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Aug 20, 2026

Optimism redirects 546.9M OP airdrop allocation to ecosystem fund

Optimism governance approved a plan to repurpose 546.9 million OP tokens originally reserved for future airdrops into a new Strategic Ecosystem Fund. The fund will focus on network growth and institutional adoption.

Aug 20, 2026·1 source

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Top claims

▪Optimism stated it has no additional airdrops planned after distributing 269.1 million OP tokens across five rounds.
▪Supporters of the token reallocation argued that the 546.9 million OP token allocation would be better used to compete for enterprise deals and drive growth.
▪The newly created Strategic Ecosystem Fund will fund incentives to increase activity and liquidity on OP Mainnet and grow OP Enterprise.

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Blockchain governance1 Ethereum Layer 2s & scaling1 Layer 2s1 Tokenomics1

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