Over the past few months, there has been a steady uptick in activity on Arbitrum, an Optimistic Layer 2 scaling solution on Ethereum. 

Today, Arbitrum is home to popular DeFi dApps and GameFi projects like GMX and Treasure and owns more than 50% of the market share against other Layer 2s like Optimism and Metis.

In this Blockcrunch episode, A.J Warner, Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs shares with us:

• How the rollup landscape has evolved

• Difference between Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova and Optimism

• How Arbitrum became the top Layer 2

• Path towards decentralization

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Introduction to Arbitrum

(00:03:19) – Rollup landscape NOW vs a year ago

(00:06:34) – Arbitrum One gas fees vs Ethereum

(00:09:16) – Arbitrum Nova; Arbitrum chain for social and games

(00:14:19) – Trade-off of Arbitrum One vs Nova

(00:17:43) – Apps verticalizing into their own app roll-ups

(00:20:53) – Partnership with Reddit & social use-cases

(00:25:17) – Arbitrum latest upgrade - Stylus

(00:29:26) – Arbitrum vs Optimism

(00:32:03) – Value accrual across different blockchain layers

(00:35:34) – Path toward decentralization

(00:38:26) – Changing from Optimistic to ZK rollup

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More Resources:

Guest

Arbitrum’s Website: https://arbitrum.io/

Arbitrum’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/arbitrum

A.J. Warner’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajwarner90

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