Key components of Optimism
Optimism is composed of 3 main components as follows:
Ethereum mainnet: Main platform – Layer 1 of Optimism.
Optimistic Rollups: The core extension of Optimism.
Optimism Virtual Machine (OVM): This is an Ethereum compatible virtual machine that helps projects operate as if they were on Layer 1 Ethereum. This is the environment where Ethereum's smart contracts run, so OVM can also be considered as an EVM with better scalability to support processing a large number of smart contracts in a certain time.
Key components of Optimism
In addition, Optimism is ambitious to build a Superchain ecosystem with Layer 2 construction projects based on a new SDK toolkit called OP Stack.
