Arbitrum

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What is Arbitrum (ARB)?

ARB is, at its core, a governance token for Arbitrum One. You don't use it to pay for gas—ETH still handles that part of things. Instead, holding ARB just gives you voting rights. And it’s not just for show, really. Your votes actually help control a massive 4.278 billion ARB treasury. It gives you a say in multi-million dollar liquidity campaigns, plus you get to help elect the 12-member Security Council that steps in for emergency interventions.

Who backed Offchain Labs during their early fundraising?

Offchain Labs raised exactly $123.70 million across three rounds well before they formed the DAO. Back in April 2019, Pantera Capital led a $3.70 million seed round to get things moving. Then, jumping to August 2021, the Series B happened. Lightspeed led that one, pulling in $100 million and locking the token valuation around $0.12. If you dig into the rest of the investors, there are some pretty recognizable names—Polychain, Ribbit Capital, and Mark Cuban.

What is the ARB token unlock schedule?

Here is the deal with the vesting cliff. After a strict one-year lockup ended on March 16, 2024, the contracts flipped over to a linear release schedule. Now, we see exactly 93.65 million ARB unlocking every single month, mostly for the team and early investors. That means predictable, structural sell pressure is just baked right in. So, yeah, this relentless monthly drip isn't scheduled to finally wrap up until we hit March 23, 2027.

Did Arbitrum do a public ICO or was it just an airdrop?

They totally bypassed the traditional ICO route, to be honest. Instead, they opted to drop a massive amount of tokens straight to active users on March 23, 2023. That event distributed exactly 11.62% of the initial 10 billion token supply right to retail wallets. Ecosystem DAOs grabbed another 1.13%. Funny enough, a lot of it went unclaimed—about $60 million worth by the September 2023 deadline. Those leftover tokens just got swept back into the central treasury.

Where can you trade ARB and track its price?

You have plenty of options. ARB has really deep liquidity on major centralized exchanges—think WhiteBIT, Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, and OKX. Most of the action is against stablecoins like USDT and USDC, though Upbit and Bithumb see solid volume for KRW pairs. If you prefer staying on-chain, it's heavily traded on Uniswap v3 and Camelot v3 right on the Layer 2 network, which is great because it lets you completely avoid those Ethereum Layer 1 gas spikes.

What are the Arbitrum tokenomics and supply limits?

Yes, but it's kept under strict limits. The protocol's smart contracts technically allow a maximum inflation rate of exactly 2% per year. Technically, the network hit the eligibility date to start minting those new tokens back on March 15, 2024. Here is the catch, though: it isn't an automatic process at all. Any new inflation is entirely optional and actually requires the DAO to explicitly vote and approve it before a single new token gets minted.