Following the debut of its much-anticipated airdrop on Wednesday, Optimism, a Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum has been swamped by “all-time high demand.”
Users rushing to get their tokens were met with unsuccessful or delayed transactions as the Optimism team worked behind the scenes to expand the network’s capacity.
Optimism is airdropping the new OP governance token — over various phases — alongside the creation of a DAO branded “The Optimism Collective,” as originally revealed in April.
The airdrop is open to almost 250,000 addresses, with eligibility set for Optimism early adopters and regular Ethereum users including DAO votes, multi-sig signers, and bridge users.
The mainnet’s performance was deteriorated for about three and a half hours, according to Optimism Status, and the team “provisioned more capacity” to fix the problem. As a result, until the network load lowers, archive node operation will be limited.
On Twitter, Optimism announced that it would use the lessons learned from the first airdrop to the second wave, as well as publishing a “full retrospective next week” describing what happened.