The Optimism team has abandoned the whitelist concept and opened access to its Ethereum L2 solution to all developers. Any project can now deploy smart contracts on the network.
Today is the day. 🍾
The whitelist is officially gone and anyone can deploy to Optimism!https://t.co/XFCL7yKh8n
— Optimism (@optimismPBC) December 16, 2021
Previously, interaction with the L2 solution was limited to authorized projects such as Uniswap and Synthetix. According to the developers, this restriction was necessary to test Optimism, as a small number of teams made it easier to plan and implement updates.
Representatives of the authorized projects, in turn, were always in touch and promptly reported any bugs they found.
In a blog post, “Over the past year we have been stress-testing and hardening the network. After lengthy preparation, we finally feel we can shed the training wheels,” it says.
In November, developers launched in the Optimism network the ‘EVM Equivalence’ (EVM Equivalence), stating that its functionality fully matches the original EVM.
The team emphasised that it plans to continue working on decentralising the project. Next year, they promised to unveil “a few interesting updates” that will make the network faster, cheaper and more secure.
The developers stressed that, for the project’s development, they retained control over key parts of the system such as a multisig wallet that allows updating any of the Optimism contracts deployed on Ethereum.
With the whitelist scrapped, Optimism’s TVL could rise. According to L2 Beat, as of writing about $377 million is locked in the project’s smart contracts.
In August, Optimism integrated the liquidity aggregator from the decentralized exchange 1inch.
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