Onchain Proposals 
1. STEP 2.0 (Voting ends on 13th Feb, Thursday)
The proposal seeks to allocate 35M ARB to the second iteration of the Stable Treasury Endowment Program (STEP), focusing on diversifying the Arbitrum DAO treasury into RWAs that are stable, liquid, and yield-generating, while promoting ecosystem growth for RWA protocols.
Strategic Objectives and RWA Focus: Building on the success of STEP 1, the initiative targets low-risk instruments such as U.S. Treasury-backed assets, emphasizing consistent support for the RWA sector and a competitive provider selection process to enhance Arbitrum’s position in this growing market.
Governance and Implementation Framework: A structured roadmap is outlined, including community discussions, approval votes, application reviews, and ratification of providers, with a committee overseeing the process to ensure transparency, efficiency, and rigorous due diligence.
Budget and Resource Allocation: The program allocates 35 million ARB for diversification, supplemented by 125k ARB for implementation costs, including committee compensation, emphasizing cost efficiency and accountability in resource deployment.
2. OpCo: A DAO-adjacent Entity for Strategy Execution (Voting ends on 13th Feb, Thursday)
This proposal aims to establish a legal entity (OpCo) to operationalize DAO-defined goals by assigning employees or contracting service providers for end-to-end initiative execution.
OpCo enhances strategy execution through improved operations, financial management, and project planning, overseen by the Oversight and Transparency Committee (OAT), with a 30M ARB budget over 30 months. Budget breakdown: 4M ARB reserved for bonuses, while 26M ARB reserved for liquidation until $12M worth of cash equivalents has been attained, any remaining ARB will be returned to the DAO treasury.
OpCo also addresses challenges like siloed operations, lack of ownership in DAO programs, and initiative drop-offs due to limited accountability or expiring grants.
This setup also maintains decentralization by ensuring DAO authority over OpCo whilst increasing independent entities to drive initiatives and serve as a flexible counterpart to the AF.
3. Arbitrum D.A.O. (Domain Allocator Offerings) Grant Program - Season 3 (Voting starts on 6th Feb, Thursday)
This proposal seeks to extend the Domain Allocators Offerings Grant Program for a 3rd season. This 3rd season will run for a full year, encompassing the existing four domains (Protocols, Education/Community and Events, Dev Tooling, and Gaming), and a new Orbit domain.
The allocation will be as follows: $1,500,000 for each of the four domains “New Protocols and Ideas”, “Education, Community Growth and Events”, “Dev Tooling on One and Nova”, and “Gaming”, and $750,000 for the new “Orbit” domain.
The program will maintain its milestone-based payment structure and focus on long-term project sustainability. The DAO had previously elected the domain allocators for all 5 domains on Snapshot.
This proposal is requesting a total of 23,426,465 ARB tokens, equivalent to the $6,750,000 for the 5 domains and the $703,800 for OpEx, including 35% as buffer at the current price of $0.43 per ARB token.
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1. Approve the Nova Fee Sweep Action (Voting ends on 6th Feb, Thursday)
The Nova Fee Sweep action applies to historical Nova transaction fees currently held in the L1TimelockAlias; these fees will be swept into the DAO Treasury with the use of the modernized fee collection infrastructure outlined in the Nova Fee Router Proposal.
The full balance of ETH–currently 1,885 ETH–will be transferred to the DAO Treasury on Arbitrum One using established smart contract infrastructure. There will be an upcoming AIP which combines both the Timeboost AIP and the Nova Fee Sweep action AIP into a single proposal for an on-chain vote on Tally.