Layer 2 battle? Looks like someone's claiming the throne. ARB is positioning itself as the go-to settlement layer—one network handling everything with $16.5B in total value locked. Then there's Nova, built specifically for gaming where every millisecond counts.

But here's the interesting part: they're rolling out an embeddable bridge that connects directly to fiat onramps. Not just another tech upgrade. This is about removing friction at the entry point—making it dead simple for new users to jump in without the usual crypto hoops.

Scale matters when you're trying to pull in the next wave of users. Smoother onboarding could be the real game-changer here.