About Optimism

Instant transactions and scalable smart contracts on Ethereum.

What Optimism is building

We are building the critical infrastructure to address this need. Optimistic Ethereum is an extension to Ethereum that scales both its technology and philosophy.

Technologies used at Optimism

Front-end (5)

Back-end (1)

Javascript

React

HTML

Node.js

Typescript

Company culture

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Not only are we writing software that scales Ethereum technology, we are also scaling Ethereum values by creating the rails for highly impactful projects that don’t have a business model to succeed. Read more about how we’re doing that here.

Funding rounds

Total Funding

$28.5M

Last funding round type

Series A

Company type

For Profit

Optimism news and updates

Optimism launched OP token on Apr 1st 22'.

After its competitor Optimism released its OP token in April, Abritrum’s co-founder posted a cryptic tweet that suggested an ARBI token was imminent.

Oct 3, 2022 | capital.com

NodeReal Inc. partners with Optimism

Optimism is a great extension to the Ethereum ecosystem, therefore, as a one-stop infrastructure service provider, NodeReal will collaborate closely with the Optimism community to integrate its flagship product Meganode with Optimism to provide fastest API service.

Sep 8, 2022 | nodereal.io

Optimism launched alpha mainnet on Jan 1st 21'.

By the turn of 2021, Optimism had launched their alpha mainnet.

Aug 25, 2022 | perp.fi

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

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. The bug made it possible to create ETH on Optimism by repeatedly triggering the SELFDESTRUCT opcode on a contract that held an ETH balance.

Feb 11, 2022 | Optimism PBC