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- Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum using optimistic rollups (ORU)
- Inherits Ethereum’s security as the base layer
- Provides lower fees
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- Defi should be accessible to everyone, not only the wealthy in crypto.
- Gas fees are too expensive on Ethereum mainnet.
- Arbitrum is able to solve this by making transactions faster and cheaper, while having the security of Ethereum.
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- Arbitrum is intending to be fully decentralized, but the team has a good control over the network for now (similar to Polygon and Optimism).
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- They prove fraudulent transactions differently. Arbitrum uses a model that narrows the scope of the dispute and potentially executes a few crucial instructions on layer 1 to see if the transaction is valid
- Arbitrum runs a sequencer that’s responsible to ordering transactions as well and will have an approach for decentralized sequencers in he future.
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