The beta version of the custom gas token feature is now live for the OP Stack ⛽️ Chain operators can enable this feature at the time of L2 or L3 chain deployment and launch with an ERC20 token other than ETH for gas fees. Projects with their own tokens can enhance the utility of their existing tokens either by deploying a chain with their own token as the gas token or by deploying a chain with an established community token as the gas token, thus boosting their chain's growth.

The journey towards Stage 2 decentralization in the Optimism ecosystem: our latest blog post discusses the critical path for blockchain maturity and decentralization, and how @Optimism can get there.
blog.oplabs.co/endgame-is-sta… @VitalikButerin's roadmap for decentralized rollups is pivotal. It outlines the milestones for Layer 2 networks to develop a trustless fault-proof system. See below for a refresher:
ethereum-magicians.org/t/proposed-mil…

OP Mainnet’s upgrade to Bedrock is less than two weeks away!😎

There’s no better time to catch up on all of the improvements Bedrock enables.

Let’s recap! ⬇️ Bedrock's optimized data compression strategy will majorly reduce gas fees:
blog.oplabs.co/heres-how-bedr…

What's more precious than blockspace? The people helping to scale Ethereum here at @OPLabsPBC.

We've had a number of stellar new additions to the team recently.

Please help us welcome these people behind the protocol in no particular order: Tess Rinearson led all things crypto at Twitter before joining OP Labs as Head of Product.

In addition to her engineering leadership experience at Chain, Interstellar, and the Interchain Foundation, she also serves on the board of the Mina Foundation. 🤯

Terrific @_tessr!

Today is a major milestone for decentralized identity in the Optimism ecosystem: the AttestationStation has been upgraded to the EAS standard, giving developers one common standard for issuing & reading attestations that interoperate across the ecosystem.

blog.oplabs.co/building-a-dec… Attestations are important building blocks for building trust online. But without a base layer across the ecosystem, solutions have been fractured and fragmented.

To date, it’s been difficult for individuals to manage their identity in a decentralized and secure way.

Introducing the Superchain Token List, a unified token list for the Optimism ecosystem!

We developed this list with our partners @BuildOnBase to make bridging tokens between @ethereum and various OP chains easier. Full details:
dev.optimism.io/superchain-tok… The Superchain is our vision for a scalable, interconnected network of chains that will share security and an open-source development stack. The Superchain Token List helps create a seamless experience for app developers & consumers!

Introducing op-erigon on OP Goerli!

@testinprod_io leveraged OP Stack’s modular and open source design to build op-erigon, an alternate execution client. 👏

This is an excellent complement to yesterday’s announcement of Magi, @a16zcrypto rollup client.
dev.optimism.io/client-diversi… The Bedrock upgrade is designed to enable modularity of network components on the OP Stack.

By adopting the same consensus layer & execution layer split as L1 & maintaining the same engine API boundaries that exist on L1, the changes needed to adopt another client are minimized.

Today @karl_dot_tech treated the @EthereumDenver crowd a technical deep-dive on the Superchain: how it can work, how it can be built, and what it can enable.

This deserves a detailed recap, and we are happy to oblige 👀👇 The blockchain today is insufficient for the decentralized web.

In order to create the decentralized web stack we need to scale without sacrificing security or decentralization… and a single rollup cannot achieve the level of scale required.

This afternoon, OP Labs’ @vivi_tao participated in a panel at @EthereumDenver about what it will take to onboard new users seamlessly into Web3.

Here’s what she had to say about how @OPLabsPBC is approaching use cases to draw new users ⬇️⬇️⬇️ When we talk about use cases in crypto, what we’re talking about is what we need to enable real adoption. What do we need to bring the next billion users and the next 100k builders in?

Currently, there’s less than a million users transacting regularly onchain.

Earlier today OP Labs’ own @kelvinfichter schooled @EthereumDenver attendees on attestation-based identity 👀

Slept in? Not in Denver? Here are some highlights (and some of his world famous slides) from the talk👇 We know that Sybils are annoying. But they are fundamental to the story of crypto. In a system where each node in a network simply gets a vote, this means every Sybil gets a vote.

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.

optimism.io/bedrock The Bedrock explainer goes into technical depth on how we’ve built a protocol that:

• minimizes fees & deposit times
• modularizes execution, block derivation, and proving
• improves node performance
• achieves Ethereum equivalence

Optimism does a lot of stuff on-chain. Managing all of these interactions securely can be a bit of a headache.

That’s why we built Drippie, a trust-minimized Ethereum-native conditional transaction system. Drippie is like a Web3 version of @IFTTT that allows transactions to be executed under certain conditions. Drippie allows us to easily program (in Solidity) sets of checks/actions that we call “drips”.