Retroactive Public Goods Funding

Note: The Optimism team has long been in search of a solution on how to sustainably fund public goods…

Introducing EVM Equivalence

Or, Ethereum All the Way Down: How We Learned to Stop Re-implementing and Love the Ethereum Stack

Dope Hires & Moar Mainnet in March

This is a long overdue post to announce the incredible additions we have made to the team. We…

Mainnet Soft Launch!

A defense-in-depth approach to mainnet.

Announcing Uniswap V3 on Optimism

Almost two years ago at DEVCON V in 2019, we collaborated with Uniswap to build Unipig Exchange, the…

OVM Deep Dive

TL;DR–We built the OVM: a fully-featured, EVM-compliant execution environment designed…

Light at the end of the tunnel.

Tldr: Testnet rollout plans, early adopters, and path towards mainnet.

Optimistically Cautious

Yeeting the timeline. Together.

Our Pragmatic Path to Decentralization

Uh Oh: Every L2 Has Upgrade Keys 😱