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Ink, the layer-2 network incubated by crypto exchange Kraken, has signed a multi-year agreement under which Optimism will take over its production infrastructure through a product called OP Enterprise Fully Managed.
The arrangement shifts the operational burden to Optimism while the Ink Foundation turns its attention to ecosystem growth and new financial products.
What the Deal Actually Transfers The core of this agreement is operational: Optimism assumes responsibility for running Ink's production infrastructure.
Running production infrastructure for a live network carries real engineering costs — uptime, incident response, capacity management — and offloading those functions to Optimism through the OP Enterprise Fully Managed product implies Ink judged the build-versus-buy question in favor of buying managed services from its infrastructure partner.
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