.@arc is launching its mainnet the day after tomorrow, but there are already over a dozen meme launchpads in its ecosystem, all eagerly waiting to take off. Every time a new chain goes live, a wave of ecosystem-specific meme coins emerges. Public chain teams are happy to see this happen since this growth strategy has a high ROI and is widely recognized as an industry consensus. However, for Arc, its primary mission should be expanding the circulation scale, speed, and diverse use cases of USDC on-chain, competing with other public chains like Plasma, Tempo, and Tron in various sub-battlefields. Personally, I feel memes won’t be the main course for Arc. BNB Chain for Binance, Robinhood Chain for Robinhood, Base for Coinbase, and X Layer for OKX—these combinations theoretically serve two core purposes: 1) Creating/promoting more native on-chain assets to generate wealth effects within the ecosystem and resonate with the exchange; 2) Mapping stocks/RWA assets onto their own public chains, integrating with DeFi scenarios, and solidifying competitive barriers.