Mint Blockchain secures $1.35m grant from Optimism to boost NFT innovations

Ethereum L2 community for the NFT business, Mint Blockchain obtained a grant of 750,000 OP tokens ($1.35 million) from Optimism Governance within the twenty eighth cycle of Optimism Grants.
On Oct. 15, Mint Blockchain introduced in an X post that Optimism(OP) has accepted their grant request for 750,000 OP tokens or equal to $1.35 million. The NFT-focused community will use the funds to spice up “the Superchain NFT financial system”.
In response to the publish, Mint is the one “Superchain” venture within the Cycle 28 spherical of grant approvals. Primarily based on the Cycle 28 winners announcement, Optimism additionally accepted grants for Uniswap, DelegateMatch and Scout Sport.
“We’re past grateful for his or her assist as we proceed our mission to speed up NFT innovation and adoption throughout Mint Blockchain and the broader Superchain Ecosystem,” acknowledged Mint Blockchain in its publish.
Mint Blockchain plans to make use of the funds acquired from the grant to empower builders and onboard new customers on the superchain. Mint additionally hinted that it’ll unveil extra detailed plans within the close to future.
Optimism acknowledged in a separate X post that the goal of the grant is to incentivize progress for builders and to extend person engagement within the Mint ecosystem. On a wider scope, Optimism hopes that the grant will additional drive NFT innovation and adoption inside the Mint Blockchain in addition to throughout different superchain ecosystems.
After receiving the grant, Mint took the chance to ask builders to launch their tasks on the protocol and share their concepts within the NFT subject by Mint’s improvement discussion board.
“In case you’re captivated with NFT fields, you’ll be able to share your concepts by Mint developer discussion board—we’re able to work collectively to show these NFT ideas into actuality. We’re excited for what’s forward and sit up for supporting you!” wrote Mint.
A comparatively new mainnet, Mint Blockchain was based in Could 2024 and presently has greater than 400,000 energetic customers worldwide and helps greater than 80 functions. In the beginning of its journey, Mint completed a US$5 million seed funding spherical joined by Jsquare, SNZ Capital, Antalpha Ventures, Masks Community, BlockAI Ventures, Predator Capital, amongst different traders.
Mint Blockchain is a member of the OP Superchain and a strategic associate of the Optimism Basis within the Asia-Pacific area. Mint claims that its mainnet vastly reduces the gasoline charge value for on-chain interactions and helps present efficient scalability for the Ethereum ecosystem.