{"id":80713,"date":"2023-06-24T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=80713"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:37:01","slug":"optimism-team-renames-its-network-to-op-mainnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/optimism-team-renames-its-network-to-op-mainnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism team renames its network to OP Mainnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of the Ethereum-<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">layer-2<\/a> network Optimism have renamed the project to OP Mainnet to separate the network from the community and its ideals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s official: the chain formerly known as Optimism is now OP Mainnet!<\/p>\n<p>This distinction makes clear the delineation between the OP Mainnet blockchain and the Collective, vibe, and ethos that \u201cOptimism\u201d encompasses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Optimism (\u2728?_?\u2728) (@optimismFND) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/optimismFND\/status\/1672281032962478080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>Officially: the network formerly known as Optimism has become OP Mainnet. This change will clearly delineate the OP Mainnet blockchain from the collective, vibe, and ethos that Optimism embodies<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/Optimism\">Defi Llama<\/a>, the total value locked in OP Mainnet stands at $800 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, the project developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/optimism-team-activates-bedrock-update\">activated<\/a> the Bedrock upgrade. Since then, the average transaction fee in the L2 network <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bedrock-update-halves-fees-on-the-optimism-network\">fell by 56%<\/a>, from $0.57 to $0.16.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, the developers of the BNB Chain <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bnb-chain-developers-launch-optimism-compatible-testnet\">launched<\/a> the opBNB testnet \u2014 <span data-descr=\"Ethereum Virtual Machine\" class=\"old_tooltip\">EVM<\/span>-compatible scaling solution for OP Mainnet-based second layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of the Ethereum Layer-2 network Optimism renamed the project to OP Mainnet to separate the network from the community and its ideals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1362],"class_list":["post-80713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-optimism-op"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"34","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80715,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80713\/revisions\/80715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}