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Optimism (OP): buying on Young Platform is now possible!

Anna Perozzi

July 5, 2023

3 min

You can now buy Optimism (OP) on Young Platform! Here’s all you need to know

On Young Platform and Young Platform Pro comes Optimism (OP), available immediately for purchase, custody and sale.

We continue the summer listings with another Ethereum Layer-2 project (the first was Arbitrum). So let’s see what you need to know about Optimism, and how you can use it on Young Platform.

Optimism (OP): all you need to know

Let’s start with a bit of history: the idea of building Optimism was born within the ETH community, and even more precisely by collaborators of the Ethereum Foundation. It was in this environment that the members of the first core research team met. These are the people who invented the optimistic rollup.

In fact, this is the first protocol to use these rollups to execute Ethereum transactions in a fast, convenient, congestion-free manner, in a word: scalably.

OP is the network token with which you can participate in the governance of the project. In other words, if you have OP you can contribute to decisions on Optimism updates and the use of community funds, using tokens to vote.

In concrete terms, what are the main advantages of using Optimism (OP) for you?

Transferring OP and other ERC-20 tokens via the OP Mainnet instead of the Ethereum network will cost you less, especially at times when the latter is particularly busy.
You can use the main Dapps built on Ethereum (and others) while spending much less for token swaps or other transactions
If you do not like something about Optimism, you can use OP to propose and vote for changes to its ecosystem. You have the right to speak up!