<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The NFT marketplace giant OpenSea has adopted support for the Layer 2 network Optimism. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This move onboards NFT projects based on Optimism, such as Apetimism, Bored Town, Motor Headz and Optichads, the firm </span><a href="https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1574799977649422339"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Twitter. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adding Optimism-based NFT projects brings the number of supported blockchains on OpenSea up to six, after the company supported </span><a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/171392/opensea-announces-support-for-layer-2-network-arbitrum"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arbitrum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on September 20 of this year. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenSea’s move to add support for Optimism follows a series of other changes to the marketplace, such as integrating the NFT scarcity tool </span><a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/171896/opensea-adopts-nft-scarcity-tracking-tool-openrarity"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenRarity</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and automatic </span><a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/172391/opensea-aims-to-automatically-index-solana-nfts"><span style="font-weight: 400;">indexing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for Solana-based NFTs. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Optimism is an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling protocol built on Ethereum. Optimism launched its </span><a href="https://www.theblock.co/linked/149464/optimisms-governance-token-officially-goes-live"><span style="font-weight: 400;">governance token</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> OP on May 31 of this year, followed by an </span><a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/151039/optimism-exploiter-sends-1-million-op-tokens-to-vitalik-buterins-wallet"><span style="font-weight: 400;">exploit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in which a hacker stole 20 million OP and sent 1 million of that to Vitalik Buterin’s wallet. </span></p><br /><span class="copyright"><p>© 2023 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.</p> </span>