Voting FOR.
This Security program has 2 purposes: Secure Arbitrum, and also attract new projects, and overall i think it can work for achieving both those goals.
One of the main barriers to entry for any cool web3 innovation is getting the audits, subsidizing them for teams really can be the difference in what chain they deploy on… Personally, I can’t say i totally align with this strategy in 2026… it seems like large trusted players are safer bets for our ARB… which OCL does seem to do a good job at managing (the Robinhood deal for instance was great!) but at the the same time, i can understand this strategy… it does let us gamble on finding new teams and you never know who can be the next Polymarket, Hyperliquid or Pump.fun.
But I love seeing the AI screening and bug bounty uses… in general, i think we can make HUGE waves by making Arbitrum the most secure L2 in the ecosystem.
i would love to see MORE efforts in that direction… Circuit breakers, an alternative group to the security council that can freeze funds quickly during hacks like we did with the LayerZero/rsETH/Aave incident (hopefully in conjunction with Seal 911), and other initiatives that can really move the needle to prevent thefts that seem all too common in crypto… Just think if those threats were mitigated on Arbitrum! It would be a great selling point to users and companies alike.
This is why I support this vote. It opens the door to support broader security initiatives… and the kicker is that it is only allocating funds that were already allocated to Audits (which i think has a smaller security ROI) to broader more impactful initiatives.