Cryptocurrency News – Optimism (OP), TVL’s second largest Ethereum (ETH) L2 scaling solution, has launched yet another surprising airdrop. However, unlike February 2023, the OP price has not yet reacted to this event.
Optimism is distributing unclaimed OP tokens among the first airdrop participants.
Optimism distributed all unclaimed OP tokens from the opening airdrop. In the official statement made by the team, it is stated that unclaimed tokens were sent directly to appropriate addresses.
The distribution started yesterday, September 15th and took almost 12 hours. In total, 48 million tokens reached just over 88,000 unique addresses.
Representatives of Optimism governance structures emphasized that this action is part of a long-term development roadmap for Layer 2 in Ethereum:
Distributing the remainder of the airdrop directly will allow core teams to focus on other smart contract work and future airdrops.
Therefore, the “forced” distribution of OP tokens resulted in the spread of $66.7 million among “dormant” accounts eligible for the first Optimism (OP) airdrop. Optimism (OP) recently acquired Circle Inc. It acquired the local version of USD Coin (USDC), the second largest stable coin issued by .
Optimism (OP) investors should be careful
The OP price has not yet reacted to the announcement and the successful distribution of the tokens. The price of the altcoin has recorded a small increase of 0.5% in the last 24 hours and is trading around $1.39 at the time of writing.
Meanwhile, scammers immediately posted “copies” of Optimism’s new airdrop. Numerous X accounts are still spreading information about “second Optimism airdrops” that are allegedly operational today.
OP had already organized an “amazing” airdrop in February 2023. After this step taken by Blockchain, the price dropped by 13%. Currently, Optimism (also the OP mainnet) is responsible for 25% of Ethereum's L2 ecosystem, with more than $2.5 billion locked in various dApps.