nice proposal!
We’re all excited to go hard on Arbitrum but that will be difficult without decent BAL & AURA liquidity for folks to sell farm rewards into. It’s not ideal to have to spend emissions incentivizing this liquidity. It’s also not ideal to put stablecoin treasury assets in the LP as that puts operational funds at risk in the scenario of a large market decline.
Thus using Balancer’s ARB to pair with is a great alternative we’re lucky to have. Aura can piggy back on this initiative with Balancer and everyone wins. BAL & AURA liquidity is secured for no cost (emissions) and we get free TVL/volume/fees.
There will be a pool created like ARB/WETH or similar for easy routing between BAL & AURA and other tokens on Balancer. I don’t see a need to create a gauge for ARB/BAL/AURA LP - better to direct our emissions on Arbitrum to pools that will be more efficient on an emissions per TVL/fee basis. Our treasuries don’t really need more BAL & AURA either 