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  {
    "name": "⚡️TurboETH - Web3 Build System",
    "description": "⚡️TurboETH is a Web3 Build System; designed to make building Web3 applications fast. Tightly integrated with WAGMI/SIWE, TurboETH template teaches developers how to build production ready Web3 applications by example. With 1-click deploy to Vercel going from `hypothesis > prototype > application` has never been easier. Soon a TurboCLI too => twitter.com/KamesGeraghty/status/1626182766218907654",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jrocki - YouTube & Podcast",
    "description": "I have my YouTube Channel containing Optimism only content including a tutorial series for the Optimism Quests. In addition, I co-host a weekly Twitter space for the Optimism community which began as an Optipunk's NFT community call. When a project joins us the space is recorded and posted on an RSS feed known as \"The Web3 Experience\" podcast. Analytics: https://bit.ly/3KoGJGu",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Layer 2 Landscape",
    "description": "Technically this nomination is for the the Truffle Optimism Box, which allows developers to use boilerplate to create Optimism dapps. This educational tool led to my broader effort to spread information about the Layer 2/Scaling ecosystem's development via my Twitter account (@bitsplaining), w/ a weekly educational thread, for which I'd like to accept this nomination.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism FM",
    "description": "Optimism FM is a collaborative and open (unofficial) community dedicated to promoting the adoption of Optimism by disseminating information about its technology,ecosystem,governance processes and public goods, in Chinese. Our goal is to reach all China citizens and Chinese speakers in general, so that they can learn about the benefits of this Ethereum scaling solution.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Solhint",
    "description": "Solhint is a Solidity linter. A tool that helps solidity devs to write standardized smart contracts code, taking care of code quality, order, readability, style guides, preventing known bugs, and giving security alerts. Has been a pretty popular tool within the Ethereum community. It is also an open source tool considered a public good in the ecossystem.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Flipside Crypto",
    "description": "Flipside Crypto has worked alongside the OP Labs team to make Optimism data more accessible and help bootstrap Optimism’s ecosystem-wide attestation / identity efforts. The data tables, SDK, API, and other core services are offered as free public goods - enabling the creation of a wide range of products and tools for Optimism. Flipside is also an active and devoted OP delegate.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Lodestar",
    "description": "Lodestar is a Typescript ecosystem for Ethereum consensus, developed by ChainSafe Systems. Our flagship product is our production-capable beacon chain and validator client. In addition, we maintain public repositories of useful tools for public use. Some of these libraries include BLS, SSZ, Discv5, Gossipsub, and Noise.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Smock",
    "description": "Smock is the Solidity mocking library. It is installed as a Hardhat plugin which can be used to create mock Solidity contracts entirely in JavaScript (or TypeScript!). With Smock, writing tests for smart contracts becomes incredibly easy, improving the ecosystem's security. First built by Optimism in March 2021 and later, in July 2021, Wonderland took the mission to rewrite it in a scalable way",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "DefiLlama",
    "description": "DefiLlama is an OpenSource project that tracks metrics for DeFi protocols (TVL, volume, fees, revenue, treasury...) transparently, making our data available for free to everybody. On top of that we've built: - LlamaPay, a payments tool used by multiple optimism protocols such as Velodrome - LlamaSwap, a dex meta-aggregator - our free price & metrics API and we maintain ChainList.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Lighthouse",
    "description": "Lighthouse is an Ethereum consensus client that connects to other Ethereum consensus clients to form a resilient and decentralized proof-of-stake blockchain. It is one if the most used Ethereum consensus clients, focused on performance and security. It is free and open source with the most permissive license we could find (Apache 2.0).",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "BuidlGuidl",
    "description": "A curated group of Ethereum builders creating products, prototypes, and tutorials to enrich the web3 ecosystem. We mentor developers and orgs through the SpeedRun and beyond.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Launchifi",
    "description": "Launchifi is a blockchain platform that enables you to launch anything to the blockchain without coding. The platform provides a secure, multi-chain compatible, and gas-optimized solution for deploying smart contracts. Pre-built contracts, advanced setups, and industry-leading integrations are available. Contracts that we currently include are tokens, NFTs, Staking, Auctions, and LP Tokens.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Michael Vander Meiden",
    "description": "My work for the Optimism Collective falls into two categories: * 1st is my volunteer contributions to Optimism Governance, mainly planning, hosting, and recapping the bi-weekly governance calls. * 2nd is my youtube channel, 'The Blockchain Guy', making hype-free & high-quality educational content focused on the Optimism and Ethereum ecosystems.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "OpenZeppelin",
    "description": "OpenZeppelin provides security products to build, automate, and operate decentralized applications. We also protect leading organizations by performing security audits on their systems and products.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "🐍 snekmate",
    "description": "🐍 snekmate are state-of-the-art, highly opinionated, hyper-optimised and secure Vyper smart contract building blocks. Or in other words, it's the OpenZeppelin version for Vyper.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "MetricsDAO",
    "description": "We are a community of data analysts and web3 enthusiasts who provide Web3 organizations with on-demand data insights and tooling. We have a community of 4700 members, most of them actively completing analytics challenges and/or taking part in our educational programs, including web3 analytics, and web3 ecosystem-specific programs.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "dm3 protocol",
    "description": "The project consists of 3 parts: Optimism-Resolver: a trustless resolver for ENS utilizing CCIP. The verification is done using Merkle-proofs for all used slots. dm3 – web3 messaging protocol: a lean messaging protocol with focus on e2ee, decentralization, scalability, and interoperability. dm3 embedded components: messaging components to embed in dApps to add interoperable messaging to dApps.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "ERC-5560: Redeemable NFTs",
    "description": "The EIP-5560 (Redeemable NFTs) adds a redeem function to EIP-721. It can be implemented when an NFT issuer wants his/her NFT to be redeemed for a physical object. An increasing amount of NFT issuers such as artists, fine art galeries, auction houses, brands and others want to offer a physical object to the holder of a given NFT. This standard allows EIP-721 NFTs to signal reedemability.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "LlamaFolio",
    "description": "Open source, permissionless, privacy conscious. A portfolio tracker, the llama way!",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "cp0x",
    "description": "We as community constantly hosts ad-free educational podcasts about crypto concepts and translates various educational videos, including videos about optimistic rollups.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "ITU Blockchain",
    "description": "ITU Blockchain is the first and largest university blockchain community established in Turkey. The mission of ITU Blockchain is primarily to increase blockchain literacy and awareness in its geography and to educate its community to develop qualified projects. With its nearly 3000 members, it organizes face-to-face and online educations and events every year.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Perpetuals Dune Abstraction",
    "description": "The perpetuals trading abstraction on Dune standardizes the trading data amongst all the perpetuals trading platforms on Optimism and makes them all accessible in a single table, called perpetuals.trades. The primary goal is to help analysts and builders alike in gaining a deep understanding of the perpetuals market and in building tools related to the data being surfaced.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Revolte",
    "description": "Join the Web3 revolution with Revolte! Our adventure game introduces users to the world of blockchain, wallets, tokens, and more, with mandatory tasks like wallet installation to guide players through the story. Explore real Web3 applications on Optimism and experience the potential of this transformative technology.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "OPCraft & MUD (Lattice)",
    "description": "Lattice is facilitating complex on-chain projects with MUD (https://mud.dev): an application framework for Ethereum & Autonomous Worlds (https://shortest.link/autonomous) MUD helps developers be more ambitious on-chain: using the OP Stack and MUD, we built OPCraft — an on-chain Voxel Game (https://shortest.link/opcraft) — and we enabled dozens of team to push the envelope of Dapps. see below:",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Apetimism Launchpad",
    "description": "Apetimism Launchpad is a no-code NFT launchpad platform that provides highly secure smart contracts and minting systems. This helps NFT project owners to streamline the launch process from weeks to just a matter of minutes.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Erigon",
    "description": "Erigon is an implementation of Ethereum (execution client), on the efficiency frontier. Archive Node by default.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Atlantis World",
    "description": "Atlantis World is an exploratory web3 social metaverse that transforms everyday people into web3 super users, one fun & rewarding quest at a time.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Protocol Guild",
    "description": "The Protocol Guild helps Ethereum's ecosystem + community fund core protocol development: a foundational Public Good for all. The Guild curates a weighted membership registry of ~128 active contributors, which anyone can donate to via a single Ethereum address. Donations are vested to members over time, creating long-term stewarding incentives. Learn more: https://bit.ly/PG-docs",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Small Brain Games",
    "description": "Small Brain Games is focused on quickly iterating on casual games. These games: 1. Are open source and fully on-chain 2. Strive to be accessible to anybody–not just crypto-native users 3. Are about persistence and composability (less so than ownership) We've launched Words3, a fully on-chain word game on Optimism. We have 2 more games queued up for Q1 2023.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "TE Academy",
    "description": "The Token Engineering Academy's (TEA) mission is to establish rigorous #tokenengineering & fully leverage the potential of token economies. We help crypto projects find experts and foster the development of open-source knowledge and tools. Our own community’s value flows are based on proofs of knowledge, skills and achievements that are represented by account-bound NFTs - on the Optimism Network",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Guild",
    "description": "Guild is an infrastructure for platformless memberships and community building. Built around the Guild Model (requirements, roles, rewards), anyone can create modular memberships based on composable on-chain and off-chain data. These can be used to gate off-chain rewards (access to Discord, Telegram, Google folders & files, Github), on-chain rewards (POAP), or custom applications (via our SDK).",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Keccak hashing",
    "description": "The Keccak project started in 2008 for the development of the Keccak hash function, winner of SHA3 competition and used in Ethereum. The project is a multi discipline effort of cryptography, software and hardware development. All the developments are open source, no patents and several incentives for 3rd party security analysis. The project is still active for providing improved implementations",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "ETHGlobal",
    "description": "ETHGlobal is the largest developer focused community in Ethereum. Most known for their hackathons, ETHGlobal has run 50+ hackathons around the world and online. To support builders at any point in their journey, ETHGlobal builds products for its developer community's success including: Hackathon (online/in-person), Guides (self-directed education), Summits (online/in-person), Jobs, and more.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "MerkleTreeJS",
    "description": "MerkleTreeJS is a TypeScript NPM package to construct merkle trees, generate proofs, and verify roots and proofs.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Rust-cannon-template",
    "description": "The Rust Cannon template is a starting point for developers who want to build and experiment with the provable execution layer of the OP stack. It makes it simple to compile Rust code to MIPs with helpers to read inputs, write outputs and access the pre-image oracle. The results of the execution of this code can be fraud-proven on-chain using the OP stack challenge game Solidity contracts.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Token Terminal",
    "description": "Token Terminal is a platform that aggregates financial data on the leading blockchains and decentralized applications.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Blockscout",
    "description": "Blockscout is the first fully-featured open-source blockchain explorer available for use by any EVM chain. Blockscout currently supports 120+ different chains. We are currently working on 2.0 version: https://docs.blockscout.com/about/roadmap/blockscout-2.0 WIP: https://eth-goerli.blockscout.com/ OP instances will be among the first where 2.0 will be deployed in Q2 this year.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Hyperledger Besu",
    "description": "Hyperledger Besu is an open-source Java implementation of Ethereum's EL. Built initially for enterprise adoption, Besu has private and permissioning features. It's an actively developed Mainnet client. Besu has helped in shaping standards & core development since its beginning as Pantheon. Besu's unique Bonsai tries maintain the lowest storage requirements on Mainnet and it has a stand-alone EVM.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Espacio Cripto",
    "description": "Espacio Cripto is a web3 community founded in 2019 focused on providing education in an inclusive, safe, and kind environment We think that understanding this industry is like understanding the internet in 1997. We want to accelerate crypto knowledge and adoption for Spanish-speaking people We engage with our community with weekly podcasts (+ 153 episodes), IRL events, Telegram, and other channels",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism Translators Collection",
    "description": "The Optimism Translators are a group spanning 25 languages. They translate the Optimism User Help documentation, as well as translating blog posts and tweets as they are published. To find the full list of Translators and the weighting of their contributions click on the website link at the top of the profile ⬆️",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Goerli Testnet",
    "description": "The Goerli testnet was the first public Ethereum testnet launch by and with the community. It is supposed to be inclusive with the entire Ethereum developer stack both horizontally and vertically. In 2023, the Holli testnet will replace Goerli.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Odos",
    "description": "Odos Smart Order Routing (SOR) is a patented Automated Market Maker (AMM) path finding algorithm, which aggregates decentralized exchanges (DEX) and finds optimal routes for cryptocurrency token swaps. Odos enables retail and institutional traders to benefit from savings over any single DEX and even other aggregators when converting one or several cryptocurrency tokens into other asset(s).",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Quark ID",
    "description": "Quark ID is a digital trust protocol that implements a new security framework for the creation and management of digital identities and all their credentials in a decentralized way, using asymmetric cryptography and the immutability of blockchain to create trust in a digital world. Open standards SSI protocol Multichain Interoperable Off-chain private data Autonomous governance Public/private ecos",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "raise_exception (rotate.eth)",
    "description": "I am an independent researcher assisting crypto-native communities separate genuine users from Sybil attacks. This involves raising awareness, informing communities about ongoing attacks against them, providing advice & developing custom tools. I perform in-depth analysis of on-chain data, often identifying & visualising clusters of related addresses.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Cryptoversidad",
    "description": "Cryptoversidad is an organization that educates people about web3 so that they can use, contribute and build with web3 tools. Our mission is to accelerate the masive adoption of web3, and we believe that educating people about web3 values and tools will have a positive impact on society. We’ve published educational YT videos, hosted online events and we're in the process of developing a fullcourse",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Frame",
    "description": "Frame is a web3 platform that creates a secure, system-wide interface to your chains and accounts, giving any browser, command-line, or native application the ability to access web3. Our routing architecture, Omnichain, simplifies the user experience by eliminating the concept of \"being on a chain\" and allowing dapps to route requests to any of the user's available chains in parallel.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism en Español",
    "description": "Optimism Español is a collaborative, open and non-profit community dedicated to promoting the adoption of Optimism by disseminating information about its technology, ecosystem and governance processes in Spanish. Our goal is to reach all Latin American citizens and Spanish speakers in general, so that they can learn about the benefits of this Ethereum scaling solution.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Web3 Data Degens",
    "description": "Making web3 data accessible for everyone.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Safe (previously Gnosis Safe)",
    "description": "Safe is a programmable wallet that enables users to control their digital assets with granular permissions. Safe stores >40 billion USD worth of digital assets today. Its flagship solution is a multi-sig based smart contract wallet that requires a predefined number of signatures to confirm transactions to prevent unauthorized access to the assets stored.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Week in Ethereum News",
    "description": "Week in Ethereum News is (wait for it!) a weekly newsletter about Ethereum. Since August 21, 2016.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism Cult Merch",
    "description": "CULT MERCH optimism is an exclusive T-shirt collection consisting of several themes: 1. optimism Cultists. 2. optimistic Evil 3. Opti Samurai. + a few bonus ones: for the OPLabs team and minimalistic ones with different lettering Each print is hand-drawn by me with love. The t-shirts will be two colors, white and black.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "OptimismGuru",
    "description": "OptimismGuru is a Twitter account that works as an information aggregator regarding the Optimism chain, the Optimism Collective, and the OP Stack.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Otterspace",
    "description": "Otterspace develops easy-to-use tools for internet-native communities to create & distribute Badges (non-transferable NFTs) on Optimism. Badges enable communities to: 1. Increase member engagement via non-financial rewards 2. Reduce manual workload & improve security via automated permission (e.g. through Guild, CollabLand) 3. Implement on-chain, portable membership & reputation models",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Sourcify",
    "description": "Sourcify is a decentralized and open-sourced contract verification service. It leverages and fosters the adoption of Solidity’s contract metadata and 'full verification' of contracts. The contract repository is publicly served on IPFS. Through the metadata and the NatSpec docs of the contract, Sourcify aims to enable human-readable transactions for Ethereum users instead of bytes and hex strings",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "RainbowKit Login for WordPress",
    "description": "RainbowKit Login for WordPress is a full-featured, open source, and easy to use integration layer that empowers builders to leverage the composability of Ethereum and L2s on a WordPress site. The project prioritizes extensible, test-driven, and secure code. https://wordpress.org/plugins/rainbowkit-login-web3-integration-for-sign-in-with-ethereum/ https://github.com/davisshaver/wp-rainbow",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "L2BEAT",
    "description": "L2BEAT is an Ethereum Layer Two (L2) scaling analysis and research website. We compare Ethereum L2s by monitoring their usage & TVL-related metrics, verifying their documentation against the source code, and manually assessing associated risks. We have created a risk framework for L2s and bridges, along with open-source monitoring tools that check for changes in their smart contracts' parameters.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Infinity Wallet & Web3 Browser",
    "description": "Infinity Wallet is the first all-in-one non-custodial wallet ecosystem and Web3 browser of its kind on desktop ('a Super Wallet'), launched in 2019, and supporting hundreds of thousands of users. Not a browser extension, but a complete standalone desktop application providing a one-stop solution for seamless access and usability of DeFi, NFTs, cross-border payments and Web3 applications.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "L2planet",
    "description": "Layer 2 Planet is a research community that develops various products. Initially, we focused on a bi-weekly newsletter covering Layer 2 solutions. Now, we have a dApp store on our website. Going forward, our aim is to increase website traffic and provide more technical educational resources about Layer2 solutions and taking a role on big adaption.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "RareSkills",
    "description": "RareSkills focuses on providing intermediate to advanced blockchain developer training. Although we provide a web2 to web3 bootcamp, our primary focus is curating advanced material for Solidity engineers. Examples of topics we teach include advanced testing techniques such as fuzzing and mutation testing, elliptic curve math, zero knowledge proofs, DeFi mathematics, and assembly programming.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "GiveStation",
    "description": "What is GiveStation ? A multi-chain Give-To-Earn grant platform where contributors get rewarded for funding public goods, ideas and projects in web3.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Agora",
    "description": "Agora builds governance public infrastructure that provides transparency, accessibility, and fine-grained control for delegates and builders. We started helping Optimism transition to on-chain voting by deploying its governance contract, and building its voting portal. Next we will refine the contract, keep improving the portal and create new governance modules that any OP project can use.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "timdaub’s work as ETH Magician",
    "description": "Attestate is my bootstrapped online venture. Over a multi-year period, I've been working on foundational technology that accelerates the vision of blockchains as \"attestable\" knowledge graphs for permissions and credible neutral data storage. I've paid out-of-pocket to travel to conferences, and I've run workshops, done talks, and written standards.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "OptimismArabia",
    "description": "We are working on two things: - A website specialized in publishing original and translated articles related to Optimism in Arabic. - An academy with many interactive features that contains courses related to blockchain and Optimism. We target users and developers in Arab countries such as UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Where has the OP Gone?",
    "description": "Continuously updated governance thread detailing, at a transaction level, what happened with Governance Grants through the first two seasons.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Prettier Solidity",
    "description": "Prettier Solidity is a Prettier plugin for formatting Solidity code. It's the de-facto formatter for the Solidity language, used by multiple projects including Optimism itself.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "0xSplits",
    "description": "0xSplits is a suite of smart contracts & tools that allows devs and end users to securely and efficiently share onchain revenue. Our current offerings include splits (immutable, mutable, & liquid), waterfalls (preference stacks), and vests (multi-stream, single beneficiary) as well as the accompanying subgraphs, sdk, & UI.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "ZachXBT",
    "description": "Whistleblower / Open source investigations / Asset tracing & recovery",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "CANDIDE Wallet",
    "description": "CANDIDE is an open-source smart contract wallet based on ERC-4337, the account abstraction standard for censorship resistant contract wallets. It supports social recovery, sponsored transactions for gasless/ERC-20 based payments, and batched transactions for one click dapp experiences.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Blobscan",
    "description": "Blobscan is the first EIP4844 Blob Transaction explorer, a web-based application that offers a seamless experience for navigating and indexing blob data. The explorer will have data gas metrics to help users understand the costs associated with this new transaction type, blob data decoding for each rollup, and an API to manipulate blobs.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "TrueBlocks",
    "description": "TrueBlocks creates a shared, naturally sharded index of addresses for any EVM-based chain (including Optimism). This allows ultra-fast access to the underlying chain data and runs 100% locally. The near-zero cost of operation promotes a true public good. A video explainer is here: https://loom.com/share/fd75d19f1dc946498c4ea0344517c2c6. For detailed info, see here: https://urlis.net/i98eydu0.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Layer2DAO",
    "description": "Layer2DAO is expanding the Ethereum L2 ecosystem and boosting L2 ecosystem projects. The DAO is using its treasury to invest and partner with high-impact L2 protocols and ecosystem plays, serving as a diversified treasury for DAO members looking to gain exposure to the L2 ecosystem growth.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ankr",
    "description": "Ankr is a decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider powering the foundational layer for Web3, DeFi, and the digital economy across dozens of blockchains. Ankr's RPC node marketplace enables independent node providers to monetize their node infrastructure and allows Web3 developers to access Ankr's increasingly decentralized RPC services with a pay-as-you-go model secured by the ANKR token.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "thesleeper.eth Thai OP contents",
    "description": "My name is Amin from Thailand. I have been creating original content in Thai based on Optimism's blogs&tweets (incl. from the core team) since June 2022 Optimism community is growing bigger I want to fill my part by making Optimism communication more User-friendly for local new users & devs, which I think it will attract them to join & create new possibilities for Optimism",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Flexible Voting",
    "description": "Flexible Voting is an extension to the widely used OpenZeppelin DAO Governor that enables powerful new voting patterns for voting through client contracts. This new building block allows arbitrary delegate contracts to be developed which can unlock all kinds of new use cases.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ipsilon",
    "description": "Ipsilon is a research team focusing on the execution environment of Ethereum (aka the EVM or any future versions of it). We provide analysis and implementation of own and third party proposals (i.e. new EIPs proposing changes to the EVM), provide tooling (evmc, evmone, fizzy), and support existing teams (e.g. Solidity, go-ethereum, Silkworm, Erigon) with implementation and analysis.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "OptiChads",
    "description": "OptiChads is an 10K NFT Collection that utilizes art and human psychology to promote health & wellness culture on OP.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "IC3",
    "description": "IC3 is an initiative of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Cornell Tech, EPFL, ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley, University College London, UIUC and the Technion. IC3 leads multidisciplinary research and members publish peer reviewed research in many areas of blockchain systems relevant to the functioning and future of the OP Stack.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Forta",
    "description": "Forta is a real-time detection network for security monitoring of blockchain activity. Forta comprises a decentralized network of independent node operators that scan all transactions and block-by-block state changes for outlier transactions and threats. Developers can build detection bots (piece of script that monitors the activity) and machine learning models, and run them on the network.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "JiffyScan",
    "description": "JiffyScan is the first (and only) block explorer built for EIP-4337 confirming transactions. It shows the transactions as per the new entities introduced: userOp, Bundle, Bundler, Entrypoint, etc. This is needed for the wallets which will onboard users leveraging this new Smart Contract Wallet standard. PS: Candide Wallet is launching on Optimism and we will support its adoption.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "EIP-5164 / PoolTogether Inc",
    "description": "PoolTogether Inc builds tooling to support the PoolTogether protocol. PoolTogether is a protocol for no loss prize savings on Optimism. It's one of the most popular DeFi protocols enabling a simple, secure, and \"no loss\" on ramp for people to being using DeFi.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chainlist",
    "description": "Chainlist tracks all public RPCs available for each EVM network, along with their latency, blockheight and the privacy policy of the provider, which we summarize into easy-to-compare snippets. This allows users to switch networks/RPCs safely and to maintain privacy without having to spend hours sifting through legal docs.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "EthereansOS",
    "description": "Ethereans is a decentralized nation that uses secure DeFi routines for seamless transactions, self-sovereign on-chain governance with granular control over its resources, and specialized assets that are interoperable across marketplaces and DEX’s. Everything in the nation is powered by generalized smart contract factories built on EthereansOS.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "TypeChain",
    "description": "dETH is organization focused on improving Ethereum Developer Experience. * TypeChain - generates TypeScript typings for Ethereum smart contacts, * dETH Code - is Visual Studio Code for reading smart contracts, * dETH Tools - a set of small tools useful for smart contract engineers,",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "OAYC",
    "description": "OAYC is a completely hand-drawn-from-scratch derivative collection inspired by the iconic BAYC. We have become one of the biggest communities & sold-out projects in the OP NFT space, with 500 $ETH+ secondary sales volume and a strong roadmap for continued growth and utility for the community.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "EthereumETL",
    "description": "EthereumETL has been described as the most useful open-source project for facilitating data science on Ethereum data. In addition, a BigQuery Ethereum dataset published together with Google using EthereumETL has already proved useful for many companies and people: it empowers research and data science, and enables data-driven applications development.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "wagmi",
    "description": "wagmi is a collection of React Hooks containing everything you need to start working with Ethereum. It’s used at organizations like ENS, Sushi, LooksRare, WalletConnect, Stripe Crypto, and Gitcoin. wagmi makes it easy to \"Connect Wallet,\" display ENS and balance information, sign messages, interact with contracts, and much more — all with caching, request deduplication, and persistence.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "RockX",
    "description": "RockX is an institutional-grade global node operator for business to build, scale and stake with ease. RockX provide access node API for Optimism and helps accelerate your growth by providing you instant and secure on-chain data access via APIs, giving you more time to focus buliding",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Scry",
    "description": "Scrys Open Oracle Frameworks an infrastructure for oracles for developers to access external data in a fully permissionless and decentralized way. The infrastructure allows devs to self deploy high scale oracles for any API with the contracts, nodes and front end all ready to use in <15m. This allows devs to create oracles using their own reputable signers in their communities. Uniswap for data.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "EthernautDAO",
    "description": "We are a developer's bridge from web2 to web3. We pair senior solidity devs with senior web2 devs for a 2-month crash course to expand the blockchain teams. We also started the distribution of a soulbond token called EXP on optimism to have an on-chain attestation of developer contributors.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "H.E.R. DAO LATAM",
    "description": "We onboard Latin American womxn from scratch into Web3 through Virtual and IRL Workshops teaching them the basics of blockchain and its scaling solutions, we build partnerships to offer scholarships for women to learn about development, blockchain technology, and tech skills. We need help to keep educating about Ethereum and Layer2 Optimism! :)",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "WTF Academy",
    "description": "WTF Academy is a web3 open-source university for developers, aiming to onboard 10,000 developers to web3. We provide free and open-source tutorials, tests, and certificates for developers. 1. WTF Solidity (6,000 stars): https://github.com/AmazingAng/WTF-Solidity 2. WTF Ethers (1,200 stars): https://github.com/WTFAcademy/WTF-Ethers 3. Education platform: https://wtf.academy",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Commons Stack",
    "description": "Commons Stack builds 'Commons', tokenized communities supporting public goods. To achieve this, years of research have gone into developing cultural frameworks that reinforce Ostrom’s principles of governing commons, novel tools such as the Augmented Bonding Curve, Conviction Voting & Praise reward system, and a radically inclusive methodology (Collaborative Economics) for launching a Commons.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Cannon",
    "description": "Cannon is an 'Infrastructure as Code' tool (like Terraform) for Foundry and Hardhat. Users generate Cannonfiles instead of deploy scripts for a declarative approach to managing protocols, including upgrades and configuration. Deployment information can be shared on the registry (hosted on Ethereum and IPFS) to be used in other Cannonfiles and run for local testing and development.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Basic course in crypto literacy",
    "description": "The project proposes participating in the Basic Course in Crypto Literacy and Blockchain to meet the increasing demand for quality information on virtual assets in Ukraine. The course aims to create more virtual asset professionals and offer practical education. Platform based on real industry tasks with necessary theory and automation will provide accessible, practical, and automated learning.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "NiceNode",
    "description": "NiceNode aims to provide an easy set up to run an Ethereum node in no-time on every modern computer without any technical knowledge. By running a node you become part of a global movement to decentralize a world of information. NiceNode is being designed to easily support new node types such as layer 2 and web3 nodes. It is FOSS and available on Mac, Windows, and Linux.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Nested",
    "description": "The crypto world suffers from general over-complication and unbearable user experience that dissuade people from getting involved. Nested is a crypto trading/investing platform that breaks that trend by revolutionizing the accessibility to web3 in a way that is unprecedentedly simple, social and safe.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ospace Project",
    "description": "The Ospace project started its activity in May 2022 as an NFT project on the Optimism chain. Our first collection was Oliens which was launched as a free mint on Quix launched on 9th of july 2022 & it quickly got sold out. Oliens has added new unique users to Optimism chain because of its Art and free mint launch and it continued to reach +3.2K trades & more than 47 ETH volume.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "0xPARC",
    "description": "The 0xPARC Foundation promotes application-level innovation on Ethereum. Our primary areas of focus are: - Cryptography: ZK, MPC, and more. - Autonomous Worlds: funding projects like Lattice, Dark Forest, DFDAO, etc - Education: we organize learning residencies, hackathons, and conferences on ZK and AW. 0xPARC funds infrastructure work, research, and groups that would otherwise be underfunded.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Eneagon by zenbit.eth",
    "description": "A prefiltering platform for RPGF, based on the bicameral governance model from Optimism. Developers are able to mint PG Projects as NFTs and set multiple development stages to be retroactively funded. These stages are tracked from GitHub milestones, any user can get rewards by donating to these, while stakeholders can mint SBT to evaluate the progress and deliver funds after completing each stage.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Attestation Station Interface",
    "description": "This project provides a no-code solution for builders and community members to directly interact with the AttestationStation smart contract.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "EIP-4844 Contributors Collection",
    "description": "This nomination is for a collection of contributors to EIP4844. EIP-4844 introduces a new kind of transaction type to Ethereum which accepts 'blobs' of data to be persisted in the beacon node for a short period of time. These changes are forwards compatible with Ethereum's scaling roadmap, and blobs are small enough to keep disk use manageable. EIP-4844 is project-neutral and being developed 100% in the open by a wide mix of developers across different teams, this collection aims to reward that network of contributors. To find the list of contributors and the weighting of their contribution click on the website link at the top of the profile ⬆️",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Women Biz - Optimism education",
    "description": "Would you like to help us impact more women? Our next project is focused on carrying out free courses that open the doors to Web 3, even if they don’t know anything about this world. We want at least 10 women from different cities outside of Lima participating. Block 1: Introduction to web 3 - I Block 2: Basic concepts about metaverse, networks, smart contracts, tokens. Block3: Specialization",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "OP Dashboards by Springzhang",
    "description": "I created several dashboards for Optimism chain on Dune Analytics platform. Some of them are quite popular. These dashboards are helpful for users to know better about OP chain and for project team to understand their users better from a public onchain data perspective.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Solady",
    "description": "Highly-optimized Solidity snippets.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "ETHEREUM MÉXICO",
    "description": "We create virtual and IRL workshops to teach about Ethereum and technologies across its ecosystem. We share the latest updates and we inspire builders to create amazing projects in Ethereum in México! We'd like to keep teaching about Optimism. Provide scholarships for people to learn about tech and code, visit universities across México, teach how to become a validator node, and more for 2023!",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Pairwise",
    "description": "Say goodbye to endless forum scrolling and hello to easy, efficient and fun community signaling with Pairwise! Our open-source, snapshot-style voting dapp, based on the big brain algorithm research out of Colony in 2018, offers a fast-paced and intuitive experience, perfect for the next generation of DAOs. Join us in revolutionizing governance with the power of algorithms.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Sugar",
    "description": "Sugar makes Velodrome devs life sweeter Sugar was born as the need to unify the 10+ contracts handling Velodrome into an easy to use interface with full access to the normalized dataset representing the real-time state of our protocol.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Proof of Integrity",
    "description": "Proof of Integrity offers #aPRENDOcripto, an educational program that provides blockchain and personal finance training to vulnerable sectors. It consists of 4 workshops with practical and theoretical content, and hands-on experience w/decentralized tech. We aim to bring the benefits of blockchain tech to underprivileged communities. Last year 8 editions were made in Argentina and plan 26 for 2023",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Zapper",
    "description": "Zapper is a social web3 explorer which allows users to follow the blockchain journey of other people in NFTs, DeFi and DAOs. Our mission to make the blockchain readable and accessible to everyone. We believe that a self-custodial and decentralized future allows for more economic freedom, and that making the blockchain easier to understand is a critical problem to solve to attain this future.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Rigoblock",
    "description": "Rigoblock is a fully open source and free to use smart contracts protocol that facilitates the interaction with DeFi applications and the organization of tokens and group of token holders in smart wallets. It has been live on Optimism since November 2022. Rigoblock liquidity has generated more than 50MM USD token swap volume on Ethereum mainnet.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Gitcoin",
    "description": "For the past 5 years Gitcoin has been focused on building and funding digital public goods. By popularizing these concepts, it's helped spark a trend across the industry of giving back and supporting Ethereum developers. Through its implementation of quadratic funding specifically, it's helped fund projects like ethers.js, Hardhat, POAP, Prysm, and even Optimism itself.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Web3beach",
    "description": "web3beach is dedicated to accelerating web3 education and adoption through impactful onboarding in communities where banking services are unavailable. In short, onboarding LatAm through Public Goods. Some of these initiatives include beach clean ups, educational events meet ups, health services",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Nimbus",
    "description": "Nimbus is a client implementation for both Ethereum’s consensus layer and execution layer that strives to be as lightweight as possible in terms of resources used. This allows it to perform well on embedded systems, embedded devices – including Raspberry Pis and mobile devices.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Snapshot",
    "description": "Snapshot is a platform that enables decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) governance. Snapshot provides a way for DAO members to cast votes on proposals and make decisions collectively, without the need for a centralized authority. By using Snapshot, DAOs can increase transparency and accountability in their decision-making processes.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Hop Protocol",
    "description": "Hop Protocol is a modular stack for building cross-chain applications within the Ethereum ecosystem. To date, the Hop Token Bridge has bridged over $3.4B across Ethereum, Ethereum rollups, and adjacent chains. With our initial OP grant, Hop pioneered a fee refund program enabling users to recoup 80% of onboarding costs while gaining ownership in the Optimism network.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kernel",
    "description": "Kernel is peer-to-peer learning environment, growing one block at a time. Traditionally, each block accommodates 250 individuals and runs for 8 weeks. In two years, and after 7 Kernel blocks, there are: - 1,800 Kernel fellows (see more here: https://www.kernel.community/en/love) - 470 Kernel \"adventures\": web3 projects, protocols, writings & research - 70+ Kernel projects who have raised $1MM",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "diligit",
    "description": "I am in love with math, architecture, art, psychology and sociology. Optimism is a collective that reflects everything I am passionate about, which has allowed me to improve my knowledge while becoming the person who offers this knowledge to the Optimism community.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Polynya",
    "description": "I write a blog and twitter profile about a variety of topics related to blockchain - scalability, sustainability, economics etc, and participate in various rollups-related research/discussion venues. I'm also a delegate for the Optimism Collective Token House and badgeholder-elect for the Citizen House.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism Monorepo Dependencies Collection",
    "description": "This collection consists of 100 open source software projects that are essential dependencies of the Optimism tech stack. This software is critical to the success of the OP Stack. You can find the full list of projects, and the methodology with which they were selected, by clicking on the website link at the top of the profile page ⬆️",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chaineye",
    "description": "ChainEye aims to build world-leading free and open-source analytical tools. Currently, it has the following core functions 1. Optimism on-chain Map 2. Bridge comparison 3. Stablecoin dashboard 4. RPC list 5. Gas monitor 6. Web3 security (coming) Launched in Q4 2021, Chaineye has over 100k user visits. It is incubated by the leading Web3 research community Biteye with 200K+ members in Asia.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Foundry",
    "description": "See: https://gov.optimism.io/t/tooling-utilities-nominations-for-rpgf2/4639/15?u=jonas",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Nethermind",
    "description": "Nethermind is a team of world-class builders and researchers. We empower enterprises and developers worldwide to access and build upon the decentralized web. Our work touches every part of the Web3 ecosystem, from our Nethermind node to fundamental cryptography research and application-layer protocol development. We’re passionate builders solving Ethereum’s most difficult challenges.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Esteroids",
    "description": "Esteroids (esteroids.eth) is a search engine for .eth websites. Esteroids indexes ENS+IPFS websites (called .eth websites), makes them searchable, and highlights the main ones. While the .eth web previously offered a variety of .eth websites, it lacked the tools to collect, explore and showcase them. We launched Esteroids in April 2021 in order to give .eth websites a dedicated search engine.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Gelato",
    "description": "Gelato is Web3’s decentralized backend empowering builders to create augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless and off-chain aware on all major EVM-compatible blockchains. Gelato has already emerged as the preferred choice for some of the most important Web3 projects and is powering 200+ decentralized applications and handling tens of thousands of transactions each day.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "MarcoV (Optimism Dashboards)",
    "description": "Using Dune Analytics (and other analytics platforms), i surface data about the Optimism ecosystem. On a overall level, but also on in-depth on projects, to provide insights on users, transactions, volume, earnings etc. Examples are: - https://dune.com/Marcov/Optimism-Ethereum - https://dune.com/Marcov/Optimism-After-Bridge - https://dune.com/Marcov/OP-Optimism",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism Prices Contracts",
    "description": "A set of Optimism-unique smart contracts that can price any ERC20 asset that exists in a liquidity pool on Optimism, completely replacing the need for centralized price APIs. Supports pricing that requires complex routes with many hops, supports non-standard ERC20 implementations and non-standard AMM curves, and allows for fetching the prices of hundreds of tokens in a single RPC call.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Across Protocol",
    "description": "Across is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA's optimistic oracle. It is optimized for capital efficiency with a single liquidity pool, a competitive relayer landscape, and a no-slippage fee model.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Layer 2 Weekly Roundup",
    "description": "The Layer 2 Weekly Roundup is an educational weekly newsletter that provides a comprehensive roundup comprised of the most important user and developer updates from across Ethereum's Layer 2 ecosystem. The Layer 2 Weekly Roundup is a public good that is home to over 500 subscribers who utilize this resource to source high quality information from across multiple Layer 2 scaling protocols.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ante",
    "description": "Ante is a protocol framework that allows anybody to create on-chain guarantees for any smart contract system. Ante tests can be written to test any on-chain condition with payouts handled without any third parties. With enough coverage and tests on a given project, a decentralized and visual trust can then be gathered on that respective project.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "RadicalxChange Foundation",
    "description": "RadicalxChange (RxC) is a global movement for next-generation political economies. We’re committed to advancing plurality, equality, community, an decentralization through upgrading democracy, markets, the data economy, the commons, and identity. Founded by economist Glen Weyl in 2018, the RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing the RxC movement.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Thumbs Up Finance",
    "description": "For almost two years I've been learning everything I can about cryptocurrency and distilling it down to entertaining critiques, deep dives, and tutorials to help people understand and engage with cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and web3 protocols safely and productively.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Node Guardians",
    "description": "Node Guardians is an RPG that caters to seasoned Solidity devs. We provide over 60 hours of Solidity in the form of CTF & programming problems for free. We've built a custom pipeline to evaluate the users code and verify whether it meets certain criteria. Hackers can unlock soul-bound (off-chain) collectibles that represent their progress in the game.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Orbiter Finance",
    "description": "Orbiter Finance is a decentralised cross-rollup bridge that aims to offer infrastructure at Layer 2 and permits instant, low-cost transactions of Ethereum-native assets. We support cross-rollup transfers among Ethereum, Optimism, StarkNet, zkSync, Loopring, Arbitrum, Arbitrum Nova, Polygon, BNB Chain, ZKSpace, Immutable X, dYdX, Metis and Boba.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optinames | ENS on Optimism",
    "description": "Hello, Badgeholders. What are Optinames? Optinames are tradable and transferable sub-domains deployed on Optimism that are fully integrated with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). They can be resolved on popular web3 wallets i.e Coinbase Wallet by utilizing an off-chain ENS resolver. We built the Optinames toolset to enable anyone to easily and cheaply create ENS subdomain-based communities.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Clique",
    "description": "Clique builds a new type of primitives, identity oracles, that bring web2 user behavior and identity data on-chain. Establishing more robust reputation and identity systems on-chain, and bridging the gap between value-creating activities in web2 and incentive distribution in web3. We use advanced cryptographic tools like ZKP, TEE, and MPC to design modular privacy-preserving pipelines.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Revoke.cash",
    "description": "Revoke.cash is a suite of web3 security tools. It offers a dashboard to manage token and NFT allowances on Optimism and 30+ other chains. It also provides a browser extension that warns users when they are about to perform potentially harmful actions, such as approvals or NFT listings.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Blocktrend (區塊勢)",
    "description": "Blocktrend is a Taiwan-based independent media that focuses on blockchain and Web3. We have been publishing original and explanatory articles and podcasts since 2017 to help readers understand Web3 in a simple and easy-to-understand way and encourage them to gain hands-on experience. Blocktrend have produced over 500 articles and 200 podcast interviews to date, ranking #1 on Apple Podcast in TW.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "OP Medicine",
    "description": "Enabling the bottom of pyramid through empowering pharma companies and the medical eco-system to do medicine trial testing, clinical trials via Optimism and Ethereum blockchain enabled EMTTRs (Electronic Medicine Trial and Test Records as a Service), EHR and Radiology services. Developer Tools to to build solutions in medicine, healthcare, improve transparency in drug testing using Optimism tools.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Solidity",
    "description": "Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on Ethereum.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism DAppNode Package",
    "description": "This is a package I created that lets home users easily run an Optimism node on their DAppNode. 3 clicks (and a few days while it syncs) will get you a full node. It is now part of the official collection of packages in the DAppStore. Funds will be used to allow me to dedicate more time getting the package ready for the upcoming Optimism Bedrock update. A little funding will go a long way here!",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Cryptocurrency and Friends",
    "description": "Cryptocurrency and Friends is an educational initiative that builds up the knowledge for researchers, developers, and technically minded folk, to better understand how a blockchain system works under the hood. It covers an intro to crypto, UTXO/account models, p2p network, fee markets and the scalability challenge. All background feeds into the final classes on payment channels and rollups.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "donnoh",
    "description": "sup! I'm a MSc CS student at University of Bologna focused on scaling blockchains. In April 2022 I created the scalability.guide blog about scaling technologies, with articles such as \"Optimism Bedrock vs Arbitrum Nitro: Deposits\" and \"Exploring the blobspace\". In October 2022 I graduated with a CS bachelor's thesis on a comparison and analysis between Optimism Bedrock and StarkNet.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "The Optimistic Series",
    "description": "Provide educational content about decoding yield farming strategy on Defi Protocols mainly on ETH and Optimism chains: Project presentation, tutorials, fundamentals analysis, How to start Defi for begginners I've also created The Optimistic Series (podcast, newsletter (500subs), research database) in January 2023. Metrics: Twitter (monthly): >1millions impressions Youtube channel: >15k views",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Infinitism (ERC-4337)",
    "description": "ERC-4337 standardizes account abstraction on all EVM chains without the need for consensus-layer protocol changes. It defines a way to implement and use account abstraction on EVM chains, with a focus on L2. Our goal is to bring the 10X usability improvement that the ecosystem needs, to support the next billion users.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "hardhat-deploy",
    "description": "A Hardhat Plugin For Replicable Deployments And Easy Testing This hardhat plugin adds a mechanism to deploy contracts to any network, keeping track of them and replicating the same environment for testing. It also adds a mechanism to associate names to addresses, so test and deployment scripts can be reconfigured by simply changing the address a name points to plus many more features...",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "WakeUp Labs",
    "description": "WakeUp Labs is a start-up that aims to lower the barriers for the integration of web3 features into web2 businesses and projects. The company provides a platform that enables developers, without previous blockchain experience, to integrate web3 features with ease and speed by offering REST APIs for straightforward integration. It offers full compatibility with the Optimism blockchain and others.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "eth.limo",
    "description": "eth.limo is a privacy-preserving ENS gateway, enabling users to access Ethereum-native dApps and content. LIMO represents a shift in dweb adoption by providing an alternative means of accessing ENS resolvable content. LIMO takes public gateway services a step further by enforcing strong privacy guarantees such as never logging IP addresses or engaging in TCP fingerprinting.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bankless Academy",
    "description": "Bankless Academy has been providing a growing range of free-to-access education packets for over a year - featuring tight writing & infographics, quizzes, and on-chain quests with proof-of-knowledge badges. Our mission is to continue Public Good operations on Ethereum, building w/ communities like Gitcoin Passport, Mintkudos and Optimism, and developing community content via our Writers Cohorts.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "MUX Protocol",
    "description": "MUX Leveraged Trading Protocol - A decentralized leveraged trading protocol that offers zero price impact trading, , no counterparty risks for traders and an optimized on-chain trading experience. A sub-protocol in the MUX protocol suite that automatically selects the most suitable liquidity route and minimizes the composite cost for traders while meeting the needs of opening positions",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "hildobby's Dune dashboards",
    "description": "This project includes various Dune dashboards I have created as a contribution to the Optimism ecosystem. I have also recently created an open source wash trades filtering method that can be used on Optimism NFT trade data. I intend to share more methods like this one going forward which will be usable on Optimism data within Dune and open sourced so it can easily be ported out of Dune.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "BanklessDAO Projects",
    "description": "BanklessDAO’s mission is to create user-friendly onramps for people to discover decentralized financial technologies through education, media, and culture. To further that mission, BanklessDAO produces educational content via its newsletters and Bankless Publishing on various crypto-related topics, including Layer 2 scaling solutions such as Optimism. We also make use of Mirror/OP functionality.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Teku",
    "description": "Teku is an Ethereum consensus client, fully open source and Apache 2 licensed. Teku has been in production on the beacon chain since genesis and contributes significantly to client-diversity on the consensus layer, which is vital for the security and safety of layer 2 solutions built on Ethereum.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "rotki",
    "description": "rotki is an open source portfolio tracking, analytics & accounting tool that protects your privacy. The mission of rotki is to bring transparency for crypto through the use of open source. Unlike virtually every other competing service which consists of closed source SaaS onto which you are forced to hand over all your financial data, with rotki your data is stored encrypted locally.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Big Sybil'or",
    "description": "I spent some time hunting for sybil attackers of the first OP airdrop, mostly using dune queries because I was bored while I had covid",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "BwareLabs",
    "description": "BwareLabs is a web3 infrastructure company providing decentralized RPC/WSS APIs, validator, indexing and bridge operator services. Our core objective is to improve the developer experience within a blockchain ecosystem. Blast is our main product, which is a decentralized API platform with support for 18 networks currently. From there developers can get easy access to RPC and WSS endpoints.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Synpress",
    "description": "Synpress is e2e testing framework based on Cypress.io and playwright with support for metamask. It's a pioneer tool in web3 e2e testing with potential to evolve into a decentralized network of test runners (and CI provider) in future. It’s currently used by multiple different projects on Optimism network (~140 repos on Github): https://github.com/Synthetixio/synpress/network/dependents",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Otterscan",
    "description": "Otterscan is a self-hosted, fast, local, private, block explorer. It has a very small footprint, does not require installing additional DB, middleware, etc. It works together with your Erigon node. It relies only on onchain data and offline data sources. All custom information it needs from Erigon is available as custom APIs, so other dapp can make use of them too.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Gov",
    "description": "Gov is a DAO framework built with Open Zeppelin’s Governor contract in combination with NFTs. It provides a retroactive funding tool that fits the needs of everyday people. We recently deployed the first pilot to OP Mainnet (the Web3 Hackers Collective) and we’re getting ready to launch more pilots in the coming weeks. We just released the beta version and the Next.js UI is currently under dev.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "GasHawk",
    "description": "GasHawk enables free, automated, and non-custodial savings of up to 95% on Ethereum transaction fees.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dapp-Learning",
    "description": "We are designed for developers to step into blockchain DAPP development, where they can learn **DeFi, NFT, DAO, CRYPTO** projects. We hope we could not only give junior developers a feasible and easy-to-use blockchain **DAPP** learning roadmap, but also present advanced developers  with a platform for communication and cooperation.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "CryptoZombies",
    "description": "CryptoZombies is an interactive school that teaches you all things technical about blockchains. It teaches students to write smart contracts by making their own crypto-collectibles game.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Rollup Economics Dashboard",
    "description": "This dashboard breaks down the on-chain revenues (txn fees), costs (posting data to L1) and raw materials (L1 calldata, usage metrics .etc) of rollups. It currently includes data on Optimism, Arbitrum, Aztec, Starknet, zksync, and Loopring.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "jordanmmck",
    "description": "I make deep-dive video explainers on complex topics within the Ethereum space. With every video I try to completely understand the topic I am studying, then condense that understanding down to diagrams and images that convey the concept in a simple way. I strive to produce videos with high production value, detailed and accurate diagrams, and a compelling delivery.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Fractal Visions",
    "description": "Fractal Visions market is an Optimism centric platform intended to house core native ecosystem NFT collections from select artists. Users evolve into committee members for our future DAO voting structure related to the NFT market & FV Public Goods Funding mechanism. Expanding into a high level niche category art & music marketplace as we curate artists who align with the impact over profit ethos.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism Support NERDs Collection",
    "description": "The NERD program provides human to human support on the Optimism Discord. They report spam and scams, ensure questions get answered and do so in a friendly manner. They flag issues and bugs to the team, helping the Optimism community stay safe, smart, and learn about the project. This program has been running for just over a year. They have answered hundreds of user questions while maintaining high answer satisfaction, with an average support rating of 4.75/5. To find the full list of NERDs and the weighting of their contributions click on the website link at the top of the profile ⬆️",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Giveth",
    "description": "Giveth is a donation platform built on Ethereum, rewarding and empowering those who give to projects, to society, and to the world. We are building a business model that provides value in the nonprofit sector and public goods. We were founded in 2016 and have a core team consisting of ~20 with 50+ regular Giveth contributors, including many well-known names in the space.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "NFTEarth",
    "description": "NFTEarth is an NFT marketplace for buying and selling NFTs on L2. In addition to being a marketplace, the protocol has a native token, $NFTE, and is building out the NFTEarth \"NFT Hub\" - which aims to server as a one-stop-shop for NFT creators, collectors, and DAOs looking to generate NFT art, deploy and manage contracts, and create allowlists as well as Mint embeds for their NFTs.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Crate-Crypto",
    "description": "Cryptography is hard. Crate-Crypto was originally built because I wanted to build proof of concepts of cutting edge cryptogrpahy protocols, so that companies/researchers could use it to validate their ideas quicker. This is how Noir a zk programming language was born. The main usecase right now is for implementations for projects like 4844 and verkle tries.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "SEED LATAM (formerly DeFi LATAM)",
    "description": "SEED LATAM is a space with the primary objective of creating an environment where its members collectively benefit from shared knowledge. We cover all these needs with quality content and events. Today's crypto ecosystem in LATAM follows trends; our goal is to raise the bar of knowledge in this part of the world and provide all the necessary tools so that every participant can feel part of it.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Slither",
    "description": "Slither is a Solidity static analysis framework written in Python. It runs a suite of vulnerability detectors, prints visual information about contract details, and provides an API to easily write custom analyses. Slither enables developers to find vulnerabilities, to enhance their code comprehension, and to quickly prototype custom analyses.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "blst by Supranational",
    "description": "blst is a BLS12-381 signature library focused on performance and security. The library has undergone security audits and formal verification, and supports assembly backends for x86 and ARM platforms. Currently blst is used by all of the Eth2 / Ethereum consensus clients (Prysm, Lighthouse, Teku, Nimbus, and Lodestar). blst is a critical component for enabling scalability and performance of PoS.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Questbook",
    "description": "Questbook is a decentralized grant management platform. The platform is open-sourced, on-chain, and deployed on Optimism. Using the tool, - Grant managers have facilitated grants worth $2.1M. - 1500+ Builders have applied for various grants, reported milestones and funding, and received feedback. - The entire lifecycle for every grant proposal is transparent for the community to view.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Boardroom",
    "description": "Boardroom is a comprehensive and user-friendly governance dashboard helping increase participation in voting and decision-making in DAOs. It allows token holders, from institutions to contributors, to influence the direction of their projects by making faster, smarter, and more informed governance decisions. The Governance API makes this data accessible to any stakeholder or developer.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Umbra",
    "description": "Umbra is a stealth address protocol for EVM networks. Umbra enables privacy preserving payments where the receiver's identity is not revealed. Umbra is simple, low gas solution for getting paid privately, that's been in development for nearly 3 years.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "geth",
    "description": "Geth (go-ethereum) is a Go implementation of Ethereum - a gateway into the decentralized web. Geth has been a core part of Ethereum since the very beginning. Geth was one of the original Ethereum implementations making it the most battle-hardened and tested client.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Fire",
    "description": "Web3 is hard to use. Self-custody and interacting directly with the blockchain today is overly complicated for the consumer, leading to the average user losing their funds and quitting the ecosystem. UX today is fraught with 'gotchas' and pitfalls. Fire - the Chrome extension that simulates transactions, showing you exactly what will go in and out of your wallet before you sign the contract.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Vyper",
    "description": "Vyper is a contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Filosofía Código",
    "description": "Filosofía Código is a YouTube channel that explains step by step how to program Smart contracts in Solidity. It also includes explanatory videos on Ethereum and L2 scalability. In addition accompanies each video detailed programming articles on Solidity, all information is available and free. Key Stats: * Available Spanish, English and French * 50+ tutorials * Video + Blog articles",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "CryptoStats",
    "description": "CryptoStats is a project focused on making trustworthy blockchain data open and accessible to all. In addition to maintaining an extensive library of data metrics, CryptoStats operates a number of popular info-sites, such as CryptoFees.info, L2Fees.info, and more.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "beaconcha.in",
    "description": "Beaconcha.in is an open source Ethereum explorer which makes the beacon chain and execution layer accessible to non-technical users. In addition, beaconcha.in provides an open source mobile app for iOS and android for validator monitoring.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "DeFi Library",
    "description": "DeFi Library is a free source of information about DeFi, Ethereum, Rollups, Bridges, and Modular Blockchains for the Turkish community. For the last three years, it has become one of the most trusted sources for technical and non-technical information in Turkish. Turkey has a strong community (one of the largest communities) so it’s essential to provide trustable information in the native language",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Duniversity (Dune Education)",
    "description": "We teach people about all things web3 data related. Goal is to empower the curious through education and support to explore the vast ocean of web3 data.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Multicall3",
    "description": "Multicall3 aggregates results from multiple contract calls. This reduces the number of JSON RPC requests that need to be sent, which is especially useful if using remote nodes like Infura. This can significantly improve performance and reduce RPC usage. It also guarantees that all returned data is from the same block (i.e. an atomic read) to ensure consistency and accuracy of fetched data.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "DexKit",
    "description": "We offer no code solutions for (digital) artists, collectors and crypto projects, allowing them to deploy crypto focused websites. Clients that use our white label tool can customize everything within the app: look and feel, fees, customize pages, add custom domains, among others. This specific tool is a CMS focused on crypto content. We also provide a collection wizard powered by AI.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ethers",
    "description": "Ethers is a complete and compact library for Ethereum and related chains, providing all functionality required for dapps, wallets and any other utilities and scripts. It is widely used throughout the community and is a dependency for a large portion of the ecosystem with over 4 million npm downloads monthly.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bored Town",
    "description": "Bored Town is a vibrant community of 5555 NFT monsters living on the Optimism blockchain, crafted by Thai NFT artist sorryvrerror. The project offers an exceptional opportunity for Bored Town holders to unleash their creativity and bring their ideas to life through derivative works, whether for personal or commercial purposes, governed by CC BY-SA terms.",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "delegation.tools",
    "description": "delegation.tools allows you to see who you are delegating your OP to, and to change delegate in a couple of clicks. It was created shortly after the OP token was launched: there was some confusion on how to change delegate after completing all the steps in the airdrop process, so I made delegation.tools to make the process as easy as possible.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Messari Protocol Services",
    "description": "Our work falls under 3 buckets: Subgraph development - We've built standardized subgraphs for most of the top Optimism projects. Data dashboards - Charting TVL, trading volume, revenue, liquidity added/removed from both the macro level and on an individual pool basis. Governance reporting - Breaking down governance structures and looking at voter/delegate analysis",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "Optimism Ambassadors Collection",
    "description": "The Ambassador program provides grassroots marketing to the Optimism ecosystem. They make Optimism updates and releases more accessible to the general user base, while spreading the optimistic vibe and values. They create memes, YouTube (longer form) content as well as tutorials and guides. To find the full list of Ambassadors and the weighting of their contributions, click on the website link at the top of the profile",
    "category": "Education"
  },
  {
    "name": "ChugSplash",
    "description": "Dev tool for securely deploying and upgrading smart contracts. ChugSplash spun out of OP Labs, where it was designed for Optimism's deployments. Key features: -Define deployments/upgrades declaratively (5-10x less code than deployment scripts) -Consistent addresses across networks via Create2 -Fully deterministic and atomic -Approve upgrades with a single tiny txn -Automatic Etherscan verification",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Pocket Network",
    "description": "Pocket Network is a decentralized web3 infrastructure provider focused on optimizing the developer experience with scalable, reliable, fast, and privacy-centric services. As of writing this, in the past 24 hours, Pocket Network has served 1.4B requests across 25 networks. This traffic is served by over 150 independent 3rd party node operators on a mix of bare-metal and cloud providers.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Remix Project",
    "description": "The Remix Project is a rich toolset including Remix IDE, a comprehensive smart contract development tool available for web and desktop. Remix Plugin Engine and Remix Libraries are low-level tools for wider use. Remix IDE can be used for the entire journey of contract development by users of any knowledge level and as a learning lab for teaching and experimenting with Ethereum.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Praise",
    "description": "Praise is a community intelligence system that promotes active participation and collaboration through peer recognition and rewards. We help communities become more intelligent, productive and inclusive by providing a simple way for community members to acknowledge, praise and reward each other’s contributions.",
    "category": "Tooling and utilities"
  },
  {
    "name": "Web3j",
    "description": "Web3j is the JVM integration library for EVM blockchains. It provides similar functionality to web3.js + Truffle in that supports the development, testing and deployment of Solidity contracts for the Java and Android platforms. The following deck provides a lot of background about the library https://4968969.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4968969/Web3j%20overview%20June%202022.pdf.",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  },
  {
    "name": "Akula",
    "description": "Fastest Ethereum node ever built",
    "category": "Infrastructure"
  }
]