Arbitrum saw roughly $1.07B in net bridge inflows over the last 7 days

that sounds extremely bullish for $ARB

but bridge inflow into Arbitrum is not the same thing as buying ARB

most of that capital hasn’t shown up as permanent DeFi deployment, and there’s still no clean evidence of sustained ARB spot accumulation

what is real is the relative strength

ARB is up roughly 11% over the last 72h, outperforming both BTC and ETH

but the move is still heavily derivatives-driven

futures volume is running at roughly 6x spot volume, OI expanded with price, and after the push to $0.2545, late longs started getting flushed

so I’m not buying the “$1 because $1B flowed into Arbitrum” narrative

those are two completely different things

for me, the interesting area is $0.214–$0.220

If ARB holds that zone and spot demand starts confirming the move, I’d look at the long side

If it reclaims $0.2545 with real acceptance, continuation becomes much more interesting

until then, $1 is a narrative target, not a data-backed target