Details for Retro Funding Round 4 are here. The Optimism Collective is allocating 10M OP to reward Superchain builders.

Today, @RedstoneXYZ Mainnet is officially live and part of the Superchain 🔴🪨 Joining the Superchain means scalability, low fees, and contributing revenue to the Optimism Collective to power open source development.

If you've had an eye on Terraforms but never deep dived or collected, seems like a reasonable moment to give it a look. See if you find the work and its surrounding scene & values genuinely compelling The work stands for things that you might appreciate and be aligned on To

600,000 OP is allocated for Onchain Summer incentives! Starting today, creators and builders can show their onchain creations on the Superchain and earn. Networks included: Base, Frax Finance ¤⛓️¤, Metal L2, Mode 🟡, @ourZORA, Redstone Chain, Cyber and OP Mainnet

🚨 FAULT PROOFS & STAGE 1 HAVE ARRIVED 🚨 Open source, permissionless fault proofs are live on OP Mainnet, and with them the OP Stack arrives at Stage 1 decentralization. This is a major step forward for the Superchain!

If we had an award show for crypto (think like the Nobel prize, Grammys,Oscars) & we only used onchain data, what sort of awards should we have? eg: - defi app with the largest TVL - bridge with most volume - apps with the most users in common anything else?

We often get asked "wen ZK?" Little known fact: OP Mainnet is ZK-provable today. So... why haven’t we already thrown fault proofs away and turned into a ZK rollup? I think this is the wrong framing for the question because it focuses on a specific technical architecture

New Foundation Mission Request just dropped ✨ Conduct an analysis of S6 growth grants to help inform the Collective's impact measurement system. This is the perfect opportunity for data wizards looking to immerse themselves in the exciting world of Optimism governance. More

1/ Why some protocols get 35x more in their incentive programs compared to others?

🔴 Use the Superchain, and reap the benefits 🔴 Today, optimism.eth unveils Airdrop #5: Onchain together, benefit together. 10M+ OP has been allocated to 54k+ unique addresses. As of today, roughly 550M OP remains for future airdrops.

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Defining the path towards progressive decentralization is tricky. We know what doesn't work, but we haven't discovered exactly what does yet The Optimism Foundation has open sourced several working models that serve as flexible frameworks to chart this path as a Collective

Welcome ink to the Superchain! Kraken is releasing ink, powered by the OP Stack. Ink will provide a seamless onchain DeFi experience for the crypto-native and crypto-curious, contributing to the adoption of Ethereum.

1/5 Airdrops are Dead, Long Live Airdrops. New research by Thomas, chuxin 🔴✨, Eliza Oak 🌳 , and our research collaborator Andy Hall (GSB/ a16z crypto) examines why airdrops sometimes succeed in encouraging long-term engagement (& why they sometimes don’t) — and how we

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Use the Superchain and get rewarded: SuperStacks is here. Connect your wallet. Provide liquidity. Earn XP. Be the first to get started ↓

🗞️Fresh off the press Our latest OP Labs data blog dives into the lessons we've learned on measuring impacts and approaching causality in the Superchain ecosystem blog.oplabs.co/lessons-in-cau…

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

Our 2026 Roadmap Last year, we made transactions 10x faster and 10x cheaper. But that’s not enough. This year, we also want to make the OP Stack hands down the best toolset for scaling to your first million dollars in onchain revenue. To us, scaling means identifying and

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