Circle and edgeX recently took their collaboration a step further. On September 16, the Arc mainnet will go live, and edgeX will serve as Arc's Day 1 flagship Perp platform. What’s worth noting is that this isn’t just about launching another trading market. On Day 1, edgeX will roll out a USD/JPY 24/7 perpetual contract, while also covering over 150+ perpetual markets across U.S. stocks, commodities, Crypto, and more—all using Arc’s native USDC as the unified margin and settlement asset. What I find really interesting about this is how it connects the traditionally fragmented trading hours of traditional finance with on-chain liquidity. Especially in FX. The traditional forex market, despite being one of the largest financial markets globally, is still limited to 24/5 trading hours. On-chain markets, however, are naturally capable of operating 24/7. Arc itself is an L1 built by Circle specifically for stablecoin financial scenarios. When you add StableFX, native USDC, and edgeX’s perpetual trading infrastructure, it’s essentially an attempt to bring FX, stocks, commodities, and Crypto assets into a unified on-chain trading environment. If liquidity and trading depth can truly take off in the future, this could be a key milestone for on-chain Perp markets to expand from Crypto into the broader global asset market. September 16—definitely worth keeping an eye on how edgeX performs on Arc.