TL;DR
- Optimism published a guide for Fortune 500 companies to deploy their own chains on OP Stack and access institutional DeFi with compliance controls.
- The OP Stack ecosystem secures approximately $17 billion in value and processed nearly 6.8 billion transactions between January and August 2026, according to L2BEAT.
- OP Enterprise offers three service tiers with SLAs of up to 99.95% availability and critical incident response times of 15 minutes for deployments.
Optimism published a technical document aimed at Fortune 500 companies describing how to deploy a proprietary chain on OP Stack to operate onchain finance with compliance controls configurable at the base layer.
The central focus is not a financial product but infrastructure: the company deploys and governs its own chain, defines who can transact and how operations are ordered, while final settlement occurs on Ethereum.
Optimism addressed the issue with an analogy: a dedicated chain on OP Stack is equivalent to a virtual private cloud, while a shared public L2 resembles multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. The difference in control is substantial. On a proprietary chain, the operator can configure allowlists, run sanctions screening at the sequencer level through integrations with providers such as TRM and Forta, establish transaction ordering rules, and activate a Guardian role that can pause L2-L1 bridge withdrawals during an incident.
Optimism: Dedicated Chain Model for Enterprises
The OP Stack is open source under the MIT license, allowing a company to modify and operate it completely autonomously or hire OP Enterprise as a managed service. This second path offers three tiers: self-managed with support, full management with a contractual SLA of 99.9% availability, and a mission-critical tier with 99.95% uptime, multi-region deployment, and critical incident response times of 15 minutes.
More than 50 chains already operate on the Optimism Stack, including Soneium by Sony, Unichain by Uniswap, Ink, and World Chain. The ecosystem holds approximately $17 billion in secured value, above the $14 billion of Arbitrum.
On the privacy front, the document mentions Privacy Boost, an SDK developed by Sunnyside Labs that combines zero-knowledge proofs and trusted execution environments, with proof generation times below 500 milliseconds and throughput exceeding 1,800 TPS. It is a third-party tool, not a native protocol feature, and its architecture includes hardware trust assumptions that the document does not omit to note.
Fees Under Direct Control
The economics of Optimism’s model are also crucial for corporate finance teams: since OP Stack does not charge fees at the protocol level, transaction fees on a proprietary chain can remain under the operator’s direct control, becoming a source of revenue rather than a recurring operating cost.
