OP Stack Specification

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About Optimism

Optimism is a project dedicated to scaling Ethereum's technology and expanding its ability to coordinate people from across the world to build effective decentralized economies and governance systems. The Optimism Collective builds open-source software that powers scalable blockchains and aims to address key governance and economic challenges in the wider Ethereum ecosystem. Optimism operates on the principle of impact=profit, the idea that individuals who positively impact the Collective should be proportionally rewarded with profit.

Change the incentives and you change the world.

About the OP Stack

The OP Stack is a decentralized software stack maintained by the OP Stack that forms the backbone of blockchains like OP Mainnet and Base. The OP Stack is designed to be aggressively open-source — you are welcome to explore, modify, and extend the OP Stack to your heart's content.

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