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Optimism
Optimism is an Ethereum based decentralized infrastructure platform that allows for instant transactions and scalable smart contract.
Quick Facts
- Optimism is a Layer 2 blockchain
- Optimism is an Optimistic Rollup, piggy backing on Ethereum, using Ethereum’s consensus mechanism
- Optimism is is an Ethereum scaling solution; it has a theoretical limit of 200-2,000 Transactions Per Second (TPS)
- Optimism average Cost Per Transaction (CPT) is $0.00000000255
- Optimism does not currently have a native coin, although they have dropped various hints that they might do a token drop in the near future.
- Optimism’s White Paper 📄
Technical Specifications
(as of 4/24/22)
Performance Data
Metric | Value |
|---|---|
Active Transactions Per Second (TPS) | 0.6 TPS |
Max Theoretical TPS | Submit data |
Average Cost Per Transaction (CPT) | $0.0000000025 USD or 0.001 gwei |
Block Height | 6,385,645 |
Environmental Impact | Submit data |
Bridges | ∙ Optimistic Ethereum gateway ∙ Hop Exchange ∙ Synapse Protocol ∙ Teleportr ∙ Across ∙ Celer ∙ Celer Bridge ∙ Connext ∙ LI.FI ∙ LayerSwap ∙ O3 Swap ∙ Optimism Bridge ∙ Orbiter ∙ Poly Network ∙ Via Protocol |
Github Activity
Metric | Value |
|---|---|
Repository Name | optimism |
Stars | 1057 |
Watchers | 55 |
Forks | 333 |
Contributors | 74 |
Merged Pull Requests | 2058 |
Closed vs Total Issues | 383 out of 425 |
Financial Ecosystem
(as of 4/24/22)
Metric | Value |
|---|---|
Optimism Price | -- |
Market Cap | -- |
Ecosystem Ranking by Market Cap | -- |
Token Trading Volume – 24hr | -- |
Total Value Locked (TVL) | $479.1M |
Liquidity | -- |
Number of Active Wallets | -- |
Number of Unique Addresses | 344,519 |
Circulating Supply | -- |
Total Supply | -- |
Node Count | -- |
Inflation Rate | -- |
Key Projects
Learning Resources
Optimism Tutorial: How To Use Optimism & Bridge Ethereum to Layer 2
Optimism Tutorial: How To Use Optimism & Bridge Ethereum to Layer 2
Social Media
Company Info
- Legal Name: Optimism PBC
- Founded: 2019
- HQ: New York, New York, United States
- Current employee count: 11-50 people
Key People
- Jinglan Wang — CEO, Co-Founder
- Karl Floersch — CTO
- Kevin Ho — Co-Founder
Funding Ecosystem
- Fund: Submit data
- Studio: Submit data
Investors
- Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz, IDEO CoLab Ventures
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