IoTeX vs Arbitrum Nova

IoTeX is a blockchain platform designed specifically for the Internet of Things (IoT) industry. It aims to address the scalability, privacy, and security challenges associated with connecting billions of devices to the internet. IoTeX utilizes a unique architecture that combines blockchain, decentralized identity, and secure hardware to create a trusted and privacy-centric infrastructure for IoT applications. It offers lightweight and efficient consensus mechanisms, support for trusted computing environments, and privacy-preserving techniques such as zero-knowledge proofs.

Arbitrum Nova is a high-performance alternative to Arbitrum One's chain. While Arbitrum One implements the purely trustless Rollup protocol, Arbitrum Nova implements the mostly trustless AnyTrust protocol. The key difference between Rollup and AnyTrust is that the AnyTrust protocol introduces an additional trust assumption in the form of a Data Availability Committee (DAC). This committee (detailed below) is responsible for expediting the process of storing, batching, and posting child chain transaction data to Ethereum's parent chain. This lets you use Arbitrum in scenarios that demand performance and affordability, while Arbitrum One is optimal for scenarios that demand Ethereum's pure trustlessness.