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: → Payroll → Treasury → Trading workflows → Asset issuance → B2B payments and FX Privacy without anonymity, designed for real financial activity onchain:show more

The Director of Holding Patterns? No, thank you. On... Arc, financial workflows can move closer to straight to the point: → Sub-second deterministic finality → Stablecoin-native payments → Future opt-in privacy controls Less waiting. Fewer forms. More programmable finance.show more

Roundtable: Arc’s Core Design Features Deterministic sub-second finality. Stablecoins... as native gas. Opt-in configurable privacy. Geo-distributed validator set. PoA to DPoS roadmap. Adrian Soghoian - Principal Software Engineer Adi Seredinschi - Principal Product Manager Gordon Liao - Head of Researchshow more

Boream & Boredley paused for pink sprinkle donuts. The... old financial system pauses for banking hours, settlement windows, FX delays, and manual approvals. Arc is built for what should not have to wait: → 24/7 onchain FX → Stablecoin-native payments → Sub-second finalityshow more

Why did Circle build Arc? At Arc Studio, the... product team shared the vision for Arc as the Economic OS for onchain finance and what that means for builders. From interoperability to stablecoin-native infrastructure, Arc is designed to support real use cases across FX, lending, capital markets, and payments. If you’re building onchain, this is worth a watch.show more

“Section 1033 is really about privacy and consumer control... over a very valuable asset—their financial data.” Adam Rust, Director of Financial Services, Consumer Federation of America explains that the CFPB’s rule empowers consumers to permission and revoke data access, while warning that rapid advances in AI and payments heighten the stakes for transparency, enforcement, and future consumer protections. Explore the full event: #TheHillEconomyshow more

Introducing Arc, an open Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoin... finance. From payments to FX to capital markets, Arc is the home for builders innovating with digital money and tokenized value on the internet. Stablecoins have shown us what’s possible. They’ve powered trillions in onchain transactions and unlocked a faster, more open financial system. Arc is designed to provide an enterprise-grade foundation with the performance, reliability, and liquidity needed to scale stablecoin use cases worldwide. Featuring: ✅ USDC as native gas ✅ Built-in FX engine ✅ Deterministic sub-second finality ✅ Opt-in privacy ✅ Full Circle platform integration At its core is Malachite, a high-performance consensus engine developed by Informal Systems that powers Arc with safety, liveness, and resilience at scale. Arc expands the design space for stablecoins by uniting speed with certainty and delivering the native tooling needed to meet real-world business obligations. Open and composable, Arc is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the broader multichain ecosystem. Fully EVM-compatible, developers will be able to build on Arc using the same frameworks and tooling they know and trust. Together, we’re laying the foundation to move stablecoin finance from early adoption to globally trusted infrastructure. Arc will enter private testnet in the coming weeks, with public testnet expected this fall. Read the litepaper → Join us in building the new internet financial system →show more

Arc Public Testnet is live. Arc is an open... Layer-1 blockchain designed to serve as the Economic OS for the internet, uniting programmable money and onchain innovation with real-world economic activity. Arc is uniquely suited to be a new trusted foundation for: → Lending and financial services → Capital markets → Tokenized asset issuance → Stablecoin settlement worldwide With deterministic sub-second finality, stablecoins as native gas, and opt-in configurable privacy, Arc is purpose-built to meet the needs of the global financial system. It’s built for a world where: → Financial apps are as accessible as email → Dollars, euros, pesos, and other fiat currencies move instantly → Private transactions that support compliance happen at scale → AI agents transact and coordinate commercial activity autonomously Arc testnet is already seeing participation from leading companies across capital markets, global payments and technology platforms, and full-stack developer infrastructure providers. Guided by Circle’s vision of making money truly open and programmable, Arc is public internet infrastructure that invites everyone to build, coordinate, and transact onchain. Start building: Read the release:show more

Blockradar is simplifying stablecoin transactions for fintechs and bringing... real-world finance onchain. As a Day One Architect, Blockradar is using Arc’s stablecoins as gas model, instant finality, and Circle Gateway to unify USDC balances across supported chains, helping teams launch faster and scale with confidence. Build on Arc testnet.show more

Shido has many important milestones ahead this year, with... the most significant being the launch of Nova EVM for the Shido Network, including both testnet and mainnet deployments. Nova is a complete rebuild of the Shido Network, featuring a new consensus protocol and a modular stack. This new design will enable Shido to unlock a range of powerful protocol-level features that support real-world use cases and institutional adoption. The Nova mainnet roadmap not only enhances the chain for DeFi and general computation, but also specifically optimizes it for privacy, stablecoin payments, and financial accounting. Key features on the Nova roadmap: • Gas fees paid in stablecoin at a fixed rate, with automatic conversion to the native Shido token. This optional feature removes gas price volatility and makes accounting and cost forecasting easier for businesses. • Optional privacy transactions designed with compliance in mind. While the Shido Network remains a public chain by default, it can support confidential transfers for users when required. • Reserved blockspace for stablecoin transfers. This ensures guaranteed throughput and enterprise-grade reliability for all stablecoin transactions. • Fee sponsorship, enabling gas-free payments for users when sponsored by applications, service providers, businesses, or the foundation. • An optimized token standard designed to support structured data. As Shido moves forward in 2026, detailed milestones and timelines will be announced for specific features and upgrades to the network. Learn more atshow more

We're excited to announce that OpenVPP is a Day... 1 Architect, building our Core Product on Arc, an open Layer-1 blockchain developed by Circle, purpose-built to unite programmable money and onchain innovation with real-world economic activity. Arc provides sub-second finality, USDC-denominated gas, and built-in privacy, delivering deterministic performance and financial certainty required for mission-critical electric grid operations tied to power market economics. Revenue-grade is native to Arc’s L1 design, making it the most trusted settlement layer for a resilient electric grid to power communities globally. OpenVPP x Arc, the economic OS powering the internet of energy.show more

Onchain payments can settle instantly and still fall short... if they are missing context. Arc transaction memos add structured context to contract calls so payments, payouts, and financial activity are easier to reconcile, attribute, and connect to internal systems. → Invoice IDs → Payout references → Customer or ledger keys → Memo events for indexing and analytics Fast settlement is only part of the job. Arc is built to make onchain finance usable.show more

Spotlight on the ETHDenver 🏔🦬🦄 builders recognized in Canton’s... bounty for Best Privacy Focused dApp Using Daml: 🏆 Beet: Decentralized public health triage infrastructure that keeps patient data private while giving clinics and authorities tamper-proof outbreak signals. 🏆 Credix: A privacy preserving lending marketplace for confidential onchain credit matching, settlement, and servicing. 🏆 slinky: Anonymous claim-link payments built on Daml, designed to make redeeming and using tokens simpler without leaking sender or payment metadata. 🏆 Cloak: A Slack-based secret sharing tool where credentials are encrypted in-browser, routed privately, and never exposed to Slack or intermediary servers. 🏆 Invoice Now: A privacy first invoice financing marketplace that brings confirmed invoices onchain for competitive, role based financing. Kudos to all the teams building serious, privacy first products on the Canton Network.show more

The three core truths behind Arc’s design.

Rayls Enygma brings together enterprise-grade privacy, compliance, and programmable... finance. As the privacy-focused protocol within the Rayls ecosystem, Enygma enables banks and financial institutions to issue, manage, and transfer private ERC-20 tokens such as CBDCs or stablecoins in a confidential, auditable, and atomic manner. Rayls Enygma supports Delivery-versus-Payment (DvP) functionality, allowing assets like NFTs, ERC-1155s, and Enygma ERC-20 tokens to be securely exchanged across private networks. All transactions remain fully shielded while remaining traceable to authorized auditors for full regulatory compliance. This framework sets a new standard for modern treasury operations, subsidiaries, and cross-border settlements. Rayls is building the future of institutional finance where privacy and compliance work hand in hand.show more

Arc Public Testnet is now live. Open to developers... and enterprises globally, Arc is the Economic OS for the internet that unites programmable money and onchain innovation with real-world economic activity. Start building: Learn more:show more

🚨 Ep. 45 of Tokenized Podcast: The Stablecoin Playbook... for TradFi Simon Taylor & Cuy Sheffield are joined by: ➡️ Sam Broner, Partner a16z crypto To discuss: 📖 A New Playbook for TradFi: Multi-chain vs own chain 🧾 Merchant role in payments ecosystem and fee pressures 🦊 Metamask MUSD as a store of value product ⏳️ Timeline for stablecoin and chain abstraction interoperability 🇨🇳 China's potential Yuan-backed stablecoin response to US dominance 🧠 Market reaction to the Genesis Bill and Tether 🔒 Privacy solutions and their role in stablecoin adoption ⚠️ Challenges for large financial institutions adopting stablecoins 💡 Bullish IPO's watershed moment for stablecoin treasury use *** Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:02 A New Playbook for TradFi: Multi-chain vs own chain 09:43 Merchant role in payments ecosystem and fee pressures 14:53 Metamask MUSD as a store of value product 17:51 Timeline for stablecoin and chain abstraction interoperability 21:52 China's potential Yuan-backed stablecoin response to US dominance 27:57 Market reaction to the Genesis Bill and Tether 32:12 Privacy solutions and their role in stablecoin adoption 38:59 Challenges for large financial institutions adopting stablecoins 46:06 Bullish IPO's watershed moment for stablecoin treasury use *** 👉𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 '𝘛𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵' 𝘖𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘛𝘶𝘣𝘦. 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳! 👈show more

"You're BlackRock and you send JP Morgan money from... one bank account to another. Would you want everybody to be able to see that?" "A lot of these chains, seeing the success of Canton and others, realize that institutions are not going to participate in crypto unless privacy is a given. Privacy, or we could even call it confidentiality in this case, like developing confidential transfers" "The problem with public blockchains is that you may not know it's my bank account and your bank account, but everybody can see where some money was sent, and with any decent onchain analysis, probably tie that to you. Institutions can't do that. The largest institutions on the planet need to know their transactions are completely confidential" "Ethereum Foundation researchers are launching an institutional grade privacy system called ETH Systems. They're developing confidential transfers, private bond issuance, privacy preserving identity, and confidential settlement systems designed specifically for institutional users"show more

The Ethereum Foundation last month announced the Privacy Cluster... to make privacy “a first-class property of the Ethereum ecosystem.” At Devcon 8 | Mumbai, India 🇮🇳, I spoke with the EF's andyguzman.eth | privacy/acc & oskarth about: 👀 The formation of Privacy Cluster amid Zcash's resurgence 💥 How the effort could unlock new use cases and bring institutions onchain ⚔️ Potential competition with Zcash 💡The impact of crypto's privacy push on data analysis Timestamps: 🚀 00:00 Introduction 🥷1:33 What is the Ethereum Foundation Privacy Cluster? 🤔 3:49 Did Zcash's resurgence inspire the launch of the Privacy Cluster? 📽 6:29 How the Privacy Stewards of Ethereum has grown over the years 🔗 8:39 How the Institutional Privacy Task Force's got started 💡 10:10 Why privacy is important in crypto 🔮 13:54 What is driving Ethereum's recent privacy push 📝 15:21 Andy and Oskar discuss their backgrounds 🤔 16:48 The difference between Ethereum's current privacy efforts and past efforts like Tornado Cash 🤞18:43 How Ethereum's privacy push could unlock new use cases 🛣 25:09 Andy and Oskar outline different approaches to privacy 🤔 29:52 What are private reads and writes? 👀 35:16 Why Andy says adopting onchain privacy is a question of risk for institutions 🫆 36:39 Why private identities are important 🤔 40:13 What happens if identity proofs are stolen 📺 43:27 How the Ethereum Foundation wants to improve privacy experience 🧏 45:44 How the IPTF’s role is unique ⁉️ 47:51 What is Kohaku? 👀 51:02 Is Ethereum competing with Zcash? 💡 1:01:29 The Ethereum Foundation's thoughts on private viewing keys 🗓 1:03:44 Implementation timeline 🔮 1:05:50 How the crypto privacy push could impact blockchain data analysis 💥 1:08:46 Final thoughtsshow more

Rethinking Blockchain Architecture: Miden’s Path to Privacy and Scale... In the latest episode of the Gateway Podcast, Cassie 🧪 sits down with Bobbin's Threadbare, co-founder and Head of Technology at Miden, to discuss why blockchain architecture needs a fundamental rethink. The conversation dives into: - Why privacy is essential for real-world adoption, not just a “nice to have” - How Miden enables scalability without sacrificing privacy - The gap between developer innovation and institutional readiness - The role of Gateway infrastructure in supporting Miden 🎧 If you’re interested in zero-knowledge, privacy-preserving infrastructure, and the future of blockchain architecture, this episode is well worth your time.show more