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$10B+ TVL, 500K+ users, live on OP Mainnet today. It's ez for Etherfi. It'll be ez for you too.

@karl_dot_tech @SuccinctLabs ZK cometh soon.

Big day for the Superchain. 🔴✨ We’re integrating ZK more deeply into the OP Stack, and are excited to announce that @SuccinctLabs is our first preferred proving partner in this area. Validity proofs are going — and withdrawals are about to get faster. Here's what that means. ⸻ THE 7-DAY PROBLEM Optimistic rollups have a 7-day challenge window. Anyone can challenge a bad state transition during that period. For most users, this is abstracted away with app-layer bridges. For institutions? Different story. Custody providers can't lock capital for a week every time they move funds off L2. Market makers need capital efficiency across positions. Treasury teams need faster withdrawal finality that matches traditional infrastructure expectations. The 7-day window was always a tradeoff. Now we're addressing it. ⸻ ZK CHANGES THE MATH With validity proofs, we don't wait for challenges. We prove the state transition cryptographically. When the proof verifies on L1, the withdrawal is final. The goal: instant, real-time withdrawals. ⸻ WHY SUCCINCT Their proving system works — fast proving, low costs, compatible with our existing architecture. @SuccinctLabs secures billions in TVL across the ecosystem. OP Succinct, their proving engine for the OP Stack, is a drop-in upgrade. Deploy one smart contract, spin up a lightweight proposer service. Everything else — sequencer, batcher, op-node — stays the same. We built the OP Stack to be modular for exactly this reason. ⸻ THIS ISN'T ABOUT CHEAP TRANSACTIONS L2s were never just "cheaper Ethereum." That framing missed it. The best Superchain deployments aren't discount L1s. They're doing things L1 structurally can't: * Sub-200ms blocks for real-time apps * Embedded distribution (Base: 110M Coinbase users) * Custom sequencing for specific use cases * Native identity infrastructure (World Chain) * Exchange-integrated DeFi (Ink) These bring real users, real distribution, real use cases that didn't exist before. ZK validity proofs unlock real economic efficiency for users & institutions. ⸻ WHAT THIS UNLOCKS * Custody providers can move client assets without locking capital for a week * Market makers gain capital efficiency across L2 positions * Treasury operations get faster withdrawal finality, matching expectations from traditional infrastructure ⸻ MULTI-PROOF FUTURE This is step one. The vision: OP Stack chains choose the prover networks that fits their needs. Different security tradeoffs, different cost profiles. Modular infrastructure, sovereign choices. After ZK goes live on OP Mainnet, every OP Stack chain can upgrade seamlessly. We’re bringing fast withdrawals with strong cryptographic security to the Superchain! ⸻ The OP Stack was designed for this moment! ZK for your Blockchain. Your Revenue. Enterprise Guarantees. Thanks to @SuccinctLabs and @pumatheuma for building what we needed. Full announcement: optimism.io/blog/optimism-…

Messari report is out - The OP Stack processed 3.6 billion transactions in H2 alone. That's 13% of all transactions in crypto. All the new L1s will learn the lessons we did 4 years ago. Performance optimizations are not differentiators. The OP Stack is the peak of customizability. You really have to be, in order to enable such vastly different businesses & business models to succeed: @base — consumer adoption at scale @unichain — DeFi trading infrastructure @worldcoin — identity for 20M+ verified users @soneium — creators and entertainment @inkonchain — institutional DeFi @Celo — mobile payments Plus @OKX migrating XLayer to OP Stack, @Official_Upbit launching @giwa_io, @EYnews deploying Nightfall for enterprise privacy. All working because we set our roadmap based on what our partners need, not what's trending. Your blockchain. Your revenue. Enterprise guarantees. More at Scaling Summit next week.

LISTEN UP EVERYBODY! Today we're launching OP Enterprise. We all know that crypto is at the cusp of major mainstream adoption. Nearly every major enterprise has a crypto strategy. We're the only team that has successfully launched chains for multiple companies. We've packaged up all of our learnings into a product offering that will onboard the next wave of enterprises. OP Enterprise is production-grade blockchain infrastructure for companies that want to build businesses, not become blockchain experts. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲. 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝘀. — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 Here's what we keep hearing from enterprises: They're building on infrastructure where the incentives don't align with their own. They're competing for mindshare, fighting to keep users, working against platform economics that extract value from everything they build. Most blockchain platforms don't care if you're successful. Their focus is on their own TVL and metrics - not yours. You launch your stablecoin into an environment that competes with everyone else's stablecoin and hemorrhage capital to onboard your users onto a blockchain you have zero control over. And even if you decide to own your chain, you hit the real bottleneck—onboarding the ecosystem partners you need to go live. Stablecoins, oracles, bridges, wallets, indexers. Each negotiation takes months. Costs hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Vendors pick off blockchain teams one by one. We've seen this movie before. Many times. — 𝗢𝗣 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 — When you own your chain, your infrastructure becomes a revenue-generating asset. Not a cost center. DeFi protocols deploy on your rails. The economic activity you enable accrues to you. This isn't about saving on fees. It's about owning the infrastructure layer where financial value is created. 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 — We've onboarded tier-one partners across 50+ production chains. They're already integrated, contracted, ready to deploy. We negotiate standard terms, manage costs down, and fast-track partnerships that would otherwise delay your launch by 6-12 months. We've done this work already. You don't have to. — 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱: We run your chain end-to-end. 24/7 monitoring, incident response, security ops, upgrade orchestration. You focus on product. 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱: You operate, we support. Architecture guidance, security assessments, priority patches, direct access to core engineers. 𝗢𝗣 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁: Start on our flagship public network with enterprise support. Graduate to your own chain when ready. Same codebase, seamless migration. First conversation to production: 8-12 weeks. — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘀 99.99% uptime SLO 15-minute P1 incident response Up to 5B RPC requests/month with multi-provider redundancy 10 Mgas/sec baseline, 100+ Mgas/sec for high-volume applications Sub-200ms block times 20k requests-per-second burst capacity Stage 1 security with permissionless fault proofs Optional ZK fault proofs for faster finality — 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘄 The window for enterprise blockchain has shifted from "if" to "how fast." MiCA is live in Europe. US policy is stabilizing. The enterprises that spent 2023-2024 in exploratory mode are now greenlighting production builds. Enterprise deals are now a competitive space. When we talk to enterprises, we see everyone trying to help them come onchain. But the OP Stack is the only stack that has successfully brought and scaled multiple enterprises onchain. We've seen what works and what doesn't. We've earned this knowledge by building alongside the fastest-growing enterprises in web3. We've encountered every failure mode because we've been doing this longer than anyone else. At the end of the day, enterprises want to control their own economics. They don't want to rent infrastructure from platforms that compete with them. The OP Stack vision will win. Shared standards balanced with chain autonomy. — 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 — 50+ chains launched. Not pilots. Production systems serving millions. 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 — We control the entire stack. When we discover vulnerabilities, customers get patches within hours. Not weeks. 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 — Questions go to the engineers who wrote the code. Feature requests go to the people who can actually implement them. No translation layer. 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 — We've worked on Ethereum's core protocol. Defined its scaling roadmap. Invented the L2 architecture that powers the industry. 𝗡𝗼 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸-𝗶𝗻 — Open source. Fork if you want. Most teams discover they'd rather work with us—but the choice is always yours. — Our first customers: Unichain — Uniswap needed their own chain. They chose us. Uniswap Labs operates Unichain with Mission-Critical Support—priority response for high-stakes moments where downtime isn't an option. Celo — Scaling mobile payments across Latin America and Africa. Millions of users. Celo operates their network with Mission-Critical Support, ensuring enterprise-grade backing in emerging markets. Different use cases. Same infrastructure. Same commitment to their success We are here today because partners like these rolled up their sleeves and built together with us. — 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 Fintechs building next-generation financial services Centralized exchanges launching tokenized products Payments companies building cross-border rails Financial institutions exploring tokenization and digital assets If you need infrastructure that performs without the operational burden—and you want to own your economics instead of renting them—OP Enterprise is for you. — OP Enterprise is a major focus for us in 2026. We have active engagements across fintech, exchanges, payments, and financial services. The direction is clear: the OP Stack is becoming the standard for the next generation of financial systems. This is the first of many announcements to come. If you're serious about building onchain, we should talk.

@andreaslbigger @base base nabbed a top one.

Today, I’m excited to share that I’ve joined @base to ship scaling solutions. The team has a rare combination of execution, resilience, and customer obsession. Time to get to work 🫡

@JordanSVIC @dylan522p Can you blame him? With gold prices these days.

@dylan522p Nothing to troll in this picture besides @dylan522p having a "silvery chain" instead of a gold one. The streets be upset with you.

SemiAnalysis team at OCP!

@andreaslbigger that's da knawledge!

Oneshotted

@vex_0x @OPLabsPBC It was fun working with you. Looking forward to your seed round.

I’m stepping away from my role at @OPLabsPBC. Very grateful for the opportunity to have been a small part of what the OP Stack has become over the last 3 years, and I’m excited to see where the community takes it from here 😄

@DistributedMarz i'm interested

I’m putting together a call to discuss putting together a working group for multiproving on Ethereum L2s. The scope would likely be to OP Stack specifically and some mix of zk and TEE, but ideally the results are applicable to any L2 stack! Lmk if interested!

@allam_hamdi 😭🫡🙇

I'm stepping away from Optimism after ~2.5 years 🔴 It’s been amazing supporting Superchain builders with the tools needed to experiment with the next generation of multichain apps. Looking forward to see where this work continues to head Taking a break but excited to share what's next

An important step towards democratizing A.I. Also a really cool product. Check it out.

It is often difficult to know if you have done enough security work for a project to be safe, or even if you have secured the right angles. In my first article for OP Labs, I describe how we answered those questions for our interop release, critical for our roadmap. 🧵

@optimizoor @thecoinisfree post weight loss after poop

@thecoinisfree nope. thanks for reminding me.

Lost 5lbs after a good sleep.

the blob must grow!

@zainbacchus @FUCORY i learned something very important that day

@FUCORY I'll never forget @Inphi 's reaction when he saw what we were doing 😂

the one time sharing private keys was a net positive turns out, when using chrome profiles if you remove an extension on one device it removes the extension from the other devices youre logged into :) (in other news, got a new laptop so if we're on hangouts my video quality won't be a potato)

@vex_0x i can see its eyes. it looks back at me, unblinking...

the networking subsystem in the kernel is primordial dark magic this is actually ridiculous

@natolambert cross-validated. love to see it

Me yesterday: "We are so back era of RL" Today: OpenAI announces RL finetuning Now we're talking

I've got 7802 problems, but interop aint one

Hiring a rust-focused protocol engineer @ OP Labs - if you want to hack on: - kona (fault/zk proof framework for the OP Stack) - op-reth (Optimism extension to @paradigm's reth) - hera (rollup node) - OP Stack protocol - interop I want to hear from you! boards.greenhouse.io/oplabs/jobs/53…

@toghrulmaharram tasteful thickness

Who needs an Amex Black when you can have a Scroll Silver?