Optimism News

Insights on Optimism’s Layer-2 scaling, governance model, and Ethereum ecosystem integrations.

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Galaxy’s Alex Thorn calls Ethereum L2s ‘ETH extractive’ amid fee retention concerns

Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn argued that post-EIP-4844 fee models favor L2 profits over Ethereum mainnet's financial health.

8 months ago

Crypto

CryptoSlate wMarket Update: HEX defies wider market downturn to lead top gainers

The wMarket Update condenses the most important price movements in the crypto markets over the reporting period, published 07:45 ET on weekdays.

3 years ago

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman’s $200M bet that crypto will solve AI threat

The launch of World App comes as reports claim $100 million in funding for Sam Altman's crypto project Worldcoin to solve AI problems.

3 years ago

DeFi

BNB Chain had over 10M active addresses in April; Ethereum had 4.9M

Polyhedra Network, LayerZero Labs, and Stargate Finance are pulling most of the new users on the BNB chain.

3 years ago

Tokenization

Over $790M worth token unlocks scheduled for May

Optimism will release the largest amount on May 31 with over $329 million worth of tokens. Avalanche and BitDao follow as second and third.

3 years ago

Technology

A16z’s mystery ‘orange ball’ revealed — new L2 rollup client ‘Magi’

A16z Crypto's Magi aims to enhance the diversity and performance of the Optimism Layer 2 network ecosystem.

3 years ago

Hacks

Hundred Finance hacked on Optimism, suffers $7 million loss

Multi-chain lending protocol targeted in latest DeFi exploit.

3 years ago

Technology

Optimism jumps 22% following Coinbase ‘Base’ layer 2 announcement

The Optimism token spiked to $3.095 as Coinbase launches its Base layer 2 solution built on the Op Stack code.

3 years ago

Analysis

Optimism sheds 10% following 11M token airdrop

Optimism's OP token fell 13% in the last 24 hours to $2.33 as of press time, according to CryptoSlate data.

3 years ago

Optimism (OP) hits new ATH despite 70% transaction volume decline

Analysis 3 years ago

Messari report alleges Optimism growth is inorganic

Layer-2 4 years ago

Optimism price slides 9% after $450M worth of OP tokens transferred from multisig

Layer-2 4 years ago

Optimism NFT marketplace Quixotic suffers exploit following contract update

Hacks 4 years ago

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Galaxy’s Alex Thorn calls Ethereum L2s ‘ETH extractive’ amid fee retention concerns

CryptoSlate wMarket Update: HEX defies wider market downturn to lead top gainers

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman’s $200M bet that crypto will solve AI threat

BNB Chain had over 10M active addresses in April; Ethereum had 4.9M

Over $790M worth token unlocks scheduled for May

A16z’s mystery ‘orange ball’ revealed — new L2 rollup client ‘Magi’

Hundred Finance hacked on Optimism, suffers $7 million loss

Optimism jumps 22% following Coinbase ‘Base’ layer 2 announcement

Optimism sheds 10% following 11M token airdrop

Optimism (OP) hits new ATH despite 70% transaction volume decline

Messari report alleges Optimism growth is inorganic

Optimism price slides 9% after $450M worth of OP tokens transferred from multisig

Optimism NFT marketplace Quixotic suffers exploit following contract update

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