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Overwhelming Interest Crashes Arbitrum’s Website Before the Airdrop

Overwhelming Interest Crashes Arbitrum’s Website Before the Airdrop

Ahead of the ARB token claim event, Arbitrum's website and blockchain scanner were experiencing downtime due to high demand from users.

A couple of hours ago, users were prompted with a message saying that the serverless function was rate-limited.

However, users can still claim tokens directly from the smart contract, as the website is a mere front-end for the blockchain.

According to a tweet, over 85,000 users accessed the blockchain explorer Arbiscan within a 30-minute window as the claim went live.

Due to the airdrop of ARB to community members based on their prior network activity, which marks Arbitrum’s official transition into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), it is expected that the price action of ARB will be highly volatile on the first day.


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This was confirmed by Arbitrum developers last week.

Currently, the ARB token is available for trading on multiple exchanges, including Binance. At the time of writing Arbitrum’s native token is priced at $1.43 on Binance with a $500 million total trading volume.

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Alexander Stefanov - Editor-in-Chief at Coinspress
Alexander Stefanov

Reporter at CoinsPress

Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.

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