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COIN: Base moves away from Optimism’s 'OP stack' in major tech shift

Base will control its own codebase to reduce overhead and double upgrade speed to about six per year while staying compatible with Optimism's OP Stack standards.

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Base launched in 2023 and quickly became one of the most widely used Ethereum layer-2 networks.

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Base is preparing to launch its own technical stack to gain autonomy, which represents a 94% decrease in revenue from Optimism's tributes. Read more

Coinbase’s 2 Ethereum Layer Network, Base, is changing the technology on which it is built, moving away from relying on Op Stack’s Op Optimism, the tool set with which it was originally launched in 2023. *** Base is “evolving its core software by moving to a unified stack operated by Base.” The Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase is saying goodbye to Op Stack’s Op Optimism. The transition will include at least three updates in the for…

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On Wednesday, the Base teams announced the gradual abandonment of Optimism's technologies to turn to their own solution. In the wake of this announcement, the OP token collapsed. The Base article abandons Optimism's OP Stack to develop its own technology appeared first on Cryptoast.

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TokenPost broke the news in on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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