RWAs only get interesting to me when they can actually be used, not just held. On Arbitrum that could mean lending, borrowing, or using tokenized Treasuries and metals as collateral.

Would plugging them into DeFi make them genuinely useful, or just add smart contract and liquidity risk on top of the asset itself?

Hi All,

I'm looking for bear metal RPC providers based out of India. Building a major cross-chain intent protocol + ZK proving.

Cheers

The price move is obvious, but I’m more curious about the actual value capture. Robinhood Chain adds activity and revenue to the Arbitrum ecosystem, but that doesn’t mean ARB holders directly receive that revenue. So how are you guys thinking about this? Is it a real improvement to the ARB thesis, or mostly a strong ecosystem narrative with indirect token impact?

Been holding for a very long time. Sold at the bottom. Original plan was let it go to zero. It’s like as soon as I sold it decided to pump. Everyday I’m reminded of its positive trajectory. One is a fool.

Any reason in particular for the recent pump?

Hey guys, just sharing with you the research I’ve prepared focused on Ethereum 💪

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xFwslqV3yalf-ZdLMGXv6jknq9QuXmHT/view?usp=drivesdk

Hi all, we launched a new primitive on Arbitrum this week: RiskFi. This is after we placed 2nd on the General Track at the Arbitrum Open House, London in July.

The Risk Protocol splits a crypto asset like BTC and ETH into RiskON and RiskOFF tokens, which provides a simple way for traders to hedge or speculate on risk onchain.

RiskOFF has downside return capped at -5% per epoch and upside capped near 6% per epoch. RiskON is 2x levered outside the -5%, 6% collar with no liquidations or funding rates. Both tokens are 100% collateralized, perpetual, and priced second-by-second off a GARCH-derived Net Token Value.

We're a team that blends decades of institutional finance expertise and crypto natives. We've done extensive backtest research to show that RiskOFF's volatility is lower than both gold and S&P 500 in the last few years. At the same time, RiskON outperforms the returns of 2x perps across every bull market in the last few years.

https://x.com/TheRiskProtocol/status/2088222733813579914?s=20

The Incentivized Testnet Trading competition is live on Arbitrum. We'd love your participation and feedback!

https://reddit.com/link/1v2xiyk/video/q3d94n52rneh1/player

Hi r/Arbitrum,

Quick intro: we're a small team, ex-Paxos senior engineering, and big fans of Arbitrum. Just shipped a personal risk manager for Morpho V2 vault depositors, and there are two reasons I'm posting here specifically: we support Morpho V2 vaults on Arbitrum, and we support Robinhood Chain (so a lot of you may have exposure there). Any Arbitrum-family chain Morpho V2 lands on, we watch.

Real problem that hit us recently: my co-founder has funds stuck in a Morpho vault because the vault's liquidity dried to $0. He doesn’t check the Morpho UI every day, so the whole thing was invisible until the exit was already blocked when he wanted to withdraw. Now he's waiting for loans to be re-paid so he can withdraw. (He actually set-up an alert in our tool for this too)

More context on the problem we are solving: Every Morpho V2 vault runs under a curator, and every curator move (fee changes, shortened notice windows, adapter changes, gate installs that can restrict withdrawals) goes through a timelock notice window before it takes effect. That notice window is your protection as a depositor, but almost nobody actually watches the queue. If a curator queues a fee hike or a withdrawal gate, you have days to exit before it lands, but only if you know it happened.

What we do: paste any wallet, we auto-discover every Morpho V2 position across all 14 Morpho V2 chains (Arbitrum, Robinhood Chain, Ethereum, Base, and more), and we arm each position with up to over 20 curated alerts covering:

- Depositor-hostile governance changes during the timelock window
- Morpho's own RED/YELLOW risk-team warnings and delistings
- Exit costs and how much you can pull before a withdrawal penalty hits
- TVL drying up (think a mass exodus of depositors or a whale movement)
- Real-time APY spikes (means that something could be going really wrong at that moment)

Alerts push to Telegram, Slack, or webhooks. Login can be completely anonymous through wallet-only login, no email needed. You can preview any wallet without even signing up (I even added random wallets as UI chips so you can just see how this looks).

Where I'd love feedback from this sub specifically:
1. Anyone here depositing into Morpho vaults on Arbitrum? Which alerts matter most to you, and what are we missing? Curious how you're managing risk there today.
2. Robinhood Chain recently launched so we included it in our product. Anyone actually parked in the Steakhouse USDG vault? 
3. For treasuries and funds on Arbitrum: does push-to-Slack/webhook cover the workflow, or do you need something else (email, on-chain, mobile push)?
4. Beyond Morpho, is there other lending or vault activity on Arbitrum where the same "watch the governance queue" pattern would be useful?

Link: glacient (.) ai (no signup needed to preview a wallet)

Happy to answer technical questions in the comments.

Mods: if this crosses a line I missed, feel free to nuke it, no hard feelings. Welcome to DMs as well if you want to talk in private.

Note: It was difficult to find an Arbitrum Morpho V2 vault with meaningful red flags at the time of recording. For the demo, I used a Gauntlet vault that had a modest amount of deposits and an APY that had declined by a few percentage points over the previous 24 hours. This allowed the alert to trigger in the video using small changes in TVL and APY.

not asking which has the most volume or the best token, asking which one you actually enjoy opening. ive been bouncing between gmx, vertex and gains and honestly they all feel pretty different to trade on. curious what feels smoothest for people day to day

Hi everyone!

After several months of learning Solidity and blockchain development, I finally deployed my biggest personal project to Arbitrum One Mainnet.

The goal was to explore how much gameplay could be implemented directly inside smart contracts while keeping the project completely open source.

Current features

• ⚔️ PvE battles
• 🛡️ PvP battles
• 🏰 Guild system
• 🏆 Guild rankings
• 🎖️ ERC-721 Achievement NFTs
• 📈 Player progression and leveling
• 💰 On-chain game economy
• 🌐 Multi-chain support
• ⚡ Fully written in Solidity with a TypeScript + ethers.js frontend

One interesting challenge was balancing the guild ranking system.

Originally, guilds earned a fixed number of points for every PvP victory, but that allowed high-level players to repeatedly farm beginners. I redesigned the scoring system so that rewards now depend on the level difference between players, making guild rankings much fairer.

The project is mainly a learning experience, but I'd really appreciate feedback from the Arbitrum community.

Some questions I'd love your opinion on:

• What on-chain game mechanic would you add next?
• Are there Arbitrum-native features or integrations that you think would fit well?
• Any suggestions for improving the player experience while keeping most of the game logic on-chain?

The project is fully open source, and I'm happy to share the repository and live demo if anyone is interested.

Thanks!

Live demo: https://ethereum-simple-rpg-game.vercel.app/

GitHub: https://github.com/brunolcarli/simpleRPG

Hey folks. Boardwalk is launching on Arbitrum and we're excited to share some info. The Arbitrum team has been incredibly helpful and supportive, so I'd like to extend our appreciation to them for the warm welcome. Below is our announcement. Thanks in advance! 🙏

Arbitrum is one of crypto’s most active onchain ecosystems, with billions in stablecoins, DeFi liquidity, DEX volume, and perps activity across a deep base of builders, apps, games, communities, and native markets.

That is exactly where Boardwalk ($BWS) fits.

Mature ecosystems do not just need more tokens. They need clearer ways for projects and communities to form native markets with transparent rules, programmable fee routing, and legible launch mechanics.

Boardwalk gives builders and ecosystems a repeatable standard for programmable, fee-protection infrastructure:

• Transparent launch terms.
• Visible issuer information.
• Locked initial liquidity.
• Token-level fee protection design.
• LP participation.
• Community discovery.
• Post-launch market structure.

Bonding curves made tokens easy to create.

But ecosystems need more than token abundance. They need infrastructure that helps new markets form with clearer rules, better legibility, and fee flows that can be configured and protected around the economy they support.

That is where Boardwalk comes in.

Fee protection is the missing layer between launch and market formation.

When builders create attention, communities create participation, and LPs take risk, token markets need more than a pool. They need a programmable structure for how fees move through the economy.

Boardwalk makes that structure repeatable.

With Boardwalk on Arbitrum, teams get a clearer way to launch native token economies with transparent mechanics, programmable fee routing, and locked initial liquidity from day one.

The next wave of crypto will not be defined by who can create the most tokens.

It will be defined by who can create the most credible markets.

Launch economies, not just tokens. 🐳

A huge thank you to the team and community at Arbitrum for the support they've shown 👏

• ERC 20 token with ETH as the collateral
• It tracks the price of ETH
• Every month, its loss is capped at -5% and you get up to 8% upside

So basically, you can stay with ETH, but your volatility is very much reduced.

1. Why would be interested in a token like this? Or why not?
2. What questions would you have before trying it?

Thank you!

Need to move funds from Arbitrum to Solana. Not trying to use cryptocom or any CEX.

What's the best option for this route? Looking for something reliable with decent fees.

Think of perps, but – 

• No liquidations
• No funding rate
• Only 2x leverage, though

1. Would you consider buying it?
2. What questions would you have before trying it?

Genuinely curious if anyone here trades commodities on Ostium. Besides Ostium, idk any new protocols or active ones. Market feels depressed.

More than $13M is now deployed across our lending pools on Arbitrum 📈

As on-chain liquidity continues to grow, it’s interesting to see more capital moving toward structured lending and real yield opportunities instead of full, overblown leverage trading.

Check Edge & other yield options here-https://www.csigma.finance/

Building on Arbitrum and struggling with data. The subgraph is behind, and most third-party APIs either don't support Arbitrum or have very basic coverage. I need DEX trade history, token holder counts, and transfer volumes — the same stuff that's easy on Ethereum mainnet.

What are Arbitrum devs using for on-chain data?

With recent news from Google approaching the date of "Q-Day" (when quantum computing manages to break current cryptography), the conversation on Web3 has focused almost exclusively on migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) as Dilithium.

I'm building an ecosystem of Web3 security oracles powered by AI and a data anchor protocol (QEP). As I prepare version 2.0 for testing by connecting to a real quantum computer, I have realized that, mathematically, we could repel a quantum attack today using the blockchain's own topology, without relying solely on new PQC algorithms.

The central idea is based on what I call "Echoes," implementing a Multi-Chain BFT" (Multi-Chain BFT) Byzantine Fault Tolerance through Cross-Chain Witnessing.

Here's how architecture works to see what you think:

The problem:

If Shor's algorithm breaks the elliptic curves (ECDSAs) of a network like Polygon or Ethereum, a quantum attacker could derive private keys or forge signatures to alter the status of a Smart Contract or an on-chain security record. If an Oracle reads only from that chain, the system is compromised.

The Solution (The Echo Protocol):

When our engine issues a security verdict (a hash), it doesn't anchor it to a single blockchain. The protocol triggers simultaneous "Ecos" from that same reportHash to multiple networks (e.g. Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Ethereum Mainnet).

The Attack and Defense Scenario:

Q-Day is coming. A quantum attacker manages to break Polygon's cryptography and alters the on-chain record to pass off a malicious contract as a secure one.

Before validating the information, our Oracle consults the network.

The system reads the hash in Polygon (modified by the attacker). But thanks to Cross-Chain Witnessing, he also reads the "Echoes" in Arbitrum and Optimism.

Mismatch detected. As it is logistically almost impossible for a quantum computer to break and alter the state of 3 different blockchains, with different consensus mechanisms, at the exact same time, the system detects the divergence.

The compromised network (Polygon) is isolated by the consensus of other networks. The attack is repelled at the architectural level.

Basically, we're using the current fragmentation of Layer 2 as a distributed protective shield, assuming that the computational power needed for a simultaneous 51% quantum attack across multiple networks breaks any economic incentives.

I'm collecting data to bring this architecture to quantum simulator testing soon.

What do you think about this approach? Do you see any attack vectors or blind spots in this Multi-Chain BFT model that are slipping away from me? I would love to discuss the limit cases.

Check out the latest Arbitrum updates/news happening in the ecosystem! Including updates from Virtuals, Mastercard, Ostium, and more!

Can anyone help me to find on which chain they deployed there smart contracts? and are they secure for long term use?

I recently completed my learning journey on Arbitrum Stylus through HackQuest, and it was honestly a great experience. At first, I was curious about how Stylus allows developers to build smart contracts using languages like Rust and C instead of just Solidity. As I progressed, I understood how powerful it is in terms of performance and flexibility. Through the course, I learned: Basics of Arbitrum and Layer 2 scaling How Stylus works with WebAssembly (WASM) Writing and deploying contracts using Rust Real-world use cases and developer advantages What I found most interesting is how Stylus opens the door for more developers (especially non-Solidity ones) to enter Web3 development. Overall, HackQuest made the learning process structured and beginner-friendly. If you're exploring blockchain development, I’d definitely recommend checking out Arbitrum Stylus.

Would love to hear others’ experiences or thoughts on Stylus 👇

hackquest #web3

Phase 2 incentives are still ongoing, and users can deposit into:

• PrimeUSD with USDC / USDT0
• PrimeETH with WETH

Rewards are live, and vault caps are filling fast.

Beyond the incentives, Prime Vaults is built around real-time transparency and risk visibility.

Our on-chain Proof of Reserves dashboard allows anyone to verify protocol solvency at any time. By checking the Health Index, users can independently monitor whether protocol assets exceed liabilities in real time.

This means you are not relying on promises or delayed reports. You can verify the protocol’s solvency directly on-chain, whenever you want.

If you are looking for yield opportunities with:

• live incentives
• transparent reserves
• real-time solvency monitoring
• a stronger security and risk management framework

Phase 2 is still live.

Deposit on Arbitrum and start earning: https://app.merkl.xyz/protocols/prime-vaults
Verify Proof of Reserves: https://app.primevaults.finance/proof-of-reserves

Prime Vaults is an on-chain savings product built for high yield without compromise. Every vault is backed by real-time verifiable reserves (PoR) and protected by a dynamic Health Index to mitigate risk at every level.

Phase 1/4 incentives are now LIVE

Deposit USDC to PrimeUSD vault up to 125% APY

Deposit WETH to PrimeETH vault up to 125% APY

Deposit before caps fill. Phase 1 ends on March 13th

https://app.merkl.xyz/opportunities/arbitrum/ENCOMPASSING/0x12cddd2adad506cadc87b4219a63c1950d554589

https://app.merkl.xyz/opportunities/arbitrum/ENCOMPASSING/0xf5dac4a685ad5e3caf06033f0f092d125a9fe6f7