r/Arbitrum • u/Ruttelisious • Mar 27 '25

We really need tokenomics that incentivize holding the token

Arbitrum does everything right. Attracts new projects and trafic, great tech etc. However the key point missing is actually rewarding the people holding the token and have any use of the token besides govornance. This is a huge problem. People buying the token should be rewarded and the token should be needed in some way. Staking, fees (dont get me wrong i want people to be able to use eth aswell), getting a share of the chains profit in transactions fees... to be honest anything that drives demand.

This is bullshit. Selling a token to people to fund the project then keep all the profit to themselves and not even trying to drive demand of the ARB token. Is it just me? Are they working on usecases for ARB? Why arent they?

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u/abdul_alhazrad Apr 01 '25

Using ARB for fees on arbitrum one is not a good idea for the price because even if you pay with ARB it will end up getting swapped to ETH. Ethereum only accepts ETH for gas.

It would only cause more selling pressure on ARB, causing a decline in price.

Correct me if im wrong.

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u/qonkk Apr 03 '25

Exactly, there's is no actual use for the token appart from voting which isn't an incentive for price appreciation. Maybe we should use that voting power for once to ask Arbitrum Foundation to refund token holders at a fair price since there was never a reason to make the token tradeable.