Tag: Optimism
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Lido Floods Layer 2s with Staked ETH After Launching Incentives Program
Lido Scrambles to Counter Coinbase and Rocket Pool as Staked ETH Market Heats Up
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Arbitrum Transactions Quadruple After Upgrade
Surge of Activity and Addresses Bolsters L2 Blockchain
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What Is Optimism?
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Layer 2 Blockchain
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Optimism and Arbitrum Storm DeFi Rankings
Layer 2s Rank No. 4 and No. 6 by Total Value Locked
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Velodrome Surprises Investors with Surge on Optimism Blockchain
Overlooked DEX Challenges Uniswap by Taking Four of Top 10 Places on Layer 2
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Lido To Expand stETH To Layer 2 Networks
The staked ETH derivative will be launched on Arbitrum and Optimism.
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Optimism’s TVL Doubles as Trading Activity Surges on Layer 2s
Loopring and Boba Network Shed Nearly $2B in TVL
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Optimism Exploiter Returns 90% Of Stolen Tokens
18M OP stolen OP tokens have been returned.
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ApeCoin Community Commits to Ethereum to ‘Properly Scale’
Soaring Fees in Otherdeeds Land Sale Drives Community to Layer 2s
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Market Maker Mishap Leads to Loss of 20M OP Tokens
20M OP tokens that were loaned to market maker Wintermute have been stolen by parties unknown.
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Velodrome AMM Launches Airdrop on Optimism
Eligible users can now claim their $VELO airdrops.
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Optimism Airdrop Turns ‘Turbulent’ After Demand Overload
Optimism Struggles to Handle Surge for OP Token
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$OP is Live! A Guide To Claiming The Airdrop
A step-by-step guide to claiming Optimism’s $OP airdrop.
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BREAKING: Optimism’s $OP Token Could Be Imminent
Crypto users are speculating that Optimism could drop its OP token as early as tomorrow.
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Mirror Taps Optimism for New Writing NFTs
Web3 blog platform Mirror now lets writers sell their essays as NFTs. Mirror, a kind of Medium meets Web3, lets bloggers publish essays on the Ethereum blockchain, then vote on the best ones with the platform’s governance token. Upstart writers could already sell NFTs on the platform and hold crowdsales – they’ve raised $15.36M since […]
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Optimism Foundation Cracks Down On Airdrop Farmers
17,000 addresses have been disqualified from the Optimism airdrop with 14M OP tokens reallocated.
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Optimism Targets ‘Ethereum Equivalence’ With New L2 Upgrade
Ethereum scaling solution Optimism today announced Bedrock, an upgrade that improves speeds and cuts costs for those that trade on the L2. Optimism is a rollup: a Layer 2 scaling solution that batches transactions on another blockchain, then feeds them back to Ethereum as a single transaction. Rollups enjoy the security of Ethereum’s mainnet while […]
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IntoTheBlock: Diving into Optimism and the Promise of Layer 2s
Speculation Mounts About Prices and Airdrops
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Optimism Launches OP Token With Airdrop For Early Users
Ethereum Layer-2 Optimism is launching its $OP governance token with an airdrop for early adopters.
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Synthetix Incentivizes sUSD Liquidity On Optimism With Lyra
Synthetix and Lyra look to boost sUSD liquidity on Optimism.
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Curve Boosts Layer 2s with Launch on Optimism
Curve gave Layer 2s a boost by joining Optimism.
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Transak Launches Fiat Onramps to Top L2s Arbitrum and Optimism
Layer 2 blockchains Arbitrum and Optimism got a boost from a new fait-to-crypto offering.
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Push to Launch Layer 2 Liquidity Mining on Uniswap Gains Steam
Uniswap is considering a proposal to launch liquidity mining with an eye toward a Layer 2 deployment.
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New Layer 2 Boba Leapfrogs Optimism and Races Past $1B in TVL
Boba has rapidly leapfrogged Layer 2s and raced past $1B in TVL.
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Defiant Degens: Killing 2 Birds with 1 Farm: How to LP and Earn a Possible Future Arbitrum or Hop Token
This is a weekly tutorial on the most compelling opportunities in yield farming, written by our friend DeFi Dad, an advisor to The Defiant and Head of Portfolio Support at Fourth Revolution Capital (4RC). Background on Protocol: One of the biggest windfalls in DeFi portfolios is an airdrop. It’s “Uptober” and aside from green candles, […]
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Ape Diaries: The Early Bird Gets The Airdrop
It has historically paid to be early in DeFi — literally. Traders (including yours truly) are betting that will also be the case on Arbitrum and Optimism. DeFi has long fostered a culture of rewarding early adopters, with a great example being last year’s massive Uniswap airdrop in which the decentralized exchange airdropped 400 UNI […]
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Sushi Won’t Launch on L2 Optimism, Citing Preferential Treatment of Uniswap
Sushi is drawing back from plans to deploy on Optimism after a dispute over the Ethereum L2 solution’s launch process. On August 11, SushiSwap CTO Joseph Delong announced that Sushi would be taking a wait-and-see approach to deploying on Optimism due to what he described as “non-preferential treatment.” According to Delong, Sushi had already deployed […]
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Optimism and Buterin Tap Profit-Motive to Accelerate Public Goods for DeFi, Sparking Debate
Gitcoin rustles up millions of dollars in funding to support Ethereum developers. Lighthouse gives away Ethereum 2.0 software. And EthHub provides educational services on the Ethereum ecosystem gratis. These endeavors are known as public goods, and no surprise, Defiers love them, and want more of them. But influential voices in DeFi, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik […]
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Looking Back at Uniswap’s Growth as it’s Deployed on L2
On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock The anticipated launch of Uniswap on layer 2 has finally arrived, at least to some extent. Uniswap’s alpha on Optimism has been released, supporting only six crypto-assets so far, but at a fraction of the cost incurred on Ethereum’s mainnet. As Uniswap’s V3 is on track to fully […]