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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | 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. |
| Who may write | Harry Kalodner, Steven Goldfeder, Xiaoqi Chen, S. Matthew Weinberg, Edward W. Felten |
| What is settled | Managers stake on a claimed execution. Verifiers can challenge. |
| Load-bearing assumption | Do not cite this PDF as a description of Arbitrum One's current Nitro release. |
| What this library says afterwards | An optimistic system with no watcher is an honour system. The paper is explicit that verifiers matter. |
| Rights | Official external source only |