The programmable economy is growing.

Across payments, compute, trading, and commodities, April showed how new markets are forming and scaling on the Arbitrum Platform.

1. Compute is becoming a market in its own right.

With USDai reaching $34M in loans…

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It's a great week to build the programmable economy

As compute becomes a global market, businesses need fast, asset-backed credit.

.@USDai_Official is making that possible by turning GPUs into onchain collateral, now fueling +$100M in active loans.

With Arbitrum’s predictable costs and deep liquidity, new…

In the programmable economy, businesses start ahead, not from zero.

The Arbitrum Platform enables them to:

Launch fast
Iterate as they go
Expand their product
Test new models easily

Your business grows at the speed of the market.

Rewards from Season 1 of DRIP (DeFi Renaissance Incentive Program) will only be claimable for 2 more weeks, excluding rewards earned from Aave.

After May 18, all unclaimed rewards from the DeFi Renaissance will return to the DRIP program for future seasons.…

If you buy or sell a traditional stock on Monday, the trade usually settles on Tuesday. In tokenized markets, value can move and settle in seconds.

Programmable markets reduce settlement time, and lower operational friction.

Fintechs moving in this direction…

If you buy or sell a traditional stock on Monday, it typically settles on Tuesday.

In tokenized markets, value can move and settle in seconds.

This shift isn’t just about speed, it fundamentally changes how capital flows.

Programmable markets reduce settlement…

Ontorium is bringing physical gold onchain as a programmable asset with OXAU, now exceeding +$1M in supply.

Arbitrum’s deep liquidity and predictable costs make it possible for institutional capital to access commodities like gold via @Ontorium_io efficiently.

Traditional payment processors don't protect your payment. They process it.

If the seller doesn't deliver, you wait 30–90 days for a chargeback that might not work.

We built the opposite: signed agreement first, funds sit in an on-chain escrow until conditions…

Learn how we’re backing early-stage teams shaping the programmable economy through Open House London.

Open House London starts May 25th with a 3-week online Buildathon designed to help founders turn ideas into onchain products with hands-on support.

Apply…

The March 2026 Security Council Member Election results are out!

Meet the 6 newly elected members. 👇

Your wallet already holds your positions. It's time it held a team on @arbitrum

Meet Ember: the portfolio manager that lives inside your wallet. It reads your thesis, watches your moves, and directs agents under rules you set

No migration. No swarm of…

Introducing @Alchemy as a sponsor of Open House London.

They provide enterprise infra and tooling to support today’s most widely used onchain products.

Together with Alchemy, Open House is helping businesses shape the broader programmable economy on the…

Expanding from Solana to the EVM often means rebuilding applications from scratch.

Oak Security’s StylusPort on the Arbitrum Platform gives teams a more practical path by helping bring Rust smart contracts into an EVM-compatible environment without starting…

Moving from Solana to the EVM means rebuilding your app from scratch.

Oak Security’s StylusPort enables teams to bring Rust smart contracts to the Arbitrum Platform without starting over.

That means faster launches, lower costs and an easier path into the…

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The programmable economy is where the next gen of fintechs will be built.

And as a finance-native platform, it will be powered by Arbitrum.

all roads lead to the programmable economy.

even on Fridays.

Programmable markets make settlement instant and operations more efficient.

That’s why businesses are building on the Arbitrum Platform: +$78M in @USDT0_to capital flowed into the platform in just one week.

Fintechs moving in this direction are positioned…

The programmable economy needs new businesses.

Open House London is helping bootstrap them with a $415K prize pool (our largest yet).

Starting May 25th, early-stage teams join a 3-week online Buildathon to:

- Bring ideas from concept to mainnet
- Receive…

The programmable economy enables fintechs to own their markets instead of renting access to them.

Businesses keep control over their products, users, and business models while adapting infrastructure as they scale.

On Arbitrum, it's your platform, your…