Arc Mainnet is live. Arc launches as the Economic OS for the internet: an open platform for global markets, real-time value movement, tokenized assets, and agentic economic activity. Arc is more than a blockchain. It launches as a full-stack financial platform with assets, applications, interoperability, developer infrastructure, and Circle platform services live from day one. Arc delivers USDC as native gas, deterministic sub-second finality, EVM compatibility, and institutional validators. It integrates with Arc Studio, App Kits, Arc Portal, Circle Agent Stack, CCTP, Gateway, CPN, and StableFX. A complete economic platform at genesis. Arc launches with infrastructure for: → Agentic economic workflows → Lending and borrowing → Trading and liquidity → Onchain FX → Payments and settlement → Tokenized assets → Exchanges, wallets, custody, compliance, data, and developer tooling 190+ institutional and ecosystem builders are building across Arc.

You don’t hear it as much now but the original crypto ethos there was a theme of all kyc is criminal and should be abolished and I sort of just shook that off with the same libertarian people who screamed about paper gold but considering how weaponized it’s been used against us they were right

On almost every chain, the most liquid path between any two tokens runs through a stablecoin. Today, we're consolidating that into a single API call. Live in Eco Routes: Any-to-Any Swaps convert any token on one chain into any token on another, with solvers holding only stablecoins in between. Any-to-Any Swaps settle transactions using @LayerZero_Core. Everything routes through stablecoins with Eco: