Tags: Optimism

Flashbots warns MEV spam is eating scaling gains on Solana and Ethereum L2s, with bots burning blockspace and driving up user fees.

IntoTheBlock data shows most altcoin holders are losing money, but tokens like TON and AERO show resilience in usage metrics.

An important pattern is pointing to a potential 340% increase to $7.20 in OP’s price.

Crypto exchanges dominate top deals in the financial sector, including Kraken and others.

The Ethereum ecosystem’s treasuries total $22.2 billion in 2024, with Optimism, Uniswap, and Mantle holding the largest shares.

Swell abandons its initial plans to use Polygon’s CDK, selecting Optimism’s OP Stack for its Layer 2 migration strategy.

The Dencun upgrade doubled Ethereum L2 transactions but also caused higher failure rates, linked to bot activity.

Base network dominates Ethereum Layer 2 with 3.6 million transactions.

Base has surpassed Arbitrum and Optimism in daily active addresses on July 22nd.