🚨 AWESOME! Elon Musk just FULLY BACKED President Trump's formation of the U.S. Space Academy, made official by executive order today in Texas
Elon knows Trump is making sure America LEADS the space race 🇺🇸
Circle’s Developer Grant program backs founders using USDC, Arc, and the Circle Developer Platform to solve real-world financial access problems.
In the first 2026 cohort, 8 teams building on Arc are focused on challenges across Africa and the Global South, including payments, FX, remittances, merchant checkout, and stablecoin-native banking.
Here’s who they are and what they’re building.
@BlockradarHQ is the infrastructure layer many of these quietly depend on.
One API that can handle wallets, AML screening, gasless transactions, and multichain liquidity so teams don't have to rebuild those components themselves.
@kolan_xyz gives non-US individuals a real USD account backed by USDC.
Freelancers and remote workers in 50+ countries across the Global South can receive, hold, and spend dollars.
@myazahq is collapsing Africa's fragmented payment rails into one layer.
Send money quickly across 21 African currencies, pay bills, hold a virtual USD card, and access business payouts.
@ArrelTechnology built a plug-and-play USDC checkout for African merchants.
Accept any CCTP-supported stablecoin via a payment link, auto-sweep to your treasury, and offramp to local currency.
@payritHQ lets African users send and receive in their local currency while USDC handles settlement behind the scenes.
No FX spread, no T+3 delays, just near-instant cross-border payments that work the way people expect them to.
@ViFi_Labs is building the onchain FX exchange that emerging markets have been missing: a DEX designed specifically for stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps in NGN, BRL, and COP with near-zero slippage.
@usesfxmoneyapp started with one corridor: African students in Turkey sending money home.
It's now a full USDC neobank with dollar accounts, free international transfers, and a card product, built for the African diaspora.
@flezpay tackles an important issue for the Global South. In volatile currency markets, static price tags go stale overnight.
The team developed AI-powered QR codes that update prices in real time, with USDC and fiat accepted at the same counter.
The full story of what these teams are building and what it tells us about where stablecoin adoption is actually happening is on the Arc blog: https://t.co/r0CON5jnuT
Today, Grupo BIND, one of the largest financial infrastructure and banking platforms in Argentina, announced a collaboration with Circle to bring USDC access to institutions in Argentina. A major step for USDC/ARS liquidity.
milestones like this are bigger than any one company. they help advance the regulatory and infrastructure foundation needed for digital dollars and public blockchains to become part of the global financial system.
congratulations to all of us @circle on this very important achievement
Lời Cảm Ơn Tất Cả Anh Em Đã Tham Gia Arc Vietnam Community Meetup!
Thật tuyệt khi được gặp gỡ và kết nối với rất nhiều builders, developers và những người yêu thích blockchain trong buổi meetup đầu tiên của cộng đồng Arc tại Việt Nam. 🇻🇳
Hy vọng những chia sẻ về hệ sinh thái Arc, Stablecoin Payments cùng các cơ hội dành cho builders đã mang lại nhiều giá trị cho mọi người.
Đặc biệt, cảm ơn tất cả anh em tích cực tham gia cùng Leader @Lecter_XFinance để thảo luận, đặt câu hỏi và networking, góp phần tạo nên một không khí vô cùng sôi nổi. 💙
Đây mới chỉ là sự khởi đầu. Arc Vietnam sẽ tiếp tục tổ chức thêm nhiều hoạt động, workshop và meetup để cùng nhau xây dựng cộng đồng ngày càng lớn mạnh.
Hẹn gặp lại anh em tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh trong tháng tới nhé!
“The only limit on smart contracts was who could write them, and generative AI just removed it.”
At @VivaTech, @jerallaire discussed how AI can turn economic intent into executable code, expanding what developers and builders can create onchain.
Today I'm sharing something I've been building toward for years: The Agentic Economy, a treatise on the convergence of intelligence and the economy.
As AI agents take on the work of the firm and value moves natively on open, programmable networks, the agentic economy and the onchain economy turn out to be the same economy, seen from two sides.
It's a personal work. Enter at whatever depth you like: a 60-second thesis, a short read, the full treatise, an audiobook, or visual maps.
https://t.co/fvaCMLWl3f
🚨 WOW! Chuck Schumer just stormed the Senate floor to MELT DOWN over President Trump pushing all-out to pass the SAVE America Act, calling it an assault on "voting rights"
Voting rights for ILLEGAL ALIENS! He ADMITS IT
Schumer says Democrats will NEVER let it pass.
This is why we must nuke the filibuster! 🔥
Oh man!!!
@corey__cooper is hands down the GOAT when it comes to understanding the real world application of @circle’s stack!
Stop what you’re doing and take a listen….I said stop what you’re doing, I see you in the back 😃
Liquidity infrastructure for stablecoin FX is building on Arc.
@AerodromeFi is coming to Arc, deploying its exchange infrastructure to help power Arc’s stablecoin-native ecosystem.
This launch unlocks:
→ Deeper markets for FX swaps and liquidity provision
→ A proven way to bootstrap stablecoin liquidity on Arc
→ Capital-efficient infrastructure to help grow onchain economies
More to come.
LATEST: 🏦 Tether-backed Oobit has integrated Brazil’s PIX payment network, letting nearly 170 million users deposit reais into its app, hold USDT and spend through PIX.
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