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 <p class="is-style-lead">The Ethereum scaling protocol allocated $26.7 million in free coins to wallets that delegated their OP tokens to community votes and on-chain governance.</p> 
 <p>Layer-2 network Optimism airdropped 19.4 million of its native token OP to 31,879 unique addresses with on-chain participation between January and July 2023.</p> 
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    <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today Optimism is announcing OP Airdrop #3.<br><br>19M OP allocated to over 31k unique addresses to reward positive-sum governance participation in the Collective.<br><br>Read on for details on eligibility criteria and allocations.</p>— Optimism (_) (@optimismFND) September 18, 2023
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 <p>These wallets either delegated OP above the minimum threshold or delegated voting power to an address that voted on-chain at least once, according to Optimism’s eligibility criteria.</p> 
 <p>The free <a rel="dofollow" title="tokens" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/tokens.html">tokens</a> serve as a reward for “positive sum governance participation”, Optimism wrote. Also, the <a rel="dofollow" title="airdrop" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/airdrop.html">airdrop</a> is claimless and requires no action from users.&nbsp;</p> 
 <p>Optimism urged vigilance from network participants to avoid losses to phishing scams.</p> 
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  <p>“Airdrop #3 is disbursed directly to eligible wallets. There is no need to claim <a rel="dofollow" title="tokens" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/tokens.html">tokens</a> by interacting with any website. Do not trust any website pretending to help you claim your <a rel="dofollow" title="tokens" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/tokens.html">tokens</a> for Airdrop #3. If an address is eligible, it will have <a rel="dofollow" title="tokens" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/tokens.html">tokens</a> sent directly to it on or shortly after Sept. 15, 2023.”</p> <cite>Optimism on X</cite>
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 <p>The protocol operates in a competitive layer-2 market following its mainnet launch in December 2021.&nbsp;</p> 
 <p>Later, in June 2022, OP debuted with a 200 million <a rel="dofollow" title="token" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/token.html">token</a> <a rel="dofollow" title="airdrop" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/airdrop.html">airdrop</a> to early adopters. The protocol’s “Airdrop #2” disbursed another 11.7 million OP <a rel="dofollow" title="tokens" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/tokens.html">tokens</a> to users in February 2023.&nbsp;</p> 
 <p>Optimism pledged 19% of its initial token supply to community rewards and free tokens in the form of airdrop.</p> 
 <p>At press time, the scaling network boasted the sixth-largest total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi).&nbsp;</p> 
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   Major DeFi protocols sorted by TVL | Source: DeFiLlama
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 <p>Users have locked roughly $650 million in the network, according to DeFiLlama. Only Ethereum, Tron, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Arbitrum, and Polygon feature greater TVLs.</p> 
 <p>In July 2023, Optimism overtook fellow layer-2 blockchain Arbitrum in daily transactions.</p> 
 <p>The protocol also released a developers kit called OP Stack for building layer-2 blockchains. Coinbase-incubated network Base was built using Optimism’s solution. Binance also tapped OP Stack for its opBNB chain.</p> 
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Optimism airdrops 19.4m of free OP tokens

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