Arbitrum RAD Budget Held For Q4 As ARB Rally Is Averaged Out

Arbitrum's operating company has left the delegate reward budget alone for the fourth quarter. OpCo posted the Arbitrum RAD budget review on October 9, 2026, keeping every proposal category at its current dollar figure, as the forum post shows. The reason: ARB has rallied, but mostly in the past month.

OpCo's October 9 post with the unchanged Rewarding Active Delegates budget table.

What the Arbitrum RAD budget pays

The table is short. An on-chain constitutional quorum gets a $10,000 budget with a $550 payout cap. On-chain non-constitutional quorums, off-chain decisions and off-chain elections each get $5,000 with a $400 cap. A non-binding temperature check gets $3,000 and a $250 cap.

The Arbitrum RAD budget stays denominated in dollars and convert to ARB when paid. OpCo says that keeps rewards predictable and lets later reviews adjust if the price moves. Participation thresholds and rationale rules from earlier updates are untouched.

Why the Arbitrum RAD budget did not move

OpCo says ARB's price rose a lot in recent weeks, yet most of the gain came inside the last month. It chose the three-month average price as its yardstick so the review is not driven by price alone.

Binance data fits that picture. ARB closed at $0.1866 on October 10 and at $0.1398 thirty days earlier, a gain of about 33%. Against a 90-day average close of $0.1283, the token sits about 45% higher. Over those 90 days it has traded between $0.0728 and $0.2353.

The last MSS report and the 1,700 ETH ask

A second post, dated October 9, is the final handover report for the wound-down Multi-Sig Support Service. Only Stylus Sprint and the Delegate Incentive Program were active in the third quarter. The only withdrawal was 2,000,000 ARB, moved to OpCo as the second tranche for the RAD program. The Delegate Incentive Program balance fell from 4,882,488 ARB to 2,882,488 ARB, while Stylus Sprint held steady at 1,943,317.

Separately, a forum thread from October 8 proposes moving 1,700 ETH out of the DAO treasury. About 82.51 ETH would go to the Arbitrum Developer Guild, which is 3% of the 2,750.42 ETH Timeboost produced. The remaining roughly 1,600 ETH would join the treasury management portfolio to restart a covered call strategy.

The proposal says the treasury management portfolio holds about 37% ETH and would move to about 39%. Its ETH activation arm has earned almost 600 ETH to date, with a blended yield of roughly 2% to 7%. Idle ETH costs the DAO about $100,000 a year at the benchmark rate, by the proposal's math.

The forum period runs to October 15. Off-chain voting follows from October 15 to 22, and on-chain voting from October 29 to November 12. The proposal assumed ETH at $2,700. Binance showed ETH near $2,499 on October 10, which puts 1,700 ETH near $4.25 million.

This is a summary of public DAO posts and is not investment advice.