Optimism Token Jumps Nearly 20% as Uniswap Moves Unichain Operations to OP Enterprise

Optimism's native token $OP climbed nearly 20% at one point over 24 hours, reaching $0.1621 according to CoinGecko on October 14, following Uniswap's announcement that Unichain will transition its production operations to OP Enterprise. The token later pared some gains to trade around $0.156, remaining up 14% over 24 hours, 28% over seven days, and 64% over 30 days, while its 24-hour trading volume rose 128% to approximately $226M. Despite the short-term rally, $OP still trades nearly 68% below its price from a year ago and sits 97% below its all-time high, last reaching higher levels in mid-May when it touched $0.166. Under Uniswap's October 9 plan, Unichain scheduled its testnet migration for October 13 and set its mainnet migration for October 29, handing over sequencers, remote procedure call services, monitoring, and incident response to Optimism while keeping chain IDs, balances, and Uniswap v2, v3, and v4 deployments unchanged. The operational handover prepares Unichain for native interoperability across the OP Stack, which will eventually allow users to transfer assets starting with $ETH between OP Stack networks without a bridge.