✅**Fantom Launches Upgraded Opera Chain**

Fantom has officially launched its upgraded Opera chain after achieving the necessary 66% consensus. The upgrade is expected to significantly enhance transaction speeds and reduce operating costs. The new Opera chain can handle variable transactions at about 2,000 transactions per second (TPS) with around one-second certainty, token swaps at about 4,000 TPS with 1.3 seconds completion, and token transfers at about 10,000 TPS with 1.6 seconds completion. Additionally, the storage requirements for validator nodes will decrease by about 66%, and operating costs for archive nodes by about 95% [[❞]].

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