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View submission: Scaling Reddit’s Community Points with Arbitrum
Congrats to both Reddit and the Arbitrum/Offchain labs teams.
My only question is why deploy another instance of Arbitrum technology rather than using the canonical instance of Arbitrum?
Today, we are launching our own Layer-2 rollup using Arbitrum technology.
Comment by jarins at 22/07/2021 at 20:23 UTC
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In order to get to the level of scale required for mainstream usage, there will likely be multiple Layer-2 networks built on top of Layer 1 blockchains. In this case, having an additional Arbitrum network means we can scale further than what a single network can.
We have been working closely with Offchain Labs (the team behind Arbitrum), and they are very supportive of us launching a separate network. In fact, they specifically named[1] their chain Arbitrum One to allow other chains to be deployed with Arbitrum as well.
1: https://offchain.medium.com/introducing-arbitrum-one-our-mainet-beta-ed0e9b63b435