2022-03-18
After over a year on mainnet, our milestones keep adding up: $1B in gas fees saved for users, thousands of smart contracts deployed, three separate forks... And now: funds raised to the tune of $150M, giving us runway to keep shipping rain or shine. https://medium.com/...
TechCrunch
Ethereum L2 scaling startup Optimism raises a $150M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm at a $1.65B valuation
Optimism CEO and Optimist Prime @jinglejamOP spoke with @TechCrunch about our momentum and fundraise: https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Ethereum L2 scaling startup Optimism raises a $150M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm at a $1.65B valuation
2022-02-14
We're incredibly thankful to saurik for spending so much time analyzing our protocol over the year—enough to find such an important fix! We highly recommend you check out his in-depth breakdown. We'll award the full $2,000,042 promised in our bug bounty. https://saurik.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Cointelegraph
Ethereum L2 scaling project Optimism fixes bug that left it open to unlimited ETH token creation in its accounts; $2M+ bounty given to Jay Freeman of Cydia fame
Ethereum scaling startup Optimism disclosed a “critical bug” fix in the project's Geth fork that would have allowed malicious hackers to create infinite ETH Source: saurik.com .
2021-02-25
We just hired the dopest rockstars in town and they've expedited our timeline. Mainnet will be open to the public in March (more details soon). Read about the people who're making this possible⭐ https://rsci.app.link/...
The Block
Optimism, which plans to help scale the Ethereum blockchain with a Layer 2 protocol, raises $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Ethereum has proven itself to be an extremely popular computing platform … John K. Kumi / coinspeaker.com : Optimism Raises $25 Million in Series A Funding Round Cryptonews : ‘Scal...
This frenzy of hiring was made possible by our Series A, led by @a16z and @cdixon @AriannaSimpson - thank you🙏.
The Block
Optimism, which plans to help scale the Ethereum blockchain with a Layer 2 protocol, raises $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Ethereum has proven itself to be an extremely popular computing platform … John K. Kumi / coinspeaker.com : Optimism Raises $25 Million in Series A Funding Round Cryptonews : ‘Scal...