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Ethereum Co-Creator Vitalik Buterin Excited About Layer 2 Protocol’s Big Milestone OP Mainnet Uses Meme to Fool Skeptics By Benzinga
Benzinga- Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin commended the layer 2 protocol Operation Mainnet (CRYPTO: OP) on its recent milestone, taking the opportunity to display the achievements of Ethereum scaling solutions over the years.
What happened: OP Labs, the company behind the development of the Optimism protocol, has announced a major technology upgrade, catapulting the project to “Stage 1” of decentralization.
With the introduction of unauthorized outage proofs, withdrawals of Ether and ERC-20 tokens from the Op Mainnet network can be initiated without requiring third party involvement.
Besides Op Mainnet, scaling solutions such as Arbitration (CRYPTO: ARB) and dYdX V3 possess this ability.
Vitalik Buterin applauded this development and expressed optimism that more L2s will follow suit by moving to “step 1”.
Ethereum: Where yesterday’s FUD is today’s problem solved. pic.twitter.com/revNpVEeqm
– vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) June 11, 2024
The entrepreneur also shared the popular door-knocking meme, with the caption “Ethereum: Where yesterday’s FUD is today’s problem solved.”
The intention was to mock skeptics who doubted that key Ethereum upgrades such as Merge, Dencun, which resulted in lower L2 fees, would ever see the light of day.
Why is this important: The Ethereum scaling industry took off during last year’s bear market, with the cryptocurrency exchange even getting publicly traded. Coinbase by taking advantage of it with the launch of the Base blockchain.
L2s have a total locked value of $43.8 billion as of this writing, according to L2beats, a quadrupling from the same period last year.
Over the past week, L2s processed nearly 11 times more transactions than the Ethereum base chain.
Price action: At the time of writing, the OP token was trading at $2.08, following a 2.71% decline over the past 24 hours, according to data from Benzinga Pro.
Photo by Alexey Smyshlyaev on Shutterstock.
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