Optimism

10 years in and we're as optimistic as ever.

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Base is bringing new innovation and utility to the Superchain, all powered by Ethereum and the OP Stack.

Just announced at A New Day One:

- Base becomes Base Chain, powering the infrastructure for the onchain economy.

- Flashblocks reduce block times from 2 seconds to 200 milliseconds.

- Base Build's new features help developers scale and monetize their apps.

- Coinbase Wallet becomes the Base app - bringing together social, chat, payments, and trading all under one super app.

Plus much more: https://t.co/3Kui6x8BwM

We’re proud that @base is built on the OP Stack as part of the Superchain, and excited to keep scaling with such a visionary, world-class team.

Optimists are in the house to support Superchain network @base's live event, A New Day One.

Follow along here: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqGoopMEjjGv

Superchain Upgrade 16 just passed OP Governance and will go live next week.

Key components of this upgrade include:

- Smart contract changes to support the road to interoperability.

- Increased decentralization and security, meeting @L2Beat’s updated criteria for chains to remain at Stage 1, including OP Mainnet, @base, @inkonchain, and @unichain.

- Additional improvements to the OP Stack, including increased gas limits to 500m gas per block.

Read the full upgrade proposal here:

1/📢 Heads up SuperStacks participants, OP claims are now open.

This was an experimental pilot program with a defined scope, designed to test reward mechanisms that accelerate DeFi and interoperable assets on the Superchain.

The program exceeded expectations - now it’s time for participants to get rewarded.

Here are the claim details, and stay tuned for future rewards stacking opportunities ⬇️

The results are in.

Retro Funding rewarded 154 onchain apps and 89 dev tools with 2.6M OP in June.

By rewarding apps and the tools behind them, Retro Funding empowers devs to keep building.

1/ 🔴The proposed strategic goal for the Optimism Collective in H2 is “a set of interoperable Stage 1 chains doing $100m per month in cross-chain asset transfers”.

Agree or disagree? Become a Citizen to make your voice heard 👇

1/ Three months after Futarchy and the Grants Council each selected 5 projects to receive growth grants, we’re exploring how the selected projects fared in terms of Superchain TVL increase!

We’re also rewarding the top forecasters based on prediction accuracy.

InterOP UNIverse is underway ✨

Fantastic OP Stack and Unichain discussion with @karl_dot_tech @haydenzadams

Moderated by @zainbacchus

Locked in, together 🔴🚴

The Optimism Foundation is deepening its commitment to the Superchain economy by utilizing veVELO holdings on @VelodromeFi, one of the ecosystem’s earliest and most active stewards.

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Three years into our governance journey, the Optimism Collective is shipping its biggest upgrade yet.

Season 8 lets the system keep evolving with the Superchain while reducing platform risk for those that rely on us.

Let’s dive in ↓

In less than two weeks, SuperStacks comes to a close

In the meanwhile, how about the last set of pools/vaults for you to earn XP...

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Let’s take a look at new SuperStacks stats brought to us by @openblocklabs and their AI agent, OB-1.

Current stats so far:
$232M Total Value Contributed
41,000+ Total Users

https://www.obl.dev/chat/j577d4zvz3nt1vzv8xaznh0yvs7h41xs

New month, more Retro Funding.

Retro Funding rewarded 145 apps and 83 dev tools with 2.6M OP in May!

This season has 2 more months to go, meaning 2 more chances to get rewarded for your impact.

Introducing a new lending pool on SuperStacks

Curated by @Re7Labs on @world_chain_

Powered by @MorphoLabs

The Superchain rewards users and creates opportunities across all of Ethereum.

This week, our pilot DeFi program, SuperStacks, has boosted XP and is launching new pools to deepen crosschain liquidity.

Check out what’s live now ↓

Retro Funding: Dev Tooling is rewarding Open Source builders that are making math onchain *safe* and *precise*.

PRBMath by @PaulRBerg is a Solidity library used across onchain applications for fixed-point math.

Why that matters ↓