Steven Goldfeder, Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, joins Tom Tunguz of Theory Ventures to discuss Arbitrum - the $21b web3 project. Three primary takeaways from this discussion: 1) In building a vibrant developer community, equal treatment across developers is essential from the start. 2) The ability for developers to customize and optimize chains is at an all-time high, and while there will continue to be complexity, we'll also likely see consolidation in the near term. 3) Community-Source licenses is the future of open software, as it creates alignment with the developer community & project needs.
00:06 Introduction
02:10 Arbitrum Statistics
02:47 Building Your Developer Community
09:08 Arbitrum One v. Arbitrum Nova
14:55 L3 & Customization
19:41 Arbitrum Orbit & Chain Clusters
24:39 Future Customizations for Developers
28:30 Accepting Developer Languages: To reduce barriers to entry
30:11 Accepting Developer Languages: To access legacy code
32:38 Accepting Developer Languages: To reduce fees
33:48 Convergence of Web2 and Web3
37:55 Community-Source-Software
42:03 Summary