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Introducing the Arbitrum Stablecoin Growth Program

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The Arbitrum Stablecoin Growth Program is open to protocols with at least $1 million in stablecoin balances, and protocols that commit to using USDG as their primary stablecoin may be eligible for performance-based incentives from the Arbitrum Foundation. A related report says the foundation launched the program to encourage DeFi protocols to adopt USDG on Arbitrum, and that it targets projects with live products and audited smart contracts.

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The Arbitrum Stablecoin Growth Program is open to protocols with at least $1 million in stablecoin balances.
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Protocols that commit to using USDG as their primary stablecoin may be eligible for performance-based incentives from the Arbitrum Foundation.
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Arbitrum Foundation announced the launch of the Stablecoin Growth Program to encourage DeFi protocols to adopt USDG as their primary stablecoin on the network.
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The program targets projects that have live products and audited smart contracts.

What it means

Protocols already operating with at least $1 million in stablecoin balances are the ones that notice this first, because the program is open to them now and ties eligibility to a commitment around USDG. DeFi teams on Arbitrum also see a new route tied to performance-based incentives if they make USDG their primary stablecoin.

Before this program, USDG adoption was not presented here as being linked to a specific incentive track for qualifying DeFi protocols. In practice, the new framework still leaves participation limited to projects with live products and audited smart contracts, so the set of eligible projects remains filtered rather than open-ended.

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44 days ago Uniswap-Arbitrum Delegate Program (UADP) Communication Thread event 1 actors in common · 2 news media