Welcome to the Superchain Monthly Recap, a snapshot of the key updates and network-level progress across the Superchain over the past month.
January reflected continued execution across the Superchain, with progress concentrated around infrastructure readiness, economic alignment, and protocol maturity rather than one-off launches.
Enterprise-facing OP Stack infrastructure moved closer to production deployment, governance mechanisms began routing protocol revenue into explicit economic flows, and several major Superchain networks and applications transitioned into more structured operating phases. Across the ecosystem, the emphasis shifted toward ownership, recurring revenue, and sustained usage.
This activity was visible in network-level data.
A full breakdown of Superchain activity is available on stats.optimism.io.
Optimism introduced OP Enterprise, a production-grade managed blockchain offering built on the OP Stack for enterprises that want to deploy their own chain without running infrastructure in-house.
OP Enterprise supports three paths: starting on OP Mainnet with enterprise support, operating a self-managed chain with direct Optimism backing, or running a fully managed chain operated end-to-end by the Optimism team. Across all options, teams retain ownership of their chain and its revenue, with the flexibility to move between models over time.
By bundling infrastructure, security, vendor coordination, and ecosystem integrations, OP Enterprise shortens the path from strategy to production from months to weeks and shifts enterprise adoption toward owned execution layers.
OP Governance approved a 12-month buyback mechanism allocating 50% of Superchain sequencer revenue to recurring OP token purchases, with 84.4% approval. Execution begins in February.
ETH generated from Superchain activity will be converted into OP through predefined monthly execution windows. Based on the past year of revenue, this would have amounted to roughly 2.7k ETH, or around $8M at current prices.
Purchased OP returns to the collective treasury, while the remaining revenue continues to fund development, shared infrastructure, and ecosystem growth. As Superchain usage scales, the mechanism scales with it.
Celo announced the unification of the Celo Foundation and cLabs into a single core contributor organization, formalizing years of collaboration under one operating structure.
The change consolidates planning, prioritization, and execution while keeping governance community-led. It follows a year of sustained usage growth, including leadership among Ethereum L2s in daily active users and stablecoin activity through MiniPay.
By aligning protocol delivery with operations, Celo is reducing coordination overhead and tightening the link between upgrades and real usage.
On January 30, Nado moved into Open Beta with the launch of Season 1, introducing the first structured phase of its points program.
Weekly points distributions reward sustained protocol usage across trading activity, participation in the NLP liquidity vault, and referrals tied to active users. Points earned during Private Alpha and the pre–Open Beta transition are being distributed as part of the rollout.
Season 1 also introduces trading tiers, NFT-based fee tiers and points multipliers, and dedicated allocations for builders and ecosystem initiatives.
Startale Group secured an additional $13M from Sony Innovation Fund at the first close of its Series A, extending a partnership that began with Startale’s 2023 seed round.
The investment builds on the joint development of Soneium, an Ethereum L2 co-developed through Sony Block Solutions Labs. Since mainnet launch in January 2025, Soneium has scaled to hundreds of millions of transactions and millions of active wallets.
Alongside the network, Startale is assembling a vertically integrated stack that includes an ecosystem gateway app and a native settlement layer to support payments and asset flows.
January showed the Superchain continuing to scale across usage, capital, and execution. Infrastructure is becoming production-ready, economic mechanisms are tightening, and activity across OP Stack chains is translating into durable network growth.
