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phil@phil
5/28/2023

Looking for input on folks who are smart on L2s to help me derisk a tech stack choice: What are the pros and cons of building on Arbitrum versus Optimism and the OP stack? Things I care about: - security - adoption, measured in txns/day - cost - EVM compatibility - ecosystem strength and ease of bridging

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Roy Zorbison @0xen
5/28/2023

skating to where the puck is going feels like Optimism stack to me, i don't know if real txns/day has Arbitrum beat rn but it feels like it will in 6 months. as for bridging, you can buy OP ETH on Coinbase, the easiest way to onboard/bridge. I don't think they have ARB ETH the rest i'm not sure about

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maxpetretta.eth@maxpetretta
5/28/2023

It feels like there is real consensus building around the OP stack, and by the end of the year it might be the dominant L2 solution (Superchain). Have yet to see Arbitrum tackle this.

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osama@osama
5/28/2023

OP/OPStack: - strong and clear vision+team - aligned with EF/Eth values - proof of collab eg Coinbase, Zora and two more big ones in the pipe What I’m unclear on: scalability. But I trust CB did some dd/work there and it’ll improve. Disclaimer: I’m EF maxi

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Stas@stas
5/28/2023

Imho arbitrum is worth considering seriously if you're building something very defi dependent. Cost/availability of oracles, liquidity depth, good defi protocols to lego on top... This is still WIP on OP Otherwise I'm really fond of OP direction

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ɃΞrn@b7
5/29/2023

https://twitter.com/apolynya/status/1656126020385210368 I am building on optimism, but arbitrum is delivering better right now. Optimism has quite to do some catch up, but hopefully doing it the right way will pay out in the long run.

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5/29/2023

I think there’s some hand wavey parts of the OP stack. Namely the super chain vision and their vision for shared sequencing. Otherwise the op stack is really cool