A complete guide to Arc, Circle’s stablecoin-native Layer 1 blockchain, covering its architecture, USDC gas model, ecosystem, use cases and competition.
Tokens on Circle’s new Arc blockchain fell in the past 24 hours after traders said they sold because a builder on the mainnet launch livestream appeared to be Indian. The man in the clip does not work for Circle. Panchu Vijay Pal runs XyloNet, a third-party stablecoin exchange that Circle’s Arc team featured as a
Barcelona, 17 September 2026. The Vault, the institutional digital asset custody platform regulated in Switzerland and the EU, has launched its own multi-party computation (MPC) library, the cryptography that allows separate parties to hold shares of a signing key so that a complete private key never exists on any
Washington’s stablecoin debate is about characteristics: who can issue one, what has to back it, and how it gets audited. The Federal Reserve, the US central bank, and the OCC, the regulator that supervises the country’s national banks, cannot simply accept that a token is worth one dollar; they have to control who is
Attackers are posting malware instructions to blockchains 440% more often since unrestricted Chinese open-source AI models arrived, Chainalysis reported. Daily malicious on-chain writes climbed from 2.06 to 11.1 in under a year. Chainalysis calls the technique blockchain dead drops (BDDs). State-linked operators from
Zoomex expands its TradFi Stock Perpetuals category with SPYUSDT, QQQUSDT, IWMUSDT, XLFUSDT, XLKUSDT, and TQQQUSDT, giving traders Easy to Use, round-the-clock exposure to six of the market’s most closely watched index and sector ETFs. Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives trading,
Zoomex, a cryptocurrency trading platform with derivatives at its core, launched its first-week Copy Trading loss compensation campaign on September 16, 2026. Eligible participants can receive up to 50 USDT in Copy Trading Bonus. The campaign gives users an opportunity to explore trader selection, automated copying,
Gate Prediction Markets announced the launch of the Combo feature and a dedicated U.S. Midterm Elections hub within its platform, aimed at enriching how users engage with sports and current-event markets. The upgrade spans event combinations, dynamic pricing, order management, and aggregated thematic content, offering