Tonight, 850 drones will illuminate the San Francisco skyline to tell the story of Arc and what comes next: up to $1M for eligible teams building on Arc.
Live on X at 9:30 PM PT.
🎉 New #listing
🌟 $COOL (usdc is cool) will be listed on LBank! @usdciscool
COOL is a community-driven meme token on the Arc blockchain, inspired by the “USDC is cool” sunglasses character.
❤️ Details: https://t.co/6BuDeeOmFx
Dear @arc team,
Arc is a great network.
You have USDC at the center of it. You have BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard and some of the biggest names in global finance around the ecosystem.
You have ingredients that most chains could only dream of having.
But there is one thing you cannot manufacture:
Culture.
And this is where I think you really need to understand the more degen side of crypto.
Please don’t create memes yourselves.
Don’t force narratives.
Don’t decide what people are supposed to like.
Listen to the community.
Crypto comes from internet culture. The degen world might look stupid from the outside, but it is one of the strongest engines of attention, liquidity and community this industry has ever created.
Robinhood understood something important.
They had projects like PONS and CASHCAT that became recognizable runners people could rally around.
Arc needs that too.
You do NOT need 500 projects fighting for attention.
You need maybe 4 or 5 genuinely strong community projects that people recognize, talk about and remember.
A main launchpad.
A main index.
A couple of cultural runners.
A project people associate immediately with Arc.
Those are the projects that create stories.
The kind of stories Crypto Twitter repeats for years:
“I found it ridiculously early.”
“I put almost nothing into it.”
“Nobody believed in the chain.”
“Then it became one of the defining projects of the ecosystem.”
Those stories matter more than people outside crypto realize.
When Twitter starts filling with screenshots, crazy early-entry stories, people discovering projects before everyone else and communities fighting over who found the next runner first, that is when a chain starts to feel alive.
But this only works if it happens organically.
You cannot manufacture the legend.
You can only recognize it early and help it grow.
So when the community clearly starts forming around a runner:
Support it.
Interact with it.
Reply to it.
Like the memes.
Give the builders visibility.
Help legitimate projects integrate faster.
Protect the ecosystem from obvious scams.
And focus attention on the handful of projects that are actually building something and creating culture.
If tomorrow some random dog, potato, rabbit or completely ridiculous internet character becomes the thing the Arc community loves, don’t fight it.
Join the joke.
That is crypto.
Robinhood showed that serious financial infrastructure and completely insane internet culture can exist together.
Arc has an even bigger foundation.
You already have the institutions.
You already have the technology.
You already have USDC.
Now you need the stories.
You need the runners.
You need the communities people become emotionally attached to.
And for that to happen, you have to actually study this world.
Study Crypto Twitter.
Study Telegram.
Study how communities form.
Study why some projects become cultural symbols while thousands of technically similar projects disappear.
Study what people bridge for.
Study what they meme about.
Study what they defend.
Study what makes them stay.
Because if you get this part wrong, having incredible technology alone will not be enough.
Crypto has seen plenty of technically impressive chains become ghost towns.
If you get it right, though, Arc has almost everything needed to become one of the major ecosystems in crypto.
Don’t manufacture the culture. Find it, understand it and amplify it.
Focus on 4 or 5 exceptional community projects.
Let them become the legends people associate with Arc.
Let Twitter tell the stories.
Let the community create the mythology.
USDC is cool.
Now make Arc feel alive. ❤️ @jerallaire@samconnerone@peterschroederr@blockjain@elk_xyz
When Arc launches, builders and partners are part of the story from day one.
Join the livestream on September 16 for partner conversations and a live look at the ecosystem building across markets, payments, infrastructure, and agentic applications on Arc.
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BREAKING: Senate Democrats are set to meet tonight on the Clarity Act, two days before the Senate’s procedural vote.
President Trump met with advisers on Friday to discuss the bill’s ethics language.
It is unclear who attended or what was decided.
The Senate votes Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. ET on cloture to take up H.R. 3633.
That vote needs 60 senators.
It is not a final-passage vote.
Republicans hold 53 seats.
If every Republican votes yes, seven Democrats still have to cross.
The House already passed the bill 294-134.
Senate Banking advanced it 15-9 in May. Only two Democrats voted yes in committee:
Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks, both conditional on stronger ethics text.
Democrats want limits that would restrict Trump from profiting off his family’s crypto businesses.
The New York Times reported those businesses brought in $1.4 billion last year.
The White House-backed draft bars officials and their spouses from issuing or sponsoring tokens, gives enforcement to the Justice Department, and sunsets in January 2029.
Democrats rejected that as too weak.
Sens. Thom Tillis and Ruben Gallego sent a stricter counteroffer to the White House in July, including state attorney-general enforcement.
There has been no public White House acceptance.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis circulated a revised 630-page draft last week with more than 100 Democratic provisions.
The ethics fight was left unresolved.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has asked the Senate to approve the motion to proceed and keep negotiating.
The U.S. crypto market-structure bill now hinges on one ethics paragraph, a Friday White House meeting whose outcome has not been disclosed, and a Democratic meeting that has not happened yet.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Senate Democrats are meeting tonight for a sudden Sunday evening session to discuss the Clarity Act, per Politico.
This comes right after president Trump met with advisors on Friday regarding the bill's ethics rules.
The vote is in just 48 hours and feels like Something is cooking behind the scenes.
It's crazy how @Circle, the company behind USDC is launching their own L1 next week and a lot of people will only find out then.
@Arc public mainnet will be going live on September 16, 2026.
it hasn't launched yet and there are already launchpad wars already.
if you think Arc will be like $HOOD trenches and missed out on $PONS, you might want to take a look at some launchpads already live and some others.
Here are my watchlist:
A. Launchpads
This is one of the most active categories on Arc, with several different launch mechanisms emerging.
→ @arcpad_meme — Direct Uniswap V3 launches with permanently locked LP.
→ @ArcadeSwap — Bonding-curve + direct Uniswap V4 launches.
→ @TollyLabs $TOLLY — Currently the one with the highest volume.
a USDC pool launchpad with permanently locked liquidity.
$1.8m already traded and has 209 tokens. 64% of fees to the creator and 12% to holders.
→ @circlewarp $WARP— Second highest volume with $1.5m already traded and 172 launches.
Bonding-curve launches graduating into WarpDex around $69K.
→ @actfunxyz — Community launchpad combining AMM, marketplace and NFT infrastructure.
→ @synthra_finance — AMM, aggregator and launchpad with token buyback mechanics.
→ @Archemistdotfun — Launchpad directing 12.5% of buy/sell fees toward $ARCH buys.
→ @onmidotfun — Multichain meme launchpad using bonding curves.
→ @minarafun — Instant USDC-liquidity token launches.
→ @Fliptfun — Bonding-curve launchpad with fee rewards for holders.
→ @liftdotfun — Arc-focused launchpad.
Also worth watching:
→ @SharcFun — Live launchpad + Telegram trading bot with Arc trading, copy trading and cross-chain OTC.
→ @flutchdotfun — Bridge + swap + launch + staking, including Robinhood/Solana connectivity.
→ @Chain_GPT — KYC, refunds and USDC sales infrastructure.
B. DEX / DeFi
→ @lunya_io — V3 AMM, bonding-curve launchpad and CCTP USDC bridge.
→ @UnitFlowFinance — V2.5/V3/V4 AMMs, token factory and CCTP bridging.
→ @synthra_finance — All-in-one DeFi and swap hub.
→ @TowerExchange — Stablecoin aggregator with routing + native AMM.
→ @ArcDEXScan — DEX aggregation plus token launches.
→ @AchProtocol — V2/V3/V4 routing, bridging and gasless swaps.
→ @lunexfinance — StableSwap for USDC, EURC and USDT with auto-compounding vaults.
→ @swaparc_app — Stablecoin swaps with a focus on private payments.
C. Payments
→ @cyclesmoney — Payment infrastructure.
→ @ArrelTechnology — Payment infrastructure.
→ @BlockradarHQ — Non-custodial WaaS for emerging-market fintechs, with gasless transactions, AML and aggregation.
→ @koshmoney — Stablecoin neobank focused on cross-border payments.
→ @juleno14 — Batch payments, payment links, swaps and bridging.
→ @PulsarMoneyApp — Consumer-focused money app being built on Arc.
→ @Xylonet_ — Stablecoin DeFi + social tipping powered by Arc.
D. AI / Agent Economy
→ @gigawork_arc — AI agent marketplace with escrow and identity standards.
→ @ProofStream_ — USDC payroll streams locked until work is completed.
→ @uzenlabs — On-chain identity infrastructure for AI agents.
→ @memoAI_ARC — AI payment assistant using natural-language instructions.
→ @catena_labs — Agent-facing financial infrastructure + Arc Partner.
→ @nexorafi — Agent wallets, spending policies, x402 payments, escrow and treasury infrastructure.
→ @arclens_app — Arc ecosystem hub with an AI layer that rewards builders based on usage.
→ @Stublydotorg — AI agent infrastructure.
E. Prediction Markets
→ @Predarc_ — AI-powered prediction market that covers crypto, sports, politics and tech.
→ @kairo_market — Permissionless prediction and perpetual markets built on Arc.