Interpreting the latest route of OP Stack: What impact will the addition of L3 bring?

Original title: "Interpreting the latest route of OP Stack: application demand forces technological change"

Original author: Nan Zhi, Odaily Planet Daily

Today, Optimism announced that L3 built with OP Stack can now join Superchain. L3 can build on OP Stack and share revenue with Optimism Collective, thereby accessing the Superchain Builder Network and being eligible for Retro funding, airdrops, and growth activities. Odaily will analyze this change and the story behind it in this article.

Interpretation of development plan

Analysis of basic concepts and announcements

First of all, What is OP Stack? OP Stack is an open standard code library that supports superchain development. It is not limited to L2 chains and DApp developers (well-known cases include Base, Zora Network, etc.), and L3 ecosystems can also use it.

Another important question is, What is a Superchain? Superchain is a major vision of Optimism, conceived as multiple decentralized L2 chain networks (now also including L3), which share security, communication layers and open source technology OP Stack. These chains have standardized characteristics and interchangeable network resources to enhance the interoperability of the chain, enabling developers to create DApps that target the entire superchain.

The latest announcement of Optimism can be understood as that developers who use OP Stack to build L3 can now join Optimism's superchain development map and enjoy the benefits of overall ecological development. For these L3s, the direct benefits include Retro funding, airdrops, and growth activities, and these joined L3s will return part of their income to Optimism Collective.

However, it should be noted that the current OP Stack technology for L3 is not fully mature, especially in terms of interoperability, which still needs to be improved.

Application demand forces technological change?

Why did Optimism make this change? The official announcement elaborated on the technology and vision, but in fact, the most important content may be as follows:

L3 can provide a new and more cost-effective way to build for chains and DApp developers. We have already seen this trend on Base, which has rapidly expanded its support for L3 on the original basis.

It is not difficult to see that this reference should be L3 Degen on the Base chain. The story behind this can be traced back to what happened on Warpcast one month ago:

Binji Pande, head of Optimism NFT, posted a message asking: "Why does DEGEN L3 use Arbitrum Orbit technology instead of OP Stack." (Note: Arbitrum Orbit is a chain development tool launched by the Arbitrum team.)

Degen co-developer Syndicate replied below the article: "The ability to support custom Gas tokens is a big advantage!" (OP Stack does not support custom Gas tokens, so we don’t use it.)

Later, OP Labs product director Zain Bacchus replied: "Custom Gas tokens will be launched this quarter."

Any other updates?

This update includes custom Gas tokens and Plasma mode.

First, OP Stack will support L3 custom Gas tokens. Projects that have built communities around existing L2 native tokens can now use their tokens as Gas tokens to grow their communities into L3 ecosystems. This also reduces the cost of entry for new users. There is no need to deposit Gas tokens into L2 through expensive L1 operations and then enter L3. Just perform a low-cost L2 deposit operation in L3.

The optionality of the data availability (DA) layer is another key module for developers to build low-cost chains. The Plasma mode allows all developers to choose the DA layer on top of using OP Stack to reduce transaction costs while minimizing security challenges and management costs. OP Stack will integrate multiple data availability layers in succession.

Looking ahead, this opens up a framework for L3 developers to participate in the superchain ecosystem, helping to shape the future of scalability while also benefiting from the contributions of other builders.

Conclusion

At a time when various chains are booming, whether L1, L2 or L3, they are no longer scarce. When there are too many "gold diggers", being a "shovel seller" is the most stable and effective way of doing business. From the latest announcement, it can be seen that Optimism is actively adapting to market demand, aiming to make OP Stack the ultimate weapon to realize the superchain vision.

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