May 2, 2024

The Optimism team airdropped a native token

The Optimism team airdropped a native token

Optimism developers have distributed the native OP token among 232,000 users of the L2 scaling solutionEthereum

Airdrop participants received 231,928,234 OP - 5.4% of the original offer. In total, together with subsequent rounds, 19% of the emission of 4.29 billion tokens will be distributed among users.

The team has released a step by step video with a guide to getting the OP.

Token holders will be able to delegate their right to vote to a community member or take part in voting independently.

Almost 30 proposals for phase 0 have already been generated.

In the near future, members of the chamber of tokensThe Optimism "team" will consider the distribution of incentives among projects that already interact with the solution. If all proposals are approved, developers will receive a total of 36,600,000 OP (15% of the tokens in the management fund).

In the subsequent phase 1, anyprojects that will demonstrate a development plan using OP to drive growth. Among them, 85% of all tokens in the management fund will be distributed.

The community will also focus on solving project growth issues such as protocol upgrades and reserve management.

Earlier, the listing of the Optimism token was announced by the OKX, LBank and MEXC trading platforms.

OP is expected to appear on Binance soon. Due to the high network activity, certain technical issues arose, which led to the transfer of the listing on the platform.

Recall that in May, the developers excluded 17,000 addresses from the distribution.

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