Optimism Basis and Kraken closed a 25 million OP deal to deliver the trade’s new layer-2 (L2) blockchain, Ink, to the Superchain ecosystem.
In keeping with CryptoSlate knowledge, the deal is price $43 million at OP’s present worth of $1.72.
Grant
Optimism Basis’s chief development officer, Ryan Wyatt, defined that the grant is structured to fund Kraken’s protocol engineering and incentivize main transaction milestones.
The 25 million tokens are break up into two segments: 5 million $OP tokens will help engineering efforts particular to the OP Stack, whereas the remaining 20 million are earmarked for attaining transaction benchmarks that will generate substantial charges for the OP Collective.
In keeping with Wyatt, the remaining 20 million tokens can be paid out as “large transaction milestones” are met. The intention is to drive charges to the Optimism Collective, giving the deal a optimistic return on funding.
Wyatt additionally highlighted that this deal was additionally supplied to different crypto companies that deployed blockchains utilizing Optimism’s infrastructure, similar to Coinbase’s L2 blockchain Base.
Tokens paid as grants
The muse has emphasised that the grant represents greater than easy deployment prices, usually estimated at underneath $3,000 per thirty days.
In keeping with Wyatt:
“They [Kraken] will contribute to protocol engineering and improvement of the OP Stack, committing to interoperability, Superchain ERC-20 requirements, and broader ecosystem objectives.”
He clarified that Kraken’s work would come with deep integration efforts to strengthen the OP Stack’s potential throughout the DeFi sector.
Wyatt additionally shared a public doc detailing OP token allocations, which reveals practically 480 million OP tokens dedicated to “Accomplice fund + seed fund + Unallocated.” He additional vowed that “transparency will proceed to extend.”
One other CEX-backed L2
Kraken introduced its Ethereum L2 on Oct. 24 and stated the community can be a general-use community like Base.
In keeping with the announcement, the Superchain was chosen to fulfill Ink’s ambition to be an interoperable blockchain whereas sustaining Ethereum’s (ETH) underlying safety as a layer-1 blockchain.
Base, the one layer-2 blockchain deployed on Superchain by a centralized trade till now, has been very profitable. It crossed $2 billion in whole worth locked (TVL) in late September and sits at $2.7 billion as of Oct. 29, changing into the most important Ethereum L2 by TVL, per DefiLlama knowledge.
