The launch of Arbitrum in August 2022 caused competition among Tier 2 networks, and after the launch, ARB gained a dominant position and a large market share.

Experts assessed the intensifying war between scaling solutions, choosing Optimism, the OP stack as the clear winner with its advantages over Arbitrum.

Now the developers of Arbitrum have released a set of tools for tier 3 chains, opening up new opportunities for competition, cheaper transactions and faster processing.