still OP Chains? Therefore, I don’t think that even if an L 3 were to settle to an OP Chain, it would make it part of the Superchain. As mentioned, I believe the Superchain concept revolves around L 2 s sharing specific stack components and adopting the Law of Chains framework. Simultaneously, I anticipate more exploration at the L 3 level involving different Virtual Machines (such as Rust-based VMs, Parallel VMs, MoveVMs), choices regarding data availability (like EigenDA, Celestia, Avail), and aspects of centralization. Hope that makes sense and always happy to chat : )
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• About L3s and the Superchain by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: March 11, 2024, 12:20 p.m.
  Content: Hey, interesting topic! I’d like to share a few thoughts. jaack: Are L 3 s that run a single-sequencing scheme still OP Chains? My mental model regarding L 2 s and L 3 s, especially in the case of Optimism, is that the ultimate objective is to have various L 2 s closely “integrated” with each other acting as a single logical chain for the end user, thereby creating what is referred to as the Superchain. For this to happen, I believe it’s necessary for these L 2 s to share the same sequencer + the same bridge contract on Ethereum L 1 and to adopt the Law of Chains. jaack: Are L 3 s that post data on OP Chains still OP Chains? My understanding is that OP Chains are essentially execution layers, so I don’t think L 3 s would be in a position to post data into an OP Chain but are more likely to do so on a dedicated Data Availability Layer, such as Celestia or EigenDA. jaack: Are L 3 s that settle on OP Chains still OP Chains? jaack: Are L 3 s that run non-EVM VMs but follow 1 . and 2 . still OP Chains? Therefore, I don’t think that even if an L 3 were to settle to an OP Chain, it would make it part of the Superchain. As mentioned, I believe the Superchain concept revolves around L 2 s sharing specific stack components and adopting the Law of Chains framework. Simultaneously, I anticipate more exploration at the L 3 level involving different Virtual Machines (such as Rust-based VMs, Parallel VMs, MoveVMs), choices regarding data availability (like EigenDA, Celestia, Avail), and aspects of centralization. Hope that makes sense and always happy to chat : )
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• Meetup in ETH Denver by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: Feb. 5, 2024, 8:11 p.m.
  Content: hey, sounds great! - will be there from 22 nd till the 4 th - would love to meet : )
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• Meetup in ETH Denver by sam.ng - No Role
  Posted on: Feb. 5, 2024, 3:11 p.m.
  Content: hey, sounds great! - will be there from 22 nd till the 4 th - would love to meet : )
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