Optimism is associated with Flashbots to reorganize the way in which transactions are treated on its OP Stack ecosystem, aimed at making some of the most popular layer 2 networks in Ethereum faster and more customizable.
The partnership focuses on sequencing, the behind the scenes process which determines the speed with which a transaction confirms, what exchanges are priority and how much users are paying. Optimism indicates that the infrastructure of Flashbots, which is already responsible for the construction of more than 90% of Ethereum blocks, will now provide almost instantaneous confirmations and a user-friendly transaction control to each chain of the so-called superchain.
This counts because the battery OP underlies more than 60% of all Ethereum Layer 2 activities, says the optimism team, including some of the most famous layer 2 channels such as the base, the unichain, the world chain, the ink and the health. Until now, the advanced sequencing features such as the ultra-fast settlement, protection against precursions and personalized compliance rules were only available for the largest chains with resources to build them internally. With flashbots on board, these features will be available via tools for any project that is based on the OP OPTIMIMM battery.
Flashbots is best known for its work on MEV, or maximum extractable value, where its Mev-Boost tool has reshaped how the blocks are produced.
Part of the flashbot sequencing technology is already live on OP battery channels: the base and the Unichain use “flash blocks” to provide block times as low as 200 milliseconds, while Unichain and the world chain experiment with the verifiable transaction control and the priority block space, which proves that transactions are ordered fairly forecasts.
In the coming months, optimism and flashbots plan to deploy flash blocks and advanced R&D sequencing to optimism and other channels using the OP battery.
“With flashbots as a basic technological partner, we speed up the roadmap for quick, inexpensive and customizable sequencing through the OP battery,” said Sam Mcingvale, product manager at Op Labs. “This is part of our wider mission: to give manufacturers the freedom to design their channels in their own way, with open, flexible and combat infrastructure in production.”
Read more: Jing Wang of Optimism and the OP battery widely adopted
