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0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we dove deep into @arbitrum

We looked at Arbitrum’s bridge activity, its correlation with Ethereum gas, and it's spectacular past two weeks.

For a more detailed look 🧵👇
1/ Market Update-

🔹The market is bouncing for a second consecutive day, and every session (Asia, Europe, North America) opened up with strength.

🔹CRV is on an absolute tear today, but other top DeFi tokens are in the green as well.
2/ Less than a week after launching, the value locked in @Arbitrum’s bridge is closing in @0xPolygon.

There were a flurry of liquidity mining announcements across @Avalancheavax, @FantomFDN, and Harmony.

Arbitrum has been able to outshine it’s EVM-compatible competitors.
3/ Arbitrum’s bridge had a mere $22M locked in it on Sep. 1, which meant the bridge represented just 0.047% of total TVL in Ethereum bridges.

In the past two weeks, a few speculative farms have pushed this share up to 32%, a 640x increase.
4/ It’s no surprise that WETH/ETH, USDC, USDT, DAI, and WBTC account for nearly 90% of asset value being bridged on Ethereum.

The reason for this is pretty obvious: liquidity for these assets on Ethereum’s DeFi layer is extremely deep, in part due to their large market caps.
5/ Arbitrum’s take-off in early Sept. coincides with a sharp decrease in the median gas price on Ethereum mainnet.

Theoretically L2s like Arbitrum scale Ethereum’s throughput to a great degree.
6/ The future of L2s looks extremely promising.

The market may be looking favorably towards DeFi assets, which have had a rough past six months. Blue chips are leading the bounce, followed by derivative protocol tokens.
7/ Tweets of the day!

@OpenSea acknowledges accusations of employee front-running users.

9/ An in-depth analysis of ETH 2.0’s imminent Altair upgrade

10/ For the full report that inspired today’s thread 👇👇

delphidigital.io/reports/arbitr…
11/ Crypto moves fast. Delphi has you covered. Sign up here to get Delphi's free daily newsletter delivered right to your inbox every weekday

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Correction: The bridge TVL share chart above understated Polygon and Optimism's bridge TVL. The updated figures show Arbitrum's bridge share at 23%, which is still impressive.

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