Base’s 2025 vision is focused on improving these five key areas
Optimism Weekly Overview - January 21, 2025
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Superchain Ecosystem Numbers
DeFi total value locked (TVL) across Superchain: $4.9B (+11.36%)
Assets onchain: $22.7B (+7.58%)
Daily average transaction volume: 14.0M (-2.1%)
Base: 11.1M (-3.48%)
OP Mainnet: 803.4K (+1.65%)
World Chain: 701.7K (+9.06%)
Lisk: 486.9K (-2.0%)
Mint: 285.0K (-8.06%)
Revenue-generating deployers on:
Zora: 118 (-5.6%)
OP Mainnet: 1222 (-1.05%)
Superchain transaction fee total savings vs L1s:
OP Mainnet: 42,047 ETH
Base: 220,902 ETH
Zora: 1,656 ETH
Compared to Ethereum, L2 Superchain users saved a total of 265K ETH, or $865M on txn fees this week.
The percentages and metrics are pulled from the Superchain Health Dashboard and are calculated from its change over a 7-day time frame, unless noted otherwise.
Spotlight on Optimism’s Superchain
Highlighting some of the biggest updates on Optimism’s Superchain this week.
🔴What’s happening: Base, a L2 blockchain built on the Superchain, released its 2025 roadmap, outlining its vision and strategies to build a global onchain economy and bring a billion people onchain.
🔴Why it matters: The network’s goal is to continue growing the Base economy by investing and improving in five key areas: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and users. The core team and contributors want to achieve “big, hairy, audacious goals” for 2025.
The L2 is focused on improving the capabilities and power of its open-source tools on its OnchainKit for developers.
The network aims to add more capabilities geared toward AI agents and mini-apps and features that enhance the scalability and performance of these apps. Specifically, Base will add integrations such as L3s and gasless transactions in order to improve user and developer experiences. The tool kit will also seek to accommodate a range of builders from beginners to advanced engineers, allowing more contributors and innovation on the network.
Base also plans to cultivate an ecosystem that supports the growth of apps and creators on the platform. The network will use its massive platform to help contributors increase their distributions and hopefully, go viral. This commitment can be especially important to incentivize creators to join the network. On this note, Base is focused on building onchain experiences with social, trading, payments, and messaging.
Additionally, Base plans to introduce a Smart Wallet for onchain accounts, offering “seamless funding, identity, and management.” This will prioritize user experience with hopes to have an onboarding process of less than sixty seconds.
Finally, Base will continue its efforts to decentralize, similar to OP Mainnet, with a goal to achieve “Stage 1” decentralization.
🔴What it means for the broader ecosystem: In general, Base aims to go into full gear in 2025 by enhancing developer tools and making better user experiences onchain.
The growth and expansion of Base has also contributed to significant increases in activity within the Superchain ecosystem. The network has increased users, fee revenue generated, and transactions with Base and OP Mainnet ranking top 2 for net flows in the past year.
As Base continues to develop its network, the Superchain and the entire ecosystem can continue to benefit. TUnder the Superchain's economic model, chains can choose to contribute either 2.5% of onchain revenue or 15% of onchain profit to the Optimism Collective. This revenue generated from Base and other OP Chains continues to help improve the OP Stack, reward contributors and fund projects through Retro Funding.
The Superchain can have a profound impact on Base and other networks’ ability to access users and liquidity within its ecosystem and plans for full interoperability. By lowering barriers for builders and enhancing usability, networks like Base can help drive growth and innovation within its own ecosystem as well as the unified Superchain.
What’s poppin’ on the Superchain
Total number of weekly active addresses by chain:
Base: 5.75M
OP Mainnet: 387.74K
Zora: 68.45K
Mode Network: 17.86K
Morpho Labs, built on Base, released bitcoin-backed loans on Coinbase
Learn about Uniswap and Across Protocol’s ERC-7683 proposal for “crosschain intents” on Ethereum
Read about World Chain’s upgrade to Holocene and fault proofs in an article on X
Ink chain now enables $USDT0 transfers on Kraken’s crypto exchange
From the Optimism Collective
Highlighting the companies, communities and citizens bound to the Optimism Collective.
Watch OP Labs Co-founder Mark Tyneway discuss the Superchain’s 2025 economic outlook on The Rollup podcast
Listen to the conversation with the OP Labs Co-founder and CEO, Karl Floersch, and Uniswap founder, Hayden Adams on the a16z crypto podcast
Tune in to the discussion with Optimism co-founder Ben Jones and Chief Growth Officer Ryan Wyatt on the Empire podcast
Also, ICYMI: Wyatt shared the Superchain is on track to surpass 75% of all L2 transactions within six months
Soneium’s Co-founder, Sota Watanabe, went on Laura Shin's Unchained podcast to discuss protecting IP and memecoin blacklisting
Get into the OP Stack
Want to dive into the ecosystem full-time? Find the latest job postings here or get involved at an event below.
Tune in to an X Space with Andrew Koller, the founder of Ink, to discuss Stage 1 fault proofs, on Jan. 22 at 3PM UTC
Join the Ink hacker house during ETH Denver at its five-day House of Ink, starting on Feb. 22
Interested in building on Base? Join the Base Onchain AI Hackathon in London here
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