OffChain Labs co-founder: In 2019, other ecosystems tried to "poach" Arbitrum with a lot of money, but the team did not accept it

Odaily Odaily News: Steven Goldfeder, co-founder of Arbitrum development company OffChain Labs, said, "I've never shared this publicly before, but in the early days of building Arbitrum, we almost accepted funding from another large ecosystem to build Arbitrum on that ecosystem (non-Ethereum). Steven added that we could have obtained a considerable amount of early funding, but it might have distracted us and affected our deployment plans on Ethereum. If we accepted that funding, we would have more bank deposits in 2019, but I don't think Offchain or Arbitrum would be where it is today. It is not surprising that other ecosystems provide larger funding, because other ecosystems can provide much less other support than Ethereum, so the cost of deployment there is much greater, requiring larger funding to compensate.