Gate News bot reports that the Optimism development team OP Labs stated that it is only a matter of time before all crypto asset exchanges and fintech companies run their own blockchains. Sam McIngvale, the product lead at OP Labs, indicated that the logic is simple and clear, and pointed out that Base has achieved great success since its debut in 2023. McIngvale said: "I expect that within the next five years, every crypto asset exchange and every fintech company will be able to run their own blockchain. If you have Bitcoin at an exchange, you just need to press a button, and they will transfer these Bitcoins to the corresponding on-chain, and then you can use these Bitcoins to borrow USDC, and then you can do anything you want with that USDC."

Gate News bot, Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao recently posted on GitHub that the upcoming Bitcoin software update will increase the data limit of a split function, which will allow more images, text, and documents to be stored on the Bitcoin blockchain. Specifically, the Bitcoin Core 30 update, scheduled for release on October 30, will remove the 80-byte limit for the controversial OP_RETURN function and allow each output to carry up to 4MB of data. Three days ago, 31 Bitcoin Core developers signed a statement in support of the change, known as Merge Pull Request (MPR) #32406. Bitcoin developers had said on May 5 that data restrictions would be lifted.

According to ChainCatcher news, OP Labs will test the improved Superchain event response function today at 14:30 (UTC). As a result, the Mainnet withdrawals of the Superchain network will be suspended for about 20 minutes. However, this will not affect any deposit transactions from L1 to L2 or L2 transactions. Users or operators do not need to take any action.

PANews news on January 29th, according to Globalnewswire, DeFistake service provider Amerany announced the completion of a $2 million Series A financing, and the investor information has not been disclosed. The new funds are planned to be used for infrastructure upgrades of its multi-chain stake platform. Currently, the platform supports Ethereum (ETH), Aptos (APT), and Optimism.

BlockBeats news, on January 8th, Optimism stated on social media that since the launch of Retro Funding, it has rewarded over 15 million OP to Ethereum core developers, development tools, and educators.

Gate News bot message, the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Optimism is set to update its governance system for the second time this year, aiming to further enhance decentralization. The Optimism team stated in a blog post last Friday that as part of "Season 8" revisions, these changes, effective August 1, will introduce stakeholder voting, a public definition of citizenship, and an automatic proposal approval process. The team mentioned: "Our goal has always been to create a governance model designed for the new internet, which means reducing platform risk by establishing accountability where corporate governance models have failed." It is reported that the previous season lasted from January 16 to June 11, focusing on interoperability.

According to Gate News bot, Protos reported that the Bitcoin core development team has confirmed an update to OP_RETURN in the Core 30 version to be released in October, expanding the data carrier limit from the current 80 bytes to nearly 4MB. This technical adjustment reflects a phased Consensus reached by the reformist developers led by Antoine Poinsot after long discussions with conservative members like Luke Dashjr.

Odaily Planet Daily News Arkham announced the launch of OP, ARB, MOVE and JUP Token trading on its platform, supporting spot trading and perpetual Contract Trading.

Golden Finance reported that according to Arkham monitoring data, approximately six hours ago, the Grayscale Optimism Trust marked Address starting with 0xC7E transferred 16887 OP into an Address, and historical data shows that this is the first increase in about a month for this Address.

Uniswap Labs CEO announced that Unichain is designed for Decentralized Finance L2, and will introduce new improvements such as Flashblocks, seamless interoperability, and Unichain verification network to accelerate its expansion. Among them, Flashblocks cooperates with Flashbots to shorten the block time to 0.25 seconds, providing more transparency and Decentralization. Cooperating with Optimism to achieve seamless interoperability, promoting the development of interoperable L2. Plan to promote L2 Decentralization through UVN, adding an additional layer of economic security and verification.

ChainCatcher News, according to Cyvers Alerts monitoring, Moonwell's USDC lending contract on the Optimism network has been hit by a Flash Loans attack. The attacker used a malicious contract Address as an mToken to obtain unauthorized Token approvals from Moonhackers, thus stealing funds. The attacker received support from Tornado Cash on the Ethereum network, and the stolen USDC has been converted.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to CertiK Alert monitoring, the Moonhacker contract was attacked by a flash loan, with current losses of approximately $320,000. The vulnerability is located on the periphery of the Moonwell lending pool on Optimism. The attacker inputs the attack contract address as 'mToken' to obtain Moonhackers.

Gate News bot message, based on on-chain analyst mrwildcat's latest research on Optimism governance, it shows that in this quarter, over 30,000 voters accounted for 80% of the total votes, and each of these voters was delegated less than 1 OP in voting power, resulting in an actual voting influence close to zero. Data simultaneously shows that the number of addresses controlling over 50% of delegated voting rights has reached 18 delegates, setting a historic high. The number of representatives required to reach the quorum remains below 8. The research also indicates that the current market value of delegated OP is close to historical lows. Source: Wu Says

According to Gate News bot, Bitcoin Core has announced the launch of a new built-in transaction Relay mechanism, planning to lift the restrictions on the OP_RETURN area. There is a divergence in the community regarding the definition of "garbage transactions," and the Bitcoin Core team has adopted a mild filtering strategy, not reviewing transactions that pay normal fees. Meanwhile, some far-right members strongly oppose accepting inscription-type content. This policy change involves the legality of on-chain data storage, while also relating to multiple dimensions such as network efficiency, miner profits, and anti-censorship. Source of information: 0xTodd

According to the Gate.io News bot, Tokenomist reports that multiple crypto assets projects will experience token unlocks in the next 7 days. Projects with large single unlocks (unlock amounts exceeding 5 million USD) include SUI, OMNI, OP, KMNO, ENA, ZETA, REZ, MEME, DYDX, GUNZ, and IOTA. The projects that have linear large unlocks (with a daily unlock amount exceeding 1 million USD) during the same period include SOL, WLD, TRUMP, TIA, DOGE, TAO, AVAX, SUI, DOT, IP, MORPHO, NEAR, and JTO. The total unlock value of these projects exceeds 675 million USD. The TRUMP project team announced on April 24 that the initial unlocking of tokens and the daily unlocking portion for the next three months will extend the lock-up period by 90 days.

This week, multiple tokens such as UDS, VENOM, and MURA will see large unlocks, including IOTA, Optimism, Sui, ZetaChain, dydx, and Ethena releasing a significant amount of tokens, covering different values and proportions of Circulating Supply. For example, IOTA will unlock approximately $3.28 million worth of 15.16 million tokens, accounting for 0.41% of the Circulating Supply.

Odaily News Swell announced on platform X that the re-staking chain Swellchain will undergo an additional upgrade from 6 AM to 10 AM UTC on April 18th. This upgrade is to prepare for the Ethereum Pectra upgrade and will follow the standard OP Stack, and no downtime is expected.

According to the Gate.io News bot, multiple crypto assets projects will have token unlocks in the next 7 days, as reported by Tokenomist. Among them, projects with a single unlock amount exceeding $5 million include SUI, WENA, OP, BIGTIME, ZETA, KAS, NEON, and DYDX. At the same time, projects such as SOL, WLD, TIA, DOGE, OM, TAO, AVAX, SUI, JTO, NEAR, DOT, IP, and FIL will undergo linear unlocks, with a daily unlock amount exceeding $1 million. The total value of the tokens unlocked this time reaches $642 million. Source: Wu Says

OP Labs announced an upgrade to the response to proof-of-fault events, which will trigger the invalidation of pending withdrawal proofs on L1 on April 1. Operators and users are reminded to complete all withdrawals before the upgrade takes effect to avoid any impacts. Unprocessed withdrawals will not affect asset security, but users need to submit a second withdrawal proof transaction on L1.

ChainCatcher News, Lido announced that wstETH is now available on Ethereum's layer 2 blockchain Lisk. Lisk is an EVM-compatible Layer 2 Rollup built using Optimism's OP Stack, which started as a Layer 1 blockchain and later transitioned to an Ethereum Layer 2 solution in partnership with Gelato as a Rollup-as-a-Service Provider.

According to official news, Lido announced that wstETH is now available on Ethereum's layer 2 blockchain Lisk, an EVM-compatible Layer 2 Rollup built using Optimism's OP Stack.

On March 4th, PANews reported that the general media registration protocol Zora announced in a statement on Monday that it will launch its namesake Memes coin on the Base network based on Optimism in the coming months, and the upcoming Token is "for entertainment purposes only" and will not grant holders governance rights. ZORA's first Snapshot took place on Monday, and the second Snapshot is scheduled three days before the official ZORA Airdrop, expected to take place in the spring of 2025. The total supply of the Token is 10 billion, with 26.1% allocated to contributors, 20% for incentives, 20% held in the treasury, 18.9% allocated to the Zora team, 10% for retrospective Airdrop, and 5% for maintaining Liquidity. It is reported that Zora is a general media registration protocol built using the Optimism technology stack. The company was founded in 2020 and

This week, SUI, OP, ZETA, and ENA Token will be unlocked, with a total value exceeding $100 million. Among them, the unlocked value of SUI is approximately $78.77 million, accounting for 0.74% of the circulation; the unlocked value of OP is approximately $37.30 million, accounting for 1.93% of the circulation; the unlocked value of ZETA is approximately $14.73 million, accounting for 6.48% of the circulation; the unlocked value of ENA is approximately $3.56 million, accounting for 0.25% of the circulation.

Golden Finance reported that DeFistake service provider Amerany announced the completion of a $2 million Series A financing round, with no information disclosed about the investors. The new funds are intended to be used for infrastructure upgrades to its multi-chain stake platform. Currently, the platform supports Ethereum (ETH), Aptos (APT), and Optimism.

L2 leaders of Ethereum will adopt based rollups and FABRIC standards to improve collaboration and network composability between the base layer and L2, and enhance the security provided by the Ethereum network. Native rollups will also improve the way transactions are executed on the base layer.

Phala Network has launched the first Op-Succinct Layer 2 rollup technology on the ETH network, which combines the Optimistic Rollup framework with Zero-Knowledge Proof. With the help of Succinct's SP1 zkVM and Conduit's platform, this technology achieves first-class zkEVM compatibility, reduces confirmation time, and drops development costs. In addition, Phala's TEE cloud computing service transforms the ETH network into a center for verifiable AI applications, bringing higher security and scalability.

Golden Finance reported that the market shows OP has broken through $2.5 and is now trading at $2.51, with a 24-hour increase of 2.87%. The market has seen significant Fluctuation, so please manage the risk carefully.

BlockBeats news, on May 17, according to OnchainLens monitoring, a certain Whale Address deposited 2.95 million USD into HyperLiquid and opened multiple short positions, including: - 25x leverage ETH short order - 10x leverage PEPE, WIF, and OP short orders. Currently, the total value of its short positions exceeds 66.75 million USD, with unrealized gains of 1.26 million USD.

According to Gate.io News bot, Wu Shuo reported that Optimism has announced the completion of the Isthmus Hard Fork upgrade, integrating the core features of the Ethereum Pectra upgrade into the OP Stack and Superchain. This upgrade was completed within two days after the deployment of Pectra on the Ethereum Mainnet, making Superchain the first Layer 2 ecosystem to implement the Pectra upgrade. The upgrade encompasses multiple OP Stack chains, including Base, Ink, OP Mainnet, Soneium, and Unichain.

According to a report by Jinse Finance and data from Artemis, today Base had a net inflow of 20.6 million USD, OP Mainnet had a net inflow of 13.3 million USD; Ethereum had a net outflow of 22.6 million USD, and Sonic had a net outflow of 9.1 million USD.

From April 28 to May 4, official news from RootData shows that 29 types of Tokens will be unlocked, among which OP, CHEEL, and ZATA will unlock a value of over 10 million USD. Among them, OP has the highest unlock value at 25.85 million USD, accounting for 0.75% of the Circulating Supply; ZETA has an unlock value of 11.81 million USD, accounting for 2.12% of the Circulating Supply; CHEEL has an unlock value of 19.18 million USD, accounting for 0.27% of the Circulating Supply. It is noteworthy that OP has risen by 14.64% in the past 7 days.

According to official news from RootData, from March 31 to April 6, 28 types of tokens will be unlocked, among which the unlocking values of OP, SOL, W, CHELL, and ENA exceed $20 million. The unlocking value of SOL reaches a maximum of $363 million, with a rise of 4.23%, and the unlocking value of W is $130 million, accounting for 13.68% of the circulating supply.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement from RootData, 33 Tokens will undergo a one-time unlock between February 24 and March 2. Among them, the unlocking value of $OP, $ZETA, and $ALT all exceeds 10 million dollars, worth following closely. $OP ranks first with an unlocking value of 37.69 million dollars, and has seen a 2.65% increase in the past 7 days.

gate News bot message, the Uniswap Foundation held the first Unichain Hackerthon event in New York, where developers participated in a 24-hour development competition. The results of the competition are out: The AnyPrice project (Bryan, Solo Labs) won the first prize. This project achieved cross-chain access to Uniswap V4 oracle price data through Optimism L2 messaging. The Swoupon project (Nolan et al.) won the second prize, and the team created the ERC-20 token Swoupon to reward liquidity pool trading and implement dynamic fee adjustments. The MiladyBank project (Mehran) won the third prize, building a lending protocol based on Uniswap V4 hooks, focusing on optimizing interest rates and capital efficiency. The Uniswap Foundation announced that it will provide development support for award-winning projects, while also opening the application channel for Unichain Infinite Hackathon rewards. Source: Wu Shuo

Golden Finance reports that Tether's cross-chain stablecoin USDT0 has been deployed to the Optimism Superchain, and Optimism has announced that USDT0 is now live on the OP Mainnet. The Superchain is a layer two chain network designed to extend Ethereum through Optimism's OP Stack, and the deployment of USDT0 is expected to help the Superchain attract more top assets, applications, and partners.

Odaily News Tether's cross-chain stablecoin USDT0 has been deployed to the Optimism Superchain, and Optimism announced that USDT0 is now live on the OP Mainnet. The Superchain is a Layer 2 chain network designed to scale Ethereum through Optimism's OP Stack, and the deployment of USDT0 is expected to promote the Superchain.

Odaily Planet Daily News ETH Layer 2 solution Optimism announced the launch of a new round of Retro Funding program, with a reward scale of 8 million OP. The focus of this round is on the development tools (Dev Tooling) field, and the rewards will be used to support builders of super on-chain development applications and tools, such as compilers, libraries, and debuggers. The timeframe for this round is from February 5th to July 31st.

Golden Finance reported that Derivatives protocol Polynomial Protocol announced its participation in the Optimism Retro Funding program. Optimism, the Layer 2 solution of Ethereum, has announced the launch of a new round of Retro Funding program with a funding scale of 8 million OP, providing support only to the builders behind the development tools for on-chain applications. Dev

Odaily Planet Daily News Word Foundation announced that it has joined Optimism on the X platform.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to the data from growthepie, Soneium's revenue in the past 30 days is about to surpass OP Mainnet, with a monthly growth rate of 1299%, and the current revenue in the past 30 days is 461,630 USD.