What Arena is
Arena merges social engagement and decentralized finance, giving users a place to connect, share, and grow their Web3 presence while earning through participation. Avalanche's largest SocialFi app (formerly Stars Arena), 450M+ trading volume, recently raised 2M pre-seed for expansion.
Ecosystem
Arena is listed in Cascade (/tags/cascade), Team1's ecosystem map for Avalanche (/avax), under the category "Social". Directory signals at capture: 69 community votes; directory status "live"; GitHub 10 stars / 191 commits.
Enrichment note
This entry is a SHELL: it was created from the Cascade ecosystem directory (captured 2026-08-28) plus the §B2 ranking pass, and its prose above is directory-sourced rather than editorial. Nothing here has been independently verified beyond the listed sources. It exists so the graph can reason about Arena and resolve its handle; it should be replaced with a researched About body before it carries coverage.
Network · 2 connections
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CEO
Jason Desimone is CEO of The Arena. The Avalanche Foundation's own post names him CEO of the new leadership that took over after the November 2023 acquisition of Stars Arena; the podcast episode page bills him as 'CEO of The Arena'; his own X bio reads 'Founder & CEO @TheArenaApp'. Modeled as WORKED_AT rather than FOUNDED deliberately: the platform he leads was ACQUIRED, not founded, by him — see the contradictions section of the task note.
COO
Phillip Liu Jr is COO of The Arena, named alongside CEO Jason Desimone as the new leadership that rebuilt the platform after the November 2023 acquisition of Stars Arena. Single host — the Avalanche Foundation's own post — so medium.
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