**The OP Stack is the standardized, shared, and open-source development stack that powers Optimism, maintained by the Optimism Collective.**
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The OP Stack consists of the many different software components managed and maintained by the Optimism Collective that, together, form the backbone of Optimism.
The OP Stack is built as a public good for the Ethereum and Optimism ecosystems.
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Bedrock is the name of the first ever official release of the OP Stack codebase, which is a set of free and open-source modular components that work together to power Optimism.
- To understand what is in the Bedrock release, keep reading.
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The next major scalability improvement to the OP Stack after [Bedrock](../releases/bedrock/) is to introduce the concept of *a Superchain*: a network of chains that share bridging, decentralized governance, upgrades, a communication layer and more—all built on the OP Stack.