Optimism
ClaimOptimism is a blockchain infrastructure platform built for exchanges, fintechs, payments companies, and financial institutions.
Key numbers · TVL $442M · per DefiLlama · updated Oct 18
Overview
Optimism provides the OP Stack, a modular blockchain protocol that powers more than 50 chains used by centralized exchanges, payment networks, and regulated financial institutions. Its OP Enterprise product offers fully managed blockchain deployments with SLA-backed uptime, 24/7 monitoring, and compliance controls. Customers can also use the Actions SDK to add individual onchain features to existing products or launch applications on OP Mainnet. The platform is used by organizations including Kraken, Bitpanda, and Celo.
Recent activity
Now has 54 mainnet chains built on the OP Stack as of October 2026.
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Now has KB Securities signed an MOU on September 21, 2026 with Securitize and Optimism for tokenized fund offerings on OP Mainnet.
Partnered with Toss and Sunnyside Labs via July 2026 MOU on stablecoin-payments Layer 2.
Co-hosted Affogato Pop-up, with Altitude and Optimism, Mondo, Singapore
Hosted Onchain at Scale — IBM × Optimism, Singapore
OP Enterprise now supports Soneium's chain operations including deployment, sequencer, monitoring and upgrades.
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More than 50 production chains have been deployed on the OP Stack, processing 6 billion transactions in 2025.
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Chain operators must update op-proposer, op-challenger and op-dispute-mon configuration for super dispute games.
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Now supports viem 2.51.0 and later for handling the new super root withdrawal proof timestamps.
Shipped Upgrade 20, a major update to the OP Stack fault proof system preparing for interop.
Securitize has tokenized more than $5 billion in assets under management as of July 2026.
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Marks the second time the OP Mainnet plus Securitize model has onboarded a new institutional issuer.
Signed MOU with KB Securities and Securitize to bring tokenized funds to Korean institutional investors on OP Mainnet.
Offers OP Enterprise for dedicated blockchain deployments in Fully Managed and Self Managed tiers.
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Toss, Optimism, and Sunnyside Labs signed a three-way MOU in July 2026 for a stablecoin-payments Layer 2 partnership.
OP Stack chains processed about 6.8 billion transactions between January and August 2026.
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Sequencer-level screening integrates with TRM and Forta providers for sanctions and address checks.
More than 50 chains have launched on the OP Stack, including Sony's Soneium, Uniswap's Unichain, Ink, and World Chain.
OP Stack ecosystem secures roughly $17 billion in value as of August 31, 2026, ahead of Arbitrum's $14 billion.
Ink runs on Optimism's Fully Managed operating model, with Optimism operating the chain infrastructure.
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Optimism carried about 29% of crypto card settlement volume as of July 2026, per a16z crypto and Paymentscan.
OP Stack ecosystem secured roughly $17 billion in total value as of August 31, 2026.
Zipangcoin, issued by Mitsui subsidiary MDC, launched on OP Mainnet as a tokenized gold, silver and platinum asset.
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Re7 Labs launched mRe7ETH, an institutional ETH yield product, on OP Mainnet via the Midas platform.
World ran roughly 70% of their transactions on OP Mainnet before launching its own chain in October 2024.
Powers Vision by Bitpanda, a chain designed for regulated finance
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Powers Soneium by Sony, a chain connecting creators, fans and IP
Kraken built Ink, a chain for fast, low-cost trading and DeFi
Powers Giwa by Upbit, Korea's largest exchange, onchain
Powers ether.fi, supporting 100k Visa cards
Bitpanda is building Vision, a chain for regulated finance in Europe
Has 100k cards running on OP Mainnet
Backed by a $2M bug bounty audited by Trail of Bits, OpenZeppelin, Spearbit and Cantina
Powers 60% of Ethereum transactions
DB Securities signed MOU to build STO and RWA infrastructure for Jeju on the OP Stack
ether.fi upgraded its lending engine to Aave V4 on OP Mainnet
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Meritz Securities signed MoU with Optimism on tokenized financial asset business cooperation
