Arbitrum DAO Considers 4 Million ARB Budget Increase for Stylus Projects
According to a proposal published on the Arbitrum DAO forum, the Stylus Sprint committee requests an additional 4 million ARB tokens to expand its program budget. The increase comes after receiving 147 applications requesting over 31.92 million ARB, significantly exceeding the initial allocation.
The program received applications worth more than five times its original budget. Due to these constraints, the committee could only fund 17 projects initially. The selected projects were chosen based on factors including cost, timeline, immediate start capability, RFP category importance, and infrastructure development priority.
Under the proposed extension, the committee plans to support nine additional projects. These include five open applications and four RFP track projects, with funding amounts ranging from 100,000 to 1 million ARB per project. The committee will direct the funds through the existing MSS-controlled Stylus Sprint multisig.
Community members expressed varied opinions about the expansion. "I agree with increasing the budget, we need innovative Stylus projects. It's also great to hear that so many builders started working out of a bucket of 5M, this is definitely a good 'problem' to have," wrote forum member TempeTechie.
Some participants raised concerns about the process. As user jamesskh noted: "As we don't have access to the rubric, it would be helpful to have a better insight of what were the factors that generate the current proposal." The committee responded that projects were evaluated based on tracks and utility approach, with input from technical staff.
The current voting results show strong support for the proposal, with 127.3 million votes (95.15%) in favor, 6.2 million (4.63%) against, and 313,000 (0.23%) abstaining. If the positive trend continues and the proposal passes, an on-chain vote will follow on February 20th. The committee aims to avoid delays in funding the selected projects, which will benefit from existing infrastructure for milestone reviews.
