Nerds, we’re happy to announce that Test in Prod is the third core development team to join the Optimism Collective.
We commit to advancing the Collective’s values and tech alongside
@OPLabsPBC
and
@BuildOnBase
, fellow core devs🫡
Decentralization comes in many forms, and growing the set of core technical contributors to the OP Stack is an important way to reduce the Collective’s reliance on any one group.
With that in mind, we're excited to officially welcome
@testinprod_io
to the Optimism Collective!
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.
Friends, we are humbled to announce that we're allocated 273,293 OP in RetroPGF 3.
All thanks to you:
- who eagerly supported us since we couldn't pass the quorum.
- badge holders who had a bet on us.
- believers of the Optimistic Vision & open internet.
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.
Sup, beautiful nerds! OP-Erigon is now ready to serve OP Mainnet.
Please go ahead and fire up this beautiful thing. This buddy saves you tons of disk space!
Links👇
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.
For the last several days, we spent time debugging the codebase—along with
@OPLabsPBC
&
@base
.
We saw magic happen. People from multiple regions & various companies bring different perspectives on the same codebase with the same mission.
Last week, the governance vote for the Delta network upgrade passed successfully.
Node operators will need to upgrade their nodes before the network upgrade activates on Feb. 22 at 0:00 UTC!
*Test in Prod Needs You*
Test in Prod is live on rPGF Round 3. We need your support to make the better OP Stack!
Speaking of OP Stack, we're thrilled to share the impacts that we have *already* created for OP Stack👇
Couldn't pass the quorum four days ago, but now we received 57 votes!
All thank you, who appreciate the importance of core development.
We will pay this love back with Delta hard fork💥
Span Batches have safely landed on all OP Chain Mainnets🥳
OP Chains has become much easier to hit the breakeven point. We already see some chains transitioned to surplus after Span Batches!
@tei_im
@diff72840089
<- These wizards can finally get some sleep, my friends🥲
OP CHAINS ARE INCREDIBLY AFFORDABLE
✨Today, we launch Span Batches on Mainnet.
The fixed onchain overhead costs for chain operators to run a standard rollup OP Chain will be reduced by over 90%.
GM Optimists – RPGF3 results have been announced!
🔴 30M in OP
🔴 643 projects applied
🔴 501 projects awarded
Check them out here:
See 🧵 below for some high level stats
Heads up: We brought some juicy updates for OP-Erigon!
- OP-Erigon now supports *Superchain Registry* integrations.
- You can now download *snapshots* for OP Mainnet & Base Mainnet at .
- New Public RPC & Otterscan support: OP Sepolia!
Based on the current course of voting, it looks like the Optimism Türkiye community will not be funded
We want our efforts to be seen
Here is a thread that tells you why it would be nice if you vote for us and what our impacts as a local community.
This is something that we agreed to bet ourselves on.
Build technology, impact, be recognized, and get rewarded. It's that simple.
You don't have to own the tech & sell it to profit anymore; all you need is to impact & be recognized. The time of *proprietary* tech is fading.
RetroPGF is an economic flywheel that supports positive impact to the Optimism Collective.
It rewards the individuals and projects that build and create infrastructure, tooling, and content that enable the ecosystem to thrive.
Heads up: Please update your OP-Erigon node for *Canyon hard fork* ready!
Canyon hard fork is scheduled at 17:00 Nov 14 UTC. You should update your OP-Erigon node before then, or your node won't be able to sync the chain.
The Collective is shipping like CRAZY. And it could've been possible because we are building this TOGETHER.
Tomorrow, not only Span Batches is hitting Mainnet, but Ecotone (Blobs) is also hitting Sepolia Testnets! Huge impact back-to-back💥
We've been shipping like crazy!
Span Batches is hitting Mainnet this week.
✅ Reduce the fixed onchain overhead for chain operators to run any standard OP Chain by over 90%! We're going to be seeing more and more OP Chains in the coming month.
Congrats to
@testinprod_io
on
Nerds, this is the best time to join the Collective.
We wrote our journey in this blog. I hope this helps you, who's looking for an important problem to get yourself immersed.
Our latest blog post is written by guest authors
@testinprod_io
.
In it, they tell the story of how they discovered the magic of the OP Stack & built op-erigon.
It is equal parts informative & heart-warming!
And this coolest thing could be possible thanks to
@jinglejamOP
&
@kelvinfichter
.
Gave us all the advice they could give, trusted us, and helped us onboard to this amazing Collective. The most optimistic & thoughtful people we've ever seen.
Appreciate y'all❤️
The coolest part of this whole thing is that it was entirely implemented by
@testinprod_io
, assisted by
@OPLabsPBC
to productionize the code.
This is Optimism's first major protocol feature shipped by a core dev outside of OP Labs! I am so grateful to both teams.
Feeling all
Though the impact is clear, this team also worries about passing the quorum!
The local team volunteered for the Onchain Summit in Istanbul. One of the most helpful and optimistic people we've ever seen.
Let's reward long-time Optimistic Vision believers✨
Based on the current course of voting, it looks like the Optimism Türkiye community will not be funded
We want our efforts to be seen
Here is a thread that tells you why it would be nice if you vote for us and what our impacts as a local community.
Our guest blog post about the journey to build Delta is now live. Again, thank you,
@OPLabsPBC
, for building this amazing technology together.
Together, we go further😇
The Delta upgrade slashed OP Chain fixed operating costs by over 90%.
In this blog post,
@testinprod_io
recaps how they built the first critical hardfork built as OP Stack core devs:
@karl_dot_tech
is the kindest and purest person I've ever met.
While we were building op-erigon, I met Karl at a side event in ETHDenver. It was an amazing and unforgettable experience.
We are excited to announce that
@karl_dot_tech
will be stepping into the role of CEO of OP Labs! We are thrilled to have him at the helm as we continue to build Optimism.
Erigon++🤯
It's amazing news for the Collective because it'll unlock high-performance OP Chains!
Shout out to the Erigon team that keeps pushing the technology to the limit🫡
Erigon’s Roadmap to 2024 is out
- introducing Erigon++
- Caplin Full Consensus Archive Node
- timeline for the release of Erigon 3
- more focus on code quality and user support
more details in this 👉 blog post: (Astrid, Otterscan)
*Test in Prod Needs You*
Test in Prod is live on rPGF Round 3. We need your support to make the better OP Stack!
Speaking of OP Stack, we're thrilled to share the impacts that we have *already* created for OP Stack👇
Today at 0:00 UTC OP Goerli upgades to Delta, the next protocol upgrade following Canyon. OP Sepolia will also be upgraded to Delta tomorrow at 0:00 UTC.
Node operators will need to upgrade their testnet nodes. For more, see the upgrade guide:
The OP Stack’s modularity inspired the design of a decoupled Fault Proof System that allows for the integration of sophisticated components.
In this blog
@protolambda
writes about one such component, a powerful and composable pre-image oracle.
O(1) Labs is excited to submit a proposal to
@optimismFND
for the application of our zero knowledge proof stack to OP Stack fraud proofs. This application is built on the groundbreaking MIPS zkVM we’re building as part of the
@minaprotocol
roadmap: 1/4
I've been experimenting with spinning up our own OP Stack rollups in Kubernetes. Pretty cool stuff. And the op-charts from
@testinprod_io
really helped:
At
@ChainstackHQ
, we shipped load-balanced & fast nodes (called global elastic nodes) for
@Optimism
Mainnet. The client is
@testinprod_io
's op-erigon. The nodes now also include debug & trace methods out of the box.
Damn lemme tell you about
@testinprod_io
.
In mid January I get this DM from
@taem_park
. Just THREE months later
@testinprod_io
ships the first public beta release of op-erigon with support for
@otterscan
on OP Goerli.
It's genuinely insane.
Heads-up: Please upgrade your node if you are running *Sepolia Testnets* using op-erigon right now.
Ecotone upgrade is landing on Sepoilia Testnets in 12 hours. Your node may lose the sync to the chain if you don't upgrade your node ASAP.
@liamihorne
Thank you for a very detailed shout-out🥹
We still think RPGF is the greatest game ever invented! Learned it from an amazing journey this year building the tech & contributing to the Collective.
Base and OP Labs successfully activated the Ecotone hardfork on their respective Goerli devnets, and today enabled posting of batches via EIP-4844 blobs. Here's the Base goerli-devnet batcher, you can see recent transactions are "type 3" (== Blob type).
Very excited to share that "OP Reth" is merged.
This in practice means that Reth, our high perf Ethereum node, can now be used as-is in the OP Stack.
This was made possible via collaboration with OP Labs, the Base team and our own Open Source team.
Benchmarks & more to come.
It wouldn't be possible without you.
Thank you to everyone who supports us🫶🏻
Love you guys proud to be optimistic 🔴✨
(Forgive us if we have forgotten you, you have a big place in our hearts 😅)
Now, feeling more optimistic than ever about our thoughts back then😉
@liamihorne
, appreciate the detailed shout-out & building this amazing Collective. It was truly helpful.
This team took a wild bet on Optimism, reaching out cold a year ago: “RPGF is the greatest game ever invented”.
Since then, they’ve built and maintained an entire OP Stack client, op-erigon.
They’re also shipping “span batches” which lowers costs dramatically for small chains.
We're ready to pay this love back with the best quality codes more than ever.
The team is laser-focusing on shipping Delta & Span Batches without a hitch. Your investment in the core technology will see the light.
❤️you all.
Gov:
Couldn't pass the quorum four days ago, but now we received 57 votes!
All thank you, who appreciate the importance of core development.
We will pay this love back with Delta hard fork💥
Base is open and Onchain Summer is here 🟡
Become a part of Base history by minting “Base Day One” to join the story of bringing the world onchain
Our story.
Client diversity for Optimism is one of the coolest things that happened last week in crypto but nobody seems to care… Why aren’t we shilling it more?
We don’t want L2s to become Solanas!
Thanks
@a16zcrypto
and
@testinprod_io
, you are doing great contributions for crypto 🚀❤️
This month marked a momentous first for Ethereum: a publicly listed US company incubated and launched an OP Chain powered by Optimism.
But
@BuildOnBase
represents so much more than just technological validation of the OP Stack.
*Test in Prod Needs You*
Test in Prod is live on rPGF Round 3. We need your support to make the better OP Stack!
Speaking of OP Stack, we're thrilled to share the impacts that we have *already* created for OP Stack👇
TiP's rPGF Application:
All kinds of support would be greatly appreciated—RT, mention, shout out, or anything!
Love you, nerds. Have an optimistic day🔴✨
The OP Mainnet migration to Bedrock has begun!
Deposits & withdrawals on the legacy network and transactions to the sequencer have been paused.
To follow along with the migration, bookmark this page:
The Collective recently hosted the Onchain Summit at
@EFDevconnect
in Istanbul, a full day celebration of the Superchain Ecosystem.
Session videos just dropped, so let’s revisit the key moments and insights from this incredible event.
@sgoldfed
Hi Steven! This Test in Prod, one of the core development team of Optimism Collective.
We spent last several months to solve this problem. Upon
@protolambda
's initial design, we recently shipped the new batch specs that solves the problem on testnets--Span Batches.
The
@testinprod_io
did this for Erigon, and it's amazing. This is TABLE STAKES!
Ideally there should be new test vectors, benchmarks etc, any change you make in A can make its way in B in unforeseen ways. We're not gonna allow that.
Karl asked us, "What are you building?".
As soon as I said "op-erigon," he smiled and hugged me, saying, "C'mon man, Imma give you a big hug. Thank you for building op-erigon".
It was the first time someone hugged me in the first meeting.
🚨 Buckle up, nerds! OP Mainnet’s upgrade to Bedrock happens in 40 hours.
🛠️ OP-Erigon may take a few days to support OP Mainnet after the migration. The DB is too big.
🚨The official date of OP Mainnet’s 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:
I was surprised that:
1) He was sincerely thanking me for building op-erigon.
2) He was very kind to answer all of my questions tho he didn't have to.
3) He was purely excited about the technology and building the Collective, so he didn't stop talking in the freezing cold.
@protolambda
It has been a thing since you started op-erigon and passed the baton to us.
We couldn't have done this without your initial work and endless/thoughtful support. We learned Ethereum from scratch because you guided us so well.
It was an amazing gift. Thanks, proto❤️
@NethermindEth
@OPLabsPBC
Thank
@testinprod_io
for the work on the L2 Execution-Layer sync support in op-node. Seeing features of multiple client teams come together on L2 is amazing 👏
Over the next 10 weeks, we're doing a deep dive into the key findings & recommendations from
@lalalavendr
’s research into the history of DAOs and their policies, programs, and processes.
The first takeaway we want to focus on is related to VOTING. 🗳️🙋♀️
Let’s take a look.
@alphaK3Y
@optimismFND
Thank you for valuing our work!
However, let's not point fingers at the badgeholders. They're working hard to build the public goods funding that everyone wishes for!
Instead, let's appreciate, stay optimistic, & make the system better over iterations✨
Don't hate the player, hate the game!
If we create an environment where we publicly shame RetroPGF participants, where projects are afraid of applying and badgeholders are afraid of speaking their mind, then WNGMI...
And I was so thrilled that I asked TONS of questions for an hour. (trust me, it was a lot).
He kindly answered all of my questions one by one but also started to become more excited than I was.
After the event, he didn't stop giving me advice and idea in the freezing cold.
We're grateful to have this opportunity to put our lives in—scale
@ethereum
, build the open internet, and solve human coordination issues.
All thanks to you, nerds; this tech only means when we have people who believe in Collective's values.
*OP Charts*
We built OP Charts, a Helm chart repository for OP Stack infrastructures.
- It provides easy OP Stack deployments on k8s.
- It was forked to build an OP Chain launcher. Shout out to
@codynhat
🫡
Repo:
Finally got around to deploying a Helm Chart repo that enables deploying a new OP Chain in Kubernetes.
Thanks to
@testinprod_io
for their work on op-node and op-geth. These were forked and modified to be used specifically for new OP chains.
@codynhat
So glad it helped. Thank you for using op-charts❤️
Did you use op-node & op-geth combo? I want to know how op-charts helped to configure your system!
*Test in Prod Needs You*
Test in Prod is live on rPGF Round 3. We need your support to make the better OP Stack!
Speaking of OP Stack, we're thrilled to share the impacts that we have *already* created for OP Stack👇
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.
*Test in Prod Needs You*
Test in Prod is live on rPGF Round 3. We need your support to make the better OP Stack!
Speaking of OP Stack, we're thrilled to share the impacts that we have *already* created for OP Stack👇
We also worked with
@conduitxyz
&
@base
folks for debugging & shipping.
They were laser-focused for the deployment with us, resolved issues together, and pulled the deployment to success✨
Conduit is fully prepared and ready for the Delta upgrade
Span Batches will significantly reduce the overhead of operating OP Stack rollups, we're excited to see them in action!
With the same codebase & mission, TiP is shipping Span Batches, and
@base
is shipping 4844.
This is how the Collective should work, everyone. Isn't it magical?🪄
*Engine P2P Sync*
TiP built Engine P2P Sync support for OP-Node to reduce block sync time.
- It allows Geth's snap sync.
- Reduces sync time by *~82%* on OP Mainnet compared to the derivation.
PR: