Short Description & Deliverables:

This proposal aims to create digital and physical educational content on Token Engineering on Optimism’s ecosystem. This content will be recorded at pop-up cities taking place around the world in H2, 2024. 

The expected deliverables are: 

- A series of presentations that will:
--- Go over the TE Academy Basics,
--- Review selected TE tools, like cadCAD, Cenit Finance and Inverter,
--- Produce a TE analysis of existing Superchain protocols, like Uniswap, Curve, Synthetix, NounsDAO, and AAVE, and showcase the value of Superhcain to these protocols. 
--- A review of how pop-up cities can benefit from alternative digital currency

- Video recordings and Transcription of all of the above seminars 
- The creation of a new community of pop-up city attendees that care about Token Engineering, and will seek to build on Superchain. 

Full Description: 

Over the coming year, I will be participating as a founding attendee, and often as a co-organizer, to the emerging pop-up city phenomenon, initially led by Zuzalu and then continued by Vitalia, Creciemento Aleph and others, which will likely predispose the formation of Network States. For hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of crypto-natives, their digital–first and nomadic nature allows them to select non-permanent locations as their preferred co-living options.

In other words, these pop-up cities have become an industry pillar; a center for cross-pollination of ideas and talent, and the most succinct mix of crypto-asset builders in the world - akin to major web3 conferences but with the longevity to actually and effectively build new knowledge and robust relationships. This is the ideal location to educate this highly specific audience on the benefits and deep liquidity that the Superchain provides.

Eisodos is producing content for a book and social media channel that describes and deep-dives into this phenomenon. The content on Token Engineering on Optimism will be featured through these channels. 

The content that will be produced will feature the tokenomic analysis of project already launched on Superchain, namely: 

- Uniswap (and how Uni Pools can access cross-L2 liquidity)
- Curve (and why its pools benefits from cross-L2 liquidity)
- AAVE (and how the protocol leveraged multi-L2 liquidity to provide loans) 
- Synthetix (and why the speed and liquidity of superchain allows for their synthetic assets to blossom)
- NounsDAO (and how Nouns-ish DAOs can use Superhcain for fundraising) 

... and more. We expect that attendees of these talks will also seek an analysis on their own preferred projects. 

This is my vision for TEC and Optimism. With the support of the grant, and the help of TEC and industry experts, I want to host continuous education and communication initiatives that showcase the value of proper token engineering, the value of added liquidity through Superchain for key on-chain financial processes, and help recruit a new audience to build on top of the Superchain.

Lastly, following the conclusion of 2024, I also plan to organize two pop-up cities in 2025 that will feature Token Engineering as one of the main three tracks, and Superchain is a project that we want to partner with extensively. 

Although a fully concrete plan for 2025 activities is still too early to provide to this application, and expected changes are likely to occur to the execution of my proposal, we have submitted a Karma GAP account that will allow for a retroactive review of the execution steps of the proposal.
