Hassan Maishera
On Wednesday, the Arbitrum team announced via X that Carbon, a perpetual decentralized exchange, is joining the Arbitrum ecosystem. Carbon is joining Arbitrum because Arbitrum produces blocks every 250 milliseconds. Base produces blocks every 2 seconds. That's an 8x difference in raw speed, and it compounds across every step of the trading process. Besides block times, the most important thing is having reliable RPCs. Arbitrum has them, Base doesn’t.
For traders, this means:
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Faster execution. Positions open and close 2-4x faster than they did on Base.
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More reliable settlement. Arbitrum's sequencer has maintained strong stability through high-demand periods, which matters for a fully on-chain trading platform.
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Better infrastructure for what's next. Carbon is launching the Carbon Solver + CFDs soon.
Arbitrum is a suite of scaling solutions on Ethereum that utilize Optimistic Rollup. It allows users to enjoy faster speeds and cheaper transaction costs when interacting with web3 dApps. ARB, the native coin of the Arbitrum network, is down 7% today and is trading at $0.1249.
