Optimism collaborates with flashbots to renew how transactions are treated across its up stack ecosystem with the aim of making some of Ethereum’s most popular LAG-2 networks faster and more adaptable.
The partnership centers on sequencing, behind the scenes process that determines how quickly a transaction confirms what trades are prioritized and how much users ultimately pay. Optimism says that Flashbots’ infrastructure, already responsible for building more than 90% of Ethereum’s blocks, will now bring almost instant confirmations and user -friendly transaction to any chain in the so -called superchain.
This matters because the upstarch supports more than 60% of all Ethereum-layer 2 activity, the Optimism team claims, including some of the best known LAG-2 chains such as base, unichain, world chain, ink and zoneium. Until now, advanced sequencing functions such as ultra-fast settlement, front-truck protection and customized compliance rules were only available for the largest chains with resources to build them internally. With flashbots on board, these features will be available through tools for any project building on Optimisms up stack.
Flashbots are best known for its work on MEV or maximum extractable value, where its MEV-BOOST tool has reshaped how blocks are produced.
Some of the flashbots sequencing technology is already live on OP stake chains: Base and Unichain use “flashblocks” to deliver block times as low as 200 milliseconds, while Unichal and World Chain experimenting with verifiable transaction ordering and prioritized blockpace, showing transactions ordered righteously and prevents grids.
In the coming months, optimism and flashbots are planning to roll flashblocks and advanced sequencing out to Optimism’s mainnet and other chains using the OP stack.
“With flashbots like a core technology partner, we accelerate the timetable for fast, cheap and customizable sequencing across the up -stack,” said Sam McElvale, product manager at up labs. “This is part of our wider mission: to give builders the freedom to design their chains in their way, with infrastructure that is open, flexible and battle tested in production.”
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