🛠️ Common Jar is still getting built — come take a look.
Since launch I've shipped:
Contract (TipJar.sol):
- tipFor(address beneficiary) — an agent wallet pays the USDC, a different address gets the raffle tickets. An agent can settle a contribution for someone without ever touching their key.
- Architects Jar mode — owner can restrict a round to an allowlist, with an optional ticket multiplier for that round only.
- Reentrancy guard, pausable deposits, on-chain round history, and randomness behind a swappable interface — ready for a verifiable source the moment one exists on Arc.
Frontend:
- Detects Arc Testnet vs Arc mainnet instead of forcing one, no more silent reconnects on refresh.
- Confetti + a one-click "Share on X" when you win a round.
- A runnable agent demo (calls tipFor() on a schedule) and a written x402-style spec for agents that want to pay per-query for jar analytics instead of tipping.
Still 0.01 USDC = 1 ticket, still the whole jar to one winner, still built on Arc — just sturdier and a bit more agent-native every week.
https://t.co/ob9WhdWIZm
Would love for the team to poke at it — @arc@samconnerone@bobbilee@ezgiyaltay. First project on Arc, still not the last.
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More to come.
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Arc Mainnet launches September 16.
Arc is an open blockchain network being built for the world’s financial markets, real-time money movement, and agentic economic activity.
Arc’s founding validator cohort includes @BlackRock, @The_DTCC, @galaxyhq, @GlobalPayInc, @Mastercard, @MoneyGram, @ICE_Markets, SBI, @StanChart, Sumitomo Corporation, and @Visa.
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🫙 Shipped: Common Jar — a shared community tip jar, built on Arc
Wanted to share what I built and how it works under the hood.
The idea
A communal jar anyone can contribute USDC to. Every 0.01 USDC = 1 raffle entry. When the draw runs, the entire jar balance goes to one randomly selected contributor, then a new round starts.
Smart contract (Solidity ^0.8.24)
- tip() — payable function, tracks per-address totals and mints raffle "tickets" (one per 0.01 USDC)
- drawWinner() — owner-only, selects a winner weighted by ticket count, sends the full balance, resets state for the next round
- getLeaderboard() — returns current-round contributors + amounts on-chain
- Full ownership transfer support (e.g. to a multisig later)
- Randomness derived from blockhash + timestamp — fine for a testnet demo, explicitly not meant to secure real value (would swap in Chainlink VRF for production)
Frontend
Single-file HTML app using ethers.js v6:
- Wallet connect via injected provider (MetaMask), with silent auto-reconnect on return visits
- Read-only public RPC provider so anyone can see live stats (jar balance, entries, round #) without connecting a wallet
- Retry/backoff logic around tx confirmation and stat reads to handle public RPC rate limits gracefully
- Live leaderboard, round tracking, admin-only draw panel for the contract owner
Infra
- Deployed with Foundry (forge create) directly to Arc Testnet
- USDC as native gas token — no separate gas asset to think about
- Hosted on Netlify, fully static, no backend
Live here 👉 https://t.co/ob9WhdWIZm
Built on @arc — first project on it, definitely not the last. @arc@samconnerone@bobbilee@ezgiyaltay
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