Ethereum Layer 2 network Arbitrum announced on Friday (27th) that, after several months of development, Arbitrum Orbit is ready for deployment on the mainnet. Blockchain developers can utilize Arbitrum’s technology to establish their own Layer 2 or Layer 3 networks.
Arbitrum stated that the Orbit chain can adopt any improvements made to the Arbitrum Nitro technology stack without permission, without the need for approval from DAO. This includes permissionless validation, MEV capture, further cost reduction, and other functions. According to the development team Offchain Labs at Arbitrum, Orbit allows developers to “create their own dedicated chains on Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova, Arbitrum Goerli, and Arbitrum Sepolia, and connect to one of Arbitrum’s Layer 2 or Layer 2 chains.” Projects, including Syndr, have previously disclosed that they have chosen Arbitrum’s Orbit chain as their foundation and are operating on Arbitrum’s Goerli testnet.
Arbitrum Orbit, launched earlier this year, is a project that was previously only operational on Arbitrum’s testnet. Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder stated to CoinDesk that before this, these new Layer 3 could only operate on Arbitrum’s testnet.
Additionally, the Arbitrum Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has chosen the modular solution Celestia as the data availability layer for Orbit. Once the solution is online, applications built on Orbit will be able to choose to publish their data to Celestia.
In recent months, there have been many customizable blockchain technology stacks in the market, and Orbit is one of them. Arbitrum’s competitor, OP Mainnet (formerly Optimism), has its own customizable environment version called OP Stack, which currently supports the Layer 2 network Base for the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.