Arbitrum

Arbitrum // Ecosystem How we got here

1B+ ARB
allocated by the DAO since 2023*
2.43B ARB
live in the treasury · ≈$189M
$23.5M
2025 gross profit
96 delegates
paid $1.57M + ARB since 2024
// ArbitrumDAO
Governance

ArbitrumDAO

ARB holders + delegates. Everything on this page answers to this layer. 356 of the 720 forum topics since 2023 came from the community, though the share has shifted (71% in 2023 → 38% in 2026).
10B ARB
total ARB supply
356 community proposalsdelegate pay: DIP (SEEDGov) → RAD (OpCo)
Live right now
  • Voting on Offchain's Fast Feed AIP · closes Jul 9 voting · vote ↗
  • Ideas surface here first · e.g. BLAZE builder-loans (Dec 2025): well received on the forum, but hasn't gone to a vote · same for q/acc builder investment (May 2025, 57 posts): discussed at length, never reached Snapshot ·
  • Heading onchain next: Timeboost proceeds split (temp-check Jul 2) + PGA ordering (Jun 25), both constitutional
  • Hot thread: "From Governance Token to Utility Token" · active this week
Recent calls (2026) & events
  • AGV wind-down for · jul 2 + Timeboost split temp-check jul 2 · DRIP ext for · jun 25 + PGA temp-check jun 25
  • Foundation renewal executed jun 28 · Nova minimized for · jun 4
  • Events: $1.5M Events Budget · GovHack Bangkok $156k
Delegates · what each one got paid · DIP + RAD, 26 result threads + June on-chain
Funding by year
2024
1.58M ARB · DIP 1.0 pilot
2024
$4.2M/yr · DIP v1.5 renewal
2025
RAD · draws the ~7M ARB DIP pool, quarterly budgets
RAD (Snapshot passed Dec 2025): pays per proposal · e.g. $15k per constitutional vote ($700/delegate cap) · needs 200k ARB VP, public rationale, 75% participation. Last 3 months averaged ~$54k/mo vs ~$67k under DIP (RAD Update #3). Pool live balance: 4,882,489 ARB (Jul 6) ≈ $381k at $0.078.
Status
  • RAD active · 1-year run, retroactive to Nov 1 2025 active
  • RAD 2Q2026 quarterly budget review · · 6-month transparency report ·
  • Major votes draw 130–230M ARB VP · typical turnout fell from ~4,700–7,500 in 2024 (farming-era spikes to 123k) to ~2,500–3,300 in 2025 and ~1,300–1,600 in 2026 (Snapshot tallies)
Per-delegate totals · all 26 DIP + RAD result threads + June on-chain
#DelegateDIP (USD)RAD (USD)Total USDJun'26 ARB ⛓v1.0 ARBMo
1L2BEAT$70,779$9,453$80,23225,03637,74726
2Jojo$53,644$6,598$60,24119,54230,35225
3Gauntlet$44,840$5,818$50,65822,89423,32822
4Tekr0x.eth$48,279·$48,279·11,95115
5GFXLabs$43,579$4,440$48,019·31,18524
6TempeTechie$47,484·$47,484··12
7MaxLomu$37,494$7,042$44,53624,16132,40824
8paulofonseca$43,506$757$44,262··12
9Griff$34,045$9,605$43,64920,75227,29025
10Blockworks Research$38,328$5,150$43,478·34,51021
11Areta$34,178$8,413$42,59125,4383,31918
12Bob-Rossi$39,878$2,287$42,165·36,13622
13Lampros DAO$40,749$163$40,912·8,03813
14Olimpio$35,823$4,331$40,15522,89428,18422
15Arana Digital$31,511$6,876$38,38724,6354,17517
16404DAO$38,236$12$38,248·35,98418
17jameskbh$37,508·$37,508·24,03517
18Karpatkey$35,287$1,913$37,200·18,39918
19Tane$36,383·$36,383·24,45715
20Reverie$32,056$3,625$35,681··14
21CastleCapital$35,470·$35,470··8
220xDonPepe$30,406$342$30,747·6,87912
23cp0x$27,699$2,985$30,6854,51537,28920
24Camelot$24,160$6,438$30,597··13
25Uniswap Delegation (UADP)$21,892$5,917$27,80915,99834,40621
26GMX$19,534$8,235$27,768··13
27pedrob$27,590·$27,590··6
28Curia$25,673·$25,673·3,5658
29DAOplomats$23,891·$23,891·30,36413
300x_ultra$21,844·$21,844·28,45412
31StableLab$21,289·$21,289·31,04014
32Vertex Protocol$19,814·$19,814·18,33110
33TodayInDeFi$15,957$1,766$17,723··10
34Argonaut$17,320·$17,320·7,5355
35GensDAO$16,919·$16,919··3
36Juanrah$16,858·$16,858··3
37Gabriel$15,864·$15,864··4
38Larva$15,599·$15,599·18,8258
39Ezr3al$15,082·$15,082·3,3134
40PGov$14,686·$14,686·25,6469
410xTALVO$14,181·$14,181·3,3004
42DanielO$13,798·$13,798··4
43NathanVDH$12,761·$12,761·14,3607
44Ignas$11,182·$11,182··2
45DisruptionJoe$11,164·$11,164·3,0693
46Kuiqian.eth$10,731·$10,731·25,58510
47MUX Protocol$3,766$5,855$9,621·14,16210
48KuiClub$9,397·$9,397··2
49Dragonfly$9,166·$9,166··2
50Tamara$8,122·$8,122··3
51mcfly$7,725·$7,725·28,9399
52BristolBlockchain$7,359·$7,359·15,7416
53DZack23·$6,926$6,92625,438·6
54web3citizenxyz$6,334·$6,334··2
55Alex Lumley$6,203·$6,203·6,5034
56David Mihal$1,156$4,308$5,464··4
57Coinflip·$4,805$4,805··3
58Bruce$4,447·$4,447·17,0586
59chamadao$4,350·$4,350··1
60Merlyn Labs$1,333$2,976$4,31022,837·4
61Zeptimus·$4,176$4,1765,888·6
62Layer3·$3,651$3,651··6
63Yoav·$3,536$3,53624,635·1
64Sov$3,165$251$3,4163,899·4
65newze$3,206·$3,206··1
66Frisson$3,205·$3,205·33,3879
67Amira$3,169·$3,169··1
68Rawrau$3,057·$3,057··1
69danielM$3,026·$3,026··1
70Oni$3,014·$3,014··1
71Hawheik$3,002·$3,002··1
72SEEDGov·$2,994$2,99425,438·1
73APE$2,412·$2,412··2
74Cornell Blockchain·$1,372$1,37220,157·2
75Aave·$800$800··1
76whizwang·$241$241··1
77Axia Network·$224$2245,776·2
78Mikael Bondum·$183$183··2
79Michigan Blockchain·$37$37·16,9256
80TreasureDAO····29,3337
81Bobbay····21,7206
82Savvy DeFi····19,3785
830xCasio····19,0675
84PrincetonBlockchain····16,2274
85Angela····16,2104
86HiringDevs.eth····14,5234
87Mehdi_eth····11,4963
88Premia (DK)····10,5523
89PennBlockchain····10,1503
90ITUblockchain····9,8173
91Djinn····9,6973
92Ruslan Klinkov····7,9962
93Blue Clarity····4,3901
94DAOstewards····4,1831
95Ermia····3,5551
96ocandocrypto.eth····3,5231
96 delegates, Mar 2024 → Jun 2026. The green Jun'26 ARB ⛓ column is straight from the chain (batch tx ↗, paid Jul 3; all 18 identities confirmed against prior published months + posted addresses). USD and ARB never converted. Cells rounded, totals exact (rows can differ by $1). Payments to delegates only, admin fees excluded. Quirks kept as-is: Apr 2026 uses corrected figures, Jan 2026 was a zero-reward month, two 2024 posts carry small internal inconsistencies. Totals through May: $1,566,062 + 1,047,986 ARB (v1.0); June adds 339,934 ARB.
// The entitiesARB ≈ $0.078 (Jul 6, 2026) · click a row to open it
"Arbitrum Aligned Entities" is the DAO's own framework (A Vision for the Future of Arbitrum, Apr 2025 ↗): an entity counts if it's competent at its mandate, puts Arbitrum first, and needs Arbitrum to win. The five below are the center of it, with OpCo + OAT as the accountability bridge. ArbitrumDAO, up top, is the layer they all answer to.
AAE · Steward

Arbitrum Foundation

Day-to-day steward · ecosystem growth, partnerships, legal, gov infrastructure. Pays Offchain for core dev through Jan 2027.
480M ARB + $16M + 1,740 ETH
from DAO votes · 750M at genesis
Audit Program (AAP)MSS payments ← Entropygrantsalt.gov portalhosts Watchdog portal
From the DAO · exact, on-chain-verified
2024
250M ARB · Strategic Partnerships fund
2026
230M ARB + $16M + 1,740 ETH · renewal
Both Tally-executed and traced on-chain: the 250M moved treasury→AF Oct 20 2024; the renewal's 230M moved Jun 28 2026 ($16M + ETH drawn via the ATMC). Borderline: 5,134 ETH for BoLD validator bootstrap (2024) · purpose-bound bonds, AF as operator, not budget.
Genesis · NOT a DAO vote
2023
750M ARB (7.5% of supply) at token generation AIP-1.1 ↗
Allocated when the token was created, before any treasury vote (AIP-1's ratification was even rejected). AIP-1.1 then locked 700M in a 4-year vesting contract (175M/yr unlocks); ~50M was used early (0.4% of supply loaned, 0.1% sold · transparency report).
137.7M of the 2024 250M tranche still sits unspent on-chain (Jul 2026).
Governance itself was amended early: AIP-1.2 (Apr 2023, 46,269 voters) rewrote the founding documents and cut the proposal threshold 5M → 1M ARB
Runs / absorbed
  • Audit Program (AAP, $10M) · chairs the committee with Offchain + a DAO-elected expert; improvements passed apr 2026 · 99.9% ·
  • MSS signer payments (from Entropy's MSS wind-down, Jun 2025, 87.4% For)
  • ADPC's audit-subsidy scope folded into the AAP
The quiet mandate · founding docs + budget thread
  • Legal wrapper: a Cayman foundation that signs the contracts the DAO can't · $10M committed to a captive insurance product
  • Pays for the network to run: $5.8M/yr hosting ("server costs like AWS... RPCs, node infrastructure") + $4.6M security + $4.4M infra & tooling · the sequencer itself is operated by Offchain Labs
  • AEP licensor: grants the Nitro license + ARBITRUM trademark to Orbit chains and collects 10% of their net revenue (8% → DAO treasury)
  • Security Council election compliance (14-day review, can remove candidates) + Nova data-availability committee appointments · from the Constitution
  • Can make special grants without a DAO vote (AIP-1: "to prevent governance overload") · 31 FTEs across 4 departments, ~$32M/yr opex
Custodian (DAO's money, not the Foundation's)
  • DRIP wallet (80M ARB cap · ~63.7M held, DAO-clawbackable) · Audit Program funds (30M ARB → $10M) · Events wallet · Entropy budget conversions · STEP legal holder
AAE · Core Dev

Offchain formerly Offchain Labs

Built Arbitrum; still ships the protocol. Not funded directly by DAO votes · the Foundation pays it for technical services through Jan 2027, and the DAO votes the Foundation's budget. Authors the current wave of constitutional upgrade AIPs.
via Foundation
no direct DAO funding
ArbOS upgradesStylusBOLDTimeboostFast Feed
How it's paid
The Foundation's current payments to Offchain run through January 2027; after that, Offchain may come to the DAO on its own (the renewal thread says as much). So its budget line lives inside the Foundation's, not on Tally.
Constitutional AIPs (historic → live)
  • Fast Feed · paid early tx-data feed, 97% of revenue → DAO voting · closes jul 9 ·
  • PGA ordering · replace Timeboost with priority-fee ordering · temp-check passed Jun 25, onchain pending next up
  • ArbOS Elara bumped 60 → 61 (Jun 19) after two gas-refund bugs were caught on Sepolia · Dynamic Pricing stays off at activation
  • Timeboost adopted · Snapshot Sep 2024 ("collect bids in ETH to treasury" won with 140.4M of 151M VP), on-chain AIP Jan 2025 (with the Nova fee sweep), Tally vote Mar 2025, live Apr 2025
  • Plus routine maintenance AIPs over the years: registering token bridges (Sky, BORING, RARI), whitelisting validators, sequencer fixes, EIP-4788 support
  • Also operates the sequencer, the bridge UI, arbitrum.io and the bug bounty (Immunefi payouts handled by Offchain Labs) · often misattributed to the Foundation
  • People: Steven Goldfeder (CEO) · Ed Felten (Chief Scientist) · Harry Kalodner (CTO) · A.J. Warner (CSO)
  • Stylus Sprint closeout: final milestone payments pending + retrospective in review with OCL and the Foundation
  • Timeboost proceeds split automation temp-check for · jul 2 · tally next
  • Minimize Arbitrum Nova for · jun 4 2026
  • ArbOS Elara passed apr 2 2026 as v60 · ships as 61 · ArbOS 40 · Stylus (AIP under ArbOS 30, live with 31) · BOLD
AAE · Operations

OpCo + OAT oversight

The DAO's operating company · staffs and executes what governance decides, and is becoming the accountability bridge: entities report to it, and it can recommend cancellation or clawback. Watched by the 5-member OAT.
30M ARB
30-month budget
Watchdog ← EntropyRAD delegate payAGV portfolio ← AGVATMC comms seat
Funding by year
2025
30M ARB / 30 months proposal ↗
Inside the 30M: 4M ARB bonus pool (3M staff / 1M OAT) and ~18M ARB (est.) liquidated to $12M cash equivalents. Leftover ARB returns to the treasury. Tally: executed.
What it has absorbed
  • Watchdog program (from Entropy, transition executed Apr 2026) ·
  • RAD delegate incentives · OpCo manages · Ministro as PM since SEED stepped down (Apr 2026) ·
  • AGV's investment portfolio (wind-down, 95.9% For, Jul 2 2026) ·
Oversight · the OAT
  • 5 members: 3 elected by the DAO + 2 appointed by those 3 (the Foundation holds a non-voting observer seat). It ratifies OpCo's budget, reviews hires, and publishes the transparency reports
  • OAT today: Frisson, A.J. Warner, Patrick McCorry (elected) + Pedro Breuer, Gavin Wang (appointed) · OpCo staff: Tamara Benetti (Ops), Sinkas (Programs), Armin (Finance)
AAE · Strategy

Entropy Advisors

Exclusive strategy & execution firm. Writes sunset and handoff clauses into its own programs, then actually hands them off (to OpCo, the Foundation, ATMC).
$8.47M + up to 16.5M ARB
contracts + vesting · 10M milestone-contingent
DRIP (runs it)ATMC execution seatStylus SprintSOS (paused)Watchdog → OpCoMSS → FoundationEvents funds → ATMC
Funding by year
2024
$2.47M / 12mo (+ up to 1.5M ARB bonus)
2025
$3M/yr × 2 + 15M ARB vesting renewal ↗
Renewal runs Sep 2025 → Aug 2027. Of the 15M ARB: 5M to Entropy (1-yr cliff, 3-yr vest), 10M reserved for OAT-negotiated milestones.
DRIP · its flagship program
2025
80M ARB cap (20M max/season)
Entropy runs DRIP (explicit accountability clause); season committee = Foundation + Entropy + Offchain, rewards paid via Merkl. Extension passed Jun 25 2026 (no new money): ~63.7M ARB left to deploy by Jul 1 2027 (≈$5.0M at $0.078).
Created, then handed off
  • Watchdog grant-misuse bounty (proposed Dec 2024 · 400k ARB · 94.2% For, Jan 2025) → OpCo Apr 2026 · clawed back 457,365 ARB so far ·
  • MSS multisig service (2024) → Foundation Jun 2025
  • Events Budget custody → ATMC Jul 2025
  • TMC treasury committee (2024) · replaced by ATMC (its own Jun 2025 proposal)
Also drives
  • Stylus Sprint · 5M ARB budget (committee incl. Offchain, Foundation, SEEDGov, JoJo, OpenZeppelin; Entropy coordinates)
  • Sequencing-revenue analysis: the elasticity study that shaped ArbOS 61 pricing and the Dune data behind the Timeboost split · the AIPs themselves are Foundation / Offchain posts
  • SOS · Entropy created it (framework passed Jan 2025, 99.96% For · 3,559 voters), paused it May 2025 pending the Foundation's Vision · objectives never selected, L2BEAT hosts the calls, never handed to OpCo dormant ·
AAE · Wound Down

Gaming · GCP → AGV

The gaming bet: most of the capital was never deployed. The DAO voted the wind-down on Jul 2, 2026 (95.9% For): capital comes home, the portfolio moves to OpCo.
225M ARB → 143.7M back
+ $7M cash · ~$10M portfolio → OpCo
portfolio → OpCo143.7M ARB → treasury
Funding by year
2024
225M ARB authorized on-chain GCP ↗
2026
−143.7M ARB returns to treasury wind-down ↗
The plan was 160M ARB grants/investments + 40M infra + $25M ops cap in ARB. Only ~$10M was actually deployed (15 investments). What goes back: 86.18M held at Foundation + 57.5M in AGV.
Timeline
  • GCP created (2024) executed ·
  • GCP → AGV rename & venture repositioning (May 2025, not a new funding ask) · · strategic update Mar 2025
  • Wind-down & return of capital passed jul 2 2026 · 95.9% · portfolio stewardship → OpCo
Active now · the wind-down
  • Passed Jul 2 (191M For / 8.1M Abstain): ~143.7M ARB returns (86.18M from AF + 57.5M from AGV) · initial $7M USD to treasury programs
  • ~$10M stays invested across 15 positions · portfolio management moves to OpCo
  • The entity lives on through end-2026, but only to wind down the portfolio
  • 2026 Council: David Bolger, Greg Canessa, JoJo, Tim Chang, John Kennedy
// Protocol & Treasury
Constitutional Body

Security Council

12 elected signers with emergency powers · the break-glass layer. Acts in hours, discloses after. Not an AAE: a constitutional body.
$5k/mo each
member comp (in ARB)
Compensation
2023+
$5,000/mo × 12 members, in ARB source ↗
Fixed at the initial governance setup (~$720k/yr total). Members rotate through biannual elections; emergency actions take 9-of-12.
Activity
  • Emergency Action May 24, 2026: patched an L1 Timelock renounceRole() vulnerability (no funds at risk) · permanent fix slated for a future ArbOS upgrade
  • March 2026 cohort: Michael Lewellen, DZack23, yoav.eth, Certora, bartek.eth, Pablo Sabbatella (results executed on-chain via alt.gov) · next cycle ~Sept 2026
  • Election-process improvements passed 2025
Treasury

ATMC Arbitrum Treasury Mgmt Council

A council, not a company · Entropy proposed it and holds the execution seat, but the votes belong to the OAT; OpCo does comms, the Foundation holds custody, Offchain observes. Replaced the TMC, GMC and STEP committees (Jun 2025, 91.4% For).
70M ARB + 16K ETH
≈$47M into RWAs · STEP 1 ~$30M + STEP 2 ~$17M
STEP I + IIETH strategiesEvents funds ← 2025 budgetARDC leftover ← ARDC
What sits under it
2024
STEP 1: 35M ARB + 200k impl
2025
STEP 2.0: 35M ARB + 125k impl
2025
7,500 ETH · GMC preferred allocations (Snapshot Mar 2025, 187M VP)
2025
8,500 ETH · treasury → ATMC ETH strategies (Snapshot Oct 2025)
STEP 1 deployed across BUIDL, USDY, USTB, USDM, TBill, bIB01 (Steakhouse as PM); STEP 2.0: Franklin Templeton 35% / Spiko 35% / WisdomTree 30%. ATMC's separate ETH strategies: ~$623k cumulative interest since May 2025; 12,750 ETH approved for staking.
Live on-chain balances (Jul 6, 2026 ~10:52 UTC)
  • DAO Treasury: 2,426,958,656 ARB · arbiscan ↗ (the Foundation’s three-year report cited ~2.66B, Mar 2026; since then the 230M renewal left on Jun 28, and AGV’s 143.7M is still to arrive)
  • Treasury Timelock (ETH sink, where Timeboost lands): 78.94 ETH ·
  • DRIP wallet: 63,696,184 ARB · matches the reported ~63.7M remaining ✓
  • DIP/RAD pool: 4,882,489 ARB (down from ~7M as payouts run) · Watchdog wallet: 561,224 ARB · AF 250M-tranche wallet: 137.7M ARB
  • AGV + MSS wallet addresses aren't public in the threads · those figures come from the proposals only
What the DAO earns 💰
  • Treasury (reported): $500M+ incl. $130M+ non-native (Foundation, Jun 2026, at a higher ARB price · ≈$319M at today’s $0.078)
  • Sequencer fees flow to the treasury · 2025 gross profit $23.49M (fees + Timeboost + AEP)
  • Timeboost: 2,517.46 WETH cumulative by May 2026 (97% DAO / 3% Dev Guild) ·
  • AEP license fees · program expanded to Orbit chains on ANY blockchain (Jul 2024, 172M VP)
  • Clawbacks: Watchdog recovered 457,365 ARB (Apr 2026)
  • Fast Feed would add a new revenue line (vote closes Jul 9) voting
// P&L by yearauthorized ≠ spent
DAO Treasury · live
2.51B ARB
Timelock ETH
78.9 ETH
Managed by ATMC
70M ARB + 16K ETH
Came back
86.18M ARB
AGV wind-down · returned Jul 7, 2026 · rest of the 143.7M pending
YearAllocated · ARBAllocated · USD / ETHFees earned · ETHProfit · USD official
2023 71.5M$1M~9,400·
Out · ARB programs
  • ~50M · STIP, ~30 protocols
  • 21.4M · STIP Backfund, +26 protocols
  • $1M · Questbook pilot (USD-denominated)
In · revenue
  • ~9,400 ETH net sequencer fees · derived ±200, cross-checks within 44 ETH
  • Best fee year on record · pre-Atlas gas pricing
2024 601M~$14.7M~7,030·
Out · ARB programs
  • 250M · Strategic Partnerships (held at an AF multisig, contract-bound · not for AF opex)
  • 225M · Gaming Catalyst Program
  • 45.82M · LTIPP · 37.6M · STIP Bridge
  • 35.2M · STEP + more · ~$14.7M USD contracts
In · revenue
  • ~7,030 ETH net fees (derived from r3gen snapshots)
  • The Atlas upgrade (Mar 2024) cut fees −77%, 3 months pre vs 3 months post
2025 191M+$7.5M3,303*$23.49M
Out · ARB programs
  • 80M · DRIP · 35.1M · STEP 2 · 30M · OpCo · 30M · Audit + more
  • $7.5M · Questbook (USD)
  • 16,000 ETH moved under ATMC management (7,500 Mar + 8,500 Oct) · deployments, not spend
In · revenue
  • 3,303 ETH net fees Jan–Jul, exact · r3gen reporting ended Aug 2025
  • by month: Jan 415 · Feb 761 · Mar 509 · Apr 624 · May 386 · Jun 300 · Jul 308
  • $23.49M gross profit (fees + Timeboost + AEP) · Foundation-reported, the one official annual figure
2026 230M$16M + 1,740 ETH··
Out
  • 230M ARB + $16M + 1,740 ETH · Foundation renewal
  • +143.7M ARB returning · AGV wind-down, voted Jul 2 (95.9% For)
In · anchors so far (no official total yet)
  • Sequencer fees ≈$127k/wk ≈ $6.6M/yr pace (delegate research, not official) · a modeled stress scenario cuts that to ≈$4.7M/yr
  • Timeboost >$3M annualized on YTD pace (recent months slower) · AEP license fees continue
Σ 1.09B+gross authorizations ~$39M+USD contracts 19,700+2023 → Aug 2025, verified $23.5Mthe one official figure
// Grants, experiments & the graveyardwhat the DAO funded, tried, paused or refused
Incentives Era

The Incentive Era STIP → LTIPP → DRIP

2023–24: the DAO authorized ~155M ARB of liquidity incentives across four programs, then voted itself a detox · DRIP (under Entropy) is the successor, capped and supervised this time.
~155M ARB
authorized 2023–24
Funding by year
2023
~50M ARB · STIP (~30 protocols)
2023
21.4M ARB · STIP Backfund (+26 protocols)
2024
37.6M ARB · STIP Bridge
2024
45.82M ARB · LTIPP
All four executed on Tally. Less went out than was authorized (returns and under-use). LTIPP council: GFX Labs, 404 DAO, Wintermute, GMX, Karel Vuong.
How the era ended
  • Incentives Detox passed aug 2024 · 129.5M for · the DAO stopped all incentives on purpose
  • LTIPP extensions (Aave, Pyth) rejected sep 2024
  • No successor until DRIP (2025, 80M ARB cap, run by Entropy · see the Entropy row)
Builder Grants

Questbook Grants (DDA)

Delegated Domain Allocation · small builder grants through domain allocators, season by season. Season 3 is in a reduced low-capacity phase until Sep 2026 ($2.69M of $5.26M disbursed, milestone reviews only) · no Season 4 proposed.
~$12.5M
across 3 seasons
Funding by year
2023
$1M · Season 1
2024
~$4M · Season 2
2025
$7.48M · Season 3 (5 domains · voted Dec 2024)
The forum list below covers program threads and grantee reports · the individual grants (hundreds per season) are approved and tracked on Questbook’s Arbitrum portal ↗.
Shape
  • Domain allocators approve milestone-based builder grants
Sunset

ADPC procurement · 2023-25

Procurement committee · whitelisted security vendors, ran the audit-subsidy fund. Sunset; its audit scope lives on in the Foundation's Audit Program.
1.15M ARB + $2.5M
phases + subsidy fund
audit subsidies → AAPleftover cash → ATMC
Funding by year
2024
200k ARB · Phase 1
2024
$2.5M-in-ARB audit subsidy fund outcome ↗
2024
954,608 ARB · Phase 2 (Snapshot Sep 2024)
Subsidy fund: the proposal asked for $10M; the DAO picked the $2.5M one-cohort option on Snapshot.
Legacy
  • Subsidy fund wrapped up and published its outcome report; the AAP absorbed the scope 2025-26
Concluded

Research · Coalition → ARDC

The DAO's research arm: a proposal that failed, then a fork that ran two terms before the DAO chose to end it.
1.72M ARB + $1.73M
v1 + v2 budgets
The arc
  • Arbitrum Coalition (Blockworks+Gauntlet+ToB, Oct 2023) failed · 45% don't fund ·
  • ARDC v1 · an explicit fork of the failed Coalition (1.715M ARB): Blockworks+Delphi, OpenZeppelin, Chaos Labs, L2BEAT. Full term Apr–Oct 2024, 42 deliverables · final report ↗
  • ARDC v2 (1.73M USDC, Entropy supervising) · extension vote don't extend · 79.8% (Jul 2025); concluded on schedule ·
  • Leftover ~$1.5M USDC → ATMC; OZ's unused retainer credited to the audit subsidies
Why it matters
No formal handoff to OpCo · Entropy's retrospective looked at pulling research into OpCo, then chose the AAE model instead. Research is now a gap the AAEs are expected to cover.
Experiments

Experiments & Rejections

Pilots the DAO tried, paused, or refused · the record most dashboards hide.
the full record
tried · paused · rejected
Tried / paused
  • Plurality Labs / Thank ARB · 3.36M ARB Milestone 1 (Jul 2023, narrow pass 53.1M vs 47.0M); M2 withdrawn ·
  • Proposal-cancellation governor upgrade (Tally / ScopeLift, Nov 2024) · discussion paused, never voted; Tally pivoted to a proxy-upgrade approach Jul 2025
  • Areta M&A Working Group · pilot passed May 2024 (125.6M For), outcome report published ·
  • Arbitrum Ventures Initiative · $87k research pilot (winning option 86.9% For, 2024); paused to make way for the OpCo/AAE model, Phase 2 never proposed. Not related to AGV ·
  • Event Horizon · 5M ARB of voting power delegated to a public-access pool (Apr 2024, 132M For); cut to 100K ARB in Jun 2025 when the DAO ratified the agentic-governance pivot (199M VP)
Rejected by vote
  • ArbitrumHub · funding rejected twice (156M Against Jun 2024; 98.4M Against Jan 2025) no ×2
  • Treasury Backed Vaults 124.2M against
  • Token Swap Pilot (treasury diversification via token swaps) 108M against · oct 2024
  • Growth Circles events program · 2025's highest-turnout rejection (4,402 voters) feb 2025
  • ARB User-Acquisition Incentives · the bridge attempt between Detox and DRIP apr 2025
  • Arbitrum Coalition (see the ARDC row) 2023
  • ARB staking · the saga: 2023 temp check picked 100M ARB, never shipped · the 2024 sequel PASSED Snapshot (145M For, 25,133 voters · the highest turnout of any vote since the farming era ended mid-2024) and also never shipped · 2025 native-staking thread (~8% APY) stalled too