Welcome to @jing, co-founder of @optimism!

She's kindly agreed to do an AMA (starts in 45 minutes).

Reply with your questions. :)

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

What was it like to transition plasma group into optimism?

Do you still have hopes for plasma based solutions? Or is that dream dead?

It was demoralizing and exhilarating both at the same time. I naively thought we could persist as a nonprofit and people would throw money at us because of the value we were bringing to the whole ecosystem. It was exhilarating because for the first time in my life I felt like I had purpose and could see the future.

I have hopes for plasma, zk, and many other solutions. All these fancy names are really mostly the same concepts with sometimes very small differences in design tradeoffs. More adoption and more usecases will elucidate which tradeoffs make the most sense, and the OP Stack is built modularly so that it can adapt quickly to changing tides.

I hear you -- it's been a roller coaster and you guys have done a great job threading the needle between public benefit and shareholder benefit

Love the 2nd answer, it's all narcissism of petty differences between plasmas, rollups, validiums, etc.