Arbitrum

Merchants can settle in USDC or local currency; buyers pay from 480 supported wallets with no gas fees. The chain roster is still EVM-only, with Base at the centre.

Attackers hit three cross-chain systems in a six-hour window. AFX Trade lost $24 million from a compromised USDC custody bridge; Verus and B² Network gave up another $11.4 million between them.

The attacker held a registered price-feed forwarder and pushed future-dated reports through the vault. Roughly 10,540 ETH has since gone through Tornado Cash.

Aave's 29-page filing argues that briefly-stolen ETH cannot be treated as North Korean property, even when Lazarus Group was the thief — and warns the SDNY restraining order could chill every future DeFi hack recovery.

Combined total value locked in Ethereum Layer 2 networks crossed $20 billion in mid-2024, driven by fee reductions from the Dencun upgrade and rapid Base growth.

Arbitrum Foundation distributed 1.16 billion ARB tokens on March 23, 2023, valued at approximately $1.8 billion to 625,000+ eligible early users.