DEX Trader Joe is live on Arbitrum amid trend to move to multiple chains

Decentralized exchange (DEX) Trader Joe launched its mainnet on Arbitrum, its first move expanding to a chain beyond Avalanche.

The expansion from Avalanche’s most widely used application by volume is a significant trend for crypto protocols. They are launching on multiple chains in the hopes of growing and reaching a larger user base from a diminished pool as Layer 1 blockchains see a drop in transactions.

Trader Joe plans to continue its expansion to other chains that have strong decentralized finance (DeFi) activity and expected ecosystem growth, Trader Joe’s pseudonymous Marketing and Communications Lead Blue told The Block.

The DEX’s goal is to increase the usage of its new Automated Market Maker (AMM) model, a technology that’s the biggest such innovation since Uniswap V3, Blue claimed. Uniswap V3 currently has the highest cumulative trading volume across all DEXs, according to DeFiLlama.

Arbitrum and Optimism, both of which are Layer 2s built on top of Ethereum that inherit its security properties, have seen consistent growth in transaction count this year, according to The Block Data. Meanwhile, Layer 1 blockchains have seen a decline in the same timeframe.

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