The following is the final report for the “Developer Tooling on Arbitrum One, Nova and Stylus” domain for Questbook. This report highlights the activity of Season 2 of Questbook, starting from May 2024 to January 2025 and distributing $714,900 to applicants, with softcaps of up to $25,000 for an evaluation of a single DA and up to $50,000 for two DAs. All payments have been denominated in USDC.
Note: while the initial proposal stated that, in case of ARB conversion of less than $1M per domain, we would have requested the differences to the DAO, after speaking with delegates we realized that there was no appetite for further spending. For this reason, the program has effectively been executed with 23% less of what was planned for.
| Domain Summary | # |
|---|---|
| # of proposals | 73 |
| # of proposals accepted | 27 |
| Total completed proposals | 13 |
| Total funds approved | $714,900.00 |
| Total milestones | 105 |
| Total completed milestones | 76 |
As expected, the majority of proposals have been in the following categories:
This outcome was expected for the domain, as tooling has been a key focus since the first iteration of the grants program, with many covering popular programming languages like C# and Python. Others centered on Arbitrum-native initiatives such as Stylus, further expanding the tooling ecosystem.
DevRel efforts were divided into two main categories:
Our primary strength lies in supporting early-stage infrastructure companies to deploy and grow inside the Arbitrum ecosystem. Some leveraged the program to build and test their initial products, searching for signs of traction and doubling down on them, while others utilized it as infrastructure and operational support to optimize unit economics and secure post-grant funding.
The main categories of the approved proposals were: