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

Hacks

Optimism hacker confirms they are whitehat, returns most of stolen funds

Optimism hacker started returning the stolen tokens in a batch of 1 million per transaction.

4 years ago

DAOs

Optimism Foundation sends $20M to the wrong wallet – OP drops 36%

In an announcement the Optimism Foundation confirmed that they sent 20M OP tokens to the wrong multi-sig wallet even after completing two test transactions

4 years ago

Adoption

Optimism community proposal seeks to ban OP dumpers from future airdrops

The proposal comes barely a day after the Ethereum scaling solution airdropped its governance tokens to early adopters.

4 years ago

Crypto

Optimism airdrops token amid high demand and drama

Some users claimed that they had been interacting with the smart contract before it went live, while some are saying they suddenly became ineligible for the airdrop.

4 years ago

Layer-2

Ethereum L2 solution Optimism to launch new governance model, token via airdrop

The governance system is a unique bicameral model in which two different entities will work together to grow the ecosystem.

4 years ago

Derivatives

Synthetix to launch perpetual futures on Ethereum scaling solution Optimism

Later this week, the synthetic assets protocol Synthetix will launch its service on Optimism, the optimistic roll-up scaling solution on Ethereum. The launch will imply an upgrade to the protocol, and trading will initially be limited.

4 years ago

Hacks

Critical bug in Ethereum L2 Optimism, $2M bounty paid

Announced today, the Ethereum layer-2 chain Optimism was alerted by a white hat hacker of a critical bug in a smart contract. The bug was fixed and $2 million in bug bounty was paid out to the hacker.

4 years ago