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Arbitrum: paper, then practice.

The 2018 Arbitrum paper is an assertion and a challenge. The later Ethereum rollup is a different deployment. Cite the document you mean.

Harry Kalodner, Steven Goldfeder, Xiaoqi Chen, S. Matthew Weinberg, Edward W. Felten. 2018. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.

  1. The paper. The 2018 USENIX paper on Arbitrum: a verifier that checks a manager's execution of a virtual machine by bisecting disputes, instead of re-executing every instruction. Offchain Labs' later Nitro stack is a descendant, not this paper line for line.
  2. Rollup.
  3. Arbitrum profile.
  4. What changed.
  5. Plasma and rollups.
  6. Data availability.

What this chain does not claim

It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: USENIX Security 2018.

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