Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa Producing Blocks
Circle opened the public mainnet of Arc on Wednesday, a Layer 1 blockchain where transaction fees are paid in USDC and blocks are produced by a fixed set of regulated financial institutions rather than an open validator...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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Circle is showing up inside the Stablecoins theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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