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 parameters, developer tooling, front ends, and abstraction levels all differ — slowing down 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.

Meet the Mother of Network Effect: The Superchain

The idea of the Superchain is to create a single, unified network that feels like ONE chain, with users, assets, and developers able 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 to form an interoperable chain set.

The Superchain Vision

The vision of the Superchain goes beyond the OP Stack. It is set to be interoperable with the broader Ethereum ecosystem, enabling consistent UX beyond its own boundaries and ultimately creating a better-connected, efficient, and user-friendly blockchain landscape where assets and information can flow freely between 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 enables 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.

How Chains Benefit from the Superchain

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.

Superchain developers will benefit from synchronized upgrades to the OP Stack, along with improvements and new products aimed at enhancing scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness. Developers also gain access to cross-chain tools that enable seamless interactions across a multichain environment.

For app users, this brings a unified multichain 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.

Powered by the Superchain – On Gelato

Although OP Stack and the Superchain are all about standardization, customization possibilities are expanding. Using Gelato, developers can:

• Modify OP Stack chains with a custom gas token for better token utility

• Swap out Ethereum as data availability with Celestia or EigenDA to enable cheaper transactions and higher throughput

• Integrate native yield without a fork to boost the onchain economy

Lisk, the 4th largest Superchain by TVL, 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 requirements 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.”
— Ben Jones, Chief Scientist & Founder at Optimism Foundation

Deploy on Gelato

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.