→ Please give a short description of the topic/cause for your Community Hub
SEA Community Hub Proposal: The L2 Unification Hub
In the current state of Ethereum and its L2s, UX, liquidity, and DX are fragmented.
While multiple teams are working simultaneously to solve problems in their own unique ways, there is a lot of education that we as a community need to do around chain abstraction, interoperability, and various methods. Our goal is very simple: to push the L2 roadmap and help the Ethereum communities to come together and support Ethereum more than ever now.
The L2 Unification Hub is an unique opportunity to show that the top L2 projects are unified in their approach to building the Ethereum ecosystem. Devcon’s community hubs bring together like-minded people, and the L2 Unification Hub will spark conversation, build awareness, educate people and will be a place to rest and network with like-minded folks. The L2 Unification Hub will also be a great place for people from different orgs to discuss more about the different research and approaches taken by their teams to unify Ethereum. We believe that the real magic happens when all different L2s come together, have meaningful discussions, and help devs learn more about their stacks without shilling anything hard or talking about token prices.
We want to bring together all the biggest L2s in this space to help in the creation and operations of this proposed Hub. We have already reached out to everyone, and there is so much excitement to make this happen!
- Avail
- Optimism
- Arbitrum
- ZKSync
- Polygon
- Starkware
- Scroll
- Morph
- Base
→ Motivation and Rationale
As above mentioned, The L2 Unification Hub is not for any particular organizations, but it’s a collective for all L2s to come together and educate the community. Too often, on crypto twitter and in the media, it seems like all L2s are racing and competing against each other, but the reality is that everyone is working towards the same goal: to bring mass adoption and make onboarding UX as easy as possible. We want to create a dialogue between attendees and realign them with the Ethereum L2 roadmap and the mission that we are on. This will enhance the overall experience of Devcon’s attendees by providing a place to align with each other and in the ecosystem, creating a sense of satisfaction by realizing how far we have come along.
Decentralization and community is the core of the Ethereum ecosystem, and we want to bring that fire back among the attendees and Devcon is the best place to do that. The major reason why we want to do this at Devcon and why it really matters to the community is because we are losing the momentum. Ethereum is losing its roots of decentralization and community, and we believe uniting every rollup and talking more on where we are headed, and how the community plays the major role in the whole picture, will bring us back to our roots
→ What will you offer to the Devcon attendees?
We want to bring the whole community together; that is the essence of L2 Unification hub. We want to provide education and awareness that at the end of the day, the goal of all L2s is to scale Ethereum and bring mass adoption. We will be able to provide some great conversations with researchers, devs and builders. Our major focus is also to uplift the next generation of builders, so by doing this we will be able to attract majority of people in one room, create a dialogue on how we can serve them better.
If the proposal is approved we will outline and formalize for any interested L2 to be part of the contributor list.
Plan of action:
- Create a working group
- Identify POCs from each partnering L2s
- Create a pipeline for onboarding more interested L2s as contributors
- Weekly or bi-weekly calls to discuss progress and tasks.
→ Add a rough outline of your Community Hubs program
While this program is not yet confirmed, but here is a rough outline:
Day 1:
- Meet and Greet
- Session 1: The Ethereum’s L2 roadmap: Past and future
- Session 2: Are L2s an extension of Ethereum?
- Session 3: What does unification look like for devs and users?
- Fireside chat with speaker: What is the fastest way to bring mass adoption?
- Networking, board and lawn games, and coffee
Day 2:
- Cornhole competition!
- Session 4: Defining actual terms: what are full nodes, what are rollups, what is fast finality?
- Chain Abstraction Panel: Exploring the CAKE Framework
- Session 5: Security Assumptions that come with Chain abstraction?
- Networking, games, and Coffee
Day 3:
- Mentorship session with researchers and devs
- Session 6: How to pitch your web3 dapp to L2s
- Session 7: General purpose L2s or Appchains, pros and cons.
- Session 8: Are L2s being commoditized? The business case for rollup stacks.
- Networking, games, coffee
Day 4:
- speed mentorship sessions with founders
- Session 9: zkEVMs + OP stack discussion
- Session 10: is ZK the end game?
- Panel: How to excel in a web3 career
- Networking, games, coffee
→ List the people who will organise, oversee and be responsible for the Community Hub
Our dedicated team of members of different projects is committed to leading and managing the L2 Unification Community Hub, ensuring a transformative and empowering experience for all participants. Here is the list of people:
- Naruto – Devrel at Avail Project and built a community in India called Web3Samaj
- Robin – Devrel at Avail Project
- Allison – Avail Project
- Tommy – Morph team
- People from Optimism
- People from Arbitrum
- Emily from Scroll
These folks were chosen to run the L2 Unification Hub because they have vast experience of hosting events, interacting with community members, building dev communities, and pushing the space forward by onboarding new members. At the same time, they are also very technical and understand the L2 protocols well enough so that they can explain it to the community and can have meaningful conversations around it.
→ List the equipment or production needs (see what’s possible in the RFP)
While the L2 Unification Hub and all the projects involved will be able to get most of our equipment and production needs, the following are items we’d like to request:
- Extension cords
- Screens
- Whiteboards
- 30-40 chairs and some tables
- Coffee machine (if possible, otherwise we can source it)
- Photographer
- Cornhole game (we will source it)
- Board games ((we will source it)
These folks were chosen to run the L2 Unification Hub because they have vast experience of hosting events, interacting with community members, building dev communities, and pushing the space forward by onboarding new members. At the same time, they are also very technical and understand the L2 protocols well enough so that they can explain it to the community and can have meaningful conversations around it.
Every project and speakers will be given a one pager guideline to ensure that they are not shilling their projects or any token prices. Integrity means everything to us, and we will spin up a telegram chat with all the speakers, organizers, people involved to further communicate clear intentions of the L2 Unification Hub while also including Do’s and Don’ts. We will also communicate that this Hub is there for education on protocol level for attendees, devs and researchers rather than forcing someone to build on any certain project.
For our branding, we’ll feature standees and a range of merchandise, including T-shirts, coffee mugs, stickers, and perhaps even limited-edition collectibles. As a united and neutral alliance, our branding will emphasize this neutrality while adding a playful touch with cool memes and iconic one-liners from pivotal Web3 moments. We might include phrases like “Ethereum United,” the classic “gm,” or “UpOnly” or even “HODL,” alongside visually striking graphics. The team members hosting the L2 Unification Hub will be unified and identifiable in Unification Hub shirts to show the alliance. The goal is to create a brand that resonates with the community and sparks conversations.
Thanks Naruto