Optimism

Optimism spotlighted South Korea as a fast-growing onchain market, citing four Korean institutions building on its stack. GIWA, the Ethereum L2 from Upbit (Korea's largest exchange), has surpassed 100 million testnet transactions. Toss, the super app used by 30M+ people, is exploring a won-backed stablecoin — a push that follows an MOU with Optimism and Sunnyside Labs for a three-month proof of concept.

• DB Securities is tokenizing smart-farming and livestock assets as real-world assets
• KB Securities signed an MOU to bring tokenized funds to Korean institutional investors
• "Exchange. Super app. Securities firms. All on one stack," per Optimism

Optimism has confirmed that Soneium, Sony's blockchain, is now supported by OP Enterprise, its offering for enterprise chain operations. Optimism is handling Soneium's day-to-day chain operations, including deployment, sequencing, monitoring, and upgrades, as the chain brings tokenized IP and onchain entertainment to life on the network.

The move formalizes Optimism's operational role for the Sony Block Solutions Labs L2, which previously joined the Superchain as an OP Stack–based Ethereum L2. This expands that relationship into Optimism-run infrastructure support for the entertainment-focused chain.

Optimism announced it is a launch partner for Chainlink's CCIP 2.0, the next generation of the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol aimed at institutional digital assets. Optimism said the integration makes interoperability possible for the world's largest financial institutions, adding OP Stack networks to CCIP's coverage.

• CCIP 2.0 launched with institutional guardrails and a verifier system, backed by partners including AWS, ANZ Bank, Deutsche Börse Group's Crypto Finance, Fidelity International, and SBI Digital Markets
• The protocol lets institutions distribute tokenized assets across chains without rearchitecting their existing tech stack

ether.fi announced that its card is the Official Card Partner of TOKEN2049 Singapore. The company said it will host a side event during the conference week, part of its push to position the ether.fi account — which supports spending crypto and tokenized assets — as a full-service onchain banking alternative.

The sponsorship gives ether.fi's card visibility at one of crypto's largest conference gatherings in Asia.

KB Securities, part of Korea's largest financial group, is partnering with Securitize and the Optimism Foundation to bring tokenized financial products to OP Mainnet. The first product will be a tokenized bond, with equities planned to follow — marking the first time a major Korean financial institution is coming onchain.

• Securitize provides the tokenization infrastructure; Optimism supplies the blockchain network
• Aimed at institutional investors, extending the STO (security token offering) push into Korean capital markets

Optimism is helping small businesses in South Korea get paid faster and cut transaction fees. toss, the country's largest fintech super app, and KOMSCO (the Korea Minting, Security Printing and ID Card Operating Corporation) ran a full local-currency payment cycle on the Optimism network.

The pilot signals a real-world onchain payment use case: moving prepaid/settlement flows for small merchants and saving on fees compared with traditional rails.

BNB is now available on Zora, joining the network's growing range of supported assets. The listing expands the assets users can hold and trade on the OP Stack–based platform.

• BNB joins Zora's expanding token selection