Ultra-low transaction costs with high security. Nova powers dapps with high transaction volumes that seek to drive costs even lower.

Who Is Nova For?

Game Developers

Nova is perfect for games, where user actions can mint items on-chain at a high frequency, from currency to personalized assets. 

Social Projects

Reddit’s Community Point system is built on Nova, where social applications with many levers for on-chain applications are right at home.

Blockchain dApps

From NFT ecosystems with high volume requirements, to other projects open to off-chain data storage, Nova suits a wide variety of use cases.

Nova is powered by the most trusted organizations across web2 and web3

Some of the best in the industry came together to form Nova's
Data Availability Committee.

Why Nova?

Strong Security Guarantees

Nova enables ultra-low transaction fees through a new security model that relies on a Data Availability Committee (DAC).

  • Sequencer batches and compresses transactions
  • Certificate of Data Availability provided by Committee
  • Fallback to Arbitrum Rollup
First, the sequencer batches and compresses incoming transactions
Then, the sequencer submits data to the DAC and requests a Data Availability Certificate (DA Cert)
Next, the sequencer receives the DA Cert and posts it to Ethereum, securing a promise of data availability
If a DA Cert can't be generated, the chain has a "fallback to Rollup" and posts compressed calldata to Ethereum
Gas Fees on Arbitrum Nova
~0.5x
Gas Fees on Ethereum
~10x

Optimized for Scale

Designed for high transaction volumes, Nova powerfully supports Gaming and Social applications, alongside general blockchain use cases.

  • Ultra-low transaction costs
  • Fast transactions with rapid block times
  • Enabling new blockchain primitives

Powered by Arbitrum

Nova is built using our AnyTrust Technology, sharing a codebase with Nitro, and providing industry-leading speed, security, and interop with Ethereum.

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Ultra-low Costs
Security of Ethereum
High Throughput
EVM Compatibility
Designed for Scale
Built with Nitro

Explore Nova

Browse through resources that can help you build on the latest Arbitrum chain.

Get Started

Start Building on Nova by visiting our documentation.

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Inside Nitro

Watch this talk where Ed Felten discusses how Nitro works.

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Ecosystem Apps

Take a look at projects already live on Arbitrum Nova.

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Arbitrum Nova
Scaling the Universe
One Block at a Time
Arbitrum Nova
Scaling the Universe
One Block at a Time
Arbitrum Nova
Scaling the Universe
One Block at a Time
Arbitrum Nova
Scaling the Universe
One Block at a Time
Arbitrum Nova
Scaling the Universe
One Block at a Time
Arbitrum Nova
Scaling the Universe
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Arbitrum Nova
Scaling the Universe
One Block at a Time
Arbitrum Nova
Scaling the Universe
One Block at a Time

Build on Nova

All the the resources you'll need for building on Arbitrum.
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