Many industry heavyweights, such as Solana and Avalanche, have benefited from Ankr's assistance in speeding up their blockchains, enabling better Web3 experiences worldwide. dApp developers from all over the world will be able to use Optimism's public and premium RPCs due to this relationship. Greg Gopman, the Chief Marketing Officer at Ankr, said,
"We love what Optimism is building for the future of Ethereum. Ankr is happy to do our part to provide a fast and reliable RPC service for their users,"
Ankr also stated that it would reward independent Optimism node operators with ANKR tokens for adding their nodes to the load balancer. Co-founder and CEO of Ankr Network, Chandler Song, wrote about multichain technology as necessary for the future of DeFi products in November 2021.
"This means that at a minimum, any DeFi product needs to support Ethereum and a "niche" blockchain – there are proven leaders for trading, staking, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and more," he explained at the time. "The more chains you can interact with, the better."