Ben Jones

Ben Jones is a co-founder of Optimism, one of Ethereum's leading Layer 2 scaling networks and the origin of the OP Stack and Superchain. One of the earliest Ethereum researchers, he co-founded Plasma Group, the nonprofit research collective that evolved into Optimism, and he previously served as Chief Scientist of the Optimism Foundation while helping shape governance across the Superchain.

22 talks by Ben Jones

• Optimism Co-Founders: What Happened to the L2s?
• The New Age of Scaling: Ethereum, EVM, and Beyond | Ria Riaz, Tomasz Stańczak, Jay Jog, Ben Jones
• Fireside Chat with Ben on the Future of Optimism
• Visions of Ethereum and the Path Ahead | Ben Jones - Optimism
• The Real Strategy of Optimism's Superchain | Ben Jones & Ryan Wyatt
• “Unified Ethereum” vs “L2 Ecosystem Competition”: Can we have both?
• Kraken Releases 'Ink' - An Ethereum L2 Powered by Optimism's OP Stack
• OP Stack vs Polygon CDK vs zkStack
• Crypto’s Endgame: The Superchain Explained with Jesse Pollak & Ben Jones
• Optimism Base Superchain 🔵_🔴 with Ben Jones, Karl Floersch, & Jing Wang
• Playing the Cooperative Game, ♻️🔴✨Retroactively✨🔴♻️ with Ben Jones
• Fixing the Internet with Layer 2 Governance by Ben Jones | Devcon Bogotá
• The zkEVM Wars | zkSync and Scroll
• The Scaling Wars | Near, Avalanche, Optimism, Arbitrum and Polygon
• Will Optimism's OP Token Draw People Back to Layer 2s on Ethereum? - Ep.350
• A Rollup Vision for Ethereum: Zk vs Optimistic - Panel
• The Great L2 Migration | Cross-Chain L2 Panel
• Can Rollups Save Humanity? Optimism Says Yes.
• Unwrapping Optimism with Ben and Mark
• Neobanking: DeFi's secret weapon
• The Optimistic Virtual Machine: an Ov(m)erview by Karl Floersch (Devcon5)
• Eva Beylin ~ Working With Layer 2 Panel