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Welcome to Eden Fractal Epoch 2!
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Hello everyone!
I'm thrilled to announce that today marks the official launch of Eden Fractal Epoch 2! After months of preparation and strategic development, we're finally ready to take this transformative step together.
We'll be hosting our Epoch 2 launch event today at 17 UTC, where we'll restart the Respect Game on Base and welcome everyone to this new chapter. To help everyone understand this transition, I've just published two comprehensive articles:
- Eden Fractal Epoch 2: A New Era of Collaborative Decision-Making - Everything you need to know about Epoch 2, including key features, benefits, and how to get started
- Eden Fractal Epoch 1: A Retrospective on Our First Three Years - A deep dive into our history, achievements, and the journey that brought us here
After three incredible years, we're positioned to truly actualize our vision of implementing fractal decision-making processes throughout society. Today's event includes both the Respect Game at 17 UTC and the return of Eden Town Hall at 18 UTC, where we'll discuss our plans and prepare for our three-year anniversary celebration on June 19th.
Special thanks to everyone who made Epoch 1 so remarkable over the past three years. Your contributions, dedication, and collaborative spirit have built the foundation that makes this evolution possible. I'm especially grateful to @rosmari for her wonderful promotions and to @tadas25 for building the new Eden Fractal ORDAO app, which now enables our community to vote and execute on-chain decisions while claiming Respect tokens earned during Epoch 1 on Ethereum.
I invite everyone to join us as we collaborate, earn Respect, and shape the future of governance together. You can RSVP at the Optimystics Events Calendar. Let's make Epoch 2 extraordinary! 🚀
Hey Jorge!
Thank you once again for your thoughtful questions and continued support of fractal democracy. Your inquiry about notable achievements and why these contributions are outstanding helped inspire me to create a comprehensive article documenting Eden Fractal's first epoch.
I've just published Eden Fractal Epoch 1: A Retrospective on Our First Three Years, which might provide exactly what you were looking for. While primarily focused on Eden Fractal, it extensively covers Optimism Fractal's development and lists several other fractal communities including the Spanish Speaking Fractal, Alien Worlds Fractal, Aquadac, and ZAO Fractal. This post complements Tadas’ excellent technical perspective in his response with a more detailed, narrative approach covering the human and community dimensions of our accomplishments.
The article presents many achievements in chronological order and includes dedicated sections addressing your questions about why these contributions are outstanding and why they wouldn't have happened outside fractal democracy. You'll find these perspectives particularly in the "Understanding What Made This Possible" section, which explores the power of voluntary excellence, emergent coordination without control, and how fractal democracy creates unique conditions for innovation.
I'm very curious about your presentation on fractal democracy! Have you given it yet, or when are you planning to present? Will it be recorded somewhere that I could watch? I'd love to see how you're exemplifying the power of the protocol and would be happy to help raise awareness for it with our communities.
Thank you for considering our community as the best example of fractal democracy in action - it means a lot to all of us who've been part of this journey. Looking forward to hearing about your presentation!
Hey EZ! No worries about missing the fractal - it was great speaking with you at ZAO Fractal on Monday, and I hope you're feeling better now! I'm glad you've been enjoying time with family and trips to the beach in Costa Rica. I visited there years ago and loved it - the natural beauty and laid-back lifestyle were amazing. Hope you're enjoying every moment of it!
You're very welcome for the kind words— it’s well deserved! Your educational content about blockchain builders is excellent and I've learned a lot from listening to it. I even showed my mom who liked them too! I also listened to one of your recent ‘Let’s Talk about Web3’ ZAO podcasts with Zaal - great conversation! I hope your travels go well and would love to hear about your NFT NYC music panel if it gets recorded anywhere.
Sorry for my own delay responding - it's been incredibly busy preparing for Eden Fractal Epoch 2 launch and juggling other fractal projects. Regarding timing for the Impact Concert, if mid-June no longer works, I completely understand. We could do late June or July - whatever fits your schedule best. The 19th could work for our anniversary celebration, though that's exactly two weeks away which might be tight. We'll also have two hours of events that day (Eden Fractal + Eden Town Hall), so perhaps spacing the Impact Concert on a different date would give everyone more breathing room and you more prep time. No rush at all!
We actually discussed your Impact Concert idea at our last Eden Fractal event and everyone was really enthusiastic! Here's the video recording, which is timestamped so you can easily hear our 10 minute discussion. I think @Zaal offered to help coordinate it, and Attabotty expressed interest in performing (he mentioned doing a flute performance!). I also spoke with Jose at the ZAO Fractal event, and he expressed interest in collaborating on this too. So there's definitely strong community support for making this happen!
I'd love to hop on a call to discuss collaboration details as you suggested. We could talk during Eden Town Hall today at 18 UTC, meet tomorrow, or schedule something next week - let me know what works best for you. I’m happy to share my thoughts on how we could collaborate then and it would be great to hear your vision, and figure out timing that makes sense for everyone. Maybe we could create a small group chat or use a new topic in the Eden Fractal telegram to coordinate?
Looking forward to jamming on this and making it an amazing event!
I’m glad you’ve been enjoying time with family and trips to the beach in Costa Rica! I visited Costa Rica years ago and loved it there. I hope to return someday — the natural beauty and laid-back lifestyle were amazing!
You're very welcome for the kind words— it’s well deserved! I've been really enjoying your Impact Concerts — the educational content about blockchain builders are excellent and I learned a lot. I even showed my mom who liked them too. I also caught your recent ZAO podcast with Zaal - great conversation!
Sorry for my own delay responding - it's been incredibly busy preparing for Eden Fractal Epoch 2 launch and also juggling other fractal projects. If mid-June timing no longer works, I completely understand. We could do late June or July - whatever fits your schedule best. No rush at all!
The 19th could work for our anniversary celebration, though that's exactly two weeks away which is quite short notice at this point. We'll have two hours of events that day (Respect Game + Eden Town Hall), so also doing Impact Concert might be a lot for one day. Perhaps spacing it out on a different date would give everyone more breathing room and you more prep time?
We talked about your idea for organizing an Impact Concert during the previous Eden Fractal event and you can watch the discussion here
We talked for about 10 minutes - Zaal expressed interest in collaborating on this and Attabotty were both excited about it!
For collaboration planning, I'd love to hop on a call as you suggested. Since today is Thursday (past Tuesday/Wednesday), we could:
- Discuss during Eden Town Hall today at 18 UTC
- Meet tomorrow (Friday)
- Schedule something next week
Whatever works best for you! Would be great to hear your vision, expectations, and figure out timing that makes sense for everyone. Happy to invite Zaal too if he's interested.
Looking forward to jamming on this! And best wishes for your NFT NYC music panel - that sounds awesome! I’d love to hear it if will be recorded!