Twitter Suspends Official Arbitrum Account

The Twitter account for Arbitrum, the Ethereum rollup platform, was suspended on Monday.

The co-founder of Offchain Labs, the company behind Arbitrum, Harry Kalodner confirmed the suspension in a text message to CoinDesk, though he said he was unsure of Twitter’s rationale. “The Arbitrum Foundation which now controls that account is investigating,” said Kalodner.

The suspension comes less than a week after the much-hyped rollout of Arbitrum’s new $ARB governance token. The $ARB launch, like similar buzzy token launches, was seized on by scammers who used spoof social media accounts and elaborate phishing schemes to steal from unwitting $ARB investors. Many of those scam accounts are still live on Twitter.

Arbitrum is a “Layer 2” rollup platform allows users to transact on Ethereum with lower fees. It’s currently the largest Ethereum rollup by trading volume and total value locked, according to DefiLlama. The Arbitrum DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) — which is constituted by holders of $ARB — took over development of the platform last week with the release of the $ARB token. Previously, the platform was officially maintained by the company Offchain Labs.

Togrhul Mahararramov, a developer for scroll, another Ethereum rollup platform, called Twitter "consistently awful."

CORRECTION (March 27, 19:18 UTC): A previous version of this story mis-identified the tweet as from Kalodner, instead of Mahararramov.