ChainCatcher news, according to Unchained, over four months ago, the Arbitrum DAO authorized the allocation of 225 million ARB for the "Game Catalyst Program" (GCP). However, due to a lack of transparency and accountability mechanisms, community members have raised concerns.Arbitrum community member Joseph Schiarizzi (@CupoJoseph) has posted a governance proposal suggesting that 220 million ARB in the GCP multi-signature wallet be returned to the Arbitrum DAO treasury.The proposal points out that the GCP council has not fulfilled its responsibilities, delaying several oversight and transparency commitments made in the initial proposal. On-chain data shows that 1.35 million ARB have already been transferred out of the GCP multi-signature wallet, leaving 223.65 million ARB remaining. If the proposal passes, GCP will retain only about 2 million dollars in funds to continue operations until it can prove that more funding is needed.Schiarizzi stated that his proposal may not pass, but its purpose is to introduce a certain level of accountability for the 120 million ARB tokens supporting GCP. He said, "I believe this will encourage the relevant parties to release updates more quickly."

ChainCatcher news, according to the Snapshot governance page, Tally's Head of Market Operations Frisson has initiated a proposal vote in the Arbitrum community titled "Unlock Token Utility by Enabling ARB Staking," with voting ending on August 16.The proposal suggests unlocking ARB utility by enabling ARB staking and improving the governance and security of the Arbitrum protocol, but it will not temporarily open up fee distribution to token holders. By staking ARB, tokens will be delegated to users actively participating in governance, allowing token holders to capture value. The proposal also plans to implement a liquid staking ARB token (stARB) through the Tally protocol, which can automatically compound any future rewards and can be (re)staked, making it compatible with DeFi. Additionally, the proposal initiators state they will collaborate with the Arbitrum DAO to decide whether and how to fund rewards and distribute them between token holders and delegators.

ChainCatcher message, the Arbitrum community's "200 million ARB Game Catalyst Program" proposal has opened on-chain voting. This proposal aims to provide a three-year incentive program totaling 200 million ARB for games in the Arbitrum ecosystem, with the goal of powering the Arbitrum gaming ecosystem through studios and games in the Web3 industry. Voting will end in 12 days.

ChainCatcher news, the Arbitrum community's "200 million ARB Game Catalyst Program" proposal will open on-chain voting in 3 days, aiming to provide a three-year incentive program with a total of 200 million ARB for Arbitrum ecosystem games, with the goal of powering the Arbitrum gaming ecosystem through studios and games in the Web3 industry.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized trading protocol DODO announced on social media that the LTIP grant proposal of "350,000 ARB for DODO" has been approved by the Arbitrum community. This proposal will help improve liquidity by establishing DODO as the built-in DEX on DODOchain.

ChainCatcher news, the Arbitrum community has initiated a new proposal to establish a Memecoin fund independent of the Arbitrum DAO, aimed at selecting quality projects to support the development of Memecoins and cultivate a Memecoin-friendly culture within the Arbitrum ecosystem. According to the proposal, the requirements for selecting projects include having at least $200,000 in liquidity, the token must have existed for at least 30 days, whales cannot hold a high percentage, and the market capitalization must be over $1 million.The proposal suggests allocating $3 million worth of ARB to launch the fund (trial run for 6 months) and plans to provide funding and liquidity support for selected Meme coins, with each investment ranging from $50,000 to $150,000, while also offering professional graphic designers/video renderers support.

ChainCatcher message, the Snapshot voting page shows that the Arbitrum community has opened a snapshot vote for the "Game Catalyst Program (GCP)" proposal, which suggests allocating 200 million ARB to gaming projects within the ecosystem through this program. This vote aims to assess whether the DAO has reached a consensus to begin implementing and funding the creation of the Game Catalyst Program and its fund.According to the proposal, the Arbitrum Foundation needs to invest time and resources to create the legal entity required to support this initiative. Before defining the committee's tasks, obtaining DAO approval, and electing members, the "Game Working Group" will be considered a temporary custodian to enhance the necessary details of the proposal and submit it to the DAO. ARDC, Plurality Labs, and Questbook will consider the signals from the DAO, prioritizing reasonable requests from the Game Working Group and the ultimately elected council to help establish the GCP until a separate budget for the GCP is approved. The Game Working Group will return to the DAO within 30 days after the proposal passes, providing options for the method and criteria for electing the council, the final staffing plan for the GCP, and a temporary funding request.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Snapshot governance page, the Arbitrum community has initiated a proposal vote to "fund the legal defense of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm and Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev."The proposal states that Tornado Cash is a beacon of privacy and security in the crypto industry, providing users with a reliable way to conduct private transactions on the Ethereum blockchain. The goal of this proposal is twofold: to provide strong legal defense for both individuals and to uphold the rights of developers who contribute to the deployment of permissionless open-source software. By rallying support for their legal fund, it aims to protect the future of privacy-preserving technology while also safeguarding broader principles such as innovation, decentralization, and personal sovereignty within the crypto industry.

ChainCatcher news, the Arbitrum community has initiated an AIP proposal called "ArbOS 20 version," which proposes many improvements to the Arbitrum chain, including the ability to publish L2 transaction batches on L1 Ethereum in the form of blobs at a lower cost using EIP 4844. This proposal also includes support for most of the changes included in the Ethereum Dencun upgrade.It is reported that the proposed ArbOS 20 upgrade will be ready for adoption by any Arbitrum chain, involving both Arbitrum One and Nova chains, as they are managed by the Arbitrum DAO. At a higher level, the ArbOS upgrade can be seen as a hard fork of Arbitrum. The ArbOS 20 version is an upgrade based on the ArbOS 11 version that has been adopted by the Arbitrum DAO. Due to technical details allowing for better customizability of the Orbit chain, the proposal increases the version number to 20 instead of 12.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Snapshot governance page, the "Long-Term Incentive Pilot Program" proposal has been approved by the Arbitrum community with a support rate of 57.49%. This pilot project will allocate 25 to 45 million ARB to building protocols on Arbitrum for a duration of 12 weeks. The specific amount will be determined by the DAO through a snapshot vote and approved via Tally voting.The program aims to establish a long-term incentive pilot for the DAO to test new incentive designs and address the questions necessary to ensure Arbitrum is ready to commit to long-term plans.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Snapshot governance page, the Arbitrum community has initiated a proposal vote for the "Long-Term Incentive Pilot Program," planning to distribute 25 to 45 million ARB to protocols built on Arbitrum.The proposal states that it aims to establish a long-term incentive pilot program for the DAO to test new incentive designs and address the questions necessary to ensure Arbitrum is ready to commit to a long-term plan. The program will distribute ARB to protocols over a period of 12 weeks.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Snapshot page, the Arbitrum community has initiated a proposal vote for the "Long-term Incentive Pilot Program." This proposal aims to test a new long-term incentive design to shape Arbitrum's future long-term incentive program.The pilot program will distribute 25 to 45 million ARB tokens to protocols built on Arbitrum, with the specific amount to be determined by the DAO through Snapshot voting and approved via Tally voting. The program will distribute ARB tokens to Arbitrum ecosystem protocols over a period of 12 weeks.

ChainCatcher message, the Arbitrum community has voted to approve the "ArbOS version 11" proposal, which is currently awaiting execution. The proposal suggests several improvements to Arbitrum, including support for the EVM Shanghai upgrade and the PUSH0 opcode, as well as various bug fixes. These improvements have been audited and are ready for adoption, involving Arbitrum Orbit, Arbitrum One, and Arbitrum Nova (the proposal pertains to the latter two), while the ArbOS upgrade can be seen as a hard fork of Arbitrum.

ChainCatcher news, the Arbitrum community recently released a proposal aimed at extending the deadlines for the STIP (Short-Term Incentive Program) and BackFund program agreements.According to this proposal, agreements within STIP will have until March 1, 2024, to distribute ARB tokens to users, while agreements under the BackFund program will have until March 15, 2024, to continue liquidity support, with the distribution of ARB tokens completed by March 29, 2024.It is reported that the main motivation for this proposal is to account for the time discrepancies in the KYC (Know Your Customer) process and the delays compared to the original plan, ensuring that all agreements have sufficient time to distribute incentive tokens to users. In particular, agreements under the BackFund program may have only about 6 weeks left for token distribution before the original plan ends due to the need for KYC verification, so this extension will provide these agreements with nearly 16 full weeks to complete the incentive distribution.Additionally, this extension also includes adjustments to certain agreements under the original STIP plan, allowing all STIP agreements to have adequate time to distribute ARB tokens to users.

ChainCatcher news, the Arbitrum community has opened the "ArbOS 11 version" AIP proposal voting, which will end at 06:11 Beijing time on December 5. The current support rate is 99.8%. This proposal introduces several improvements to Arbitrum, including support for the EVM Shanghai upgrade and the PUSH0 opcode, as well as various bug fixes. These improvements have already been audited and are available for adoption by Arbitrum Orbit chains, Arbitrum One, and Arbitrum Nova, with the proposal concerning the latter two.The proposal states that the ArbOS upgrade can be considered a hard fork of Arbitrum. Specifically, since the latest version of Geth includes support for the changes made to the EVM in the Shanghai L1 upgrade, Arbitrum also needs to synchronize support to ensure there is no divergence with previous versions of the node software. Currently, the smart contract code for executing the on-chain upgrade has been audited by Trail of Bits. The version of ArbOS currently used by Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova is ArbOS 10.

According to ChainCatcher news, the Snapshot page shows that the Arbitrum community is currently voting on whether to raise 21.4 million ARB (approximately 24 million USD) in one go to support 26 projects that did not receive sufficient funding in the first round of grants. The proposal will end voting on November 14, and the current approval rate is over 90%.

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 bounty platform Layer3 has initiated a community proposal on Arbitrum, proposing to apply for 1 million ARB to deploy 95 tasks across 62 applications, including for designing quests and marketing expenses, continuing until May 19, 2024. All requested funds will primarily be used for updates and maintenance, community engagement work, partnerships, performance tracking, and reporting, while users will receive governance tokens XP and NFTs.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Snapshot governance page, the Arbitrum community has initiated a proposal to "distribute a total of 500,000 ARB tokens equally among 25 early community contributors," which is valued at approximately $450,000 at the time of publication, to recognize and reward the outstanding contributions of community members with the "Arbiter (Community)" tag in the Arbitrum official Discord.Additionally, the proposal states that these contributors have played a key role in the development of Arbitrum, including translation, promotion, event organization, community guidance, security assurance, and collaboration with other communities.

According to ChainCatcher news, the Snapshot governance page shows that the Arbitrum community is conducting an on-chain vote on the proposal "Kyber Network requests a grant of 1.5 million ARB from the Arbitrum Foundation." The voting will end on October 13. Kyber Network stated that if the proposal is approved, the 1.5 million ARB will be used to reward users who provide liquidity on Kyber, to help Arbitrum develop its ecosystem.It is reported that at least 71.51 million ARB need to participate in the vote, and the proposal must receive over 50% support to be approved.

ChainCatcher message, the Web3 on-chain operation incentive platform RabbitHole announced on social media that it has released a new version of the Arbitrum Community Gateway on Arbitrum, providing a showcase for tasks related to Arbitrum and ARB in the Arbitrum ecosystem.