The network will enter the private test phase “in the coming weeks.”
ARC will be able to liquidate transactions and payments in less than a second, according to its litepaper.
Circle, a company known for its USDC Stablinin, presented on Tuesday, August 12, 2025 ARC, a new layer of layer 1 designed in conjunction with informal Systems for finance with Stablecoins.
The network, which will enter into a private test phase “in the coming weeks”, seeks to provide a “business class” infrastructure for use cases such as global payments, currency exchange operations (Forex, FX) and capital markets, offering an environment specifically designed for cryptoactive ones anchored to FÍAT money, specifically the dollar.
ARC is promoted as a “blockchain” compatible with EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) Built with the purpose of advancing the border of finance with Stablecoins and the tokenization of assets of the real world (RWA).
In this sense, it is expected that the support network to other stablcoins such as USDT or Pyusd, both to market them and for payment of rates through third -party suppliers, in addition to tokenized shares.
According to him statement in X, The network will have USDC as native gas. This means that Rates will be counted and paid with USDC, The stable currency issued by Circle and main competitor of USDT.
This network would also count on optional privacy and integration functions with all the technical and economic architecture of Circle. According to the company, the technical characteristics of ARC are optimized for native stablcoins cases, functioning as a layer of settlement settlement with cryptocurrency.
ARC will allow rapid transactions settlement. In this regard, the Litepaper of the project says the following: «[La liquidación determinista] It provides a clear and safe final liquidation in less than a second, aligned with the principles for infrastructure of the financial market (Payment and Infrastructure Committee of the market and international organization of Securities Commissions, 2012) ».
The network will operate with a set of validators with permits that execute the Malachite consensus engine: “In essence there is Malachite, a high -performance consensus engine developed by informal systems that arc with security, dynamism and resilience on scale,” says the announcement.
Also according to the official documentation of ARC, this network will progressively include selective transparency functions on balances and transaction data To protect financial information.
