OP Stack Focuses on Scaling Onchain Revenue Infrastructure

🎯 OP Stack's new mission

By Optimism
Jan 26, 2026, 3:44 PM
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The OP Stack team has announced their 2026 strategic direction, focusing on becoming the leading toolset for scaling onchain revenue.​

Key priorities:

  • Delivering best-in-class infrastructure to partners
  • Emphasizing performance and customization
  • Building scalable revenue solutions

The OP Stack remains a modular, open-source blockchain framework designed to help scale Ethereum.​ Despite its name, the technology isn't limited to optimistic rollups and continues to evolve with developer community input.​

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Jing just dropped our 2026 direction. We’re going all-in on making the OP Stack the best toolset to scale real onchain revenue. Our goal is simple: provide our partners best-in-class infrastructure. Performance. Customizable. Revenue that scales.

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Our 2026 Roadmap Last year, we made transactions 10x faster and 10x cheaper. But that’s not enough. This year, we also want to make the OP Stack hands down the best toolset for scaling to your first million dollars in onchain revenue. To us, scaling means identifying and

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