Arbitrum adopts USDG as default DeFi dollar
Arbitrum (ARB)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
Grafa.com reports that Arbitrum has joined the Global Dollar Network, establishing USDG as the default dollar asset across its DeFi ecosystem. This integration enables USDG to support liquidity, lending, derivatives collateral, and institutional settlement on Arbitrum One. The network has processed nearly 3 billion transactions involving almost 90 million addresses and over 193,000 verified contracts.
Businesses can utilize USDG for trading, collateral, settlement, treasury balances, payments, and cross-border transfers. As a network partner, Arbitrum participates directly in USDG economics, while eligible businesses can earn rewards for contributing activity. USDG is issued by Paxos entities under regulatory supervision in Singapore and Europe, featuring one-to-one US dollar redemption.
The Global Dollar Network now includes more than 150 partners. USDG is also live on Ethereum, Ink, Mantle, Robinhood Chain, Solana, and X Layer.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for ARB, measured when this story was written up on 7 October 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
ARB is trading at $0.1997 with a 24-hour buy ratio of 53.1%, indicating a majority of trades are purchases. However, shorter-term pressure shows weakness, with the 1-hour buy ratio at 46.5% and the 4-hour ratio at 40.9%. Volume deltas reflect this short-term selling, showing -$251,018 over the last hour and -$285,875 over four hours. In contrast, the 24-hour volume delta is positive at +$778,628, suggesting net buying over the full day. The cumulative volume delta closed at -$521,563, indicating that despite intraday buying, net outflow exceeded inflow by the end of the period. Spot volume reached $12,363,409 across 64,987 trades.
The latest daily buy ratio of 49.6% sits at the 49th percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 49.6% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for ARB, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the average buy ratio was 49.8%, making the current 24-hour ratio of 53.1% an increase of 3.2 points above the average. Trading volume was 0.77x the weekly average, indicating lighter activity than usual. The coin experienced a price change of -1.9% over eight days. Net buying occurred on only 2 of the 7 days in the period. The total volume delta for the week was +$607,457, showing a modest net inflow despite the price decline.