Optimism $OP token enters accumulation after 2025 bear market, with trader Michaël van de Poppe holding strong amid altcoin recovery signals.

According to @CryptoMichNL, he added $10,000 to his personal altcoin portfolio, splitting the allocation across OP, TAO, SEI, and W as part of an ongoing DCA plan. According to @CryptoMichNL, the plan is to keep adding roughly $10,000 monthly over the next 2–3 months depending on strength or further drawdowns, while acknowledging the personal portfolio is down about 75–80%. According to @CryptoMichNL, the rationale includes signals that Bitcoin priced in gold is at historically low levels, weekly and biweekly RSI nearing prior bear-market lows, the production cost sitting above price, and a shifting macro backdrop with a progressive Fed chair, a turning business cycle, potential avoidance of shutdowns, and the Clarity Act coming into play. According to @CryptoMichNL, the near-term game plan is to hold rather than actively trade, adjusting only if one position materially outruns the others. According to @CryptoMichNL, this higher-risk personal approach differs from the @MNFund_ and VC portfolios, with the fund said to have outperformed Bitcoin by about 35% since its July 1, 2025 inception. According to @CryptoMichNL, this is not financial advice and DCA is his preferred strategy for those with suitable risk tolerance.

According to @CryptoMichNL, altcoins tapped the 21-day moving average as support, which he views as a strong signal, and Optimism (OP) has been climbing since that touch. According to @CryptoMichNL, he is not selling his OP position and states the trend is now up.

According to @santimentfeed, weekly net changes in notable development activity events over the past week show leaders Optimism +90.5%, Solana +73.5%, and Arbitrum +72.9%, with additional increases in Cosmos +71.5%, Polygon +56.8%, Gnosis +59.3%, Harmony +61.4%, BNB Chain +51.8%, Avalanche +51.0%, and Ethereum +40.2%, based on Santiment’s Jan 13, 2026 X post and its Dev Activity dashboard. According to @santimentfeed, the dashboard is highlighted for keeping tabs on which ecosystems are working hardest on innovating and improving over time, per the same Santiment sources.

According to @Gajpower, non-native rollups should not be considered rollups on Ethereum and L2Beat should add a new post-Stage-2 "native" category where only that stage is fully green and all other stages, including Stage 2, are shifted toward red for stricter signaling, source: https://twitter.com/Gajpower/status/1993296638358831225 source: https://x.com/zeamETH/status/1993295591255032133. The comment targets L2Beat’s existing Stages framework for evaluating rollup maturity and security while L2Beat also tracks major ETH Layer-2s such as Optimism (OP) and Arbitrum (ARB), providing context for how any stricter “native” emphasis would relate to dashboard labeling, source: https://l2beat.com/scaling/transparency source: https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/optimism source: https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/arbitrum.