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Powering Ronin’s Homecoming to Ethereum with the OP Stack: Last week, Ronin’s 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.
What is the OP Stack? The OP Stack is a set of development tools powering a variety of chains including Coinbase’s Base and Uniswap’s Unichain. By using the OP Stack, the Ronin ecosystem will become part of Optimism’s Superchain network, unlocking $5M - $7M worth of milestone-based grants and opportunities for more developer support.
To Ronin users: No action is required on your end. Continue to play Web3 games, explore DeFi protocols, collect NFTs, and visit the Fortune Spin as usual. Stay tuned for more details as the OP Stack integration progresses. You can find the final vote results here.
Welcome to Ronin, Optimism! Last week, Ronin’s 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 powers Coinbase’s Base and secures over $20B in assets across the Superchain.
Here’s what’s happening:
Introducing the OP Stack
The OP Stack is a set of open-source development tools anyone can use to build a Layer 2 on Ethereum. Coinbase used them to build Base. Kraken used them to build Ink. Uniswap is even using them to build Unichain. Over the coming months, Ronin will also use them to evolve from a sidechain to a full-fledged Ethereum L2. Here’s what this alliance will bring to our movement once the integration is complete:
Faster transactions: 15x block times of between 100 to 200 milliseconds and the ability to handle up to 1M transactions per second
Even Stronger Security: After transitioning to an L2, Ronin will inherit Ethereum’s security
More funds in the Ronin Treasury: The Optimism Foundation, Eigen Labs, and Boundless Foundation will provide $5M - $7M worth of milestone-based grants in $OP, $ZKC, and $EIGEN tokens
More developer support: Builders on Ronin will be eligible to receive allocations from the 850M $OP Retro Fund. Discounts will also be available for infrastructure tooling like block explorers, indexers, oracles, and more
Superchain collaboration opportunities: Ronin users, creators, and builders may be eligible for airdrop and growth campaigns involving other Superchain networks and communities
Ethereum’s gamification engine <> The Superchain
The Superchain is an ecosystem of blockchains and projects powered by the OP Stack. Base, Kraken, Uniswap, and more are part of the Superchain ecosystem. Ronin will be closer to these industry-leading communities than ever as an Ethereum L2 powered by the OP Stack. This opens the door to new alliances with builders who use the same set of tools.
What does this mean for $RON and RONers?
No action is required on your end. Continue to play Web3 games, explore DeFi protocols, collect NFTs, and visit the Fortune Spin as usual. Stay tuned for more details as the OP Stack integration progresses. There will be no changes to any projects or products on Ronin as a result of this upgrade, and RON will continue to be used for gas fees even after the migration is complete.