Chain profile
Optimism
Ethereum L2 and Superchain ecosystem focused on low-cost EVM execution and public-goods-aligned infrastructure.
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Resources
Best for
- Superchain-aligned applications
- Low-cost EVM apps with Ethereum settlement assumptions
- Public-goods and governance-focused products
Tradeoffs
- Sequencer and bridge assumptions differ from Ethereum mainnet
- Superchain-specific choices can affect cross-chain deployment strategy
Build on Optimism
Intents scoped to this chain, with per-chain stacks, exclusions, and risks.
- build an app on the OP Superchain (Optimism) — zerodev, uniswap, chainlink, layerzero
Chain readiness
Per-chain readiness ranks how well each protocol's support on Optimism is evidenced — a cited, addressed deployment outranks a protocol that only lists the chain.
- Aave 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Coinbase AgentKit 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Chainlink 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Circle (USDC & CCTP) 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Ethereum Attestation Service 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Fluidkey 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Helios 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- LayerZero 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Lido 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- MACI 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- OP Mainnet 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Pimlico 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Reown (formerly WalletConnect) 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Snapshot 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- Uniswap 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- ZeroDev 50 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
- ERC-8004 40 claimed — no chain-specific evidence record
Relevant stack recommendations
- build a DeFi app on Arbitrum One — uniswap
- ship a consumer app on Base — zerodev, uniswap, chainlink
- build an agentic commerce platform with x402 payments — erc-8004
- build an onchain AI agent — agentkit, circle, erc-8004
- build a privacy-first Ethereum wallet — fluidkey, helios
- build private onchain voting — maci
- build a private smart contract app — helios
- build with smart accounts — zerodev
- choose ERC-4337 bundler and paymaster infrastructure — pimlico
- connect wallets to my app — reown, pimlico
- deploy on a low-cost Ethereum L2 — optimism
- earn staking yield on ETH — lido, aave, uniswap
- build a privacy-first app on Ethereum mainnet — maci, fluidkey
- need gasless onboarding — zerodev
- run DAO governance — snapshot
- send secure cross-chain messages — layerzero, chainlink
- let users swap tokens inside my app — uniswap
Protocols supporting Optimism
| Ready | Protocol | Capability · caveat | Build | Status | Chains | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 | Aave Decentralised non-custodial liquidity protocol for supplying, borrowing, and earning yield on crypto assets, with programmable money-market primitives. |
Supply & borrow money market Per-asset supply/borrow caps and isolation mode can limit borrowing against newly listed assets. |
medium | production | ethereum arbitrum-one optimism base |
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| 81 | Coinbase AgentKit Coinbase Developer Platform toolkit for giving AI agents a crypto wallet and onchain capabilities — wallet management plus composable actions across protocols, framework-agnostic (LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, and others). |
Agent wallets Agent-controlled funds require explicit spend limits, allowlists, and key-management guardrails before production. |
medium | production | base ethereum arbitrum-one optimism |
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| 100 | Chainlink Decentralized oracle network providing price feeds, verifiable randomness (VRF), automation, and cross-chain messaging (CCIP) to smart contracts. |
Data Feeds Push feeds update on deviation/heartbeat; consumers must check updatedAt for staleness. |
medium | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base optimism |
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| 84 | Circle (USDC & CCTP) Regulated US-dollar stablecoin (USDC) plus the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) for native 1:1 USDC transfers across chains via burn-and-mint. |
USDC stablecoin Issuer-controlled: addresses can be frozen/blacklisted; not censorship-resistant. |
low | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base optimism |
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| 84 | Ethereum Attestation Service Free and open protocol for making on-chain and off-chain attestations — structured, signed, verifiable records about anything — on EVM-compatible chains. |
Onchain & offchain attestations Onchain attestations are public; sensitive data must be kept offchain or hashed. |
low | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base optimism |
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| 93 | Fluidkey Self-custodial privacy dApp for receiving, managing, and spending onchain funds through stealth-address smart accounts and a unified wallet interface. |
Stealth-address receiving UX Fluidkey stealth addresses provide unlinkability, not full untraceability by default |
medium | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base polygon |
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| 89 | Helios Fast, secure, portable multichain Ethereum light client that turns an untrusted centralized RPC endpoint into a locally verifiable RPC for wallets and dapps. |
Local verifiable RPC Helios verifies RPC data but is not complete network anonymity |
medium | production | ethereum base optimism |
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| 87 | LayerZero Omnichain interoperability protocol for passing arbitrary messages and moving tokens between chains via on-chain endpoints and configurable verification. |
OApp messaging Security config (DVNs, executors) is the integrator's responsibility; defaults must be reviewed. |
high | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base optimism |
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| 82 | Lido Liquid staking protocol: deposit ETH to receive stETH (wstETH on L2s) and earn staking rewards while keeping the staked position liquid and composable across DeFi. |
Liquid staking (stETH) stETH can trade at a discount or premium to ETH; peg and redemption timing depend on market and withdrawal conditions. |
low | production | ethereum arbitrum-one optimism base |
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| 94 | MACI Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure for private, coercion-resistant onchain voting with encrypted votes, zk-SNARK tally proofs, and verifiable public results. |
Private anti-collusion voting MACI relies on a trusted coordinator for privacy and collusion resistance |
high | production | ethereum optimism arbitrum-one polygon |
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| 76 | OP Mainnet Ethereum L2 and the reference OP Stack implementation, providing low-cost EVM execution and the Superchain interoperability roadmap. |
EVM execution No known issue recorded yet. |
low | production | optimism optimism-sepolia |
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| 88 | Pimlico ERC-4337 account abstraction infrastructure: hosted bundlers and paymasters (gas sponsorship and ERC-20 gas payment) with the permissionless.js SDK, plus the open-source Alto bundler. |
Hosted ERC-4337 bundler EntryPoint version support (v0.6/v0.7/v0.8) and per-chain coverage must be confirmed for the exact target. |
medium | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base optimism |
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| 84 | Reown (formerly WalletConnect) Onchain UX SDK (AppKit) and the WalletConnect connection standard — the common layer for connecting external wallets to dapps across wallets and chains, plus auth and transaction flows. |
AppKit wallet connection Requires a Reown (WalletConnect) project id; mobile deep-linking and chain config must be set per app. |
low | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base optimism |
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| 84 | Snapshot Off-chain, gasless multi-governance voting platform for DAOs, DeFi protocols, and NFT communities, with onchain execution paths (e.g. oSnap via Safe) for binding results. |
Gasless off-chain voting Off-chain votes are not binding on their own; execution requires a separate module. |
low | production | ethereum arbitrum-one optimism base |
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| 94 | Uniswap Onchain automated market maker for token swaps and liquidity, with v4 hooks for customizable pools, the Universal Router for trade routing, and TypeScript SDKs for integration. |
Token swaps via Universal Router No known issue recorded yet. |
medium | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base optimism |
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| 100 | ZeroDev Smart account infrastructure for ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 apps, including Kernel accounts, bundlers, paymasters, session keys, gas sponsorship, and chain abstraction. |
Kernel smart accounts Gas sponsorship needs policy and fallback design |
medium | production | ethereum arbitrum-one base optimism |
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| 78 | ERC-8004 Trustless agent discovery and trust infrastructure using onchain identity, reputation, and validation registries for autonomous agents. |
Agent identity registry ERC-8004 is a draft standard and does not include payment rails |
medium | beta | ethereum base base-sepolia arbitrum-one |
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Provenance
Last verified 2026-06-02 by composewith (confidence: medium).