Circle named 11 founding Arc validators: BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, DTCC, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, MoneyGram, SBI, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo.
Arc is EVM-compatible L1 with USDC native gas, sub-second finality, opt-in privacy. Q2 total revenue and reserve income: 73.3B.
BlackRock expected to deploy BUIDL tokenized fund on Arc. 100+ ecosystem builders on private mainnet ahead of September 16 public launch. Anthropic among testnet participants.