Arbitrum (ARB)

🚨 HUGE: ARB is almost at $500M for the past 24 hours. https://t.co/49hDJS9SIE

The @Arbitrum team and ecosystem has never stopped cooking, the momentum been visible everywhere you look in the ecosystem. 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. The ecosystem isn’t just growing, it’s converging. --------------------------------- 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 👇 ➢ Entropy Advisors dropped the v0 launch of Arbitrum Analytics, spotlighting how the DAO is putting idle capital to work. Around 11% of the DAO's total holdings, that's over $100M is actively deployed in this program. The mix breaks down nicely for diversification and steady income, 48% ETH (largest slice), 40% RWAs,10% stablecoins, 2% ARB. --------------------------------- ➢ Arbitrum creates the conditions needed for real product–market fit especially for top perpetuals platforms like @variational_io. Since launch, the results speak for themselves: $114B+ in total trading volume, $1B+ in open interest, 22K+ average weekly users --------------------------------- ➢ Arbitrum is really a major in USDT0 ecosystem, Tether’s omnichain liquidity layer for USDT. As USDT0 marked its one-year milestone moving over $60B across 18 chains, Arbitrum stood out as a core hub in the Legacy Mesh, directly connecting native USDT deployments without relying on traditional bridges or heavy wrapping. --------------------------------- ➢ Active loans on Morpho deployed to Arbitrum have climbed to an all-time high, jumping roughly 200% over the past two months. This strong growth has been largely driven by the @bitget × @Morpho × @arbitrum onchain Earn program for USDT and USDC, which brings on-chain yield with no lockups and real-time accrual for users. --------------------------------- ➔ Founders and builders ready to ship onchain can join the 3‑week Open House NYC Online Buildathon starting January 29th. The program includes hands‑on technical workshops, go‑to‑market sessions for founders, mentorship from the Arbitrum Foundation and @Offchain, plus $60K in prizes and grants to help bring projects to life. --------------------------------- ➢ Arbitrum is already processing $80B+ in stablecoin transfers every month, surpassing the estimated $75B/month global remittance market that includes players like Western Union and Wise. All of this activity is happening inside a single ecosystem with millions of users and holders. --------------------------------- ➢ Arbitrum DAO is bringing the community together at ETHDenver 2026 with a social 5K morning run on Feb 18 at Confluence Park. Open to both runners and walkers, the meetup wraps up with a casual discussion around DAOs and governance. Hosted by @tekr0x. --------------------------------- ➢ The first onchain savings account is coming to Arbitrum. Prime Vaults introduces an upgraded ERC‑4626 vault built for capital efficiency, with returns benchmarked to Aave V3 and powered by risk‑adjusted cross‑chain strategies. The closed beta opens in 72 hours. Which did i miss? Lemme know in the comments 👇

🕵️The world is becoming an exchange that never closes. On January 19, the NYSE announced the development of a tokenized securities platform. It will offer 24/7 trading of US stocks and ETFs, stablecoin deposits, instant settlement, and order placement by dollar amount. Partners include BNY Mellon and Citi, both old money institutions. The plan is still awaiting regulatory approval. But the direction is set. NYSE President Lynn Martin said: "For more than two centuries, we have been changing the way markets operate. We are leading the industry towards fully on-chain solutions." To say it's leading is actually to catch up. Last week, the CEO of ICE, NYSE's parent company, just said: "We are chasing Robinhood." ICE has a market capitalization of over a hundred billion US dollars. Robinhood is an online brokerage founded in 2013. And who is Robinhood chasing? Last June, Robinhood launched tokenized stocks in the EU, based on the Arbitrum chain, offering 24-hour trading and stablecoin settlement. Their CEO said: "Once you've experienced a 24/7 market, there's no going back." The old pecking order was that Wall Street looked down on online brokerages, and online brokerages looked down on crypto exchanges. Now, the NYSE is learning Robinhood's playbook, and Robinhood is using crypto's infrastructure. Mutual integration, a complete reversal of the natural order, everything is tradable, and no one looks down on anyone. The NYSE's move this time is to break down three walls. ⏰The first is time. US stocks used to close at 4 PM, and the NYSE was legally required to close. The problem is that the Earth is round; when New York sleeps, Tokyo is awake, and global investors all want to buy US stocks. Why should the market follow New York's schedule? Last year, someone raised a concern: what if the Tesla factory exploded on a weekend? Nasdaq would be closed, but tokenized Tesla on-chain could still be traded. Price oracles would stop updating on Friday afternoon and only resume on Monday morning, meaning for 48 hours in between, people would be trading a "ghost price," a price detached from the real world. At the time, this was considered a flaw of tokenization. The NYSE's current response is: if I also stay open 24 hours, won't this problem disappear? 🛸Next, space. Previously, if an Indonesian wanted to buy US stocks, they had to open a US stock account, convert to USD, and wait for T+1 settlement, with a bunch of compliance procedures in between. Now, with stablecoin deposits, theoretically, you can buy directly with USDT. NYSE's parent company ICE's CEO, in an interview last week, spoke a blunt truth: stablecoins are "dollarizing" the world. Previously, dollar hegemony relied on oil settlement and the SWIFT system; now there's an additional on-chain path. ICE is already collaborating with BNY Mellon and Citi to create "tokenized deposits," allowing institutions to continue transfers after banking hours, adjust positions across time zones, and top up margins in the middle of the night. The limitations of time zones on finance are becoming smaller and smaller. 🪨Finally, barriers to entry. When the NYSE talks about "ordering by dollar amount," it means you can buy 0.001 shares. Previously, one share of Berkshire Hathaway cost over $700,000; now, theoretically, you can own a tiny fraction for just $1. Tokenized stocks are still a small market; data from https://t.co/cH2exQ3tVW shows a global market cap of around $340 million at the end of last year, but it has multiplied several times in one year. Kraken, Bybit, and Robinhood all rushed to launch such products last year. The NYSE is the latest entrant. And also the most significant. However, if this is interpreted as crypto finally breaking through and winning, it's a bit self-congratulatory. 24-hour trading, stablecoin settlement, on-chain clearing, fractional ownership... these are all things the crypto world has been experimenting with for the past decade. But we ourselves haven't been able to build any large-scale applications with this set of tools; even today, we're still arguing about meme coin price fluctuations and airdrop farming. Now Wall Street has taken over this entire infrastructure to trade Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla. It's a bit like the dot-com bubble; after the dust settled, Amazon and Google survived. The bubble burst, but the infrastructure remained, just with a different group of people making money from it. Actually, I think what's truly expanding isn't cryptocurrency, but the concept of "tradability" itself. Last year during the US election, the trading volume on Polymarket for bets exceeded $100 million in a single day. A prediction market turned "who will be president" into a tradable contract. In New York, some people are tokenizing Manhattan apartments and selling them; you can own one ten-thousandth of a building for a few hundred dollars and profit or lose with property price fluctuations. Others are monitoring Domino's Pizza order volumes near the Pentagon; a sudden surge in orders might indicate the Department of Defense is working overtime, and something big might be happening, which can also become a trading signal. The wall of time has been torn down, the wall of space has been torn down, and the wall of barriers to entry has also been torn down. Anything can become a tradable item. Today's move by the NYSE is just another step in this direction. Nasdaq also filed a similar application last September, and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) received SEC approval in December, expected to launch in the second half of this year. The NYSE's announcement today, however, has put them ahead in progress. Truly, everyone is competing for the same thing: to make trading never stop. The Earth doesn't sleep, so why should the market? 🤓

⚡️ NEW INTERACTIONS ON ARC TESTNET > Request test tokens from the faucets https://t.co/dW6zFLfFgM https://t.co/XlogQOuJVy > Create, deploy, and query a Subgraph on The Graph Network https://t.co/jvM7cxwyqw > Swap, trade, and add liquidity https://t.co/WlRXLpkwhZ > Play the games https://t.co/YwClrtl2QH > Swap tokens https://t.co/w8wLEEb7I4 > Deploy a smart contract https://t.co/ZEEe9TUQvC > Deposit and withdraw tokens https://t.co/54AC5AVVi8 > Mint new NFTs https://t.co/xECyrDCRQG https://t.co/vyXqADXuzv https://t.co/sPoxwvdF7v

One of these 2026 airdrops will: - Get delayed - Hard rug - Surprise many - Soft rug Which is which? https://t.co/HcXqPlpBuq