Nina Rong, head of ecosystem development at the Arbitrum Foundation, published a proposal in the ApeCoin DAO community, suggesting that ApeChain be developed using Arbitrum technology and that growth be led by Horizen Labs. The proposal believes that ApeChain should utilize $APE as the native Gas token. If ApeCoin DAO uses Arbitrum technology to develop ApeChain, the advantages it can gain include: low fees, customizability, and self-executing governance. Some members of the ApeCoin DAO community expressed support for the proposal.

Horizen Labs will provide advice and guidance to ApeCoin DAO and the community on the initial development of the ApeChain ecosystem, including providing technical support for the launch of cross-chain $APE, establishing connections to expand the ecosystem, and providing technical support for projects that issue tokens on ApeChain . It is worth noting that before this, Lumberg, a founding member of MetaCartel Ventures, had proposed deploying ApeChain on Optimism. It remains to be seen which chain’s technology ApeChain will choose to use as support in the future.