Circle’s Arc mainnet went live on September 16 with more than 100 applications and 100+ institutional and ecosystem builders. The first-week figures are interesting, with Arc’s on-chain assets above $700 million and #USDC trading volume above $7 billion. For me, the bigger narrative is USDC evolving beyond a dollar-pegged digital asset into infrastructure for settlement, payments and transactions. Arc uses USDC for network fees and settlement, while Circle is also building around tokenized assets and institutional financial activity. Definitely a story worth watching. $POND #BTC Price Analysis# #Meme Alpha#