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Arbitrum's DRIP Token Incentives: Season 1 Results, 63M ARB Left
Arbitrum's DRIP program deployed 16.7 million of a budgeted 24 million ARB in Season 1, which ran from September 3, 2025 through Epoch 12 on February 18, 2026, growing participating USD lending markets 38% to roughly $770 million. A June 11, 2026 proposal extends the program's mandate to July 1, 2027, with about 63.7 million ARB of the original 80 million still undeployed and Season 2 not yet launched.
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Vitalik Buterin's 2026 Ethereum Scaling Plan: What's Actually Shipping
Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade activated on December 3, 2025, delivering PeerDAS and raising rollup data space roughly 2.3x through two blob-parameter-only forks by January 2026. Buterin's "Lean Ethereum" roadmap, published July 4, 2026, targets 10,000 TPS on layer 1 across seven forks running to 2029.