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·Apr 14, 2022

Medium to Mirror

From now on we’ll be using Mirror as our primary publishing platform. — As Optimism continues to grow so do our communication needs. We’ll continue to keep you informed of all the amazing developments here at Optimism from our Twitter and optimism.mirror.xyz, both of which now belong to the newly created Optimism Foundation. We look forward to doing so from a platform that…

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Medium to Mirror
Medium to Mirror

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Apr 1, 2022

We hate all of you, we’re building Pessimistic Rollups now

Optimistic Rollups are dead. We keep making transactions cheaper and you keep complaining that transactions aren’t cheap enough. We’re scrapping Optimism and introducing a brand new system which can finally be cheap enough for your broke asses. A bright vision We started Optimism with the hope of not only scaling Ethereum, but scaling…

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We hate all of you, we’re building Pessimistic Rollups now
We hate all of you, we’re building Pessimistic Rollups now

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Mar 23, 2022

Ether’s Phoenix

Humanity’s defining characteristic is its ability to organize and cooperate. We have devised a number of tools to do this — from language, religion, and legal structures, to rules on the highway — all are systems created to align our actions. Despite these tools, many current attempts to coordinate large-scale…

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Ether’s Phoenix
Ether’s Phoenix

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Mar 17, 2022

Money Long, Team Strong

Laying Strong Foundation It’s genuinely hard to overstate the excitement brewing at Optimism recently. After over a year on mainnet, the numbers say it all: Over $1B in gas saved by Optimism users Thousands of contracts deployed Three forks of Optimism’s code on mainnet A year in crypto is a lifetime, and we’ve…

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Money Long, Team Strong
Money Long, Team Strong

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Mar 11, 2022

Our Pragmatic Path to Decentralization

Uh Oh: Every L2 Has Upgrade Keys 😱 — There’s a difficult truth which often doesn’t come up when discussing layer 2 (L2) protocols: Every major L2 project has a trusted party which can execute protocol upgrades. Currently, this is the primary point of centralization for just about everybody, including us. …

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Our Pragmatic Path to Decentralization
Our Pragmatic Path to Decentralization

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Feb 10, 2022

Disclosure: Fixing a critical bug in Optimism’s Geth fork

Funds Are Safu On February 2nd, the Optimism team was alerted by Jay Freeman (saurik of Cydia and Orchid fame) to the existence of a critical bug in Optimism’s Geth fork. …

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Dec 17, 2021

To Optimism

Careful readers of our blog post announcing the removal of the whitelist may have noticed a small but important detail: we referred to the network as Optimism. When we started building out the network, we felt it was best to give the system a name that distinguished it from Optimism…

Optimism

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To Optimism
To Optimism
Optimism

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Dec 16, 2021

All Gas, No Brakes

Today marks a very special occasion and another exciting milestone for Optimism and the Ethereum ecosystem at large. It’s official: the whitelist is gone and anyone can deploy to the Optimism mainnet! Why the whitelist? Optimism launched with a whitelist so that we could establish direct lines of communication with the projects building…

Ethereum

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All Gas, No Brakes
All Gas, No Brakes
Ethereum

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Oct 26, 2021

Introducing EVM Equivalence

Or, Ethereum All the Way Down: How We Learned to Stop Re-implementing and Love the Ethereum Stack Last month, we announced the most significant upgrade in Optimistic Ethereum’s history. Recently, we migrated Optimistic Kovan to true one-click deploy and increased stability, with mainnet to follow in less than three…

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Introducing EVM Equivalence
Introducing EVM Equivalence

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Optimism PBC Blog

·Oct 5, 2021

RetroPGF Experiment #1: $1 Million Dollars for Public Goods

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we are donating $1m of network profits in our first experiment on retroactive public goods funding. The core idea behind retroPGF is to level the playing field between profit-maximizing startups and nonprofit/OSS projects. Profit-seeking entities have an advantage in their potential for an exit…

Ethereum

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RetroPGF Experiment #1: $1 Million Dollars for Public Goods
RetroPGF Experiment #1: $1 Million Dollars for Public Goods
Ethereum

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