Protocol Development The OP Stack: Modular, Exponential Scalability for L2s The OP Stack's code is EVM-equivalent, secure, performant, and MIT-licensed. The Optimism Ecosystem Contributions Dashboard can help developers get started.
Community-Driven Development: Introducing OP Stack Mods OP Labs is excited to start highlighting OP Stack Mods, modifications or improvements to the OP Stack created by members of the Optimism and Ethereum communities, for community feedback.
Engineering Drippie: How OP Mainnet automates Ethereum Optimism does a lot of stuff on-chain. Managing and monitoring the many on-chain interactions required to keep a system like this running can become a bit of a headache. This isn’t an impossible problem — but it’s enough of nuisance that it’s worth automating.
Engineering Introducing Smock v2 Solidity devs: meet Smock v2 [https://github.com/defi-wonderland/smock]. The S olidity mocking library. A collaboration between Optimism [https://twitter.com/optimismPBC] and the fantastic team over at DeFi Wonderland [https://twitter.com/DeFi_Wonderland]. Smart contract testing has historically been… hard? If not hard, then just confusing. Way
Engineering The Missing Message Mystery This is the story of our experience looking into a bug that caused our Optimistic Ethereum testnet deployment [https://community.optimism.io/docs/developers/networks.html#optimistic-kovan] to stop accepting new L1 ⇒ L2 deposits for a period of several days in the early days of June 2021. For some context,
