Contextualizing Arbitrum's $220 million gaming bet

Numbers big and small

There’s plenty to unpick following the successful vote of the Arbitrum community to pass the Gaming Catalyst Program that will allocate 200 million ARB tokens — 8% of its overall ecosystem fund: currently worth $193 million — to encouraging gaming on the blockchain over a three year period.

Despite this scale, it’s labelled “a catalyst, not a comprehens…