A16z’s hyped-up orange balls revealed to be an L2 rollup client
An earlier series of tweets sharing images of orange balls were the precursor to the announcement of a client for layer-2 solution Optimism. A series of cryptic tweets depicting orange balls were revealed to be building up hype for a new rollup client for Optimism (OP) called "Magi" from the crypto arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z). An April 19 Tweet from a16z engineer Noah Citron explained Magi is written in the programming language Rust and will “help improve the client diversity and resilience of the entire OP Stack ecosystem.” Introducing Magi , our brand new OP Stack rollup client written in Rust. We've been working on Magi to help improve the client diversity and resilience of the entire OP Stack ecosystem. Lets dive in. code: https://t.co/U8ER6v2SSe blog: https://t.co/A4Tx8iaVOh pic.twitter.com/S5hDbx5Q4R — ncitron.eth (@NoahCitron) April 19, 2023 The OP Stack refers to the set of software that powers the Ethereum layer-2 solution Optimism....