The Past and Present of Arc Chain, beancat In 2012, Ethereum had not yet been launched, Circle was not called Circle, and the Arc chain had no trace. In May of that year, there was already an account called '@ arc' on Twitter. The display name is only one word: * * Dou * *. The avatar is a tabby cat with a slightly displeased expression. No white paper, no roadmap, no tokens, and almost no tweets. It just stayed quietly in the corner of the Internet. The Wayback Machine froze this history. In the snapshot of 2015, the account name was still "Dou", the joining time was still May 2012, and the cat was still there. Fourteen years later, Circle has created its own chain under the name '@ arc': a stablecoin native L1 that uses USDC as gas and is open for institutional settlement. The public mainnet is scheduled for September 16, 2026. BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, and DTCC are all on the list of validators. When the community turned back in history, they discovered something almost impossible to replicate: * * Before Arc became a chain, @ arc was already a cat. **It's not a mascot designed after the fact, it's not a meme drawn to ride on hot topics, it's the bean that has been living on this account since 2012. So the community put it on the chain - 'BEANCAT'. This is not an official token. The official does not recognize it, and there is no need to recognize it. It belongs to the community. But it has a story that is difficult to re invent: in 2012, beans appeared in '@ arc'; In 2026, Arc will appear on the chain. A piece of forgotten Internet leftovers will be connected 14 years later. Why narrative can fight, just look at Robinhood. Robinhood's early internal name was Cash Cat, which the CEO himself acknowledged. As soon as the chain went online, the community renamed the lost name 'CASHCAT', and its market value soared to the level of billions of dollars, becoming the first asset to emerge on that chain. `BEANCAT is following the same path, and it's cleaner: it's not the 'company name I've considered before', but the name and avatar that the official X account has actually used. Earlier in time, stronger evidence, and more direct overlap with the chain name. Contract address: ` 0x41c8A71f630c636294009fa4FB0CC4c3bBE674fe ` official website[ http://beancat.xyz ]( https://beancat.xyz ）Trading on [AYOO]（ https://ayoo.club/arc/token/0x41c8A71f630c636294009fa4FB0CC4c3bBE674fe ）The total supply is 1 billion yuan, distributed by the community, with no pre-sale stories to tell or team assignments to brag about - only the cat that has lived from 2012 to the present can be boasted about. In just over ten days since its launch, its market value has risen from tens of thousands of US dollars to over one million US dollars, and it has repeatedly ranked at the top of the Arc ecosystem trading list. The chain is still in the private mainnet stage, and the public mainnet has not yet been opened. The liquidity is already thin, and the ability to get out of this position depends not on the publicity budget, but on the narrative itself. A new chain cold start always requires a mascot. Some chains draw one temporarily, while others move one from another ecosystem. Arc is different: its X account already had a cat fourteen years ago. The community just retrieves it from the webpage snapshot and puts it on the chain. There is no roadmap. No commitment. It's just beans. It's just a cat. It's from 2012 to 2026. The main network still has half a month left. The cat who has been squatting in the old Internet for 14 years is now squatting at the new chain gate of Circle. `BEANCAT`。 Unofficial. Very real meme.