17,000 addresses have been disqualified from the Optimism airdrop with 14M OP tokens reallocated.

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…

Ethereum Layer-2 Optimism is launching its $OP governance token with an airdrop for early adopters.

Aave Arc inked deals with Layer 2s Optimism and Arbitrum as part of its strategy to attract institutional investors.

Curve gave Layer 2s a boost by joining Optimism.

Optimism., the Layer 2 rollup network, is removing its whitelist and opening the door to devs.

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…

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…

Uniswap V3 has launched on Optimism. This is wild. It’s pretty fast to get over there but it takes a week to come back so be aware of that.

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…