Previewing Arc’s future approach to opt-in privacy.
Sensitive financial workflows should not become public market data.
Arc’s privacy whitepaper outlines a roadmap for future confidentiality features with governed visibility for authorized parties.
Potential use cases include:
→ Payroll
→ Treasury
→ Trading workflows
→ Asset issuance
→ B2B payments and FX
Privacy without anonymity, designed for real financial activity onchain: https://t.co/V5PHZt6zuC
Introducing a Circle-built open-source prediction markets sample app on Arc Testnet.
A decentralized prediction market platform built on Arc with @UMAprotocol’s Optimistic Oracle V2 for trustless market resolution.
Arc enables prediction markets with sub-second settlement, native USDC/EURC support, crosschain USDC deposits, and predictable USDC-denominated gas fees.
Explore the repo: https://t.co/46fetP9e6Z
Region Kickoff: Vietnam Roundtable Discussion
June 15 10:00 AM EDT - June 15 11:00 AM EDT, Online
https://t.co/TCLtS6wmBx
@Arcvnbuilders@0xteddyz@Lecter_XFinance
@samconnerone The tools are evolving for everyone, but so are the opportunities.
What matters now is turning ideas into reality and continuing to build
I get asked a lot: “Is my project aligned with Arc?”
My answer: Arc is an open infrastructure, so build, test and push your ideas freely. IMO, your better question is "why should my idea for a project even exist?"
Wrote more on Arc House ↓
https://t.co/B7dEUAZpY9
In many countries, access to credit still starts with a bank account. If you don’t have one, you don’t have a credit history either.
So even people with a steady income end up relying on cash for everything, locked out of the system.
Arc enables a different model.
Borrowing doesn’t require locking assets up front, access doesn’t depend on a bank account, and loans don’t get stuck in approval or settlement delays.
Credit can become available as soon as eligibility is verified, bringing a new level of inclusivity to financial markets that, for many, have historically been out of reach.
What credit looks like when trust, identity, and repayment are built into the system: https://t.co/sRoC98L5k8
Arc Hackathon Spotlight: Chariot
Chariot is an Arc Hackathon Spotlight project exploring how lending infrastructure can work across chains with ETH-backed collateral, vault logic, and automated risk controls.
Join @samconnerone and Sipho Yawe live on May 7 at 11:00 AM ET for a walkthrough of the build:
→ ETHEscrow to BridgedETH
→ ERC-4626 vault design
→ Liquidation logic and circuit breakers
→ Vault agent architecture
See how hackathon projects on Arc turn into real, composable financial infrastructure.
RSVP: https://t.co/lYDm8wnhWR
Our recent @lablabai hackathon with @GoogleDeepMind brought in 227 submissions exploring what becomes possible when AI agents, APIs, content, and real-world services can all be monetized with sub-cent USDC payments on Arc.
What stood out across the builds:
→ Agent-to-agent payments and autonomous economic activity
→ Pay-per-call APIs, content, and intelligence
→ Real-time settlement for trading, oracle, and security workflows
→ New monetization models for creators, researchers, and developers
The quality and breadth of submissions made it clear that programmable dollars and nanopayments are unlocking new internet business models.
Congrats to the winners below.
On-site 1st Prize: Vertex Dynamic Ad Exchange
A new kind of ad exchange where autonomous buyer and seller agents bid at sub-cent levels and settle impressions in real time.
Demo: https://t.co/sxCwsCsx2j
On-site 2nd Prize: Gyasss
A pay-per-query oracle where AI agents pay $0.001 per gas price query and users can earn USDC back for reporting data.
Demo: https://t.co/RuHLuVmb0V
On-site 3rd Prize: MEV Shield
A paid market intelligence tool that analyzes live blockchain transactions and alerts traders to risky activity before a trade is executed.
Demo: https://t.co/B9NvLQdvMX
Online 1st Prize: Cairn
A nanopayment environmental oracle where community sensor operators get paid per verified weather, air quality, and seismic reading.
Demo: https://t.co/1exelU9Ef9
Online 2nd Prize: StreamArc
A pay-per-second video platform where viewers pay only for what they watch and creators earn instantly.
Demo: https://t.co/NMKEtsv7IK
Building stablecoin-native workflows starts with the wallet.
Join us and @corey__cooper at Consensus Miami on May 5 for a workshop on setting up stablecoin wallets and dashboards for business use cases covering:
→ Wallet setup
→ Managing inflows and outflows
→ Normalizing crypto data for TradFi systems
→ Agent wallets and CLI-based wallet creation
For builders working on stablecoin-native apps and the agentic economy, this is a practical place to start.
https://t.co/3lObSfd38k
Temple’s Lightspeed upgrade is a big step for trading on Canton.
Temple already brings a different model to on-chain markets: private, compliant, non-custodial trading built around Canton-native settlement.
And the activity is already meaningful.
Temple is processing over $1.5M in daily CC volume, and with v2 now supporting over 250k trades per day, the venue is starting to look like one of Canton’s key trading layers, with more pairs coming soon.
With Lightspeed, that experience gets much sharper.
The upgrade introduces a real-time orderbook, sub-10ms order matching, market orders, instant order placement and cancellations, a new SDK/API with WebSockets, and a cleaner deposit/withdrawal flow.
In simple terms: Temple is bringing centralized-exchange speed to Canton, while keeping what makes Canton different: privacy, compliance, atomic settlement, and user control.
It is not just about faster trades.
Lightspeed is designed to support more users, deeper liquidity, higher throughput, and more serious trading volume without turning Canton into another transparent, MEV-heavy public market.
That matters.
Institutions need privacy.
Active traders need speed.
Builders need reliable APIs.
Users need a smoother experience.
Canton needs venues where real settlement activity can grow.
Temple sits right at that intersection.
And with volume-based leaderboard rewards launching May 1, plus CC rewards per settled transaction, Temple is turning trading activity into a direct part of Canton’s economic engine.
Fast execution.
Private markets.
Non-custodial infrastructure.
Canton-native settlement.
That is what makes Temple worth paying attention to.