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The Economic OS for the internet

Arc is an open L1 blockchain purpose-built to unite programmable money and onchain innovation with real-world economic activity.

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{Building the internet-native economy}

Stablecoins proved that money can be programmable, now Arc carries that idea through to the rest of the global economy — enabling more financial infrastructure layers to become automated, customizable, scalable, and composable. Supported by global ecosystem partners, Arc is a trusted, neutral foundation where programmable money, tokenized assets, economic contracts, and onchain markets converge. And it’s open to anyone who’s ready to help build the new internet financial system.

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Purpose-built to increase economic velocity

Arc combines the efficiencies of blockchain with traditional finance must-haves to power onchain lending, capital markets, FX, and payments.

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Stablecoins as native gas

Arc’s gas fees are low, predictable, and fiat-based, starting with USDC — enabling seamless, cost-effective transactions whether you’re sending $1 or $1B.

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Opt-in configurable privacy

Native privacy tooling enables businesses and users to selectively shield sensitive financial data while preserving auditability to help remain compliant with relevant obligations.

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Deterministic sub-second finality

Arc delivers instant settlement finality to serve the most demanding enterprise use cases and supports institutional regulatory standards for settlements¹ — powered by Malachite, a highly performant BFT consensus engine.

Global liquidity hub

Arc is designed to aggregate stablecoin and tokenized asset liquidity and, with CCTP and Gateway, make it composable for capital formation and value exchange across the multichain ecosystem.²

Build on open infrastructure for open markets

Arc is enterprise-grade network infrastructure that delivers the performance, reliability, and liquidity needed to meet the demands of the global internet economy. Come build with us on Arc.

FAQ

The Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI), Principle 8, states that Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) should provide clear and certain final settlement — preferably intraday or in real time.
Circle CCTP and Circle Gateway support a range of blockchains.