According to the market data from Ouke OKX, OP has broken through 2.31 USDT, reaching a new high since April this year, and is now reported at 2.311 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of 7.4%.

The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced that it now supports deposits and withdrawals of Tether (USDT) on the Optimism network.

According to OKX market data on December 8th, OP has broken through 2 US dollars in a short period of time and is now priced at 1.993 US dollars, with a 24-hour increase of over 14%.

On December 4th, Optimism decentralized trading protocol Velodrome announced that the domains velodrome.finance and aerodrome.finance were hit by a DNS attack. After preliminary investigation, it is estimated that users who interacted with the attacker's website may lose up to $250,000. After implementing remedial measures, testing, and user feedback, no evidence of any internal/external accounts associated with Velodrome/Aerodrome and/or the registrar being leaked was found. The root cause of this attack was the attacker using social engineering attacks on the domain registrar to gain ownership and control over the accounts holding the domains, thereby bypassing 2FA and other security mechanisms, allowing the attacker to change the domain server and redirect legitimate domain traffic to malicious cloned Velodrome/Aerodrome websites.

Synapse Labs, the developer of cross-chain bridge protocol Synapse, has announced that it has submitted an application for the third round of RetroPGF (Retroactive Public Goods Funding) fundraising on the Optimism platform. Synapse Labs is the creator behind the Synapse protocol and has also contributed to the core infrastructure of Ethereum, Optimism, and crypto development tools such as wevm, DefiLlama, and Foundry.

Optimism decentralized trading protocol Velodrome deployed on Base and its forked DEX Aerodrome both tweeted that their service provider appears to have been attacked again. Please do not interact with their frontend.

On December 2nd, Gitcoin tweeted that it has provided over $2.1 million in funding through its grant program to Optimism and Public Goods Network, with over 387,000 contributors, and has supported 679 innovative projects in the Optimism and PGN communities. In addition, Gitcoin has partnered with Optimism to enhance the RPGF experience by using tools such as Project Registry and the Gitcoin community resource allocation protocol, Allo Protocol, to drive technological and protocol innovation.

On December 1st, it was reported that cross-chain bridge Across has received a donation of 750,000 OP tokens in its Across Treasury. Starting today, users who cross-chain to Optimism will receive a 95% refund of the cross-chain fee.

Nethermind, a blockchain infrastructure development team, announced on X platform that OP deployment will be launched in the next version (V1.23.0). Developers using the Nethermind client will soon be able to run it on the OP Stack chain.

On November 22nd, Optimism co-founder and chief scientist Ben Jones proposed that ApeCoin DAO develop and maintain its L2 network ApeChain on the Optimism Superchain.