Optimism Network Monitoring

Name: Optimism Network Monitoring
Creator: ProbeLab

Optimism (OP Mainnet) is an Ethereum layer 2 built on the OP Stack. ProbeLab crawls its peer-to-peer network to show where the nodes are and which cloud providers host them. We also measure GossipSub bandwidth, control messages and duplicate messages.

Monitored Components

Topology

GossipSub

Core Statistics

Countries Distribution (24h)

Snapshot of active agents geolocation within the last 24hrs

Cloud Provider Dependency Over Time

Count of nodes deployed per cloud provider and per agent

Related Work

Blog posts, papers and talks by the ProbeLab team about Optimism.

SIGMETRICS '26 Conference Paper

Paper Dec 2025

Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies

Blockchain technologies underpin an expanding ecosystem of decentralized applications, financial systems, and infrastructure. However, the fundamental networking layer that sustains these systems, the peer-to-peer (P2P) …

Blog post Apr 2025

Insights into Optimism’s Chain Composition [Repeated]

We're looking into how the Superchain has evolved during the last five months.

Blog post Nov 2024

Insights into Optimism’s Chain Composition

Read on to find out which are the biggest chains building on Optimism and their characteristics.