Arc Network (N/A)

Arc is an EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain designed as a "financial operating system" for the internet. The platform is founded and backed by Circle – the team behind the second-largest stablecoin in the blockchain industry, with over $75B in market capitalization, USDC.

It builds infrastructure around Circle’s stablecoins to enable users to pay fees in USDC or EURC, removing fee volatility. At the same time, it rapidly speeds up settlement finality by introducing the pioneering Malachite consensus engine – a high-performance implementation of the Tendermint BFT protocol.

This mechanism also better aligns with emerging regulatory frameworks, potentially unlocking institutional adoption of the blockchain network. On top of that, Arc network blockchain enables opt-in configurable privacy to protect sensitive data, making the blockchain friendly for both consumers and entities.

All of these features combined are set to establish the Arc blockchain as a global liquidity hub with USDC at its core, powered by Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP). As a result, DeFi, RWA, FX, and AI agent developers are able to benefit from regulatory compliance and enhanced user experience while retaining all the same features of EVM-compatible dApps.

Arc token: The native $ARC token serves as the coordination asset for the Arc Network. It enables staking for network security and validator operations (including inflation rewards and protocol fee capture), governance over economic parameters such as fees and inflation, and broader ecosystem participation through grants, incentives, and airdrop programs.

Starting from Fall 2025, the app is running an active testnet phase, which might be one of the criteria for an Arc airdrop if there are any plans for the company to launch its own token. Taking this information into account, the CoinLaunch team conducted a complete overview of the Arc crypto project and identified its most notable pros and cons:
 

✅ Arc network pros:

• Decent concept and design of the product with key feature - stablecoin gas fees;
• Very large L1 sector market cap - over $1.8T;
• Over 20M in transactions and 16M in wallets participating in the testnet;
• Large ecosystem of development - Circle ($USDC);
• High PR score;
• Above-average SEO performance;
• Large ecosystem of partners, including Circle. Coinbase, and MetaMask;
• The project is backed and founded by Circle - a top-tier Web3 company with over $2.2B in investments from multiple tier 1 funds.
  222M backing in private token sale at $3B
   

❌ Arc network cons:

• The narrative for L1 chains is extremely weak - the market oversaturated with alternative L1 networks;
• The product is in the testnet - there’s no real revenue and user activity yet;
• No security audits;
• Below-average SMM, Influencer and Growth Marketing scores.