The price of Optimism’s native token, $OP, has climbed 8% over the last 24 hours, regaining bullish momentum amid optimism in the layer 2 space. The move comes after a long downtrend where the OP Coin appeared to bottom out in a falling wedge pattern, often a bullish formation indicating potential for sharp breakouts. Technical analysts now point to $2.20 and $2.60 as potential resistance targets, contingent upon a clean breakout above current trendline ceilings.
The recent rally coincides with strong on-chain fundamentals. Optimism Mainnet now secures $456.3 million in total value locked, with a 1.74% increase over the past 24 hours. More importantly, the network continues to show solid revenue generation capacity. In the last 24 hours, it recorded $10,679 in chain fees and $10,594 in overall chain revenue. Application-specific activity on the chain is also thriving, with app revenue reaching $37,879 in the same period.
These metrics indicate increasing utility across DeFi protocols operating on Optimism. As capital continues to rotate into efficient layer 2s, OP’s price rebound could be the first signal of a renewed narrative favoring Ethereum scaling solutions.
Perfect Timing for Optimism
Indeed, the timing for Optimism is excellent. The Ethereum Foundation has recently outlined its plans for the coming year, focusing on layer 1 scalability and blob data optimization. These priorities are integral to the long-term viability of rollups like Optimism.
This brings us to PeerDAS (Peer-to-Peer Data Availability Sampling), which is currently being tested to improve Ethereum’s data throughput capacity. In short, PeerDAS enables Ethereum to process up to eight times more blob data without compromising decentralization or network security.
Such an upgrade is not only beneficial for Ethereum; it is mission-critical for the rollups built on top of it.
Active Contribution to the Roadmap
Optimism, for its part, has enthusiastically embraced this roadmap. It is actively contributing to it. The Optimism team and other Ethereum-aligned dev shops like Sunnyside Labs are participating in early PeerDAS devnets. They will measure performance benchmarks, identify scaling thresholds, and assess how far the system can push toward the theoretical maximum of 48 blobs per block.
In the coming weeks, the Optimism Foundation plans to release detailed insights from these devnets, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges and milestones toward Ethereum’s next scaling leap. These efforts are part of the movement to ensure that layer 2 networks remain sustainable as Ethereum’s base layer changes.
With over $37 billion secured across rollups, the demand for reliable and economical scaling is immense. PeerDAS could mark the turning point very well, and Optimism is strategically poised to capitalize on its success. As the Ethereum scaling narrative grows, other layer 2 tokens like Arbitrum, zkSync, and Base-linked assets such as BRETT may soon follow OP’s lead in price.
Arbitrum increased by 40.30% in the past 7 days, ahead of the crypto market, which has risen only slightly above 10%. Indeed, this is mainly because of the renewed interest investors have in Ethereum rollups. The upcoming upgrades and changes will further improve the outlook.
On the other hand, BRETT, the meme coin serving as the face of the Base ecosystem increased by over 41% in the past week. It did better than the meme coin category in the crypto market, which increased by only 38%. In the midst of all these, investors’ interest seem to be more focused on OP.
In the short term, all eyes remain on OP’s price structure. A clear break from its current wedge resistance could bring the $2.20 and $2.60 levels into focus. However, over the medium to long term, Optimism’s alignment with Ethereum’s future gives it a structural edge in the layer 2 race.
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