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Optimistic rollups have been used by protocols such as Optimism and Arbitrum to improve the scalability of Ethereum
Arbitrum and Optimism have seen significant growth in the number of users and TVLs over the last few months
Metis, an Optimism fork, aims to provide another optimistic rollup framework with a different optimization between transaction throughput and decentralization
Metis’ native governance token, METIS, is already in circulation and Metis aims to bring its protocol to Ethereum mainnet in October
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