A day after much speculation on Twitter following the “orange dot” tweet, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has finally revealed its plans for a blockchain infrastructure: Magi, a rollup client for cryptocurrencies. Optimism
Magi is still in development and is several months away as announced.atPosted by crypto engineer Noah Citron.
This project is a new client for the OP Stack, an open-source development stack powered by Optimism. It is written in Rust and is intended to be a faster alternative to the op-node, a rollup client that Only one exists, maintained by OP Labs, and written in the Go programming language.
“Magi acts as a consensus client (often referred to as a rollup client in the context of the OP Stack) in Ethereum’s traditional execution/consensus,” Citron wrote.
On Tuesday, Citron tweeted an “orange dot” along with the text “coming soon,” which Twitter users linked to Coinbase’s similar blue dot tweet ahead of the Optimism-based Layer 2 announcement. A16z Chief Technology Officer Eddy Lazzarin replied that his company is not running on Layer 2 blockchain.
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