Optimism price

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$0.7034
-$0.0925 (-11.63%)
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Market cap
$1.25B #46
Circulating supply
1.78B / 4.29B
All-time high
$4.863
24h volume
$228.86M
3.4 / 5

About Optimism

Optimism ($OP) is a cryptocurrency that powers the Optimism ecosystem, a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Designed to make Ethereum faster and more affordable, Optimism uses advanced technology called optimistic rollups to process transactions off-chain while maintaining security through Ethereum's mainnet. This approach significantly reduces fees and increases transaction speed, making it ideal for decentralized applications (dApps) and users seeking cost-effective blockchain solutions. $OP is the native token of the Optimism network, used for governance, incentivizing ecosystem growth, and paying transaction fees. By supporting Ethereum's scalability, Optimism plays a crucial role in expanding blockchain accessibility and adoption.
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Optimism’s price performance

Past year
-58.19%
$1.68
3 months
+26.14%
$0.56
30 days
-11.49%
$0.79
7 days
-4.90%
$0.74
59%
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日拱一卒王小楼💢🦅🟠 $FF
日拱一卒王小楼💢🦅🟠 $FF
Orderly Network Project Research Report @OrderlyNetwork Core Overview Orderly Network is a permissionless full-chain liquidity layer and decentralized trading infrastructure that provides CEX-level spot and perpetual futures order books for Web3 builders. As an "exchange layer" infrastructure, it offers plug-and-play DEX front-end solutions for developers through SDK and API. Project Fundamentals Analysis Technical Architecture and Positioning 1. Infrastructure: Layer 2 solution based on OP Stack (Orderly Chain), using Celestia for data availability 2. Full-chain Support: Integrates EVM (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BSC, Polygon, etc.) and non-EVM chains (Solana, NEAR) 3. Core Features: Shared Central Limit Order Book (CLOB), cross-chain settlement via LayerZero 4. Addressing Pain Points: Solves the DeFi liquidity fragmentation issue, saving developers over 200 hours of development time Token Economics 1. Token Symbol: ORDER (ERC-20) 2. Total Supply: 1 billion tokens 3. Circulating Supply: 297 million tokens (29.7%) 4. Fully Diluted Valuation: ~$301M 5. Token Use Cases: Governance, staking share of protocol fees (60% net fees), reward boosts Latest Developments (Last 30 Days) Major Technical Breakthroughs Ecosystem Growth 1. Number of DEX Integrations: 58+ perpetual futures DEXs (including Raydium, WOOFi Pro, QuickSwap) 2. Total Value Locked: $42.58M, distributed across multiple chains 3. Cumulative Trading Volume: $141.76 billion (perpetual futures) 4. User Growth: 4,200+ stakers, 399K+ social media followers On-chain Data Analysis Protocol Metrics Multi-Collateral System Performance 1. Supported Assets: SOL, USDT, BNB, ETH, stETH 2. Capital Efficiency: LTV up to 95%, automatic conversion to prevent liquidation 3. User Experience: Trade without needing to swap tokens, enhancing capital efficiency Technical Analysis Community Sentiment Analysis Mainstream Narrative 1. "Exchange Layer" Positioning: As a permissionless full-chain infrastructure for Web3 2. Multi-Collateral Innovation: The first multi-collateral DeFi protocol supporting both Solana and EVM 3. Ecosystem Growth: 58+ DEX integrations, cumulative trading volume surpassing Ethereum Competitive Landscape Main Competitors Orderly Competitive Advantages Chain Abstraction: No need for cross-chain bridges, users can access on their preferred chain Unified Liquidity: 58+ DEXs sharing order book depth Multi-Collateral: Unique Solana/EVM cross-chain support Developer Friendly: SDK/API saves over 200 development hours Investment Assessment Valuation Analysis Conclusion and Outlook Orderly Network has established a strong position in the perpetual futures DEX space through its unique "exchange layer" positioning and full-chain infrastructure. Recent multi-collateral expansions and ecosystem growth demonstrate strong momentum. Long-term Outlook: As a DeFi infrastructure layer, it has sustained growth potential, especially with its first-mover advantage in full-chain liquidity integration.
Emily Vuong
Emily Vuong
🔶Ignoring the technicals to focus on price prospects: 📌 More than 155 million $ETH holder wallets are in profit. 📌 The Taker Buy/Sell Ratio on Binance has dropped to 0.87 – the lowest level of the year, indicating that buyers are losing strength. The buying side needs to return soon, or ETH will soon fall to deeper levels.
Emily Vuong
Emily Vuong
📍It has been 3 years since The Merge, what has Ethereum achieved? 📌 The Merge (09/2022) transitioned #Ethereum from PoW to PoS without interruption. Energy consumption decreased by ~99.95%, new ETH issuance dropped by ~95%, laying the groundwork for $ETH deflation. 📌 After the Merge: - Daily transactions increased from ~1.17M to 1.32M (+13%) - TPS: from 13.5 to 15.3 (+13%) - Daily transaction fees plummeted from ~7,464 ETH to just ~964 ETH (−87%) - DAA slightly increased from 573k to 602k (+5%) 📌 Shanghai (04/2023) unlocked ETH withdrawals for validators, making staking a flexible capital cycle. As a result, staking exploded to become the backbone of DeFi: >35M $ETH staked with >1M validators. 📌 Dencun (03/2024) upgraded Proto-Danksharding (EIP-4844) with blob transactions, reducing rollup data costs by up to 90%. The consequences: - Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync became even cheaper, and on-chain activity surged. - L2 data posting costs decreased by ~90% - L2 transactions increased by +196% in the first month - Total Ethereum fees in 2024 reached $2.48B (+3% YoY) despite individual tx fees decreasing. 📌 Next will be full Danksharding with more blobs per block, expanding data and reducing rollup costs. Ethereum is taking steps towards solving the blockchain trilemma: Scalability – Security – Decentralization. After 3-6 months following upgrades, ETH price typically rises by an average of 30%.
比特币橙子Trader
比特币橙子Trader
Orange Evening Interpretation 9.22 The market is extremely polarized right now, with Binance's various favorites and adopted coins responsible for the rise, while the altcoins we hold are responsible for the fall. Every crazy weekend is followed by a bleak Monday; today we saw two waterfalls in one day. In the morning, Bitcoin dropped from 115k to 114k, and after the lunch break, it plunged again from 114k directly to 112k, causing the altcoins to crash as well. One can only say that the worst hit in this wave of market is the so-called value investors and diamond hands, those holding a lot of altcoins. You can take a look at the price movement of $aster; although it peaked at 2u yesterday and then fell back to a low of 1.35, it quickly rebounded above 1.5. The key point is that during today’s market waterfall, aster showed no reaction at all and is still around the price of 1.5. One can only say that the market is extremely polarized right now, with Binance's various favorites and adopted coins responsible for the rise, while the altcoins we hold are responsible for the fall. Such a market is really too healthy. In the past few days, the performance of Binance alpha has already been enough to be called the altcoin season, with at least two projects doubling in price every day, while most of the old altcoins on CEX are still hovering in the bear market range. Imagine if there were no Binance market right now, would the altcoins be in a pure bear market? Therefore, when we are in such a polarized and fragmented cryptocurrency market, the first thing we need to do is not to study technology or fundamentals, but to distinguish which projects are no longer in a bull market and which coins are dead, and then quickly withdraw funds to invest in those projects that truly have narrative potential. If you don’t know which projects are dead, I’ll mention a simple method. If an altcoin's current price is at or near its previous highs, then this coin is definitely in the main narrative for the future, considered a tier-one quality. Basically, the coins we often hear about in the media fall into this category; if an altcoin's price has returned to about half of its previous high, then this coin is considered a potentially high-quality coin, such as $aave, $link, $doge, and $xlm, which are tier-two quality; if the price has returned to about one-fifth of its peak, such as $avax, $uni, $arb, $op, $imx, etc., these are considered slightly outdated but still close to the main narrative range, tier-three quality coins; if an altcoin has dropped below one-tenth of its peak, for example, $crv, $xtz, $iota, $dot, etc., then the narrative for this project is completely outdated. However, considering that the market cap and number of developers for these projects are still large, these projects are also hard to die off; one can only say that they are likely to underperform the market in the long run. If a project has dropped dozens or hundreds of times from its peak and is still in the historical low range, then this project is basically dead; at least its development team has been cut off, and many of these coins' founding teams have gone on to launch multiple new coins, taking the money they raised and earned from this project with them. Therefore, these projects have no opportunities left, and can almost be called dead coins. I suggest that if you still hold onto these last two categories of altcoins, you should sell them quickly during this downturn. There are plenty of opportunities in the cryptocurrency market, so many that you can catch a hot trend on a weekly basis. As long as you can seize a hot trend in a week, you might turn things around. But the premise is that you are still at the table; if you are holding all junk coins and have no money to invest when a good project comes along, then you have effectively left the table, and it’s normal not to make money.

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Optimism FAQ

Optimism, also known as Optimistic Ethereum (OE), is a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum that aims to increase transaction throughput and reduce fees without sacrificing security and decentralization.

Optimism improves Ethereum’s scalability through the use of optimistic rollups. These rollups are a Layer 2 solution that perform most computation off-chain while keeping the same level of security as the main Ethereum network.

Easily buy OP tokens on the OKX cryptocurrency platform. Available trading pairs in the OKX spot trading terminal include OP/USDT and OP/USDC.

Alternatively, you can swap your existing cryptocurrencies, including XRP (XRP), Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), and Chainlink (LINK), for OP with zero fees and no price slippage by using OKX Convert.

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Dive deeper into Optimism

To tackle scalability issues and high transaction costs on the Ethereum network, Optimism has emerged as a compelling Layer 2 solution. Functioning as an off-chain network layered on top of Ethereum, Optimism extends the capabilities of the blockchain. Fueled by its native token OP, the platform aims to alleviate Ethereum's challenges and enhance its performance.

What is Optimism

Optimism (OP), also known as Optimistic Ethereum (OE), is a Layer 2 solution built to address the scalability issues of the Ethereum network. At its core, Optimism utilizes a technology known as optimistic rollups. This technology bundles, or rolls up, multiple transactions into a single transaction, significantly improving the speed and cost of transactions. As Optimism is built on top of Ethereum’s architecture, developers and users can make use of the speedy and low-cost transactions whilst having the security of the Ethereum blockchain. 

The Optimism team

The Optimism team comprises a group of dedicated blockchain experts, including Jaynti Kanani, Jinglan Wang, Ilya Polosukhin, Ben Jones, Paul Hauner, and Matteo Rizzi.

How does Optimism work

When a user initiates a transaction, it's executed on the Optimism network rather than directly on the Ethereum mainnet. Throughout this process, Optimism maintains communication with Ethereum's Layer 1 and leaves the original network unchanged. This is achieved through optimistic rollups, which consolidate multiple transactions into a single batch submitted to Ethereum. 

By adopting this approach, the computational burden on the Ethereum mainnet is lessened, resulting in faster transaction speeds and lower gas fees. Ultimately, Optimism plays a pivotal role in alleviating strain on the Ethereum network, consequently reducing congestion and associated high fees.

Optimism’s native token: OP

OP is the token of the Optimism ecosystem, crucial in securing and powering the Optimism network. The token also serves as incentivizes and rewards for validators who correctly process and confirm transactions. Validators are able to stake OP tokens as collateral, which can be confiscated if they act maliciously.

OP tokenomics

There is a maximum supply of 4,294,967,296 OP tokens. The supply of OP tokens is carefully controlled and released into the market via strategic allocation methods such as staking rewards, developer incentives, and ecosystem grants. This approach ensures a balanced and sustainable distribution of tokens, maintaining the long-term stability and health of the Optimism ecosystem.

OP use cases

The primary purpose of the OP token is governance. This encompasses various essential functions, including allowing token holders to cast votes pertaining to proposed updates to the protocol as well as distribution of incentives for projects through the Governance Fund. Additionally, it facilitates the funding of projects hosted on the Optimism platform. OP holders are also allowed to engage in project management alongside other OP Citizens.

Distribution of OP

OP’s distribution is as follows:

  • 25 percent: Ecosystem fund
  • 20 percent: Retroactive Public Goods Spending (RetroPGF), an experimental spending mechanism designed to align with OP's objective of equating impact with profit.
  • 19 percent: Airdropped to the community
  • 19 percent: Awarded to core contributors
  • 17 percent: Given to investors

Optimism: The road ahead

On the project's horizon is the launch of a public mainnet, marking a significant milestone that will elevate Optimism's capabilities. Looking ahead, Optimism aims to become the leading Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. The project envisions a future where Ethereum's transaction processing capabilities skyrocket to millions per second while upholding its foundational principles of security and decentralization.

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Market cap
$1.25B #46
Circulating supply
1.78B / 4.29B
All-time high
$4.863
24h volume
$228.86M
3.4 / 5
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