Optimism Foundation
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About Optimism Foundation
The Optimism Foundation's mission is to seed and grow an ecosystem of projects and infrastructure that drives global adoption of the Optimism protocol.
Description sourced from DeFiLlama's protocol metadata; teams submit their own copy when listing.
Optimism Foundation tokenomics and on-chain capital
Optimism Foundation's governance or utility token carries a market capitalisation of $286M based on circulating supply at the latest DeFiLlama snapshot.
Market cap and supply figures are sourced from DeFiLlama's price feed (which reconciles CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, and on-chain DEX prices). Treasury and staking values reflect on-chain balances controlled by the protocol at last sync.
Protocol Profile
Optimism Foundation operates in the Foundation category of DeFi.
Official Resources & Links
Verified external resources for Optimism Foundation — use these to read the source code, follow governance discussions, or cross-check on-chain data against the original team's channels.
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Recent Optimism Foundation news
Latest reporting from major crypto news outlets covering Optimism Foundation.
- Blockonomi
Optimism Foundation Proposes 50% Revenue Allocation for OP Token Buybacks Starting February
Governance vote on January 22 will determine buyback program linking token value to Superchain growth
- The Currency Analytics
Optimism Foundation Proposes Monthly Buybacks for OP Tokens
The Optimism Foundation has announced a proposal to allocate 50% of the revenue generated by Superchain towards monthly over-the-counter buybacks of its OP tokens. This…
- The Block
Optimism Foundation proposes monthly OP token buybacks
The Optimism Foundation is looking to redirect 50% of the revenue earned by Superchain for monthly over-the-counter token buybacks.
- CryptoSlate
Optimism Foundation offered 25M OP tokens to attract Kraken's L2 to the Superchain
Optimism Foundation and Kraken closed a 25 million OP deal to bring the exchange's new layer-2 (L2) blockchain, Ink, to the Superchain ecosystem. According to CryptoSlate data,…
- Coindesk
Optimism Foundation Agreed to Give Kraken $42.5M of OP Tokens in Layer-2 Deal
Crypto exchange Kraken announced last week that it will build a layer-2 network atop Optimism's OP Stack blockchain framework. CoinDesk is first to report that the deal was…
- Crypto Briefing
Optimism Foundation reverts to permissioned fraud proofs, announces hard fork
The rollback to permissioned fraud proofs and upcoming hard fork highlight the ongoing challenges in achieving secure and decentralized blockchain systems. The post Optimism…
- The Block
Optimism Foundation disables permissionless fraud proofs, plans hard fork following security audits
Two months after launch, Optimism chose to revert its permissionless fraud proof system in order to fix a number of security vulnerabilities.
- Coinspress
Optimism Foundation Completes Multi-Million Dollar Token Sale
The Optimism Foundation recently conducted a private token sale, where they sold approximately 19.5 million OP tokens, equivalent to roughly $90 million, to an undisclosed buyer.
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