Arbitrum’s community governance has approved a major, multi‑year incentive program to attract and scale blockchain gaming on its layer‑2 network. The Arbitrum DAO voted to allocate 225 million ARB (about $215 million) over three years to a newly created Gaming Catalyst Program (GCP), funded from the DAO treasury and proposed by the Arbitrum Foundation. The GCP is designed to support both early‑stage and established game studios building on Arbitrum by providing grants and strategic investments, with a focus on game publishing and development companies. New or smaller teams will be able to apply for grants reportedly up to around $500,000 worth of ARB, while larger studios can seek more complex deals that may involve token or equity-based value sharing. The program also includes an operational budget cap (reported around $25 million) intended to cover program management and due diligence while limiting overhead relative to incentives distributed. More than 75% of participating ARB token holders voted in favor of the proposal, with prominent governance delegates such as L2Beat and Wintermute among its supporters. This fund is one of the largest single gaming-focused initiatives by a major Ethereum layer‑2 and positions Arbitrum to compete more directly with gaming‑oriented chains and ecosystems. The GCP sits within a broader Arbitrum DAO grants and incentives framework, where treasury-managed programs direct ARB toward strategic verticals like gaming, AI, and developer tooling. For the broader Web3 sector, the program signals sustained DAO‑driven investment into on‑chain games, potentially influencing where studios launch, how they structure token economics, and which networks capture user and liquidity growth in blockchain gaming.

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