Orbs, a decentralized layer-3 blockchain infrastructure, has achieved a major milestone with the launch of its Orbs V5 upgrade, specifically the Committee Sync MVP now live on Ethereum and Arbitrum. The upgrade is designed to enhance how decentralized trading execution is verified across multiple chains while reducing infrastructure overhead and deepening validator participation.
The V5 architecture introduces Committee Sync, a mechanism that propagates authoritative Layer-3 committee state across EVM-compatible chains using aggregated Guardian signatures. This approach eliminates the need for per-chain verification systems, reduces segmentation, and avoids the custody risks typically associated with bridges. By syncing only signed state data, Orbs ensures that no liquidity or custody flows through its infrastructure, making the process trust-minimized.
Orbs’ existing execution layer, already powering protocols such as dTWAP, dLIMIT, Liquidity Hub, Perpetual Hub, dSLTP, and Orbs Agentic, will benefit from the improved decentralization, efficiency, and scalability. The network has reached substantial milestones, processing over $14 billion in trading volume across more than 30 decentralized exchanges spanning over 10 blockchain networks, and generating over $3.2 million in protocol revenue.
Ran Hammer, VP of Business Development at Orbs, commented: "V5 is the next step in our mission to enable fast, reliable, and secure on-chain trading. With new products like Orbs Agentic expanding automated trading possibilities in DeFi, we’re improving the execution layer beneath our protocols. This change will make execution more decentralized, efficient, and scalable across chains."
Phase 1 of the rollout is now fully operational on Ethereum and Arbitrum. Future phases will extend support to additional EVM chains such as Base, Polygon, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Lines, Sonic, Berachain, and Monad, and will include subnet expansion, signature persistence, historical state replay, and new Guardian node software. All existing Orbs products remain functional throughout the migration.
