Optimism Airdrop Goes Live, Gets Overwhelmed

Ethereum Layer-2 system, Optimism announced on May 31st that its governance token airdrop was going live. A few hours after the airdrop launch, the network suffered from low performance as traffic surged.  The governance token, OP, is the beginning of a shift to a bicameral governance system of funding for the network, called the Optimism Collective. In April, Coinbase carried an OP token page, which roused speculations that a token airdrop was in the offing. A week later, Optimism confirmed…