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We’ll show how you can get involved with the network and maximize your chances of getting future Optimism airdrops when they’re announced.| Zerion Blog
(Christmas carols celebrate the Nativity as being, above all else, an event that brings hope to mankind. “O Holy Night,” one of the most beautiful carols, makes the point explicitly: “a thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.” But I suspect that Christmas is not unique among … Continue reading "The Habit of Hope"| Marsha Familaro Enright
“Remember: Not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.” – S.C. Lourie This is a friendly warning: It’s risky to comment on this blog. I’m joking, of course, but have a great example of no good comment goes unpunished. 🙂 A couple of weeks ago Brian Hannon commented that he approached finding positivity from … Continue reading How to Share Risks→| Surprised By Joy
We’ll show how you can get involved with the network and maximize your chances of getting future Optimism airdrops when they’re announced.| Zerion Blog
This is a copy of a two-part post on the Optimism Governance Forum. You can find the original post here.| Open Source Observer Blog
This is a copy of a two-part post on the Optimism Governance Forum. You can find the original post here.| Open Source Observer Blog
The first (of six) periods of rewards for Season 7 Retro Funding were just announced. Here's the official post; you can view the results on OP Atlas. This marks a significant milestone in Optimism’s journey toward scalable, transparent, and data-driven token allocations.| Open Source Observer Blog
This is the final post in our Opening up the Ballot Box series for 2024. Changes planned for Retro Funding 2025 will likely reshape how we analyze voting behavior.| Open Source Observer Blog
Optimism’s Retro Funding Round 5 (RF5) just wrapped up, with 79 projects (out of ~130 applicants) awarded a total of 8M OP for their contributions to Ethereum and the OP Stack. You can find all the official details about the round here.| Open Source Observer Blog
The voting results for Optimism's Retro Funding Round 4 (RF4) were tallied last week and shared with the community.| Open Source Observer Blog
This post is a brief exploration of the before-after impact of Optimism’s Retro Funding (RF) on open source software (OSS) projects. For context, see some of our previous work on the Optimism ecosystem and especially this one from the start of RF3 in November 2023.| Open Source Observer Blog
Voting for Optimism’s fourth round of Retroactive Public Goods Funding (“Retro Funding”) opened on June 27 and will run until July 11, 2024. You can check out the voting interface here.| Open Source Observer Blog
Open Source Observer is working with the Optimism Collective and its badgeholder community to develop a suite of impact metrics for assessing projects applying for Retro Funding 4.| Open Source Observer Blog
Rutger Bregman’s book, Moral Ambition tells us to aim higher. Why not have an ambition to improve the world? People have achieved amazing things in the past and there is no reason why we can’t make stunning progress again. Ambition Isn’t Bad In making the world better it helps to have ambition. That ambition needs... The post Ambition To Improve The World first appeared on Marketing Thought.| Marketing Thought
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – 23rd April, 2025 – Bitfinex (https://www.bitfinex.com), a premier digital asset trading platform, announced that deposits and withdrawals of USDT0 on the Optimism network would now be directly available on Bitfinex. USDT0, a crosschain stablecoin engineered by Everdawn and... The post Bitfinex Launches Support for USDT0 on Optimism appeared first on Bitfinex blog.| Bitfinex blog
As a self-declared pessimist, I've not been sold on the "impatient optimist" messaging this past decade. Yet hope-based communication is a trend and continues to flourish. What am I - and millions of other people - not buying into?| Katri Bertram
It’s almost a year since I last posted. A great deal has happened since that last post, most notably the death of my father. Trying to put the experience into words is beyond me, which is probably why there has been no posts. There are four draft posts in the dashboard, but I couldn’t finish […]| Old Fart's Almanac
Explore the counterintuitive idea that our future shapes our past, not the other way around. Learn how to break free from limiting narratives, reinterpret past experiences, and live from a space of possibility rather than constraint. The post The Future Creates the Past: A Liberating Truth About Time appeared first on The Aesthetics of Joy.| The Aesthetics of Joy
Finding an effective way forward in 2025 will require a change in thinking.| SusanEisenhower
Mike Magee As my wife often reminds me, “Comparisons are toxic.” And, in general, I agree and try to respect this cardinal rule. But these are extraordinary times. So grant me this exception. On December 9, 2024, in my early morning survey of the news, two articles demanded my attention. The first was an editorial […]| HealthCommentary
Swan Lake, Montana, nearing sunset, through the smoky haze of a nearby prescribed burn. In 2016, a month or two before that year’s U.S. presidential election, I was at a two-week interdisciplinary artist’s residency at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Banff, Canada. We had dancers, writers, visual artists, actors, composers, and musicians in our […]| Antonia Malchik
Getting through election day and the days to follow.| Laura Grace Weldon
Optimism is a mindset shaped by your brain’s structure and function. Here's how you can train your brain to be more optmistic.| The Best Brain Possible
When you feel stuck and can’t see a way out, how do you navigate change? Certified Coach and leadership expert Amy Jimison shares her approach.| Six Seconds
SMART Living 365 is dedicated to exploring ideas and information that lead to a happier, more peaceful, and content life--365!| SMART Living 365
In the last few years, I’ve become less and less inclined to update my social media accounts. I post over on Instagram sporadically, and occasionally see what other people are tweeting about, but this blog has become little more than a repository for old poems and notes. Every once in a while, though, I realise … Continue reading "blue-sky thinking"| don't confuse the narrator
We reflect today and honor those who participated in World War II’s D-Day, the largest combined military operation in history. The man who led the invasion and took full responsibility for the outc…| SusanEisenhower
While teaching through years of a global pandemic, Jessica Zeller says hopeful optimism can keep us centered on what we value: engaging with students.| Hybrid Pedagogy
Last weekend, the TED Radio Hour devoted its program to psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs. Maslow developed his ideas as part of a 1943 paper on human motivation. Though …| Slice of Midlife
An overview of State channels, Plasma, Rollups, Sidechains and Validium chains As Ethereum passes the milestone of a quarter of a billion unique addresses, daily gas used has remained over 100 million for more than a year, the number| Modern Consensus.
I have been thinking about the SpaceX launch since I watched it last night – and, of course, the subsequent landing – feeling inspired and excited in a way that I cannot ever recall feeling before.…| Zack's notes
Take a bath. If you don’t have a bath, take a shower. My brother says to never make a big decision before you take a shower. You may not be on the verge of making a decision, but water has a …| Zack's notes
I have been thinking a lot about a conversation I had with a friend recently – moreover, though, how I can’t help but feel that I have had this same conversation with dozens of people, …| Zack's notes
