{"id":84772,"date":"2023-09-20T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=84772"},"modified":"2025-09-12T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:22:32","slug":"base-team-unveils-pessimism-a-security-monitoring-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/base-team-unveils-pessimism-a-security-monitoring-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Base team unveils Pessimism, a security-monitoring system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">L2<\/a>-network Base have released to the public the Pessimism monitoring system, designed to strengthen the security of OP Stack-compatible and <span data-descr=\"Ethereum Virtual Machine \u2014 the Ethereum virtual machine\" class=\"old_tooltip\">EVM<\/span> protocols through rapid threat detection and response.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Introducing Pessimism, an open source monitoring system designed to enhance security of Base (as well as the broader OP Stack and Ethereal ecosystem) by quickly detecting and responding to a myriad of protocol threats<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/erocaQOkbz\">https:\/\/t.co\/erocaQOkbz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Base ?\ufe0f (@BuildOnBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuildOnBase\/status\/1704217177904271827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Pessimism has been monitoring and securing Base&#8217;s mainnet since launch.<\/p>\n<p>The tool consists of three parts:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span data-descr=\"Extract, Transform, Load \u2014 extraction, transformation, loading\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ETL<\/span> \u2014 the mechanism responsible for processing and transferring data in real time;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;risk engine&#8217; \u2014 performs analysis and provides a security assessment of the data received;<\/li>\n<li>alerting \u2014 distributing alerts via external channels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pessimism is also capable of assessing protocol performance, tracking response times, throughput, and error rate. The feature enables timely responses to potential faults.<\/p>\n<p>The Base team urged the developer community to review the Pessimism code on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/base-org\/pessimism\/issues?q%3Dis%253Aopen%2Bis%253Aissue%2Blabel%253A%2522good%2Bfirst%2Bissue%2522&#038;sa=D&#038;source=docs&#038;ust=1694630091896034&#038;usg=AOvVaw1IwdpqckTNEvf93DSqn3iA\">GitHub<\/a> and propose their own improvements.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8216;Our vision is to provide a platform for a variety of creative projects that will thrive in an open, permissionless network. Pessimism enables us to leverage the best capabilities of internal monitoring to safeguard this ecosystem,&#8217; said representatives of Base.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The developers have placed substantial emphasis on securing the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-cross-chain-bridges\">\u043a\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0447\u0435\u0439\u043d<\/a>-\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430 OP Stack, since most assets locked on Base are located there. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/Base\">DeFi Llama<\/a>, the figure stands at $363.45 million as of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Base surpassed Ethereum in transactions per second at 12.93 TPS. It marked the first time in history that an L2 network has overtaken the main Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the Seashell team, in collaboration with several DeFi projects <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/aave-v3-fork-launches-on-base-coinbase-supported-l2-network\">launched<\/a> on Base a fork of the lending platform <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-aave\">Aave<\/a> v3 named Seamless Protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Base&#8217;s L2 network developers released the Pessimism monitoring system to publicly enhance the security of OP Stack- and EVM-compatible protocols through rapid threat detection and response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1321,1111],"class_list":["post-84772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-base","tag-cybersecurity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84774,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84772\/revisions\/84774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}