Introduction
General-purpose L2s like Arbitrum and Optimism are gaining popularity over the past few months. Optimism and Arbitrum are currently positioned as the leading general-purpose L2s. Although ZK-Rollups are starting to gain some traction, Optimistic Rollup solutions are still dominating across most key metrics.
Optimistic Rollups remain the most viable and battle-tested scaling solution in the market, with a $5.7b out of $7.41b dominance in total TVL for existing Ethereum Scaling Solutions.
Both Optimism and Arbitrum have gone through major events this year. Arbitrum launched its ARB token and airdropped tokens to its community alongside other notable developments like Arbitrum Orbit and Nova, and Optimism...