Post Idea: Research Summary: Arbitrum

[Eric]

Paper / Discussion Title

• Link to source

• Arbitrum Rollup Whitepaper - Newer Version
• Arbitrum Rollup Whitepaper - July 2020 Version

• Content type tag (summary, discussion)
  Research summary

• Category
  Scaling

• Proposed tags
  scalability, summary

• Description of why this would be an interesting post
  Arbitrum is the first fully featured Optimistic Rollup to market. Notably, one can deploy unmodified Solidity contracts directly to Arbitrum.

• Links to background reading (0 to 3 items)

  • “Inside Arbitrum”, a technical deep-dive into the protocol
  • Academic paper summarizing the initial iteration of Arbitrum: Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts

[zube.paul]

If the white paper ends up being elusive, would a summary of the academic research paper that you linked to be a good alternative research summary?

[Eric]

Certainly yes, but I expect they’ll want to get the whitepaper itself rehosted on their own site fairly promptly. I’ve just now requested they send me a copy as well. I think a proper summary of Arbitrum as a protocol which references the other resources I provided above in addition to the requested whitepaper would be valuable.

[jyezie]

the whitepaper on their websiste now.

[Eric]

Cheers, updated the original post to reflect that!