Crypto-focused payment platform Ether.fi is migrating its Ether.fi Cash payment network from Scroll network to OP Mainnet. With this move, approximately 70,000 active cards and 300,000 accounts will be integrated into the Superchain ecosystem developed by Optimism within a few months. Preparing for a high-volume migration in terms of total locked assets, the company aims to make the transition to new infrastructure more efficient and scalable for consumer applications.
Conversion of OP Mainnet and Ether.fi Cash
Ether.fi is a platform that stands out with its re-staking services and is rapidly gaining recognition in the decentralized finance ecosystem. By 2024, Ether.fi is focused on making stablecoin spending and debit card payments possible in the real world with its Cash product. Users can spend stablecoins through Ether.fi or fund actual Visa transactions by collateralizing staked assets such as eETH. It is stated that Ether.fi cards have recently carried out almost half of crypto-based card transactions.
Strategic Importance of Network Selection
The key element in crypto payment products is that the network infrastructure meets expectations in terms of speed and liquidity. Ether.fi officials stated that Optimism’s liquidity depth is more suitable for this usage area than the ZK-rollup advantages offered by Scroll. Gas fees for card transactions will be covered directly by Ether.fi during the transition period. Additionally, it was announced that approximately $2 million in daily expenditures were made on the platform.
Technical and Operational Details in Migration
OP Enterprise’s support and common code base will be utilized throughout the platform’s transition process. It is stated that Ether.fi Cash is growing rapidly, with approximately 2,000 internal swaps and 28,000 spending transactions daily, and these metrics are doubling every two months. The protocol bears all transaction costs to ensure that the user experience continues smoothly. Efficiency and capital efficiency stand out as the most technically decisive factors in the transition decision.
It is recorded that 3.6 billion transactions took place on the OP Stack infrastructure in the second half of 2025 alone. While the market share of Ethereum-based layer-2 solutions is growing rapidly, the technical capacity of the Superchain ecosystem is shown to be able to extend Ether.fi’s operations faster and to a wider network of participants.
In this process, Ether.fi, which left Scroll, will increase its consolidation in OP Mainnet, while Scroll will lose a significant daily transaction volume. OP Mainnet, on the other hand, further strengthens its position in the ecosystem by acquiring an application with high user loyalty and volume.
Recently, it has been observed that with the maturation of ecosystems in other Ethereum-based chains, projects prefer tested liquidity and stable infrastructure networks instead of new technologies. On the user side, although the technique may differ, a seamless card infrastructure comes to the fore in the spending experience.
The Ether.fi team stated that due to the move, transaction fees for card use will not be felt by users and emphasized that the long-term goal is to achieve global spread in on-chain real payments.
