JUST IN: Circle's Arc launches an onramp kit that lets apps convert fiat into $USDC
Developers can offer debit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay with built-in identity checks through a hosted widget or SDK.
Arc Mainnet launched with more than infrastructure.
It launched with builders.
From San Francisco to Nigeria, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Singapore, Brazil, France, Argentina, and beyond, the Arc community is already building what comes next.
Arc is live.
Built so you can build.
Elysium testnet is live (@Kinetiq_xyz@Enter_Elysium), so I took the liberty of building a personal benchmark: same contract, same load, Elysium (L2) vs HyperEVM (L1), side by side.
Early numbers:
⚡ ~0.27s vs ~1.7s to inclusion
💸 ~5.8x cheaper per tx
https://t.co/R7QWDB4q2i
Before Arc Mainnet goes live, builders get the first look.
Join the Arc Mainnet Developer Pre-Show on September 16 for a builder-first walkthrough of what’s launching across Arc, including App Kits, Onramp, CCTP v3, cirBTC, EURC, Arc Studio, and Circle Agent Stack.
The pre-show rolls directly into the Arc Mainnet livestream.
No more waiting. Register to watch. https://t.co/5vj2b6kahG
A @arc, por meio da comunidade Arc House, acaba de lançar os grupos regionais. Se você também desenvolve na rede Arc e é brasileiro, não perca tempo: junte-se ao grupo dedicado à comunidade brasileira e conecte-se com outros desenvolvedores do ecossistema.
https://t.co/W9r77Y3s1n
We’ve raised $50M led by @dragonflyvc to go all in on RWAs and bring TradFi liquidity on-chain.
Today, we're launching Phase 1 of our RWA rollout to stress-test our infrastructure before bringing 100+ TradFi markets on-chain this summer.
Excited to see everyone come together for this historic moment. AQAv2 brings the protocol-aligned stablecoin model that @Nativemarkets trail-blazed to USDC with @Coinbase and @Circle's commitment to Hyperliquid. The community no longer has to choose between liquidity and alignment.
Our industry will face adversity as we continue to grow. It gives me hope seeing titans of the industry come together to build for users and bring all of finance onchain.
Today we’re expanding our support for @HyperliquidX by becoming the platform’s official treasury deployer of USDC.
Onchain markets operate 24/7 and require collateral that is always available, instantly transferable, and deeply liquid - USDC delivers exactly that.
Alongside this, we’ve also significantly increased our position of staked HYPE.
Coinbase has announced its plan to activate AQAv2 on USDC as the treasury deployer, with Circle serving as the technical deployer responsible for CCTP and native cross-chain infrastructure. Both Coinbase and Circle have committed to stake HYPE to activate AQAv2. As part of this transition, Native Markets has agreed to terms granting Coinbase the right to purchase the USDH brand assets. With Coinbase, in its role as treasury deployer, sharing the vast majority of reserve yield revenue with the protocol, USDC will become the most aligned stablecoin on Hyperliquid. As a result, canonical outcome (HIP-4) markets will use USDC as the quote asset in a future network upgrade.
User and builder feedback has been consistent that fragmentation leads to degraded experience; now, the community no longer needs to choose between liquidity and protocol alignment.
The pioneering work of Native Markets in launching USDH as the first production-scale stablecoin sharing yield directly with a protocol in a purely onchain implementation made AQAv2 possible. The learnings and mechanics pioneered by USDH will live on in AQAv2.
The Hyper Foundation will give grants to eligible HIP-3 deployers, HIP-1 deployers, and builders who integrated USDH, supporting teams through migration over the next months. These grants reflect an ongoing commitment to teams who choose to build on Hyperliquid and align with the protocol. USDH markets are fully functional but will sunset over time. USDH remains fully backed, with feeless conversions to USDC and fiat available to users during this transition.
LATEST: 🤖 Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says tens of billions of AI agents will soon be "conducting the work of the real economy," all transacting with stablecoins.
Arc 🤝 LI.FI
@lifiprotocol is delivering crosschain liquidity and routing infrastructure for developers building on Arc.
This gives builders a simpler way to move assets and users across chains without stitching together separate bridges and DEXs.
→ Unified access to bridges, DEXs, and liquidity sources
→ Bridging and swapping in a single flow
→ Faster paths to chain-agnostic app experiences
Arc is built for multichain applications from day one.
⚡️JUST IN: CIRCLE LAUNCHES GAS-FREE NANOPAYMENTS MAINNET
Circle launches gas-free $USDC nanopayments across 11 blockchains such as Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon, and Sonic.
The new rail enables transfers as small as $0.000001, targeting AI agents paying per API call, per second, or per dataset read.