Optimistic Ethereum is, in a nutshell, an application inside of Ethereum that executes transactions more efficiently than Ethereum itself.
It's based on the concept of the Optimistic Rollup, a construction that allows us to "optimistically" publish transaction results without actually executing those transactions on Ethereum (most of the time). Optimistic Ethereum makes transactions cheaper, faster, and smarter.
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