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Jing Wang and Karl Floersch are the cofounders of Optimism, a blockchain-based protocol that enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications on Ethereum. Jing is the CEO and executive director at the Optimism Foundation and Karl is the CEO of OP Labs. This conversation, moderated by Jason Rosenthal, head of CSX at a16z crypto, covers the origin story of Optimism, path to scaling, and unique ways of working together through challenges.