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Monday through Friday, market sentiment towards Fed monetary policy and crypto network news provided strong gains to several of the top 100.

Well-known DeFi protocol Curve Finance seeks one million OP tokens grant from Optimism.

Curve Finance has requested a 1 million Optimism (OP) token grant to reward liquidity providers on Curve's Optimism pools. The post Curve Finance applies for 1 million OP token grant from Optimism appeared first on The Block.

Quick Take In this weekly series, we dive into some of the most interesting data and developments across the Layer 1 blockchain landscape, from DeFi and bridges to network activity and funding The L2 scaling protocol Optimism has launched its native governance token as the team looks to attract further adoption of its network, but challenges with supporting infrastructure remain Avalanche and Solana have made progress on their own approaches to scaling, but they face the need to make additional technical advances before they can achieve sufficient stability at scale

AscendEX, a full-stack cryptocurrency exchange platform, announced the addition of 7 new leveraged tokens for trading: OP, SOL, FTM, SHIB, ATOM, SAND, and PEOPLE. Check below for details of the new tokens: Leveraged Token 3X Leverage Long 5X Leverage Long 3X Leverage Short 5X Leverage Short OP OP3L/USDT – OP3S/USDT – SOL SOL3L/USDT SOL5L/USDT SOL3S/USDT […] The post Crypto exchange AscendEX adds new leveraged tokens: OP, SOL, FTM, SHIB, ATOM, SAND, PEOPLE appeared first on CryptoNinjas.

Balancer Protocol has launched on Optimism. We give you a breakdown of the move and its implications to the DeFi ecosystem.

Optimism, a popular layer-2 blockchain on Ethereum, saw its governance token OP plummet over 60% in its market debut. The blockchain began airdropping the token, OP, late on Tuesday.

A decidedly turbulent, albeit successful, launch. OP's price is already rising