Arbitrum’s 22K ETH Power Move: How This L2 Giant Is Reshaping the Ecosystem

Arbitrum just flexed its muscles with a 22,000 ETH stack—and the Layer 2 arena will never be the same.

Here's why this isn't just another treasury report.

The ETH war chest no one saw coming

While other chains scramble for scraps, Arbitrum's sitting on a king's ransom. That 22K ETH isn't collecting dust—it's strategic ammunition.

L2 dominoes start falling

Watch rival chains recalculate their roadmaps. When one player holds this much gas money, the whole ecosystem shifts.

Bonus jab: Wall Street hedge funds wish they could move this quietly before dumping their bags.

Source: Strategic ETH Reserve

Commenting on the same, Tom Wan, Head of Data at Entropy Advisors, said Arbitrum is the ‘most ETH-aligned L2.’

Here, it’s worth noting that L2s have been criticized for extracting value from Ethereum L1 without boosting it. Hence, Arbitrum stacking ETH is noteworthy in discrediting such criticism. 

Robinhood boost Arbitrum

Arbitrum has grabbed headlines recently, especially being selected as a temporary settlement LAYER for Robinhood’s on-chain stocks.

The retail trading platform’s tokenized U.S. equities are accessible to E.U. users, powered by Arbitrum. According to Coinbase, the tokenized U.S. stocks brought new users to the L2. 

“New wallets are climbing while transaction counts remain high—likely pointing to fresh retail participation alongside existing high-frequency flow.”

Source: Coinbase

The attached chart shows that the daily active address (blue) recovered from 800K to over 1 million.

At the same time, the value of the transaction count remained nearly the same, underscoring that large players still dominated the L2. 

Additionally, Arbitrum has dominated stablecoin balance and monthly inflows, underscoring network usage. In the past month, Ethereum saw $9.7 billion inflows, followed by Arbitrum’s $1.5 billion. 

Source: Artemis

After the Robinhood update, Arbitrum’s native token ARB initially jumped 5% but later extended the daily gains to 18%.

But the bulls were rebuffed at the supply zone below $0.40 (red). At press time, ARB erased all the gains and was back to the support zone (cyan) around $0.30. 

Trading volumes also declined too as shown by the OBV. Unless volumes recover alongside buying pressure, bulls may struggle to hold on to the $0.3 support. 

Source: ARB/USDT, TradingView