✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones @ben_chain

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100m testnet transactions on GIWA already. Let’s break last year’s 6B OP Stack txns ❤️🚀

Optimist Prime @jinglejamOP

2 months ago

Incredibly excited to welcome Upbit, Korea’s top exchange & the second largest spot exchange in the world to the OP Stack! 대박!!! Upbit has 13million registered users, and has already processed over 100m tx on testnet and intends to launch their chain GIWA as a broader

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🔴 @ben_chain from @Optimism reflecting with @KateEldaly on @Celo lore behind becoming an L2

Celo @Celo

3 months ago

One year ago, Celo migrated to an @ethereum L2! With 100+ Day One partners, we kicked off a new era of scaling programmable rails for global finance The year since has been marked by unprecedented growth. Here’s a look back at year 1 of Celo as an L2 ↓

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Our Official Response to FUD and Drama. You're gonna see us on a rampage this year. Of course, the most delightful things to engage with on twitter are drama and FUD posts. So reasonably, I’ve been getting questions about what various trends mean for Optimism. Whether it's regarding thought leader commentary, other L1s, or poorly disguised forks of the OP Stack. Let me be clear: External commentary doesn't change our roadmap. It doesn't modify the history of what we've already accomplished. It doesn't change our priorities. We set our roadmap based on what our partners need. People choose the OP stack because it's the best technology, the most performant chain stack, and the most profit-enabling infrastructure. These claims are proven in production, not flashy headlines for technology that hasn't been built. What we're actually building The Scale The Superchain is by far the fastest growing blockchain stack in crypto. Two years ago, we processed 208 million transactions. Last year, 6.1 billion. That's 29x growth— by far the fastest of any blockchain ecosystem in crypto. The Economics 10.1x. For every dollar users spend on fees, chains generate ten dollars in revenue. The value flows to partners, not the platform. That's by design. The Model The OP Stack is open source. To differentiate in a competitive market, you need to own your infrastructure. But most enterprises don't want to build and maintain it themselves—they want to focus on their product and their users. That's the gap we fill. That's why we built OP Enterprise. Think of it like Databricks for Spark or Elastic for Elasticsearch: open source core, widely adopted, but enterprises need support, customization, and guaranteed service levels. OP Enterprise is that layer for blockchain infrastructure. The Partners World is building identity systems for 20 million users. Sony is building for creators and gaming. Uniswap is building the home for onchain trading. Kraken is bringing institutional-grade infrastructure to their users. Base has scaled to become one of the largest chains in crypto. Each chose us for specific strategic reasons—and those reasons haven't changed. The Future As the market matures, partners will evolve in different directions. Some will want more control. Some will build specialized systems for their unique requirements. That's expected. The Superchain was designed to be bigger than any single partner. We've been at this for four years. We're just getting started. This week at the Scaling Summit, we're showing the next generation: native interoperability, faster block times, enterprise-grade compliance controls. What if you could launch products in weeks, not years—and make more revenue for every dollar deposited? That's what we help you do.

I’m joining @Optimism to lead narrative and strategy. You either die a hero or live long enough to see “storyteller” in your job title. Here we are. We’re at an inflection point most people are still missing. Regulatory clarity arrived. JPMorgan processes $2B daily on blockchain rails. BlackRock manages $2.5B in tokenized assets. The GENIUS Act gave banks a real pathway in. The question shifted from “if institutions come onchain” to “through whom.” Everyone talks about bringing a billion users onchain. Here’s what I’ve come to believe: That doesn’t happen through consumer apps alone. It happens when the institutions those users already trust—their banks, their exchanges, their payment providers—build on infrastructure they can actually rely on. The billion users come through the enterprise door. And the enterprises coming through that door want three things: their own blockchain, their own revenue, and guarantees they can take to their board. Optimism has a front row seat for this. Coinbase built @base on the OP Stack. Sony’s @soneium. Kraken’s @inkonchain. Uniswap’s @unichain. @world_chain_. These aren’t experiments—they’re production systems processing over half of all Ethereum L2 transactions. When enterprises evaluate where to build, they’re choosing Optimism. I spent time understanding the architecture before saying yes. The OP Stack is MIT licensed and fully open. Stage 1 decentralization means permissionless fraud proofs and independent exit windows. When a CTO looks under the hood, they find something built by people who know what they’re doing. Technical credibility closes deals. I also believe in the people. @jinglejamOP, @karl_dot_tech, @ben_chain, Kevin, @tyneslol , and the team have been building toward an open internet for years—through bear markets, technical rewrites, and an industry that rewards hype over substance. They kept shipping. That dedication is rare, and it’s why the Superchain exists today. The next few years will be exciting. AI agents coordinating through programmable rails. Institutional capital flowing into infrastructure that doesn’t require trust in intermediaries. The technology receding into the background until it becomes invisible, essential, everywhere. Like electricity. Like the internet before it. Optimism has been building for years. Now it’s time to tell that story. Four years at @FWBtweets taught me how much narrative matters. Optimism built something real. It’s time to make sure people know. Let’s go.

True story: in 2018 when I was first getting into the ETH community, @VitalikButerin asked me if I wanted to work for the EF “selling plasma to banks”. I thought at the time I was saying no. Turns out I was saying “yes, just give the market 8 years to catch up with us.”

Optimist Prime @jinglejamOP

5 months ago

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

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An ounce of robustness is worth a pound when it comes to LLM-driven development To get introduced point your llm at: Docs: voltaire-effect.tevm.sh LLMs.txt: voltaire-effect.tevm.sh/LLMS.txt MCP: voltaire-effect.tevm.sh/mcp Skill: npx degit evmts/voltaire/skills/voltaire-effect ~/.codex/skills/voltaire Or you can do what I do which is clone the entire repo Github: github.com/evmts/voltaire Ask your llm to give you a quick tour 3/25

Two weeks ago I shared our proposal to align the OP token with Superchain growth. The governance vote is now live. Let's go!!!

Locking LLMs into blockchains as unbribeable, implacable judges could give us adjudication systems that are transparent, credibly neutral, and genuinely hard to game. Prediction markets are the natural test case, and if we get it right, the implications will extend to any setting where judgment calls are required. The core idea: at contract creation, you commit the exact model version and prompt on-chain. Everyone can inspect the full resolution mechanism before they trade. No rule changes mid-flight, no backroom negotiations, no discretionary judgment calls. Why this helps: --You can't bribe a model or flip its vote after the fact — the weights are fixed --The LLM has no financial stake in the outcome, so conflicts of interest disappear --The entire mechanism is auditable before anyone places a bet It’s not a magic solution: models make mistakes, prompt design matters enormously, and information sources can still be targeted by adversaries. But these problems may be more tractable than the ones we're stuck with now---human bias, opacity, and the ever-present temptation to game committee decisions. How to move forward: --Experiment on lower-stakes contracts to build a track record and discover failure modes --Standardize the approach as best practices emerge; help liquidity concentrate in markets with the most reliable LLM judges --Build transparency tools so traders can actually inspect the model, prompt, and sources before trading --Design ongoing human governance for meta-level decisions: which models to trust, when to update defaults, how to handle appeals, etc. My new piece for @a16zcrypto explores this in depth. With many thanks to @sreeramkannan @ben_chain @benfielding and many others thinking about this area. Link is below.

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@jinglejamOP FML CHAT REALLY HAS RUINED THE EMDASH I SWEAR I USED IT ALL THE TIME BEFORE LLMS

2026 is the year of scaling real-world, fact-grounded—not arbitrary, hypothetical—performance metrics.

Optimist Prime @jinglejamOP

5 months ago

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

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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 removing bottlenecks. And the bottleneck isn’t always throughput. Sometimes, the bottleneck is liquidity. Sometimes it’s security, UX or integrations. We build tools to solve every flavor of bottleneck. That’s why OP Stack chains earn up to 3x more in profit (2x more revenue) per dollar onchain than the most successful chains on other L2 stacks. That’s why we process 14% of all transactions in crypto. And we do this all while maintaining the lowest fees. Our goal is to build infrastructure that enables companies to expand their product lines faster, and build superior user experiences. So in 2026, a majority of our product development will be focused on the following three pillars: Performance The most at-scale chains use the OP Stack. @base is the fastest and highest throughput L2 on the market - they will continue to push the limits of scaling in 2026, and the rest of the Superchain will benefit too. We’ll be allowing more compute supply for lower infrastructure costs while simultaneously handling more compute demand with the same supply through features like BALs to scale node operation, lightweight derivation, and fee market modularization. op-reth will also be available to any chain that wants it. Customizability The OP Stack is widely regarded as the most modular and customizable chain stack on the market. Notable examples include: @world_chain_'s Proof of Humanity, @Celo's native fee abstraction, and @unichain's provable blockbuilding. In 2026, we’ll add more customization levers like multiple gas tokens, priority lanes, and dynamic opcode repricing for improved execution. And alas - ZK. Revenue Your money already works harder for you on the OP Stack. We want to push that even further with native token actions such as buy & burn for any chain, MEV auctions (in partnership with Flashbots), sequencer revenue modules that enable different transaction ordering schemes, and features that enable more liquidity to move securely and quickly between chains to help reduce LTV ratios in defi apps on the Superchain. We're excited to see our partners succeed in 2026, and to deliver the roadmap that enables that. If you'd like to talk to us, come find us at our Scaling Summit in ETH Denver:

I've gotten a lot of really cool and thought provoking outreach since I started thinking outloud about some of the ways AI might change (and hopefully, improve) research. One of the ideas floating around, which @sreeramkannan and @ben_chain brought up, was that LLMs could evaluate how well pre-analysis plans were followed in the ultimate paper. It turns out someone has already been working on that! Jamie Cummins sent me his fascinating tool called RegCheck which produces full reports (see below) on how closely the plan is followed. Super cool!

Andy Hall @ahall_research

6 months ago

Since I extended my own research using AI, I've been thinking about how it's going to reshape research and universities. We can now build new institutions where research is continuously updated, automatically verified, and carried out at immensely greater scale. Picture a

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The Optimism Scaling Summit 🔗 RSVP here: luma.com/ufx1y9z8 More details soon.