Summary

This proposal is to assess community interest in deploying unbundling + hustlers to the optimistic rollup rather than Ethereum Mainnet.

The goal of deploying to optimism would be to make the project future proof and the process more accessible, reducing gas costs for transactions such as equipping hustlers and transferring items.

Currently, the plan is deploy hustlers to the Ethereum Mainnet. Due to current gas costs, there is a risk that some participants are priced out and unable to unbundle/exchange/mint their items and hustlers. It will also probably become necessary at some point in the future to migrate nfts to layer 2 as layer 1 becomes congesting with rollup checkpoints.

The unbundling/hustler minting flow would ideally look something like this:

1. Approve DOPE/PAPER on L1

2. Mint hustler/og from DOPE token, paying PAPER + ETH required on L1

3. Hustler + unbundled items magically appear in your same wallet on Optimism

The cost of doing this would likely be an order of magnitude less. On L1 we will store a single value in the state to track the unbundled state of a DOPE token. This approach also means it would not be necessary to bridge ETH/PAPER to L2 in order to unbundle.

Once on the Optimism L2, users can do everything they could on Ethereum L1 for a fraction of the cost. The dopewars.gg application will be updated to make switching chains simple and seamless.

There are a few downsides to this approach, mainly the immaturity of the NFT marketplace on L2. Many users would like access to a NFT market place like OpenSea to easily buy/sell items and upgrade their hustlers equipment. For now, that does not exist but is planned for after unbundling/hustlers. If DOPE holders are interested in continuing this exploration, we can potentially work with protocols such as Zora to deploy a dopewars native marketplace on Optimism.

FAQ

Why Optimism over arbitrum/starknet/ect?

There is some technical nuance as to why Optimism is the best target for our deployment. Namely, their focus on EVM equivalence (https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/introducing-evm-equivalence-5c2021deb306) means that optimistic rollups seamlessly integrate into existing ethereum infrastructure. We are currently building the dopewars game execution engine on starknet (https://github.com/dopedao/RYO) and using optimism means that we could use the same approaches we planned to use on L1 (storage proofs) to hydrate game state on starknet. EVM equivalence also means it is much more likely a direct Optimism <> Starknet bridge will exist since there is less overhead in implementing it.

As far as why not Starknet, it is simply not ready for this sort of use case yet.

What happens to DOPE/DopeDAO?

For now, those would remain on mainnet. In the future, we could decide to migrate those too, but it is outside the scope of this proposal.

Wen?

If all goes according to plan, we could have something ready for OVM 2.0 launch on November 11.