“Arc is a compute environment for storing value, moving money, instantiating corporate forms, and intermediating complex contracts.”
An economic operating system built for a moment when machines are driving more and more of the real economy.
Circle Alliance Program member @movement_xyz is building the infrastructure layer for global dollar access.
Their Move-powered blockchain ecosystem is designed for low-cost payments, remittances, and financial access.
With USDCx fully backed by USDC, Movement supports onchain
In this Release Notes episode, we cover Circle Forwarding Service for Gateway and how it simplifies crosschain USDC transfers.
Developers can use it to:
→ Move USDC crosschain without managing destination chain gas fees
→ Reduce multichain infrastructure overhead
→ Automate
The debate about whether open payments infrastructure could compete with closed networks is over.
@ddisparte on what settled it, and what comes next for stablecoins.
Payroll is still shaped by banking windows and fixed cycles.
@Zebec_HQ has made the most of USDC and EURC to build a multichain payroll and payments platform that supports real-time payroll streaming, cross-border payouts, and card-based spending.
That has helped Zebec scale
Circle is heading to AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco on June 29th - July 2nd.
As APIs and services move toward usage-based, agentic, and machine-to-machine workflows, they need payment infrastructure built for real-time settlement and programmable commerce.
At booth
Blockchains are operating systems with a key difference: tamper resistant code, perfectly auditable inputs and outputs, and provable machine state.
@jerallaire explains that as AI drives more economic activity, those assurances become even more critical.
Today we published the detailed design for Arc’s upcoming privacy infrastructure.
It is a major step forward in building the Internet financial system in a way that works for people, households, major, corporations, and financial institutions.
We’re excited to share this with
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:
Existing blockchains face a massive coordination problem migrating to post-quantum cryptography.
@jerallaire says Arc is being built with post-quantum signatures from day one.
Circle CCTP is live on @StellarOrg, and Allbridge integrated this infrastructure to make your cross-chain transfers even smoother.
You can now move native USDC between Stellar and other supported blockchains directly through Allbridge Next using @circle CCTP canonical
Frontier models can write smart contracts that work. Whether they survive security edge cases is the harder question.
We put this to the test by collaborating with @circle to develop ChainBench, a benchmark for agent-driven crosschain smart contract generation.
Introducing ChainBench, built in collaboration with @OpenZeppelin.
ChainBench is an LLM benchmark for crosschain smart contract generation, testing how model-agent systems write functional and secure contracts across languages, difficulty levels, and development harnesses.
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