Overview
circle EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain for financial markets, real-time money movement, and agentic-finance payments. USDC is native gas token.
Recent Developments
- 2026-09-16: Public mainnet launch — chain ID 5042, ~506ms block times, instant finality (2026-09-17-circle-arc-mainnet-stablecoin-insider)
- Founding validators: blackrock, dtcc, visa, mastercard, Galaxy, ICE, MoneyGram, SBI, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo, Global Payments
- 100+ apps and institutional builders live day one; 20+ fiat stablecoins including TRYB
- BlackRock BUIDL tokenized fund deployment expected on Arc
- CCTP/Gateway interoperability with 20+ blockchains
10B ARC coordination tokens minted but no public ARC fee token launched; counterfeit tokens circulating ( 2026-09-17-circle-arc-mainnet-stablecoin-insider).
Related
- circle
- usdc
- layer-1-blockchain
- agentic-ai-payments
- stablecoin
- blackrock
- dtcc
- visa
- mastercard
- institutional-blockchain-rails