Circle Launches Arc L1 Mainnet with BlackRock and Visa as Validators
Circle went live with its Arc Layer-1 blockchain for financial markets, completing a genesis mint of 10 billion ARC tokens and onboarding BlackRock and Visa as network validators. The participation of two incumbent payment and asset-management giants signals this is infrastructure worth tracking for settlement and stablecoin-rails decisions.
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