Ink, a Kraken-incubated Ethereum Layer 2 built on the OP Stack, is upgrading to Optimism's OP Enterprise Fully Managed under a multi-year deal, the projects said Wednesday.
Under the deal, Optimism will operate Ink's production infrastructure while the Ink Foundation focuses on ecosystem growth and new financial products. In a statement shared exclusively with The Block, Optimism said the arrangement is one of the first instances of a major Layer 2 delegating infrastructure operations to a managed provider.
Launched in December 2024, Ink said it processed more than 1 million transactions in the first 24 hours after its mainnet went live, and applications built on the network now generate close to $40 million in annual revenue.
Ink signs on as OP Enterprise design partner
Ink will also serve as a design partner for OP Enterprise, Optimism's infrastructure offering for institutions and exchanges building onchain financial products. The roadmap includes programmable block building, one-day withdrawals to Ethereum, and sequencer-level compliance tooling, alongside performance targets of 400 megagas per second in guaranteed throughput and block times as low as 100 milliseconds by the end of 2026.
