Arbitrum DAO Approves $24M Investment in Real-World Assets: Full Breakdown

• Arbitrum will allocate 35 million ARB tokens to invest in RWA products.
• The initial list had 17 products, but the protocol will invest only in 6. 
• The 6 products include BlackRock’s BUIDL and Ondo Finance’s USDY, among others.

Arbitrum, an Ethereum layer-two (L2) scaling solution, is proceeding with a proposal to allocate 35 million ARB tokens to invest in real-world asset (RWA) products after receiving community approval from the DAO.

Notably, on June 23, Arbitrum’s Stable Treasury Endowment Program (STEP) Committee unveiled six projects for investment to diversify the treasury’s portfolio. The initial shortlist included 17 products, but only six were selected to avoid spreading funds “too thinly” or exposing the principal to “operational or default risk.”

These six products include, 11 million ARB for asset management firm BlackRock’s Ethereum-based tokenized fund BUIDL; 6 million ARB for Ondo Finance’s USDY; 6 million ARB for Superstate’s USTB; 4 million ARB for Mountain Protocol’s USDM; 4 million ARB for OpenEden’s U.S. Treasury Bills (T-Bills); and 4 million ARB for Backed Finance’s bIB01.

The Committee determined the investm…

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