Arbitrum


Policy

Controversial Crypto Firm Prometheum to Treat Uniswap and Arbitrum's Tokens as Securities

The SEC-registered crypto platform is expanding its custody operation beyond Ethereum's ETH, and that means it would be holding UNI and ARB as securities.

Aaron (pictured) and Benjamin Kaplan, Co-CEOs of Prometheum, are expanding their custody scope for crypto securities. (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Tech

Morpheus, Decentralized AI Project From Lumerin, Goes Live on Arbitrum Test Network

The premise of the technology is to avoid pitfalls of centralized AI models, which might be prone to censorship or monopoly control, according to the developer.

Artistic modification of illustration pulled from Morpheus white paper (Lumerin/Morpheus)

Policy

Exiled Russian Opposition Leader Launches Blockchain-Based Referendum on Vladimir Putin’s Election Win

The new Arbitrum-powered tool could give Russians critical of Putin a way to anonymously voice their displeasure.

16:9 Crop: Russian President Vladimir Putin. (DimitroSevastopol/Pixabay)

Tech

Injective, Underperforming in Crypto Markets, Now Plans Layer-3 Chain on Arbitrum

Injective’s "inEVM," which connects the Ethereum, Cosmos, and Solana networks, will rely on Arbitrum's Orbit toolkit.

Injective Labs CEO Eric Chen (Injective)

Tech

The Protocol: EigenLayer's 'Intersubjective Forking' Is Objectively Not Done

Much-hyped restaking project EigenLayer's 43-page whitepaper about its now-revealed EIGEN token has raised lots of questions. They may not matter initially, because much of the promised functionality won't be ready when the token launches.

(Ivana Cajina/Unsplash)

Tech

Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync

The chains' users will be able to opt in or out to use Avail for data availability, to stash the reams of data produced for all their transactions taking place.

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

Markets

Reddit Community Token MOON Hits Record High Ahead of Celer's Multidirectional Bridge Launch

From March 20, interoperability protocol Celer will allow MOON holders to move coins to Arbitrum One.

MOON's price hit record highs over the weekend. (CoinDesk)

Tech

The Graph Expands Subgraph to More Than 40 Blockchains Including Arbitrum, Base

The indexing layer is also expanding to Avalanche and Celo.

(Shubham Dhage / Unsplash)

Markets

Layer 2 Blockchains Become Cheaper After Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade

The upgrade allows layer 2 solutions to store data in "blobs" instead of the expensive call data.

(Allef Vinicius/Unsplash)

Tech

Debating Dencun: Will Ethereum's Big Update Help or Harm the Network?

While Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap could help the ecosystem reach new levels of scale, some developers think relying on third parties to improve access to Ethereum could backfire.

Ethereum Foundation's Tim Beiko joined The Protocol podcast to discuss the implications of the Dencun upgrade. (CoinDesk, modified using PhotoMosh)