We are extremely excited to announce Vision Chain in collaboration with Bitpanda - A regulated European exchange with 7 million users, powered by the OP Stack!
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.
๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ. ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ด๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐.
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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 bottleneckโonboarding 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.
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๐ข๐ฃ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ต
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐น โ 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.
๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ โ 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.
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๐๐๐น๐น๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฑ: We run your chain end-to-end. 24/7 monitoring, incident response, security ops, upgrade orchestration. You focus on product.
๐ฆ๐ฒ๐น๐ณ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฑ: You operate, we support. Architecture guidance, security assessments, priority patches, direct access to core engineers.
๐ข๐ฃ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐: 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.
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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
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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.
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๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐
๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ โ 50+ chains launched. Not pilots. Production systems serving millions.
๐๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ โ We control the entire stack. When we discover vulnerabilities, customers get patches within hours. Not weeks.
๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ โ Questions go to the engineers who wrote the code. Feature requests go to the people who can actually implement them. No translation layer.
๐๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ โ We've worked on Ethereum's core protocol. Defined its scaling roadmap. Invented the L2 architecture that powers the industry.
๐ก๐ผ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ-๐ถ๐ป โ Open source. Fork if you want. Most teams discover they'd rather work with usโbut the choice is always yours.
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Our first customers:
Unichain โ Uniswap needed their own chain. They chose us. Uniswap Labs operates Unichain with Mission-Critical Supportโpriority response for high-stakes moments where downtime isn't an option.
Celo โ 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.
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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 burdenโand you want to own your economics instead of renting themโOP Enterprise is for you.
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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.
Happy new year everyone! In November last year, I wrote about the changes we were making to refocus the team on what comes next for crypto.
Today, the @Optimism Foundation is proposing a token buyback. The goal is to unify the broader ecosystem outside of just our internal teams to prepare for the next wave of adoption.
Hereโs where we are today: The Superchain is globally adopted infrastructure. It processes 13% of all blockchain transactions, with 61.4% of L2 fee market share.
Foundation and Labs are not solely responsible for this success. Legends like @base, @unichain, @inkonchain, @worldcoin, @Celo, @build_on_bob, @zora, @modenetwork and @Soneium chose the OP Stack and their growth demanded that we scale the infrastructure to support them. We are here today because our partners and integrators rolled up their sleeves and built together with us.
The OP token has historically had no tie to the performance of the Superchain, and weโd like to change that. OP should be an incentive alignment mechanism to unify all of us who are working towards the shared goal of innovating on the OP Stack and accelerating Superchain growth.
Every OP Chain contributes sequencer revenue to Optimism. In the past twelve months, Optimism has collected 5,868 ETH. This proposal directs 50% of incoming revenue to buy OP tokens monthly for the next year. OP tokens bought through this program flow back into the token treasury ecosystem. Governance retains oversight over buyback parameters and treasury management. The remaining ETH will be actively managed by the Foundation to fund operations, and grow the Superchain.
If approved, this proposal will transition OP from a pure governance token to a token tightly aligned with network growth. When an enterprise builds a new chain, the utility of the token increases and OP benefits. When builders choose the Superchain, the flywheel accelerates. Every transaction expands the base from which buybacks operate.
The governance proposal moves to vote on January 22. If approved, buybacks begin in February. We will be hosting a Twitter space with myself, @karl_dot_tech & @ben_chain on Jan 12th, 12pm EST for all your questions.
This program starts small and scales as we scale, and the role of the OP token will continue to evolve. But the direction is clear: the OP Stack is becoming the standard for the next generation of financial systems. This change aligns the OP token with that momentum, ensuring those building the most important financial infrastructure in crypto capture its impact.
This is a new era for OP, and the first of many announcements to come on our plans for 2026. Looking forward to the discussion!
Optimism just enabled 4844 a few min ago.
From $0.32 to $0.0004 for a transaction!
Will rise over time as blob congestion picks up; but looks incredible to see how cheap we can make Ethereum!
Test in Prod (@testinprod_io) literally built & now maintain OP-Erigon, are an OP Stack core developer, but are only on 8 ballots right now.
IMO they are one of the clearest cases for RetroPGF.
https://t.co/AAA3oFt12d
The OP Stackโs first fault proof system is live as an alpha on OP Goerli Testnet!
This system leverages the power of the OP Stackโs modular design to lay the foundation to build out a multi-proof dispute system that can include ZK proofs.
https://t.co/tqSr6EZHZd
Bedrock is live on OP Mainnet! ๐๏ธ๐ชจ
This upgrade was a historic moment for Optimism, and the entire Collective came together to make it a success.
Here are some of the things weโre most proud of:
๐จย At 16:00 UTC tomorrow OP Mainnet will migrate to Bedrock! ๐จ
The upgrade requires 2-4 hours of downtime for OP Mainnet.
Mission Control has been updated to include details about key steps in the migration process:
https://t.co/o6UjKZaVKy
๐ก AZERO Domains is now https://t.co/rbZW2xeVLt! ๐ก
After months of hard work, we unveil the first domain & identity solution for @Aleph__Zero.
Let's dive into what https://t.co/rbZW2xeVLt is about and how it shapes the future of domains on Aleph Zero and beyond!
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๐จThe official date of OP Mainnetโs upgrade to Bedrock has been set: June 6, 2023 at 16:00 UTC!
The upgrade will require 2-4 hours of downtime for OP Mainnet.
Visit Mission Control for full details on what to expect:
https://t.co/o6UjKZaVKy
gm, wanted to share a fun pre @ETHGlobal Lisbon hackathon project I've been working on over the past day!
Introducing `op-kompressor`, a suite of contracts that enables cheaper transactions on L2s like @optimismFND where calldata is an expensive resource.
https://t.co/1GAiDBRCbr
OP Mainnetโs upgrade to Bedrock is fast approaching!
Weโve put together a resource that is THE source of truth for upgrade timing, project status, and relevant upgrade guides.
Check it out here:
https://t.co/StZv3qlbRx
The Optimism Goerli Testnet was successfully upgraded and an upgrade proposal for Optimism Mainnet has been submitted to the Token House.
With Bedrock in sight, we'd like to share more about the technical vision behind it:
https://t.co/UDnbDaFUTj
After nearly a year of rigorously re-imagining how rollups should work, we are proud to share our technical explainer for Bedrock.
Bedrock is the first named release of the OP Stack, a set of MIT-licensed open source rollup software that powers Optimism.
https://t.co/FoAQDy4rft
Sebastian Stammler is no stranger to blockchain scaling having spent the last few years in the state channels business building the go-perun framework.
Heโs also nearly completed a PhD in protocol design. ๐ค
He joins us as Protocol Engineering Manager.
Salutations @SebasTemas!