๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค๐‘๐จ๐œ๐ค + ๐•๐ข๐ฌ๐š + ๐Œ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐โ€ฆ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐‚๐ข๐ซ๐œ๐ฅ๐žโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ?

Circleโ€™s Arc Mainnet launches today, and the institutional lineup is serious.

BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard and DTCC are among the founding validators as Circle pushes USDC beyond being just a stablecoin and deeper into payments, settlement and tokenized assets.

But thereโ€™s a number I keep coming back to:

95.2%

That was the share of Circleโ€™s Q2 revenue coming from reserve income.

So while the Arc story is getting bigger, Circleโ€™s revenue model is still heavily tied to USDC reserves and interest rates.

Thatโ€™s what makes $CRCL interesting here.

Arc doesnโ€™t just need to bring more institutions onchain. Eventually, it needs to prove that all this activity can become a meaningful source of platform revenue.

Because thereโ€™s a big difference between USDC becoming more useful and Circle making more money from that usefulness.

Thatโ€™s the part Iโ€™m watching.

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