a16z to Release ‘Magi’, A New Rollup Client for Optimism

Utilizing optimistic rollups as a scaling know-how, Optimism features as a layer-two blockchain for Ethereum, enabling off-chain computation to securely file layer-2 transactions. 

Developed for OP Stack, the standardized, shared, and open-source growth stack that powers Optimism, maintained by the Optimism Collective, Magi is just like the site visitors management officer within the conventional execution/consensus break up of Ethereum. It sends new blocks to the execution shopper to maintain the chain going.

“Magi performs the identical core performance because the reference implementation (op-node) and works alongside an execution node (similar to op-geth) to sync to any OP Stack chain, together with Optimism and Base,” a16z crypto said.

With Magi written in Rust, a16z hopes to carry range to rollup purchasers by constructing out a substitute for op-node, the one rollup shopper that’s maintained by OP Labs and written in Go. 

“Shopper range is required on each the execution and consensus sides, however a lot of the growth has up to now been centered on execution purchasers,” the corporate added. “Any current Ethereum execution shopper may be appropriate with Optimism by implementing a modest set of adjustments, and several other new initiatives are already adapting these purchasers to assist obtain shopper range. OP Labs modified Geth to construct op-geth; and different teams are at the moment constructing op-erigon and op-reth.”

a16z crypto stated that Magi is months away from being a possible alternative to op-node however plans so as to add new options, together with new sync mechanisms to enhance preliminary sync pace, different knowledge availability layer help, and extra.

Following the announcement, Optimism’s native token OP noticed a small bump from $2.46 to $2.70 on Wednesday earlier than pulling again to $2.60 as of this writing.

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