✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones
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(not a pseudonym) weird ETH yankovic cofounder, eternal optimist @optimism 🔴✨
Joined August 2017
Ethereum is my love and life but I couldn't resist poking some satirical fun today. If ETH was a Disney musical villain:
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Time flies -- feels like only yesterday @Jihoz_Axie and I were chatting @Celo 's Settlement day in Bangkok as their L2 exploration kicked off. Really excited for this one!
Powering Ronin’s Homecoming to Ethereum with the OP Stack Welcome to Ronin, @Optimism ⚔️ Last week, the Ronin Governing Validators voted to adopt Optimism’s OP Stack as an L2 provider. Ronin is coming home to Ethereum, and Optimism is making it possible. Today, the OP Stack
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Powering Ronin’s Homecoming to Ethereum with the OP Stack Welcome to Ronin, @Optimism ⚔️ Last week, the Ronin Governing Validators voted to adopt Optimism’s OP Stack as an L2 provider. Ronin is coming home to Ethereum, and Optimism is making it possible. Today, the OP Stack
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Sharing results from last week’s mega-devnet: Sunnyside Labs had run the largest PeerDAS devnet in the history in joint with @ethPandaOps and @base last week. Want to know what we discovered? A thread 🧵 https://t.co/M3iYG7Mf37
The largest Fusaka devnet is now being geared up! @testinprod_io and @base, who have been putting efforts to L2 scaling by contributing PeerDAS as a part of @Optimism Collective, are now teaming up with @ethPandaOps to run the biggest devnet in the history.
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Sequencing has emerged as the innovation frontier for anyone building a chain in 2025. We’re thrilled that Flashbots is partnering with @Optimism to bring fast, configurable, and verifiable sequencing to every OP Stack chain. Read our full announcement: https://t.co/WjL8CLb2FO
writings.flashbots.net
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Over the past few months, I've been building the kona-node along with my teammates on the Rust Team at @OPLabsPBC. Today, we are excited to officially release the first major version of the kona-node: an L2 consensus node also called a rollup node. https://t.co/flQrNiVGY0
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Today marks a thrilling milestone for the OP Stack ecosystem: the first public release of kona-node, our modular, high-performance rollup node built entirely in Rust.
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writing code as i walk - xreal for the monitor, laptop in backpack, ball mouse, and whisper for dictation
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1/ Three months after Futarchy and the Grants Council each selected 5 projects to receive growth grants, we’re exploring how the selected projects fared in terms of Superchain TVL increase! We’re also rewarding the top forecasters based on prediction accuracy.
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Mini Apps builders on World received 368,000 OP in the month of May Thank you @Optimism! If you build a mini app, you will make money
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What's happening at InterOP UNIverse: ✹ Discuss interop, scaling, and DeFi ✹ Connect with top Superchain builders ✹ Meet @haydenzadams, @karl_dot_tech, and @ben_chain
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Agree. With the OP Stack's upcoming interop feature, cross-L2 message validity is an in-protocol concern, with enforcement in the STF. The proof system on L1 constrains cross-L2 message validity without an intermediary as a result. No regressions 🫡 more:
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Special thanks to for feedback and review.
@gakonst imo it's not solved until cross-L2 actions can be as censorship-resistance, trustless and intermediary-free as within-L2 actions I call this the "no-regression principle": we're not done until the new thing has the same core properties that raw ETH transfers on L1 have
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Dev Tools make the onchain world possible. Optimism Retro Funding rewards them across Ethereum and the Superchain based on how much usage they receive. Get to know the latest recipients of Retro Funding… and maybe discover your new favorite dev tool. ↓
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The Superchain has upgraded. Pectra landed on Ethereum L1 on Wednesday. Today, just 48 hours later, the Superchain becomes the first L2 ecosystem to turn it on: together.
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When a guy working on Ethereum’s biggest competitor says “Ethereum should blacklist L2s”, it becomes pretty obvious that the Solana ecosystem is actually terrified that L2s will eat their lunch
Should Ethereum act like a business? @maxresnick1 imagines what it’d look like … and it starts with blacklisting all the L2s 😳
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Unichain is now the first L2 to build blocks inside a TEE, which unlocks: ✹ MEV protection ✹ Verifiable priority ordering ✹ Support for revert protection Pushing toward faster, more decentralized infrastructure built for DeFi
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I have not been able to stop thinking about @worldcoin. The stats are insane. World is onboarding by far more net new humans into crypto (not just the Superchain), than literally any other team and it’s not even close.
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Welcome to the OP stack Welcome to Ethereum Welcome to the future And most importantly: Welcome home ETH/acc
🏡 @Ethereum, we're home! Following a successful "hard hard fork" led by core contributors at @cLabs & L1 validators, Celo is officially an Ethereum Layer 2 🪨 🪨 🍴 What does that mean for the diverse, global decentralized ecosystem? Keep reading to find out ↓
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Got a sneak peek of the Superchain interop tech… Ethereum will feel like a single unified chain again — with all the scalability benefits of a network of L2s. It’s truly Ethereum’s internet moment — so pumped.
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Building a crypto product only for crypto people is zero sum game. Securing distribution channels is the key to onboard web2 people and create a positive sum game. Next week, we will showcase this.
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Wen Celo L2 upgrade? This month!
🚨 The next chapter for Celo is around the corner: becoming an Ethereum L2! Celo L2 Mainnet activation is a defining moment for our community, builders & the future of onchain prosperity 📆 L2 Mainnet Activation Date: March 26, 2025 at 3am UTC ⛓️ Hardfork Block Height: 31057000
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