Optimism sends 48 million OPs to consumers who did not get the airdrop
Optimism claimed to have sent 48 million unclaimed OPs from the preceding airdrop to eligible consumers. Optimism “unexpectedly” gave consumers an supplemental...

Optimism claimed to have sent 48 million unclaimed OPs from the preceding airdrop to eligible consumers.
Optimism “unexpectedly” gave consumers an supplemental $75 million OP
According to the early morning announcement on September sixteen, the Mainnet OP Level two (Optimism) task will distribute 48 million OPs to consumers who meet the problems but have not however requested the airdrop.
This is the remaining volume from the launch of Optimism in June 2022, which for some motive was not requested by consumers. The task says it will send tokens immediately to additional than 88,000 legitimate addresses, commencing at 11pm on September 15 and is anticipated to final all around twelve hrs.
This will distribute 48 million OPs to just in excess of 88,000 distinctive addresses. Deployment started now all around sixteen:00 UTC. We anticipate it to be finished inside twelve hrs.
— Optimism Governance (@OptimismGov) September 15, 2023
Based on the present industry cost, the over OP volume is really worth roughly $75 million. The cost of OP tokens is growing right after information of the task airlifting the remaining tokens.
1h chart of the OP/USDT pair on Binance at 09:25 on September sixteen, 2023
Optimism extra that the allocation of pending money for air launches will aid the task shift its emphasis to producing new abilities and arranging for potential air launches.
The task has carried out two airdrops in the previous, which include:
– 1st time (June 2022): launch of 214 million POs, equal to five% of the complete present
– Second time (February 2023): airdrop of eleven.seven million OPs, equal to .27% of the complete provide.
According to tokenomics, Optimism will distribute up to 19% of the complete OP provide to the consumer neighborhood, so there is nonetheless roughly 13.73% of the complete OP provide of four.29 billion earmarked for potential launches.
Optimism OP token allocation
Optimism is at present the top Layer two resolution on Ethereum, with a worth locked (TVL) of $two.48 billion, 2nd only to Arbitrum.
In addition to getting a layer two resolution for Ethereum, Optimism has also emerged as a basis for a lot of other tasks to develop layer two on best as a result of the OP Stack toolkit, generally Base. by Coinbase, Zora Network by Zora, DeBank Chain by DeBank, Celo and Ancient8 chain.

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