🚹 Arbitrum’s Transaction Market Just Changed

Arbitrum One has launched Priority Gas Auctions (PGA) alongside Fast Feed, fundamentally changing how execution priority and transaction information are monetized.

PGA replaces Timeboost with per-transaction bidding: users compete through priority fees, with rapid 125ms bidding rounds inside 250ms blocks. An anti-starvation mechanism is designed to prevent low-tip transactions from being indefinitely pushed back.

Fast Feed tackles a different edge: information latency. Subscribers receive sequenced transaction data before it reaches the standard feed, but crucially, ordering is already determined—subscribers cannot alter it.

The bigger thesis? Arbitrum is turning execution priority + information speed into explicit markets, potentially creating new revenue channels while reshaping competition among sophisticated DeFi participants.😎

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