Arbitrum’s widely adopted solutions, like Arbitrum One, have successfully captured  50% L2  market share. Now, Arbitrum Orbit chains are equally spinning up the same narrative in both the L2 & L3 verse through its 3 types of Arbitrum Orbit chains: 

• Arbitrum Orbit Rollups

• Arbitrum Orbit AnyTrust chains

• Custom Orbit chains

These solutions are solving some of the pressing challenges of different projects, and their choice can fundamentally define a chain’s security, cost, and performance profile. 

In this blog, we’ll highlight the challenges that these stacks are purpose-built to solve, and which use-cases must pick them as their go-to stack. So, without any further ado, let’s get started. 

Orbit Rollups are the most secure variant within the Arbitrum Orbit family. They follow the classic optimistic rollup model, where transactions are sequenced, compressed, and posted on Ethereum as calldata. Now, with the implementation of Ethereum’s EIP-4844, it is more cost-effectively posted as data “blobs”.

This on-chain data posting is the bedrock of Arbitrum Orbit Rollup’s security model. Because all transaction data is publicly available on the parent chain, any participant in the world can independently download it, reconstruct the L2’s state, and verify its correctness.

I) This enables a system of permissionless validation where any honest actor can detect fraud and challenge an incorrect state assertion. This challenge is resolved through Arbitrum’s battle-tested, multi-round, interactive fraud-proof system, which efficiently narrows down a dispute to a single computational step that is then verified on-chain.

II) By inheriting the full data availability and security guarantees of its settlement layer, an Orbit Rollup makes no additional trust assumptions beyond those of Ethereum itself. 

III) The trade-off, however, is that Ethereum DA comes with higher posting costs and longer withdrawal times, especially for Orbit L3s that must pass through Arbitrum One before final settlement.

IV) While this model is the most expensive due to L1 data posting costs, this expense is best understood as a premium paid for unparalleled security. The Ethereum Dencun upgrade, which introduced EIP-4844, served as a crucial defensive measure for the Rollup model. By creating a separate, cheaper data market in the form of blobs, it significantly lowered this security premium, ensuring that Rollups remain an economically viable and competitive option for their target market.

The Rollup model is the definitive choice for applications where security is paramount and cannot be compromised. These are typically protocols that secure immense value or operate in environments with stringent regulatory and compliance requirements, where any additional trust assumption can be costly.

For example, 

1. High-Value DeFi: 

Protocols such as decentralized exchanges (DEXs), lending markets, and perpetual platforms that manage billions of dollars in TVL/TVS require the unassailable security of Ethereum to protect user assets.

For these applications, the term “Rollup” has become a brand synonymous with “Ethereum-grade security,” and definitely signals trust to users and liquidity providers.

1. High Value Real-World Assets (RWAs): 

Platforms tokenizing assets like real estate, private credit, or government treasuries must present a clear and defensible compliance posture to attract institutional capital and people’s trust. 

The transparency and verifiability of posting all transaction data on-chain are fundamental requirements for this sector.

1. Bridges and Core Infrastructure: 

Most of the TVS is held in bridges. Such kind of foundational protocols that are responsible for securing assets from numerous other chains cannot afford to introduce new vectors of trust.

Animechain is specially designed for the Anime community, where they can enable on-chain licensing, monetization, and creation of anime characters. For this purpose, they sought very high TPS and faster finality, while also inheriting security for users in a trust-minimized manner. 

Orbit rollups with ETH as the settlement layer delivered to meet this demand for Anime. Through Orbit rollups,  Anime was able to clock 40,000 TPS with a 250 ms blocktime. Moreover, they were also able to do gasless onboarding, transparent right management, and so on and so forth. 

Another project using Orbit rollup is ReyaChain, which aims at unifying the CeFi, DeFi, and Tradfi ecosystems into a single hub. Besides leveraging the common Orbit’s features like speed, scalability, and throughput, the extended customization has allowed Reya to adopt an architecture with financial logic integrated directly into the network. This enables liquidity flow to be accessible by various applications all at once. 

Also, Reyachain could fulfill its requirement for a different DA, which is a hybrid DA setup. Within this, the orders and executions get posted on Celestia (external DA), and account data is pushed to the Ethereum Layer 1. For settlement, Reyachain uses Ethereum.

With this support, ReyaChain is hitting 200k+ trades a week, multiple collateral & instruments for 60 markets through 100ms blocktimes, MEV-free trades, deep liquidity, high availability, and more. 

The Arbitrum AnyTrust protocol offers an equal alternative to the traditional public rollups. These AnyTrust chains are designed to drastically reduce costs while maintaining strong security guarantees. 

For AnyTrust chains, instead of posting full transaction data to Ethereum, the sequencer sends the data to a permissioned Data Availability Committee (DAC).

The members of this committee run specialized Data Availability Server (DAS) software to store the transaction data off-chain, and collectively sign a Data Availability Certificate (DACert). 

I) The security model of AnyTrust is built on a ‘minimal trust assumption’.

II) The system remains secure as long as a small minority of DAC members (for example, 2 out of a committee of 20) are honest and will provide the data when requested.

III) In specific use cases, this is a significantly more robust and easier-to-satisfy assumption than the supermajority (e.g., 14 out of 20) required by conventional public rollups.

IV) However, the most interesting feature of AnyTrust is its “fallback to rollup” mechanism.

If the DAC fails to cooperate and does not produce a DACert for a batch of transactions, the protocol forces the sequencer to post the full transaction data on-chain, exactly like a standard Rollup.

V) This one security step ensures that the chain’s liveness is always preserved and that its security is ultimately tethered to Ethereum. This makes AnyTrust a “conditionally secure rollup” if we want to say so.

VI) Plus, this minimal on-chain footprint of AnyTrust enables powerful features that are difficult for Orbit Rollups to support, like the ability to use a custom ERC-20 token for gas fees and fast withdrawals that can bypass the standard 7-day challenge period.

AnyTrust is perfect for solutions for applications where high throughput and ultra-low transaction costs are critical for delivering a viable and engaging user experience.

The sectors below represent the largest untapped markets for Arbitrum AnyTrust and are poised to drive the next wave of adoption.

On-chain games often require thousands of low-value, high-frequency actions, such as minting in-game items, updating character states, or executing small moves. 

The sub-cent transaction fees offered by AnyTrust make complex and immersive on-chain game logic economically feasible for gaming chains.

• Social Apps: Social apps are looking for low-fee messaging and micro content sharing in a scalable and verifiable manner. AnyTrust chains are built to deliver transactions at scale because they can use their own DAC committee for data posting and achieving near infinite scale. 

• Payments & Microtransactions: For consumer payment apps, AnyTrust architecture can be a perfect fit. The ultra-low fees enable use cases like in-app purchases, tipping, and other such small-value transfers in-expensive. 

Sectors like Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), which rely on frequent micro-transactions from a large number of devices, or decentralized derivatives exchanges with high-frequency order book updates, find a perfect technical and economic fit in AnyTrust’s performance profile.

AI Agents & Web3 x AI Applications: 

The rise of AI Agent uses on-chain creates an immense demand for high-frequency, low-cost transactions. These agents signal, transact, and respond hundreds of times per session. AnyTrust provides the cheap and predictable data availability needed for such AI agent markets. This makes it an ideal infrastructure for the emerging DeFAI sector, also. 

XAI Games wanted to solve the problem of gameplay in the Web3 space. For example, most of the games are lacking experience; rather, they delve more into economies. But with that model in mind, it is hard to onboard the AAA games, the OGs of the Web 2 gaming world. XAI games solve this by providing a ready-to-deploy environment for game builders. 

They use AnyTrust chains for that because it provides lightning-fast transaction speed, as platforms like STEAM, the Web 2 gaming launchpads have 100 M users. To compete with them and onboard all of them to Web 3 as a launchpad, XAI needs lightning-fast transactions, a fully gasless experience,  seamless onboarding, and quick settlements. Orbit AnyTrust chains were purpose-built for that.

SkyNet 

The core challenge of an AI economy is handling millions of microtransactions at extreme scale with predictable, low costs. Skynet is building an AI-optimized L3 Arbitrum Orbit chain with a goal to be the transactional backbone for a future where AI-agents can outnumber humans. 

choose AnyTrust model for this ‘cheap & predictable’ data availability, which is essential for such high-frequency AI agent markets. 

Launched with the expertise of Zeeve Rollups-as-a-Service, Skynet chain is highly customized with features like a SKYUSD gas token for its AI-driven ops. 

Learn More Here: Skynet’s New Blockchain on Arbitrum Orbit will Scale AI Agents at Warp Speed

PropFTX combines AI with Orbit functionalities to offer fractional ownership for real estate industry and allows users to buy, sell, and invest in tokenized shares of high-value commercial properties. 

For a consumer-facing investment platform that requires frequent, low-cost interactions and a seamless UX, AnyTrust DAC model is an ideal choice. It provides the necessary scalability and affordability to make fractional investing accessible, and RaaS support from Zeeve ensures a robust and reliable infrastructure. 

Custom DA chains are in support of the modular thesis and allow Arbitrum Orbit chains to integrate with external, specialized data availability networks. Here, the Orbit chain’s sequencer posts transaction data directly to a third-party DA layer. 

In return, it receives a cryptographic proof of publication, which is then posted to the settlement layer (like Arbitrum One) to be included in the state root.

Though this model introduces a new set of trust assumptions, as the security and liveness of the Orbit chain become coupled with the cryptoeconomic security of the external DA network’s validator set as well.

Here are some DA layers that can be integrated with the Arbitrum Orbit chains:

• Celestia: The first modular DA network to integrate with Orbit, Celestia uses Data Availability Sampling (DAS) and Namespaced Merkle Trees (NMTs) to allow light clients to verify data availability without downloading entire blocks. Its integration with Orbit relies on Blobstream to relay data commitments back to the parent chain.

• EigenDA: Eigen layers DA solution leverages Ethereum’s economic security through EigenLayer’s restaking primitive. Orbit chains using EigenDA can achieve massive throughput secured by a decentralized network of operators restaking billions of dollars worth of ETH.

• Avail DA: Originating from within Polygon, Avail focuses on validity proofs (specifically, KZG commitments) for data availability, which can offer faster finality guarantees without the need for extended challenge periods.

The choice between these providers is a strategic alignment with a specific security philosophy. It can be the independent proof-of-stake security of Celestia or the Ethereum-aligned restaking security of EigenDA, or maybe the extremely cheap cost of NEAR DA.

Read More About Data Availability Solutions Used in Layer2/ Layer3 Chains:

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Applications here have the requirements that exceed even the high performance of AnyTrust; those who seek a greater degree of sovereignty and deeper integration with a broader modular ecosystem can look into this category. 

So in one line, we could say, this category is ideal for those who are willing to accept a more complex and novel security model in exchange for ultimate flexibility and the lowest possible costs. 

For games that aim to put every action and asset on-chain, the extreme cost reduction offered by Celestia or other AltDA platforms in combination with the Nitro stack is a necessity. Because they might need a massive volume of transactions to be virtually free, this goal can only be achieved by moving data availability to a hyper-optimized additional chain. 

DeFi and RWAs are looking for high-value trade, but for that matter, they don’t want to be restricted by the limitations of storing data only on Ethereum or to a limited set of DAC nodes; rather, they want other custom economic data storage solutions, KYC, and other compliance. 

Interops hubs unify security at a single checkpoint; as a result, they cannot operate in a trust-minimized manner. Custom rollups give them an edge to choose a DA layer that can be trusted, and at the same time, it is cost-effective as well. 

These categories of applications often have requirements that exceed even the high performance of AnyTrust, or they seek a greater degree of sovereignty and deeper integration with the broader modular ecosystem.

Though the custom Orbit rollup is new, it’s been adopted by some of the innovative and new-age projects, such as;

Kinto, the modular exchange, has migrated to Arbitrum Orbit to seek a better level of security, data integrity, and regulatory compliance matching traditional finance. It uses Arbitrum Nitro Stack to operate as a rollup operating in parallel with Arbitrum One and Nova while being fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and settles transactions on Ethereum Mainnet. 

Celestia as its external DA layer. The network collects all sequencer fees (gas) from network transactions, and its revenue comes from the spread between these fees and the cost of settling the batched transactions on Ethereum Mainnet. Regarding the token, Kinto uses $KINTO as its governance and utility token. With all these features, Kinto has been able to build a fully KYC-compliant L2 that can support both the modern finance and decentralized DeFi protocols.

Alpha Dune Network is a Layer3 solution built with an Orbit stack for ultra-fast and low-cost transactions that is integral in DeFi. Built as a custom chain, Alpha Dune has integrated Celestias as the DA layer while still using Ethereum-level security. 

Other features that Orbit offers to the network are modular, on-chain scaling, and decentralized governance. Regarding the token, Alpha uses the DUNE token as its native gas token to power every transaction and interaction, including asset transfers.

Plume is an RWA / real-world (RWA) focused project to ensure 100% compliance in RWA activities like earning yield, trading, speculation, lending/borrowing, etc. Built as a modular & permissionless L2, Plume uses Orbit as its custom rollup stack and Celestia as an off-chain DA layer. 

Plume is home to 80+ RWA (Real World Assets) and DeFi projects. Orbit’s customization features allow Plume to manage its projects and high-traction network seamlessly. Speaking about token, Plume Network utilizes PLUME for transaction fees, staking, governance, and various incentives within the ecosystem. 

The ecosystem also features Plume USD (pUSD), which is a stablecoin wrapper for USDC, and Plume ETH (pETH), a liquid staking token that is pegged to Ethereum.

First, the largest addressable markets for new blockchain applications are in consumer-facing sectors like gaming, payment, and social media, which are fundamentally incompatible with the fee structures of the Rollup model.

Second, while Custom DA chains also meet this demand, AnyTrust is a more pragmatic and lower-risk path for the majority of developers. It offers the ultra-low costs needed for consumer applications while retaining a native, battle-tested security backstop in the form of the Arbitrum protocol’s fallback mechanism.

For a new project launching in 2025, choosing this tightly integrated, in-house solution is a more conservative and predictable path to scalability than adopting an external dependency on a separate, still-maturing DA network. 

Though we feel all three chains will see adoption, with the highest possibility being for AnyTrust & Custom Orbit chains. 

The whole explanation in this article highlights the rising demand for the Arbitrum-powered solutions. If these features align with your project requirements, Zeeve RaaS is your ideal partner to build your own sovereign, performant, and customizable chain as per your needs: Be it Orbit rollup, AnyTrust Chain, or Custom Orbit chains. 

With support for AnyTrust mode, Stylus (Rust/C++), and 55+ third-party integrations, Zeeve gives you the tools to design, deploy, and evolve your Orbit chain your way. And when you’re ready to go beyond the testnet, Zeeve offers you smooth mainnet migrations with your default settings and required integrations in the fastest possible time.

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