Key Takeaways
- Orbs launched its V5 upgrade on Ethereum and Arbitrum to lower costs and secure decentralized trading.
- The Layer 3 protocol processed over $14 billion in volume across 10+ networks prior to this release.
- Orbs plans to expand V5 support to additional EVM chains, including Base and Polygon, in coming months.
Milestone Growth Precedes Upgrade
The decentralized Layer 3 blockchain infrastructure focused on advanced on-chain trading, Orbs, has unveiled V5, a product upgrade on Ethereum and Arbitrum designed to improve cross-chain verification of decentralized trading execution. It also reduces infrastructure overhead and broadens validator participation.
Orbs said its execution layer — which powers trading tools including dTWAP, dLIMIT, Liquidity Hub, Perpetual Hub, dSLTP and Orbs Agentic — has processed more than $14 billion in trading volume across more than 30 decentralized exchange integrations on over 10 blockchain networks since the release of V4. The network generated more than $3.2 million in protocol revenue during that period.
“V5 is the next step in our mission, which we have focused on for years. It allows fast, reliable and secure on-chain trading,” said Ran Hammer, vice president of business development at Orbs. “With new products like Orbs Agentic expanding what’s possible for automated trading in DeFi, we’re improving the execution layer beneath our protocols. This change will make execution more decentralized, efficient and scalable across chains.”
The latest upgrade introduces Committee Sync, a mechanism that propagates authoritative Layer 3 committee state across EVM-compatible chains using signatures collected from Orbs Guardians. The upgrade is expected to significantly reduce the cost and fragmentation of per-chain verification models.
Under the new design, Orbs executors running trading logic off-chain generate signed actions that are verified by the Guardian network and then propagated to destination chains. Smart contracts on supported networks can verify those actions locally using Guardian signatures and on-chain registry rules.
According to Orbs, no user funds move through the protocol during synchronization. Only signed state data is transmitted, eliminating the need for centralized custody or liquidity lockups. It added that deployed smart contracts are actively synchronizing committee state, propagating nonces and verifying signatures on-chain through a dedicated subnet.
Future phases will extend support to additional EVM chains, including Base, Polygon, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Linea, Sonic, Berachain and Monad. Planned upgrades include subnet expansion, signature persistence, historical state replay and new Guardian node software.
Orbs said all existing products will remain fully operational throughout the migration, with no expected disruption for users or ecosystem partners. The broader V5 rollout will continue in the coming months as more infrastructure components go live.
