ChainCatcher news, according to Ember monitoring, 4 hours ago, the Optimism Foundation transferred 1.286 million OP to OKX, approximately 2.65 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the Optimism Foundation has agreed to provide Kraken with a grant of 25 million OP tokens. This deal was finalized around January or February of this year and also paves the way for Kraken to use Optimism's OP Stack. These tokens were worth about $100 million when the deal was made earlier this year and are now valued at approximately $42.5 million.It is reported that Kraken announced last week that it will build a layer two network called Ink on top of Optimism's OP Stack blockchain framework.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, in the latest Cycle 28 of the Optimism Grant, Mint Blockchain has become the only Superchain approved by the OP Grant Committee and successfully received $1.35 million (750,000 OP) in funding support. The funds obtained will be used for Mint ecosystem developer incentives and the introduction of new users, further promoting NFT innovation and application popularization in the Mint Blockchain and Superchain ecosystem, and building a richer NFT ecosystem.

According to ChainCatcher news and monitoring by Yu Jing, the Optimism Foundation has recently completed an on-chain transfer of 19.51 million OP (approximately 89 million USD) to 6 private investors 17 hours ago.The Optimism Foundation previously announced on the governance forum that it had completed a private sale, selling approximately 19.5 million OP. These OP will have a 2-year lock-up period, but during the lock-up period, buyers can delegate the tokens to an unrelated third party to participate in governance.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the L2 network Mode based on OP Stack will receive a grant of 2 million OP (approximately 5.3 million USD) from the Optimism Foundation to support user growth incentives. Mode will donate a portion of its sequencer revenue to the Optimism Collective and will join the Law of Chains.It is reported that Mode will also continue to develop open-source tools for the superchain ecosystem, focusing on bringing native yield, smart vaults, and on-chain AI agents to the network, and will invest resources into public goods. In addition, Mode plans to launch its mainnet at the end of January.

ChainCatcher news, according to Scopescan monitoring, the Optimism Foundation address sent 22.4 million OP (approximately 40.32 million USD) to a multi-signature address starting with "0x44a2" half an hour ago.

ChainCatcher message, Optimism stated that today approximately 22 million OP tokens will be transferred between wallets controlled by the Optimism Foundation. This is an internally planned transaction shared as a reminder to keep the community informed.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Optimism Foundation's operating subsidiary Optimism Unlimited Ltd. has hired former Polygon Labs president Ryan Wyatt as its Chief Growth Officer, no longer serving as an advisor to Polygon. As Chief Growth Officer, Wyatt will be responsible for expanding the Optimism ecosystem, collaborating with developers, strengthening partnerships, and coordinating with external contributors.Ryan Wyatt previously served as president of Polygon Labs and announced his resignation to take on an advisory role at the end of July.

ChainCatcher news, the multi-chain stablecoin trading platform Wombat Exchange announced on social media that it has received a grant of 150,000 OP from the Optimism Foundation, which will be used to launch on Optimism.After Wombat officially launches on Optimism, this portion of OP will be allocated to the trading pool as liquidity incentives for users.

ChainCatcher message, Succinct tweeted that its application for the RFP to build a proof of concept for Optimism remote static calls has been accepted by the Optimism Foundation. If the integration feature is implemented, it will allow users to query L1 state from any L2 contract using precompiles, including reading Chainlink's L1 data for DeFi protocols on L2, and governance voting on L2 weighted by L1 ERC20 token balances.

ChainCatcher news, the Mina development team O(1) Labs tweeted that their proposal regarding the application of ZKP (Zero-Knowledge Proof) in the Optimism ecosystem has been adopted by the Optimism Foundation. O(1) Labs plans to introduce the zero-knowledge proof system Kimchi used on Mina to enhance transaction privacy protection on the Optimism mainnet and related sidechains. (Source link)