cLabs, the core developer behind the Celo blockchain, has proposed building the anticipated Ethereum Layer-2 solution on the OP Stack.

The move to migrate Celo from its current Layer 1 network to an Ethereum Layer 2 was confirmed after receiving community approval through a governance vote last July, marking a big change in the project’s evolution.

The team has now decided to develop its Layer 2 on the OP Stack, the primary toolkit for developing chains within the Optimism ecosystem. This followed an eight-month period of evaluation and testing of various scaling technologies and software packages, including Arbitrum Orbit, zkSync’s ZK Stack, and Polygon CDK.

OP Labs, the core contributor of the Optimism ecosystem, offers a development software stack known as the OP Stack, which …