In this post, we will briefly walk through the Optimism project and learn about interesting DeFi protocols with great potential!
🤓Optimism is L2 Solutionwhich promises solve Ethereum scalability and performance issues.
The project was created in 2019 by Optimism PBC, which is one of many companies working to solve Ethereum's scalability issues.
Optimism uses technology Optimistic Rollups, which allows:
✅ increase network performance (from 200-2000 transactions per second)
✅ increase network scalability
✅ reduce transaction costs
✅ makes it easy to deploy smart contracts on the second layer network
💥In 3 investment rounds the project attracted 178.5 million $
👀Who invested: a16z, Paradigm, IDEO CoLab Ventures.
Tokenomics:
25% — development of the ecosystem
20% — members of the Optimism Collective
19% - team
19% - airdrop
17% — investors
At the time of writing, there are only 5% (214 million) of the total supply of tokens (4.2 billion) in the market, it is planned give away about 14% more tokens network users in the form of retrodrops.
The unlocks are already planned this year, and will be released regularly starting May 30th.
🔒TVL is online now Optimism over 900 millionsecond only to Arbitrum
🤔Why should projects choose Optimism?
Any Ethereum dApp can easily integrate with Optimism and benefit from its scalability and lower gas fees.
Optimism has already been tested by several famous projects, including Uniswap, Synthetix and MakerDAO.
With upcoming major network updates, activity in the Optimism ecosystem is expected to reach new heights soon🚀
🔍Let's look at DeFi protocols with good potential:
1️⃣ Velodrome
One of the largest and fastest growing Dex in the Optimism network.
This exchange uses an innovative liquidity pool called Velocity Pool, which allows you to earn on commissions from providing liquidity to the exchange, as well as profit from a stake of assets.
2️⃣ Synthetix
A decentralized asset insurance protocol that allows its users to mine and trade a wide range of derivatives using synthetic assets known as "Synths".
3️⃣ Sonne Finance
The first landing protocol that offers full transparency and decentralized peer-to-peer lending solutions.
4️⃣ Toros
A DeFi platform that gives its users the ability to earn profitability with dynamic storage.
Dex with on-chain perpetual futures.
6️⃣ Pika Protocol
A perpetual swap exchange that allows users to trade both Forex and Crypto with up to 100x leverage and almost zero slippage.
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Author: @Yaroslav225
