Optimism Is Done With “Ethereum Alignment” — Users Come First
In this episode of The Defiant Podcast, Camila Russo sits down with Jing Wang to discuss how Optimism is evolving and why the debate over what counts as a “real” Ethereum L2 might be missing the point.
Jing argues that the most important question isn’t whether a chain is an L1, L2, or sidechain.
It’s whether the architecture actually serves users and real-world use cases.
“If it looks like an L1, we’ll build that. If it looks like an L2, we’ll build that.”
In the conversation we cover:
Why Optimism now sees itself as a network of blockchains (the Superchain)
The debate around Ethereum L2 decentralization sparked by Vitalik Buterin
Why institutions are already using decentralized rails
Why ZK proofs are the future
And why Jing believes finance inevitably moves on-chain
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Optimism Base Superchain 🔵_🔴 with Ben Jones, Karl Floersch, & Jing Wang
In today's show, we bring on Ben Jones, Chief Scientist of the Optimism Foundation, Karl Floersch, CTO at OP Labs, and Jing Wang, Executive Director of Optimism Foundation
The five discuss Coinbase's Base launch, the OP Stack integration, and what it means for the Superchains vision!
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------ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro 6:20 Sentiment at Optimism 7:00 Biggest Deal with the News? 11:28 Reflection on Coinbase's Base 15:45 OP Stack 17:15 Is Base a Competitor? 20:53 Puberty State of Chains 33:30 Superchains 40:35 Security of the Superchains 44:35 Superchain Standards 51:51 Base Decentralization Timeline? 57:10 Closing & Disclaimers
------ Resources:
Coinbase Base Announcement https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-base
Optimism + OP STack Details https://optimism.mirror.xyz/2jk3D1Y8-hid8YOCUUa6yXmsyzNCYYyFJP0Nhaey9x0
Ben Jones https://twitter.com/ben_chain
Karl Floersch https://twitter.com/karl_dot_tech
Jing Wang https://twitter.com/jinglejamop
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