Circle’s Arc mainnet goes live.
This chain is a bit different.
It’s not simply about recreating another Layer 1. Instead, it directly sets its sights on institutional settlement, stablecoin payments, tokenized assets, and an always-on financial market.
More importantly, the first batch of validators includes traditional financial institutions such as BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard, and ICE.
The list of 11 institutions that Circle previously released.
I think the real change worth studying here is this:
In the past, traditional finance was using blockchain.
Now, traditional finance is starting to participate in running blockchain.
These two are completely different concepts.
If in the future stocks, funds, payments, and settlement gradually move onto the chain, then blockchain may no longer be just the infrastructure of Crypto.
It may slowly become financial infrastructure itself.
With Arc going live today, I’d rather treat it as a signal:
Wall Street is moving from “researching Crypto” to “building Crypto”.
This chain is a bit different.
It’s not simply about recreating another Layer 1. Instead, it directly sets its sights on institutional settlement, stablecoin payments, tokenized assets, and an always-on financial market.
More importantly, the first batch of validators includes traditional financial institutions such as BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard, and ICE.
The list of 11 institutions that Circle previously released.
I think the real change worth studying here is this:
In the past, traditional finance was using blockchain.
Now, traditional finance is starting to participate in running blockchain.
These two are completely different concepts.
If in the future stocks, funds, payments, and settlement gradually move onto the chain, then blockchain may no longer be just the infrastructure of Crypto.
It may slowly become financial infrastructure itself.
With Arc going live today, I’d rather treat it as a signal:
Wall Street is moving from “researching Crypto” to “building Crypto”.
