Arena represents one of the boldest attempts to merge social interaction with token markets, creating a feedback loop where posts, tips, and trades feed directly into liquidity and attention. Since relaunching in May 2025, the platform has cleared more than $450 million in trading volume and over 35,000 AVAX in fees, rapidly positioning itself as a top Avalanche consumer app.


Evolution of Arena


Launched in 2023 as Stars Arena, the project initially built on Friend.tech’s gated chat model by adding public feeds and richer creator tools. However, waning hype and a contract exploit forced a pivot. Reintroduced as Arena V2 in May 2025, the platform combined a bonding-curve launchpad and native DEX with its social layer, reframing creator “tickets” as core units in a tokenized creator economy.


Product Surfaces


Arena Launch streamlines meme coin creation, deploying bonding-curve contracts that automatically escalate token prices until liquidity thresholds are met. Tokens then “graduate” into AMM pools, seamlessly tradable on ArenaDEX, which charges a 0.3% fee and recycles revenue back into the ecosystem.


Arena.social integrates creator tickets, gated feeds, live events, and tipping, transforming social presence into a liquid asset. Tickets trade like bonding-curve equities, rewarding creators not only at issuance but across secondary markets. An AI-driven discovery system surfaces trending creators, while referrals incentivize user inflows.


Metrics & Momentum


Data show strong early adoption. Weekly tips on Arena.social grew 340% between January and June 2025, with average spend per wallet more than doubling. Fee generation reached 7.65K AVAX in six months, with bursts of activity in February and June.


ArenaDEX processed $253M in combined bonding and post-bonding trades, averaging $4.1M daily with ~2.1K active wallets—implying ~$2K average trade sizes, higher than peers like pump.swap. Fee capture totaled ~35K AVAX by June, with minimal reliance on referral farming.


Arena’s ecosystem footprint is also expanding. With $8.2M in TVL, it accounts for ~0.6% of Avalanche DeFi collateral and more than 99% of the chain’s SocialFi liquidity, ranking fourth among Avalanche DEXs by volume. Cross-chain comparisons show Arena’s TVL tripling that of friend.tech, while outpacing Fantasy Top in cumulative fees.


Token Economy


The creator ticket system embeds perpetual royalties, with up to 70% of secondary fees streaming to creators. Future upgrades could transform tickets into transferable ERC-20s, unlocking collateralization in DeFi.


The ARENA token, capped at 10 billion supply, underpins governance and staking. Champions who stake ARENA receive allocations from every new token graduation, enhanced airdrop weights, and governance rights. Despite cooling from a $55.5M peak to ~$32M by June, ARENA remains up 240% YTD.


Takeaways


Arena’s tightly interlinked design—where social engagement drives ticket demand, which fuels token launches and DEX activity—has proven unusually sticky. The next phase hinges on delivering staker vaults, deeper ticket utility, and a possible subnet migration. If executed, Arena could transition from speculative hype cycle to a durable SocialFi super-app.

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