ArbitrumDAO's revenue in the first half of the year reached 6.19 million USD, with Robinhood Chain contributing 35% of July's revenue

The Arbitrum Foundation released a semi-annual progress report, stating that ArbitrumDAO achieved a revenue of 6.19 million USD in the first half of 2026, with the licensing fees from the Arbitrum Expansion Plan (AEP) becoming a significant source. In July, AEP licensing fees reached 360,000 USD, accounting for 35% of ArbitrumDAO's revenue for that month, which was also the first month of the Robinhood Chain's mainnet launch. According to DefiLlama data, the 24-hour DEX trading volume on Robinhood Chain reached 1.43 billion USD, with on-chain fees of 3.75 million USD, while Arbitrum One's trading volume during the same period was 193 million USD, with fees of only 14,700 USD.

The report shows that the Arbitrum network processed 478 million transactions in the first half of the year, with a cumulative trading volume of 2.7 billion transactions; the ecological GDP was 206 million USD, totaling 1.7 billion USD; the average monthly stablecoin transfer volume exceeded 70 billion USD. In terms of the number of RWA deployments, Arbitrum ranked first with 3,317 assets, but in terms of value, Ethereum far surpassed Arbitrum with 17.57 billion USD compared to Arbitrum's 779 million USD. In terms of enterprise adoption, LG Electronics announced in June a pilot on-chain advertising network on Arbitrum, Mastercard expanded support for stablecoin settlements, and PayPal's PYUSD peaked at 475 million USD on Arbitrum in the first quarter.