The Hope Metric followed a similar path in May, rising toward Cautious Optimism before fading slightly...From May 12 to 15, scores consistently tested the threshold for Cautious Optimism, aligning with a move...The Hope Metric closed the month at 52.9, below the Cautious Optimism band....Cautious Optimism (60–79): Constructive tone building.

Kraken’s Inkchain Overview Kraken’s Inkchain is a brand new Optimism-based L2 fork application by US-based...Technical Execution On the surface, Inkchain is just like any other Optimism-based L2.

Optimism isn’t naivety....Thriving > Surviving: Optimism as a Strategy In today’s world, people seem to view optimism as akin...Optimism, as a foil, forces participation. Optimism asks more of you....Optimism forces you to believe in yourself....Optimism, however, is a network effect.

The score runs from 0 to 100, broken into five sentiment regimes: 80–100 → Extreme Optimism 60–79 →...Cautious Optimism 40–59 → Neutral 20–39 → Cautious Pessimism 0–19 → Extreme Fear The model draws from...

...major networks: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Avax, Base, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Cosmos, Optimism...networks include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Avax, Base, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Cosmos, Optimism...velodrome, a curve-inspired Automated Market Maker (AMM) whose goal is to serve as a liquidity hub on Optimism...

I believe Arbitrum and Optimism have already charted their ways forward, and they should be more public...

Key Theme: Optimism Returns 2024 was a weird year for crypto markets....In other words, optimism will return to crypto markets....We expect this to change in 2025 as a renewed sense of optimism takes hold across our industry....SOL was trading around $11 at the time, and there weren’t many reasons for optimism.

What’s less clear is whether Optimism has strings attached for grant recipients (BASE, Ink, Unichain)...What’s less clear is whether Optimism h...

Soon (L2) Developed by ex-Optimism engineers, Soon is essentially OP stack but for SVM....There are notable declines like Blast, zkSync Era and Optimism over the same period....Leading Stacks: Optimism vs Arbitrum It is no question that Optimism and Arbitrum are the leading stacks...

Meanwhile, Ethereum has MetaMask, Etherscan, Uniswap, Lido, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc....The Optimism BD team understood this early, and that’s why they’re winning.

Now let’s consider the case with three rollups auctioning off their blockspace: Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism...block individually is 11  The highest bid for a Base block individually is 5 The highest bid for an Optimism...block individually is 3  The highest bid for the bundle of blocks between Base + Arbitrum + Optimism...

Optimism Optimism serves as the underlying tech stack for networks like Base, Sonieum, and Redstone....Source: https://x.com/Optimism/status/1854657324033753287 The Superchain concept, championed by Optimism...These successes generate fresh investor interest, with standout projects sparking optimism and providing...

TLDR Hope Metric Score: 58.1 (Neutral-Cautious Optimism) BTC ETF Inflows: +$1.37B last week ETH...to 58.1, moving decisively toward the upper bound of the Neutral band and brushing against Cautious Optimism...

CryptoBriefing The recent price action has largely been driven by optimism over Trump’s pro-crypto agenda...

Despite these challenges, Story Protocol offers genuine reasons for optimism, especially because it aims...

The market is poised to break into optimism pending confirmation from flows and macro data The Round...

— relying heavily on trust and it has a long way to go to catch up to rollups like Arbitrum One and Optimism...

...volume and $400 Mn in sandwich attack volume have occurred across major Layer 2s such as Arbitrum, Optimism...focus on transaction ordering policies and value accrual mechanisms in Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum, Optimism...

...and $400 Mn in sandwich attacks volume have occurred across major Layer 2 networks such as Arbitrum, Optimism...In contrast, Optimism uses a modified Priority Gas Auction model based on EIP-1559, while FastLane is...Optimism’s Priority Gas Auctions (EIP-1559) Optimism and, consequently, Base, which is based on OP Stack...

...ecosystem LayerZero: Enables cross-chain verification of Humanity credentials across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism...