What's Hot in Arbitrum? | Arbitrum Ecosystem Guide
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we're talking about what’s hot on Arbitrum. Three Arbitrum experts are here to help guide us through what's new in the Arbitrum ecosystem.
The Arbitrum metrics are HOT. 2022 was not the best year for crypto, but they were for L2s, and especially for Arbitrum! Tune in to learn why and how Arbitrum is shaping the future of L2s, gaming, and NFTs as we know it.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
8:11 What is Arbitrum Doing Right?
15:20 GMX
17:03 Arbitrum Culture
24:30 Treasure's Expansion
29:30 Culture vs. Technology of Chains
31:42 The Bankless Thesis
36:00 GMX's Hooks
38:20 DeFi Activity
43:37 Community Engagement
48:00 The Nintendo of Web3
51:50 Building Along Treasure & Arbitrum
57:53 What's Holding the Ecosystem Back?
1:03:55 What is Beacon?
1:07:00 PFPs in Arbitrum
1:12:00 Token Alpha
1:13:50 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Karel Vuong - Co-Founder & COO, Treasure
https://twitter.com/karelvuong
Diego Vidaurre - Co-Founder & CEO of The Beacon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/diego-vidaurre-schaffer-6989a1120
Coinflipcanada - Core contributor to GMX
https://mobile.twitter.com/coinflipcanada
Massive Arbitrum Acquisition!! with Steven Goldfeder & Preston Van Loon
https://youtu.be/PmWeXVRPeic
How to Gain Exposure to Arbitrum
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| 0:00.0 | Thankless Nation, we've got an excellent episode prepared for you today. |
| 0:08.9 | What's hot on Arbitrum? |
| 0:09.9 | That's the question, David. |
| 0:11.4 | It feels like it's Layer 2 season. |
| 0:13.5 | I know we've said that a few times in the past, but this time it feels like a real bright |
| 0:17.8 | spot in the crypto community. |
| 0:20.2 | Layer 2s are up and among all of the Layer 2s that are doing things in terms of getting |
| 0:25.2 | more transaction volume, getting more users, deploying more applications, Arbitrum is |
| 0:29.5 | kind of in the lead, and so we are doing a deep dive exploration on the Arbitrum community. |
| 0:36.9 | Why don't you tee up what's in store for us in this episode? |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, so we've got three community leaders who are also the experts, the co-founders, the |
| 0:45.2 | core contributors of whatever particular app on Arbitrum that they contribute to, but |
| 0:50.0 | they're also just defy NFT power users across the broad Arbitrum landscape, and so we're |
| 0:56.0 | going to have a panel today of three Arbitrum power users that are building on Arbitrum, |
| 1:01.8 | that are just community members of Arbitrum, community leaders of Arbitrum, because of |
| 1:06.1 | all things that happened in 2022. |
| 1:08.9 | All of the down bad things that happened in 2022, Arbitrum was not one of them. |
| 1:13.8 | They were one of the few ecosystems that was growing throughout 2022, and you can really |
| 1:17.8 | feel it in the energy of the community. |
| 1:20.6 | So I want to know, why is Arbitrum so hot right now? |
| 1:25.5 | What is Arbitrum specifically as the team? |
| 1:27.7 | What are they doing right? |
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