Colossus launched a stablecoin-based credit card system on its Ethereum L2, built on the OP Stack.

Supports crosschain forwarding service for Bridge Kit and Circle Gateway transactions, enabling automated destination-chain execution for transfers to Optimism and 13 other blockchains.

Distributed 5,000 OP tokens as prizes (1,000 OP each to five winners) in the Alpha Prophet Challenge Week 1 lottery draw on February 26, 2026.

Added native support on BitMEX for USDC and USDT movements on Optimism network.

Ranks third among chains in weekly mindshare growth with a +0.45% increase, trailing Bitcoin (+1.87%) and Ethereum (+0.7%).

Integrated with Hyperlane's Nexus bridge to support native ETH bridging from Optimism alongside Arbitrum, Base, and Ethereum.

Unlocks 32.2M OP tokens during the week of February 23rd, 2026.

Partnered with Succinct Labs to bring ZK rollup as the proving solution for the OP Stack.

Token price reached historical low of $0.128.

Proposed activating protocol fees on all v3 pools on OP Mainnet, covering 8 additional chains.

Base received four quarterly vested OP unlocks totaling 17.9 million OP over the last 12 months, worth approximately $2.47 million at current OP prices.

Received 3,886 ETH in revenue from Base through February 2026, worth approximately $7.61 million at current ETH prices.

Base left Superchain in February 2026, affecting 118 million OP grant (42 million vested, 76 million unvested) and taking 97% of the collective's real economic value.

Featured as a supported blockchain for asset manager AI agents in Autonolas' Pearl software release for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Features two talks at EthereumDenver on February 19, 2026: "The New Age of Scaling" at 2:30 PM MST and "L2s & Enterprise Adoption" at 3:55 PM MST on the Main Stage.

Transitions to a self-operated stack with Base V1 hardfork introducing TEE/ZK proofs, passed Bedrock upgrade improving modularity.

Predicted that OP Mainnet TVL will increase by 75% following ether.fi deployment, with ether.fi potentially becoming the number one TVL dApp on the network.

The market experienced a 12% sell-off of OP following Base's infrastructure announcement, which the author interprets as rational pricing of a shifting power dynamic rather than panic.

Granted 118 million OP tokens to Base over 6 years in 2023, valued at $175 million at the time of the grant.

Allocates 100% of net transaction-fee revenue from Optimism mainnet to the Superchain.

Receives revenue share from OP Stack chains including Base and Unichain based on the greater of 15% of net profit or 2.5% of L2 revenue.

Begins OP token buyback program, allocating 50% of Superchain revenue to token buybacks in January 2026.

Opens Season 9 OP Growth Grant applications to Celo builders with a 3.89M OP token budget, accepting applications until May 20, 2026, focused on DEX TVL and fees, with grants distributed 40% upfront and 60% upon milestone completion.

Distributes 120,000 OP to pre-TGE traders over 6 weeks, with rewards for volume trading (55,000 OP), weekly lottery (10,000 OP), and market maker leaderboard (55,000 OP).

Token price declined to $0.18, down from $1.50 when the Base deal was signed.

Base exited Optimism stack, losing 15% sequencer revenue share and 94% of fee revenue sharing, contributing 13.4 ETH per day to Optimism Collective. Coinbase cut revenue, causing 25% OP token price drop.

Migrated ether.fi Cash to OP Mainnet, with 70,000 active cards, 300,000 accounts, and $160M+ TVL.

Generated $7k in gas fees from trading activity over the past 7 days on OP Mainnet, representing 67% of total gas fees on the network.

Hired a Staff Data Scientist who will focus on Superchain content and database analysis.

A USDC–MOOBIFI liquidity pool is available on Velodrome V3 with 58.02% current APY and $119,287 TVL.

Chains built on the OP Stack generate ten dollars in revenue for every dollar users spend on fees, with value flowing to partners rather than the platform.

Processed 6.1 billion transactions in 2025, representing 29x growth year-over-year.

Experienced 1 network outage in the past five years (2021-2026).

Hosted Scaling Summit on February 17, 2026, sharing engineering accomplishments and features for scalable onchain infrastructure, native interoperability, faster block times, and enterprise-grade compliance controls.

Set a new all-time high for daily transactions on OP Mainnet on February 14, 2026.

Co-hosts Cold Weather Cafe brunch event at ETHDenver on February 18, 2026, focused on ZK and scaling discussions with SuccinctLabs and EspressoSys.

Founder joins the project.

Opened applications for Growth Grants program targeting DEX TVL growth and increased trading volume on the network.

Deployed U18 upgrade with infrastructure improvements to the Superchain, enabling interoperability, stage 1/2 security, and faster Layer 1 exits.

Opens to ZK proving partners with Boundless, while Celo implemented ZK fault proofs after migrating to the OP Stack.

Funded over 70 million OP tokens across more than 700 projects in the Superchain ecosystem during 2025.

OP Mainnet has $2B TVL.

Experienced the largest outflows among tracked chains in the 24-hour period ending February 11, 2026.

Was flipped by MON in TVL rankings as of February 11, 2026.

Optimism is described as having cheap fees but sequential execution with bottlenecks, contrasting with alternative scaling approaches.

Has $1.95 billion in active loans on the Superchain, up 95.8% year-over-year.

Represents 12.7% of total crypto activity measured across networks.

OKX is migrating XLayer to OP Stack.

Upbit launched giwa_io on OP Stack, with OKX also deploying on the Superchain.

Processed 3.6 billion transactions in H2 2025, reaching an all-time high for the Superchain network.

EY is deploying Nightfall for enterprise privacy on OP Stack.

Integrated with Jumper Exchange's Earn platform, enabling users to deposit into Optimism vaults on OP Mainnet from any asset and any chain in a single transaction.

Has 724K monthly users, down 40.7% year-over-year.

Generated $75.92K in revenue, down 80.5% year-over-year.

Integrated with Ledger Wallet app through OKX DEX for multichain token swaps alongside Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon and BNB Chain.

ERC-8004 went live on OP Mainnet on February 10, 2026, enhancing reputation and identity systems.

Supported as one of seven chains by Meridian's multi-token facilitator feature for same-chain token transfers.

AmadiMichaels departed from Optimism and OP Labs PBC, with their final week ending in early February 2026.

Recorded 50,000 active addresses on Optimism Mainnet for the week ending February 9, 2026, with 39% of those addresses also active on other Layer 2 chains or Ethereum Mainnet.

Collaborates with Ronin Network and Conduit engineering teams on Ronin Network's mainnet launch preparation.

Saigon Testnet completed migration to Optimism on February 6, 2026, with mainnet migration planned for the coming months.

Available on the network for Gelato Network's Fee Collector feature, which enables protocols to collect fees in any ERC-20 and auto-swap to USDC daily.

Integrated with Predict as a supported network for USDT and USDC deposits.

Head of Governance will speak at ETHDenver 2026.

Launched OP Enterprise on January 29, 2026, offering production-grade managed blockchain infrastructure for enterprises with 99.99% uptime SLO, 15-minute P1 incident response, and up to 5B RPC requests per month

Experienced increased registrations for the Ethereum Attestation Service on OP Mainnet.

Has a scheduled token unlock of $9.81M in value during the week of January 27, 2026 to February 2, 2026.

Wrapped Ethereum (WETH) on Optimism experienced a 711% increase in whale activity during the week ending January 23, 2026 compared to the previous week.

Migrated the Kona repository into the Optimism monorepo as a stable alternative OP Stack implementation.

Circle Gateway integration supports chain-abstracted USDC functionality on Optimism alongside 11 other chains, enabling non-custodial crosschain liquidity for developers.

Plans to release op-reth for use by any chain in 2026.

Plans to add multiple gas tokens support as a customization feature in 2026.

Partnered with Succinct Labs for ZK rollup implementation on OP Mainnet by 2026, using OP Succinct technology.

Plans to implement native buy and burn mechanisms for any chain on the OP Stack in 2026.

Plans to launch MEV auctions in partnership with Flashbots in 2026.

Plans to add sequencer revenue modules that enable different transaction ordering schemes in 2026.

Hosts Community Call on January 20, 2026 at 12:30 EST featuring founders and team discussing plans for regaining momentum and achieving financial sustainability.

Integrated as a supported chain in the ELSA AI crypto agent platform, enabling users to execute trading and investment commands across Optimism along with Base, Arbitrum, BSC, Polygon, and Solana.

Processed $1.4 billion in payments services volume from Stripe, Blindpay, and other merchants in 2025.

Payments app transfers grew from $364 million in January to $1.43 billion in December, totaling $7.7 billion.

donated funds to onchain investigator ZachXBT, listed among top donors alongside other protocols and entities

Hosts Optimism Scaling Summit on 2026-02-19, focused on scaling institutional money movement, streaming on X.

Launched Actions SDK with integrated support from Dynamic for embedded wallets, signers, and sponsored transactions at launch.

Faces potential requirement to register as an exchange under U.S. securities laws due to its centralized sequencer, following SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's warning in September 2025 that centralized L2 sequencers handling transaction ordering could be viewed as operating like traditional exchanges.

Daily transactions are trending upward, with the all-time transaction count approaching 1 billion transactions.

GitHub development activity events increased by 90.5% week-over-week as of January 13, 2026.

Velodrome Finance experienced a -18.2% price decline over the past week, with community disappointment following a recent AMA that did not deliver anticipated major announcements.

offers $200 in OP tokens as a reward for onramping $500 into a Morpho vault on OP Mainnet through Oku

Granted 250K OP to Llama Risk for work with Curve Finance during Q3-Q4.

A proposal requesting Foundation control over surplus ETH is criticized on the grounds that the Foundation is not well suited to managing these assets, which should instead be turned over to OP tokenholders for deployment in DeFi.

Proposed using 50% of incoming Superchain sequencer revenue for monthly OP token buybacks over the next year, with governance vote scheduled for 2026-01-22 and buybacks to begin in February 2026 if approved.

Optimism is listed as one of seven blockchains supporting cross-chain bridging for Wyoming's state-issued stablecoin $FRNT, alongside Solana, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, and Polygon.

Generated $25.75M in finance-related gas fees across the network based on data tracked by growthepie.

Achieved an average transaction fee of $0.000063.

Superchain aggregates $10B TVL across unified OP Stack chains.

Native airdrop distributed $200M to 1M users.

Shipped eight protocol upgrades in 2025 to support Superchain growth.

Experienced a 66% decline in active addresses over the 1-year period ending in 2025.

Hosts a Twitter Space on December 19, 2025 discussing Privacy Pools integration on OP Mainnet with speakers from the privacy protocol team.

Binance discontinues OP/FDUSD margin trading pairs across cross and isolated margin markets on December 23, 2025 at 09:00.