Welcome to Superchain Sunday - our weekly newsletter! Every Sunday, we will provide you with the latest news and updates in the world of the Superchain.
The Superchain accounts for over 83.3% of all Layer 2 transactions and sees 13.6M daily transactions. The network boasts 774 Unique Apps, contributing to the Optimism Collective. It is estimated that 122.9 ETH will be contributed to the Optimism Collective in May. Data Fetched from the Superchain Health Dashboard.
SUPR is live on Superseed Mainnet, and everyone who joined the Supersale can now claim tokens at claim.superseed.xyz. Designed for a multichain future, SUPR can travel freely between Superseed, Base, Ethereum, OP Mainnet, and Ink through Superbridge, giving holders instant access to liquidity wherever it is deepest. The token follows a community first model with a total supply of ten billion. Twenty percent went to the Supersale and is fully unlocked, the Foundation Treasury and Ecosystem Fund each hold twenty and eighteen percent respectively with gradual unlocks, Network Participation Rewards represent fifteen percent for future distribution, Contributors receive twenty two percent with a delayed schedule, and Early Supporters hold the remaining five percent that vests over one year.
Once received, tokens can be traded or paired for liquidity on Velodrome, swapped quickly on BulletX, or put to work for lending and yield on SeedFi. In the coming weeks an upcoming Seeds program will reward active onchain participation with a portion of the Network Participation pool. These activities only hint at what SUPR unlocks; explore the complete list of live projects in the Superseed ecosystem for the full picture and read the official announcement here.
Optimism core developers have activated the Isthmus hard fork, pushing the main features of Ethereum’s recent Pectra upgrade into the OP Stack only forty eight hours after Pectra went live on Ethereum. The update rolled out simultaneously across Base, Ink, OP Mainnet, Soneium, Unichain, and other Superchain networks, making the Superchain the first layer two ecosystem to support Pectra. By design, the OP Stack keeps execution logic nearly identical to Ethereum, letting improvements flow straight to every connected chain and sustaining the Superchain’s lead, which accounted for almost seventy percent of all layer two fee revenue in April.
Pectra delivers immediate wins for Superchain users and developers. Blob scaling lowers data costs, while EIP 7702 introduces account abstraction that enables smart wallet features and one click multichain transactions, reducing friction for DeFi apps. Explore the stack, deploy a chain or application, and join the open effort to scale Ethereum’s Superchain. Read the full release here.
Four new SuperStacks opportunities are live: on OP Mainnet you can LP in Velodrome’s USDT0-kBTC pool or its new USDT-USDC stable pool, on Soneium you can supply stablecoins to the first lending market in the programme through Sake Finance, and on Base a Uniswap v4 USDT0-USDC pool is now open for concentrated-liquidity providers. These venues let you earn protocol yield and Superchain XP simultaneously, and wallets that transacted on Base, Ink, OP Mainnet, Soneium and Unichain during the chain’s first two months still receive a two-times XP multiplier, turning every deposit into a faster climb up the leaderboard. Check out all the opportunities to earn XP here.
Conduit has teamed up with Polygon to launch the AggLayer CDK, a new rollup framework that blends the familiar OP Stack execution environment with Polygon’s zk security and native AggLayer interoperability. Builders can now spin up sovereign chains that settle to Ethereum, tap AggLayer’s unified liquidity, and avoid seven-day withdrawal delays or extra taxes, all while developing in the same Geth-based stack they already know.
This release reinforces why the OP Stack is the preferred foundation for new Layer two networks. More than fifty chains, including Base, Unichain, World Chain, and OP Mainnet, already rely on its modular, Ethereum-equivalent design, collectively securing over seventeen billion dollars in total value and processing the majority of L2 transactions. Each new deployment adds momentum, upstreaming innovations and deepening liquidity across the Superchain, while builders stay free to experiment with custom data availability or zero-knowledge proofs. Read more about the AggLayer CDK launch here.
BOB Gateway is a Bitcoin intent bridge that lets users move from native BTC to wrapped or staked BTC assets such as WBTC, tBTC, or BTC LSTs in a single transaction. Liquidity providers lock wrapped Bitcoin on BOB, the gateway verifies each Bitcoin deposit with an on-chain light client, and the requested asset is delivered directly to the user’s EVM address. The swap is atomic and trustless, so neither the user nor the LP must rely on a custodian and failed deposits cannot occur.
Integration is easy with the BOB SDK. Developers fetch available tokens, request a quote, reserve LP funds, and create a partially signed Bitcoin transaction for the user. After the signed transaction is broadcast and finalized, Gateway mints or transfers the wrapped asset on BOB, optionally routing it through lending or staking strategies, and can even swap a small amount for ETH gas. This unlocks Bitcoin liquidity for any DeFi app while giving users fewer steps, lower costs, and instant access to Bitcoin-backed yield. Learn more and start integrating BOB Gateway here.
LiskDAO has green-lit its first three Builder Grants. Funding goes to the LiskDAO Rejuvenation Project, a community-driven push by @jujuboyNFT to reignite governance engagement and staking; Acquiring New Talent by Propellant, which issues onchain skill badges and gasless job matching; and FreelanceFlow by @nicodemuskipto0, a stablecoin payment rail that lets African freelancers get paid on Lisk. If you’re building on Lisk, now is the moment to plug into the ecosystem, join the conversations, and apply for support via the LiskDAO Hub.
The Superchain has grown to 31 different OP Chains, each with its flourishing Ecosystem. These are some extra stories to make your Sunday that much more Super.
