On March 17, the Arbitrum Foundation released its "2025 Transparency Report," stating that 2025 will be a pivotal year for traditional financial institutions to enter on-chain infrastructure on a large scale. The report shows that the foundation approved 189 ecosystem partnerships throughout the year, driving the development of DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer applications.
The report reveals that several traditional financial institutions have already deployed products on the Arbitrum network. For example, Robinhood launched tokenized US stocks and ETFs for European users, and nearly 2,000 tokenized assets were listed within six months; asset management firms Franklin Templeton, WisdomTree, and Spiko are also expanding their tokenized financial products on the network.
Regarding ecological data:
The size of real-world assets (RWA) on the internet has surpassed $800 million;
Stablecoin supply increased by 80% year-on-year, peaking at nearly $10 billion;
The cumulative on-chain transaction volume has exceeded 2.1 billion.
By the end of the year, there were over 1,000 projects being developed on Arbitrum.
Furthermore, the number of Arbitrum ecosystem chains continues to expand, with over 100 Arbitrum Chains currently online or under development. DAO revenue sources have also expanded to include transaction fees, Timeboost ranking auctions, vault management revenue, and chain expansion plans, among others. Timeboost alone brought in over $6 million in revenue for the DAO in its first year.
The report states that, with institutional adoption and infrastructure upgrades, Arbitrum is gradually evolving from an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution into an independent and significant blockchain financial platform.
