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Data Sources:Footprint Analytics - Optimistic Dashboard（https://footprint.cool/qtM5）
Ethereum is currently the undisputed king of the public chain, but its transaction congestion and high transaction fees have also troubled users for a long time, and calls for expansion have increased significantly. With the continuous advancement of the Layer 2 solution, it has become a powerful weapon to solve the current Ethereum expansion problem. Among them, state channels, side chains, Plasma and Rollup have become the four major solutions. Rollup is the most recognized solution, and Optimism is one of the expansion projects of the Rollup solution.
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The development of Optimism
Optimism is a Layer 2 expansion solution based on Optimistic Rollup. The advantage of this solution is that it is easy to integrate with DApp, and developers hardly need to make changes to the underlying smart contracts of DApp. Therefore, after it announced the plan, it immediately received the support of many developers.
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Optimism status quo: The ecological growth rate is flat, mainly based on the Synthetix ecology
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Data source: Footprint Analytics - Optimism TVL
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Data source: Footprint Analytics - Optimism TVL of each DApp
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Analysis of the Causes Affecting the Development of Optimism
Reason 1: Optimism is not 100% EVM compatible
Another point that hinders Optimism is that only contracts that pass the whitelist can be deployed, which makes many new projects or many projects that are willing to wait for the middle waist. The reason why Optimism uses the whitelist is mainly to build a new anti-fraud system, but it is by no means easy and requires a lot of time and experience.
Reason 3: The current "anti-VC" culture in the crypto community
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The current way to expand the transaction volume in the market is to use Turing's complete programming to be compatible with off-chain EVM instructions, so that everyone can directly execute solididity programs off-chain. And Optimism hopes to realize smart contracts on the chain through OVM, so that smart contracts can accept and execute EVM-compatible instructions off-chain, so as to ensure that OVM bytecodes can be mapped to EVM one by one. But this kind of mapping may only have about 20 bytecodes, which makes Optimism unable to achieve 100% EVM compatibility, and the development cost is slightly higher.
Another point that hinders Optimism is that only contracts that pass the whitelist can be deployed, which makes many new projects or many projects that are willing to wait for the middle waist. The reason why Optimism uses the whitelist is mainly to build a new anti-fraud system, but it is by no means easy and requires a lot of time and experience.
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The current Layer 2 track is already a race of deer, and it no longer stays on the surface of theory. Whichever Layer 2 ecology can make outstanding contributions in terms of infrastructure, security, richness and attractiveness of ecological construction, community building, etc., will have the opportunity to prosper.
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