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Superchain Ecosystem Numbers
DeFi total value locked (TVL) across Superchain: $2.91B (-8.3%)
Assets onchain: $15.24B (-3.70%)
Daily average transaction volume: 3.91M (+7.7%)
Fraxtal: 6.17K (+92.21%)
Mode: 199.78K (+9.43%)
Base: 2.93M (+7.33%)
Zora: 126.77K (+26.99%)
Redstone: 34.83K (+821.43%)
OP Mainnet: 514.33K (+6.08%)
Kroma: 94.76K (-24.98%)
Revenue-generating deployers on:
Base: 5,485 (+4.16%)
Zora: 165 (+0%)
OP Mainnet: 1,035 (+1.47%)
Superchains: 6,180 (+3.74%)
Optimism’s average txn fee (today): $0.0416
OP Mainnet: 15,499 ETH
Base: 46,499 ETH
Zora: 2,149 ETH
Compared to Ethereum, L2 Superchain users saved a total of 64,147 ETH, or $220.2M on txn fees this week.
The percentages and metrics are pulled from OPLabs data on Dune and are calculated from its change over a 7-day time frame, unless noted otherwise.
Spotlight on Optimism’s Superchain
Highlighting some of the biggest updates on Optimism’s Superchain this week.
⚡What’s happening: Kroma, a layer-2 blockchain focused on web3 gaming, announced on Monday it joined the Superchain ecosystem and is building on the OP Stack.
⚡Why it matters: Kroma is a game-centric L2 solution that plans on tackling the Asia market and capitalizing on the decentralized app (dApp) space in the Ethereum network. By developings rollups based on the OP Stack, it will utilize fault proof systems and zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM).
By joining the Superchain, Kroma plans to accelerate its goal of developing a game-focused blockchain ecosystem. By capitalizing on the Superchain ecosystem and the OP Stack it can enable developers to build and deploy more applications, hopefully in a more efficient manner, through both cost and time. Kroma’s focus on the Asia market also expands the potential reach of the overall Superchain ecosystem in that region, one that is often seen as a prominent space for web3 gaming and liquidity.
The goal of Kroma is to eventually transition to a Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Rollup, once ZK proofs become more cost-efficient and faster, and utilizing the OP Stack will hopefully help it get there.
⚡TLDR: Kroma is one of many chains building with the OP Stack and a part of the Superchain ecosystem. Its announcement also points to the growth of the overall Optimism Collective and the amount of talent migrating to the network as chains on it like Base show signs of early success and user traction.
What’s poppin’ on the Superchain
👤Total number of weekly active addresses on major Superchains:
Base: 2.1M
OP Mainnet: 549.56K
Zora: 138.1K
Mode Network: 31.29K
Doodles Stoodio, the collection’s creator hub, is set to migrate to Base this summer
Drakula.app introduced that all videos on the Drakula app will be onchain videos, automatically minted on Zora
Xterio Games, a web3 gaming publisher, launched XterETH Chain on the Superchain
Allo joined the Superchain, with the outlook to bring real world assets (RWA) onchain
From the Optimism Collective
Highlighting the companies, communities and citizens bound to the Optimism Collective.
ICYMI: Optimism's Kelvin Fichter explains permissionless fault proofs in a video
Learn more about fraud proofs and what it is in a thread by X user 0xBreadGuy
Listen in and learn about the latest Superchain news on The Good News Show
3DNS teased Superchain identity, a new identity for the Optimism Collective, with .box
Making headlines
Kroma and Optimism Superchain Partnership: A New Era for Game Developers Across Asia (BlockchainReporter)
Xterio Joins Optimism’s Superchain, Launches New Web3 Game (CryptoNews)
Fault Proofs & Stage 1 Have Arrived (Optimism on X)
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