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throughout the ~4.5 years I’ve worked at @Offchain Labs, there’s always been some “looming doom” that CT points to as the inevitable “death of Arbitrum” 1st year it was competing with @0xPolygon who was spending 10s of millions to get big web2 partnerships, no way you’re competing with them! 2nd year it was that ZK tech that would kill the need for any optimistic rollup tech bc “vitalik said so”, your tech is gonna be obsolete! 3rd year it was @base launching, + @optimism launching the superchain campaign, their vision, marketing, and GTM is killer - Arbitrum is done for! 4th year it was Arbitrum is just a bridge to @HyperliquidX, idk why they chose Arbitrum but who cares if it’s just a bridge, nothing else to do! every step of the way I wondered how is it that we can have so many people cheering us on (builders, ecosystem friends, etc) yet so many nay sayers praying on our down fall all whilst actively being the underdog if it wasn’t for the: 1) incredible leadership from the @arbitrum eco 2)actual DAO where token holders have power of the purse 3) creation of this platform that works incredibly well today/is pushing the boundaries on what’s possible onchain I don’t think we’d be where we’re at today: - making major partnerships with the biggest fintech companies in the world like @RobinhoodApp - sitting at #1 as the biggest neutral land of liquidity on @ethereum and top 5 amongst all blockchans - shipping truly novel tech like stylus, timeboost, BoLD, multi-gas targets, etc that being said if you still think @VitalikButerin’s post was a death sentence to @arbitrum we, the ecosystem, looks forward to proving you and everyone else wrong once again 💙

Crypto and tokenization need clear rules of the road in the US. The CLARITY Act is a step toward consistent customer protections and a path for more innovation to happen here. Still more work to do, but great to see momentum.

We’re thrilled to announce @RobinhoodApp as a sponsor of Open House London. They’re supporting Open House across 4 regions with $1M in funding and hands-on guidance for businesses shaping the programmable economy on the Robinhood Chain.

Arbitrum wants to power your business. Hear from @kaledora why @Ostium chose to partner with us.

Only possible on Arbitrum. We offer the flexibility needed to power the programmable economy. Arbitrum Everywhere

Native X402 support for @arbitrum is officially live in the Coinbase repo, alongside four other chains. This is a massive unlock for agentic commerce on @arbitrum!

Agentic commerce has arrived in the programmable economy. x402 by @coinbase is now live on the Arbitrum Platform, allowing builders to let AI agents pay for APIs, services, and software directly with stablecoins. 👇 docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/network-s…

Milestone: @arbitrum just reached 10 million stablecoin holders across the platform. Stablecoins are being held and transferred across some of the most exciting use cases, from RWAs to DeFi, powered by great teams that choose Arbitrum as the home for the programmable economy.

It has been a pleasure working with @0xMGB and the broader team. Our goal has always been to enable and foster a robust and strong DeFi ecosystem. This has always been a core strength of Arbitrum and the culture of builders we have attracted.

sUSDAI is now the biggest token on @0xfluid Arbitrum. Two months ago it had near zero share. Today it sits at the top of a $230M+ book and is a main driver for liquidity growth on Fluid.

12 days left for the next @arbitrum Open House Buildathon 🇬🇧 If I were applying, I'd pick one of these: → Payments. Region-focused apps, programmable transfers, super apps. Make stablecoins feel like local money. → DeFi. Programmable lending, trading, yield, and derivatives. → Asset Management & Banking. Tokenized deposits and RWAs as investable products. Compliant rails. → Privacy. Selective disclosure, confidential computation, encrypted state. → Agentic Workflows. Skills, framework extensions, or full agent flows. → Social. Creator monetization, portable identity, prediction markets, consumer hedging. Open House London is offering $415k, mentorship, and a platform to build on. Start with the Buildathon. Apply here 👇

Kyan is officially open for everyone! You can now start earning Krystals through trading and referrals 💠 Here's more info about that: blog.kyan.blue/p/what-are-kry… x.com/KyanExchange/s…

@0xMGB @arbitrum There is no shortage of cases where free markets created a flourishing economy There are many cases where controlled markets remain fragile or collapse It's great to work with teams like @arbitrum who understand this and fall into the former camp

have to agree, at least from what I’ve seen and heard arbitrum does ecosystem the right way, supporting all builders fairly and equally to remain credibly neutral the death of a competitive ecosystem is the minute you decide to “king make” one app over another

Developers & founders.. @arbitrum is offering: → $415k in prizes → mentorship → access to the ecosystem Starting this month. Apply here 👇

In five years @pendle_fi is going to power all mortgage REIT trading. Book it @tn_pendle

Arbitrum has always been the home of credibly neutral blockspace. We are home to some of the best perps markets: - @Ostium - @variational_io - @edgeX_exchange and many, many more We have a diversified set of stablecoins: - @PayPal's pyUSD - @circle's USDC - @tether, @USDT0_to's USDT0 and many, many more I could go on... If you don't want your chain to build a competing product, we'd love to chat

We've had a similar experience with Arbitrum - the BD team is committed to helping Morpho grow and connects many of their eco teams to us. And I know they treat other lending protocols in their eco with the same level of care and connectivity. It's impressive to strike such a delicate balance between credible neutrality and resource commitment.

Every generation of financial winners was built on the next infrastructure shift. 1800s - Physical exchange markets 1900s - Broker-led electronic markets 2000s - Internet brokerage platforms 2020s - Programmable markets (Today) Fintechs that build early in the programmable economy will define the next era of markets.

When we first made contact with @Arbitrum, we were *tiny*. Freshly in private beta, probably 10 daily active users, and ~100k in daily volume. They still took us seriously: meetings, including us in audit programs, asking how they could help. If Arbitrum had been trying to kingmake a perps product, we wouldn't have built there. Even now, we receive no special treatment from Arbitrum (outside of the occasional swag shipment). An ecosystem without fair internal competition is an ecosystem that loses to external competition.