Completed token migration to Arbitrum with contract address 0x0290a3256c939F3Acb6CA5465154d94133DC5e02.

Supported as a destination chain in Circle's crosschain forwarding service for Bridge Kit and Circle Gateway, which automates destination-chain execution for crosschain transfers.

Mentioned as one of the major ecosystems supported by Tally's governance infrastructure alongside Uniswap and ZKsync.

Partnered with Forkast for esports prediction markets, providing 250ms block times for real-time in-stream trading integration.

Announced as an early adopter of HyveXYZ, a data infrastructure protocol built on Symbiotic.

Reached all-time high in monthly transactions during February 2026, with growth 15% higher than any previous month despite having only 25 days of data.

Doubled the base fee in January 2026 to reduce spam transactions on the network.

Received native support on BitMEX exchange for low-fee USDC and USDT movements.

Awarded a $15,000 grant to support tournaments, content creation, and onboarding of 500+ new users to the network.

Hosts NYC Founder House from March 6-8, 2026, offering $1.8M total in prizes, $340k in NYC-specific grants, and $350k in Demo Day prizes for pre-mainnet DeFi, AI, and consumer crypto projects, with application deadline on February 28, 2026.

Holds 8,126 BTC on its network as of February 25, 2026.

Supervisor V2 launched on Arbitrum, featuring guardian and depositor veto capabilities on material vault changes during timelock periods.

Deployed Incognito privacy feature by BungeeExchange on Arbitrum, Ethereum, and Polygon using zero-knowledge cryptography for ERC-20s and NFTs.

Launched a mentorship program.

Increased contract size limit to 96kb for Stylus contracts (Rust), exceeding Ethereum mainnet's limit, with Offchain Labs support.

Pendle launched PT-sUSDai pool on Arbitrum with 15-OCT-2026 maturity offering 8.1% yield.

Integrated Hyperlane's Nexus bridge, enabling native ETH bridging between Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, and Optimism without unwrapping.

Roadmap was discussed in an interview at the Ethereum Foundation and L2 gathering event.

Will use SP1 Hypercube (Succinct's newest ZK proving technology) for ZK proving on mainnet.

Integrated into skate_chain's shared USDC/USDT pool alongside Ethereum, Solana, Sui, BNB Chain, and Base for cross-chain yield platform functionality.

Chainlink's Sustainable Value Recapture (SVR) mechanism has recaptured $18M USD in malicious liquidation MEV and is now coming to Arbitrum.

passed a new quorum model that ties quorum to delegated voting power, with fixed minimum and maximum bounds, to better reflect active governance participation

Proposes ArbOS 40 upgrade supporting Ethereum Pectra.

PYUSD supply reached $475M in February 2026, increasing 70x during the month.

Has 2,305,481 on-chain token holders across chain scan sites.

Supported as a bridging destination for USDC deposits to Hyperliquid via the Dreamcash marketplace setup process.

Is a finalist for Coinage Media's Crypto Project of the Year award, with voting live on Snapshot Labs for COINAGE and Attention Token holders.

IntentX migrated from Base to Arbitrum to offer trading services with faster transaction speeds (90% reduction in speed).

Powered hundreds of millions in swap volume through Jumper Exchange on the network from last year.

Uniswap governance votes to activate protocol fees on v3 pools as part of an 8-chain expansion.

Listed as having the fastest growing RWA deployment (PYUSD) among tracked protocols in a Token Terminal ranking.

Experiences high percentage increase in $100K+ whale transactions for DAI on the network.

Experiences high percentage increase in $100K+ whale transactions for WETH on the network.

Hiring Director of Finance and Treasury and Legal Counsel for OpCo, full-time remote.

Generated $55k in gas fees from trading activity over the past 7 days, representing 45% of total gas fees on Arbitrum One.

Ranks sixth among chains by number of active (consistently fee-generating) DeFi protocols, behind Ethereum mainnet, Base, Solana, BSC, and ahead of Hyperliquid.

$10M worth of $M tokens transferred from Arbitrum to Ethereum via Wormhole bridge.

Experienced 3 network outages over the past five years (February 2021 to February 2026).

Received $738.2M in bridged volume via Mayan, $718.0M via Relay Protocol, and $473.4M via Celer Network through Jumper Exchange over the past year ending February 2026.

Arbitrum Megafest, in collaboration with MEXC, offers 300,000 ARB in rewards for spot and futures trading.

Migrated Carbon protocol to Arbitrum, with 90% faster transaction speed and perpetual DEX functionality. Points distribution after February 19, 2026.

Hosts idOS token sale via Uniswap CCA on Arbitrum One through Tally app from February 25 to March 5, 2026, accepting ETH. Features Whale Round (Feb 25-27, 1 ETH minimum, 25% discount, 6-month vesting) and Open Round (Feb 27-Mar 5, no minimum, no vesting), with token distribution on March 5, 2026.

Unlocking 92.6M ARB tokens this week

Received a portion of $10,000 in USDC incentives deposited by Balancer on Votemarket, distributed across 10+ gauges on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Gnosis for veBAL and vlAURA voters.

Backed idOS Network with Circle, Ripple, and Fabric.

Move smart contracts went live on Stylus in February 2026.

ERC 8004 went live on Arbitrum for AI Agents in February 2026.

Experienced reentrancy vulnerability exploit, stealing $42M on V1 via GMX protocol, distorting GLP price on July 9, 2025.

Launched sUSDai vaults on Fluid, including sUSDai/USDC, sUSDai/USDT, sUSDai-USDC/USDC-USDT, and sUSDai-USDT/USDT-USDC pairs, yielding up to 45% stable APR.

Partnered with Caldera and Arbitrum to support Sanko's L3 infrastructure development.

Accumulated $47.5 million in stable-value reserves through a treasury diversification program that converts 1% of ARB token treasury to stable-value investments annually.

Arbitrum is listed as one of four supported chains (alongside Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base) for accessing GMX's new MET/USD trading market with up to 25x leverage.

GMX added a CC/USD perpetual trading pair with up to 25x leverage, available on Arbitrum alongside Ethereum Mainnet, Base, and BNB Chain.

Served 696M+ RPC relays through Lava Network RPC providers over the last 30 days.

Exceeded Hyperliquid in 24-hour inflows as of February 12, 2026.

ETHZilla launched Eurus Aero Token I, a tokenized jet engine leasing fund for two jet engines leased to a US airline.

Real World Assets (RWAs) on the chain increased by $670M in the week ending February 12, 2026, driven by new issuance of tokenized stocks and equities.

Uniswap now supports ESP token trading on Arbitrum with liquidity management powered by Arrakis Finance.

Reached all-time high transaction activity and all-time low transaction fees.

Unlocks 92.65M ARB tokens (1.82% of supply) valued at $10.54M on February 16, 2026, for investors including Polychain and Coinbase.

Integrates with WalletConnect Pay to enable payment functionality.

Supports PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin, issued by Paxos. Partnered with USDai_Official, making PYUSD the fourth-largest stablecoin on the network, ranking #5 for stablecoin value.

Routes all US stocks purchased by Robinhood EU customers, processing over $16M in tokenized stocks and ETFs since June 2025, with nearly 2,000 tokenized for users.

Recorded net inflows of $3.8M over a 24-hour period.

Integrated with BitGo's institutional self-custody wallet service via WalletConnect Network, enabling institutional access to DeFi protocols on Arbitrum.

Integrated with HyveXYZ's Data Fee Switch, powered by Symbiotic Relay, to capture storage fees.

Generated $2.5 million in interest for the Arbitrum DAO through treasury management.

Featured in technical analysis comparing L2 performance characteristics as a solution to execution speed bottlenecks, and listed as an example of a blockchain operating at scale in the context of tokenized assets and financial infrastructure.

Hosts a joint session with OpenZeppelin on 2026-02-11 at 18:00 CET to discuss the Open Intents Framework and Broadcaster for cross-chain UX and user onboarding.

Receives $1M grant from Robinhood for 2026 Arbitrum Open House developer funding, supporting testnet builders.

Robinhood launched self-custody wallet testnet on Arbitrum on February 11, 2026, processed 4 million transactions in seven days.

Partnered with Chainlink for Robinhood's onchain integration, bringing 25.5M funded customers and $204B+ assets under custody to its testnet.

Launched Robinhood Chain public testnet on February 12, 2026, an Ethereum L2 for tokenized stocks, ETFs, and RWAs, powered by Arbitrum Orbit. Integrated with Arbitrum through AEP, committing to pay 10% rent to Arbitrum, with 8% going to the DAO, and receives 10% of net profit from L2s using its technology stack per license terms. Camelot DEX deployed on Robinhood Chain.

Ledger integrated OKX DEX into its Wallet app, enabling multichain token swaps on Arbitrum alongside Ethereum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, and BNB Chain.

Ethereal DEX has launched a dedicated Arbitrum chain for their platform.

EdgeX, third-largest perpetuals platform, builds Arbitrum L3 settlement layer for EDGE Chain, powering EdgeX exchange. Received strategic investment from Circle Ventures, supports native USDC issuance and CCTP.

Vault777 launched its testnet on Arbitrum as a non-custodial prediction market platform using Chainlink for verification.

Migrating to Arbitrum One in February 2026, bringing 550 trading pairs with zero fees and 12 TradFi pairs.

Received 85.71 million USDT bridged from Tron, which was then used to open a combined 100,000 ETH long position worth $201 million on Hyperliquid across two addresses (0xa5B0...1D41 with 60,000 ETH and 0x6C85...84F6 with 40,000 ETH).

Added as deposit network on PEXX exchange for USDT and USDC deposits.

Toros Finance deployed leveraged gold tokens powered by GMX on the network.

Co-hosting Open House Gather event with Alchemy on February 18, 2026 during ETHDenver, featuring a 5-minute hacking challenge with a prize trip to NYC Founder House in March.

Arowana launched institutional-grade tokenized gold RWA protocol in March 2026.

Joined Compound v4 as a priority partner for secure, risk-managed infrastructure supporting RWAs and institutional capital.

A whale/institution bridged 26.75 million USDT from Tron to Arbitrum over a 3-hour period ending around 2026-02-10 08:15 UTC, then transferred the funds to Hyperliquid to open a long ETH position.

Added new PT-sUSDai market on Arbitrum with 19-FEB maturity offering 18.05% yield, loopable on Euler and Morpho.

Hosts a DeFi Safety and Security class on 2026-02-19.

Unique addresses approaching 80 million on the network.

Integrated wakeuplabs Stylus libraries into the official Stylus SDK, expanding AssemblyScript support for developers.

Partners with TV Asahi, one of Japan's top broadcasters, for gaming ventures.

Ekubo DEX deployed on Arbitrum with pairs and metrics now indexed by GeckoTerminal and visible on CoinGecko.

Arbitrum One had 322,000 active addresses that were also active on one or more other chains in the week ending February 9, 2026, representing 18.2% of Arbitrum One's total active addresses.

Hiring Director of Finance and Treasury and Legal Counsel for Arbitrum OpCo, full-time, remote.

Hiring for Legal Counsel role at Arbitrum OpCo.

Orbit is being promoted as the path to launch custom L2s and L3s on Arbitrum's stack according to developer discussions.

YOverse expanded to Arbitrum in January 2026.

Maintained median gas fee below $0.01 during a volatile period on February 5, 2026, when Bitcoin dropped 3% from $70k to $67k, with fees rising only 3x from $0.002 to $0.007.

Added Move programming language support to Stylus, expanding supported languages to Rust, C, C++, and Move, enabled through collaboration with Rather Labs.

The final epoch of DRIP Season 1 went live on February 5, 2026, offering ARB token rewards for rsETH across supported protocols.

Hosts idOS network ETH-only token sale from February 25 to March 5, 2026, with a two-phase CCA mechanism, an eight-day window, and 20% of tokens seeded into a Uniswap pool.