Coin issuance? Layer 2 solution Optimism announces community governance and ownership, with the crypto community organizing airdrop strategy.

The Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Optimism published a summary of its mainnet performance over the past year, and hinted at soon entering the next chapter of "community-driven governance, ownership," widely seen as an imminent token launch. The article also compiled the Optimism airdrop strategies gathered by the crypto community.

Optimism New Chapter

The official announcement from Optimism highlights the following milestones achieved since the launch of Optimism mainnet:

• Saved users $1.1 billion in Gas fees
• Deployed over 6,800 contracts
• Over 300,000 unique addresses
• Generated approximately $24.5 million in revenue
• Contributed over $1 million to public goods

In mid-March, Optimism raised $150 million in a Series B funding round led by prominent venture capital firms a16z and Paradigm, reaching a valuation of $1.65 billion.

Optimism mainnet removed the whitelist for contract deployment in December last year, making it open to everyone. The Total Value Locked (TVL) has reached $496 million, ranking 21st, with popular protocols such as Uniswap UNI, Synthetix SNX, and Curve CRV already on the chain.

Optimism emphasizes in the conclusion:

Optimism's network has made significant progress, moving from crawling to running, and is now approaching the next chapter of "community-driven governance and ownership." Further updates on this will be released soon.

The closing remarks are widely seen as a hint of Optimism's upcoming token issuance. Self-proclaimed airdrop hunter and crypto community olimpio.eth has also compiled potential airdrop opportunities.

Deposits

Deposit through cross-Rollup transfer application Hop Protocol.

Hop currently supports Polygon, Gnosis, Arbitrum, and FTX also supports free withdrawals on Arbitrum.

Protocol Interaction

1. Pika Protocol: Futures trading similar to dYdX, allowing long and short positions on ETH, BTC, or LINK.

2. Kwenta: A derivatives trading platform built on Synthetix, which previously announced the token KWENTA and launched liquidity mining.

3. Clipper: Exchange or provide liquidity on Clipper. Olimpio.eth previously shared ways to join the Clipper whitelist.

4. Synthetix: Synthetix was an early collaborator with Optimism on all protocols, so SNX holders may receive additional rewards, and staking could be the right move.