I just contributed to the 🕯️ KZG Ceremony 🕯️ using 0x567db…0b74 to help scale Ethereum
↓ Add your own randomness ↓ ceremony.ethereum.org
Most of the teams behind Lens apps are quite small which brings lot of agility and also shows how fast you can build web3 social
Lenster = 1
LensTube = 1
Buttrfly = 1
Orb = 3
Phaver = Few
How big are others?
Ecosystem
A blockchain is only as strong as its ecosystem. Optimism’s ecosystem also saw strong growth in 2022, with 54 new active (> 100 txs / day) dApps deployed throughout.
These deployments spanned a variety of categories—from DeFi to NFTs—including Optimism-native protocols like Velodrome, as well as industry beloved stalwarts like Aave and OpenSea.
Here’s a glance at the top six Optimism dApps in 2022, measured by number of transactions and fees generated.
The total value of assets held on Optimism has also increased dramatically. Optimism’s On-Chain Value has almost 10x'd as well, going from 116k ETH ($540M) to 995k ETH (null.3B) in the same twelve month period. While this metric alone doesn’t define the chain's health, it is one part of a bigger picture demonstrating overall ecosystem sustainability.
Gov Stuff
Yes the devs are developing and the users are using, but let's not forget the community is also governing.
2022 saw the creation of the Token House with what many consider one of the best designed and most widely distributed airdrops in crypto. OP Airdrop #1 kickstarted the Optimism Collective’s experiment in digital democratic governance with the Token House.
On Day 1 of the most recent round of voting, 11.7k unique addresses cast votes with OP. 155k wallets are currently delegating 22.9M OP in governance, while 55.7M OP of grants have been approved by governance to date.
Mirror Subscriber NFT
As you can see there’s a lot to celebrate this year at Optimism. To commemorate it we're releasing a free to mint NFT for Optimism’s Mirror newsletter subscribers. To collect this special Genesis Subscriber NFT you just need to connect your wallet and provide an email address. Minting will be available until December 31st at 11:59 PM UTC.
With a little over half a year of implementation, iteration, and improvement, the Token House is in full swing. The stage is set for the Citizens's House—the yin to the Token House's yang—to get off the ground.
The first iteration of the Citizens' House was recently announced: 10M OP to the people and projects that make Optimism possible with RetroPGF 2—coming in Q1 2023.