Arbitrum Architecture and AVM

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Arbitrum was originally built around a custom execution environment called the AVM (Arbitrum Virtual Machine), designed before the industry had settled on "just be exactly EVM-equivalent" as the default goal. Today, Arbitrum's production stack is called Nitro, and it compiles Solidity contracts down to WASM and executes them in a way that is EVM-equivalent at the level developers interact with……

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