Read on to find out which are the biggest chains building on Optimism and their characteristics.
Our team has recently ran an analysis on the Optimism network (OP Stack Chain ID). We have crawled the discv4 and discv5 DHTs with our network crawler Nebula and filtered the results to only include nodes that included OPStack related ENR entries (discv5) or reported ChainID 10 in the handshake (discv4). Unless mentioned otherwise, we are reporting on discv5 results. We found the following, which might be known to some community members or core developers. However, we couldn’t find public dashboards or similar with this data, so thought that it would be useful to post our results publicly.
The total number nodes discovered during a single crawl that have Optimism-related ENR entries is: 3770
The distribution of nodes by Chain ID, building on top of OP Stack Chain ID on the discv5 network is as per the following graph. We mapped the ChainID to the corresponding project based information from https://chainlist.org/.
The distribution of nodes by Agent Version is shown below. Interestingly, the agent version distribution does not follow the Chain ID distribution. Most of the nodes advertise the optimism agent version while they actually belong to different chains.
The geolocation distribution of nodes is shown in the following graph and generally looks healthy. There is enough distribution of nodes across different geographies with the US and some EU countries being more dominant, similarly to what has been observed in other networks.
The cloud vs non-cloud deployment distribution per Chain ID is shown below. The split generally follows what we’ve seen in other networks, with the exception of Base, OP Mainnet, Blast and opBNB Mainnet nodes that seem to be primarily deployed in centralised cloud infra.
We believe that checking in on such metrics on a regular basis helps keep visibility into the network structure and architecture, as well as the healthy state of the network.
With this post, apart from raising awareness regarding the state and breakdown of nodes in the Optimism network, we would be interested to hear feedback on other metrics that are of interest to the community. Feel free to reach out through the details listed in our contact page: https://probelab.network/contact.
You can find more of the results that our team is producing, as well as similar reports for other networks at: https://probelab.io.
