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Optimism is an Ethereum layer-2 scaling network using optimistic rollups, governed by the Optimism Collective and its OP token.
Optimism's OP token rose 25.47% in a week to $0.1511 as Uniswap prepared to move Unichain's production operations to OP Enterprise. The mainnet cutover is set for October 29, and the trading data cannot say how much of the gain it explains.
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Unichain plans to move production sequencing, node access and incident response to Optimism, with mainnet set for Oct. 29. It would join Ink and Soneium, which already use Optimism's managed services, CryptoSlate reported.
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Gwangju Bank and Toss have completed a trial letting customers pay merchants in stablecoins by scanning a QR code, Yonhap reported. Lawmakers review digital-asset legislation in November, and the Korean bank and fintech stablecoin work on record so far consists of tests and study agreements.
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Crypto liquidations rose 235% to $547 million after Iran's tanker attacks pushed Brent above $101, yet futures open interest slipped only 1%. Leverage was already thin, so the selling moved token prices far more than it cleared out positions.
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Scammers ran a working copy of Dunamu's unlaunched GIWA network on its reserved chain ID 9134 and drained 766.25 ETH from users. The ID got through an exchange's listing checks, so a matching network ID is now weak evidence that a chain is the real one.
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Coinbase will convert each VELO into about 0.044 of the merged AERO token, and old AERO one for one, from November 2 to 4. Velodrome's 5.5% of new supply matches its share of trailing revenue, and old tokens are frozen on the exchange while the swap runs.
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At least six overseas blockchains signed payment and tokenization deals with Korean banks, brokerages and asset managers in the 93 days to Sept. 23. Many are still memorandums or pilots, and Shinhan Asset Management alone works with three of the networks, so Korean buyers are keeping their options open.
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Kakao Pay and KakaoBank signed a non-binding memorandum with Fireblocks for stablecoin infrastructure, the second such agreement Kakao has signed since July, while KB Financial and Toss have already run won-stablecoin pilots.
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A one-day lead in active wallets against a 9x deficit in locked value, with real-world assets at 4% of volume. The chain Robinhood pitched for tokenized stocks is trading something else.
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Token holders approved moving 546.9 million OP out of the user airdrop reserve into a fund the Foundation directs. Support was about 62 percent of votes cast.
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The self-custodial neobank added investing and borrowing in one release, with liquidation rules designed so users do not blow up. Retention is the wager.
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