Super on the Superchain: Building with native interop on OP Stack & beyond on Gelato RaaS

This blog post outlines the Superchain vision, the native interOP on OP Stack, and how we scale Ethereum by adopting standardized cross-ecosystem interfaces.

Blockchain technology is on the verge of mass adoption. There are over 200 L2 and L3 chains on L2 Beat, with more than 120 chains set to launch this year alone. Without a doubt, multichain is the future.

However multichain introduces complexities of interoperability with fragmentation of liquidity and social coordination being the main problem. On multichain, blocktimes, computational throughput, risk paraments, developer tooling, front ends and abstraction level all differ - slowing down the development and introducing complex, nuanced UX.

To address fragmentation and interoperability, developers needed to make significant efforts to implement multichain-compatible infrastructure, bootstrap liquidity, and push the boundaries of user experience.

The idea of the Superchain is to create a single, unified network that feels like ONE chain, with users, assets, and developers to move smoothly across the network. By making OP Stack natively interoperable and using open-source standard interfaces, the user experience in the Ethereum ecosystem can become more intuitive and secure.

The Superchain layer is built of four components to ensure a secure communication layer; a message passing protocol, the superchain token standard for cross-chain portability and fungibility, interop fault proofs linking the security of chains, and a set of interoperable chains reading data from each other forming an interoperable chain set.

The vision of the Superchain is grander than the OP Stack, set to be interoperable with broader Ethereum, Superchain will enabe consistent UX beyond its own ecosystem ultimately creating a better connected, efficient and user-friendly blockchain landscape where assets and information can flow freely between different networks.

At first the Superchain will act as a native protocol layer for interoperability, using open-source interfaces like ERC-7683 for app layer interop. This method will enable token transfers with lower slippage, faster latency, and better security.

Superchain’s long-term vision is to create scalable smart contract systems using zk-proofs for real-time proving and removing blockspace limits, offering developers abundant blockspace that drives innovation.

The native interoperability within the Superchain offers significant advantages for OP Stack chain developers. Through enhanced social coordination, builders can tap into a shared user base, assets, and developer community.

The Superchain devs will benefit from synchronized upgrades to the OP Stack, along with improvements and new products aimed at enhancing scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness. On top of this devs will gain access to cross-chain tools that enable seamless interactions across multichain environment.

For App users, this brings unified multichain user experience with Optimism, Base and 20+ more chains on the Superchain akin to a single chain, eliminating the need for bridging and network switching, and allowing them to explore hundreds of applications.

Although OP Stack and Superchain is all about standardization, customizations possibilities are expanding. Using Gelato, you can simply modify your OP Stack chain with custom gas token for better token utility, swap out Ethereum as data availability with Celestia or EigenDA to enable cheaper transactions and higher throughput or integrate native-yield without a fork to boost the onchain economy.

The 4th largest Superchain by TVL, Lisk, is deployed on Gelato, boasting $133M in TVL. Gelato also services Camp Network, Ethernity, and GameSwift, with over 10 additional chains in the pipeline.

Together with these teams, we are preparing for the Superchain interop standard implementation, maintaining high availability of the sequencer at 99.95%, implementing fault-proof infrastructure, and ensuring all chains meet stage 1 rollup requirement for seamless integration with the Superchain.

“We are excited that Gelato supports the OP stack by the OP Collective, simplifying the process for developers to onboard new users into the Superchain ecosystem. Gelato has already executed millions of transactions for Superchains like Lisk, Camp Network, and Ethernity. We look forward to Gelato using their developer expertise to help realize the Superchain vision.” - says Ben Jones Chief Scientist & Founder
at Optimism Foundation

To learn how Gelato can help you deploy your chain on the OP Stack, schedule a meeting here, or simply deploy with just one click OP Stack Superchain or Base L3 (also part of the Superchain) on the Gelato RaaS app.