🚨 BREAKING: Circle’s Arc blockchain is officially LIVE. Arc launches with USDC as native gas, sub-second finality and more than 100 institutional and ecosystem builders. Its founding validator cohort includes BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard and other major financial institutions. Uniswap, Aave and other major protocols are also building on Arc, which Circle positions as an “Economic OS” for stablecoin finance, tokenized assets and real-time value transfer.