Base team unveils Pessimism, a security-monitoring system

Developers of the L2-network Base have released to the public the Pessimism monitoring system, designed to strengthen the security of OP Stack-compatible and EVM protocols through rapid threat detection and response.

Introducing Pessimism, an open source monitoring system designed to enhance security of Base (as well as the broader OP Stack and Ethereal ecosystem) by quickly detecting and responding to a myriad of protocol threatshttps://t.co/erocaQOkbz

— Base ?️ (@BuildOnBase) September 19, 2023

According to the statement, Pessimism has been monitoring and securing Base’s mainnet since launch.

The tool consists of three parts:

• ETL — the mechanism responsible for processing and transferring data in real time;
• ‘risk engine’ — performs analysis and provides a security assessment of the data received;
• alerting — distributing alerts via external channels.

Pessimism is also capable of assessing protocol performance, tracking response times, throughput, and error rate. The feature enables timely responses to potential faults.

The Base team urged the developer community to review the Pessimism code on GitHub and propose their own improvements.

‘Our vision is to provide a platform for a variety of creative projects that will thrive in an open, permissionless network. Pessimism enables us to leverage the best capabilities of internal monitoring to safeguard this ecosystem,’ said representatives of Base.

The developers have placed substantial emphasis on securing the кроссчейн-моста OP Stack, since most assets locked on Base are located there. According to DeFi Llama, the figure stands at $363.45 million as of writing.

Earlier Base surpassed Ethereum in transactions per second at 12.93 TPS. It marked the first time in history that an L2 network has overtaken the main Ethereum blockchain.

In September, the Seashell team, in collaboration with several DeFi projects launched on Base a fork of the lending platform Aave v3 named Seamless Protocol.