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According to monitoring by Bubblemaps, Circle has completed the minting of 10 billion ARC tokens and distributed them to 11 addresses via a null address, which can now be tracked in real-time on the blockchain.The Arc team previously announced that the minting of ARC tokens has been completed, with a total of 10 billion tokens. The team emphasized that ARC tokens are not yet available for circulation, trading, public use, or activation for staking, governance, fees, or utility functions. According to the previous white paper, the distribution plan for ARC tokens is as follows: 60% allocated to the ecosystem (token sales, developer funding, network growth); 25% allocated to Circle (protocol development, staking, and governance); 15% allocated to long-term reserves (strategic flexibility and economic stability).

Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire posted on the X platform that the Circle x402 Facilitator service has launched on Arc, which supports the settlement of USDC on Arc, Base, and Polygon PoS through EIP-3009.In addition, with the launch of Arc, the market demand for cirBTC is increasing. Currently, Circle Mint customers can directly mint and redeem cirBTC natively within the app, with each cirBTC backed 1:1 by 1 native BTC and redeemable for native BTC at a 1:1 ratio.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, globally listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed the latest developments in digital asset purchases, business restructuring, and stock buybacks. The core information is as follows:MARA Holdings invested approximately $98.64 million to increase its holdings of 1,292 BTC: The global leading Bitcoin mining giant MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: $MARA) made a significant purchase of 1,292 Bitcoins yesterday through the crypto broker FalconX. Based on the average price during the purchase period, the total value of this increase is approximately $98.64 million, continuing its strategy of fully retaining output and actively allocating Bitcoin in the secondary market.Twenty One Capital (NYSE: $XXI) seeks business transformation, disclosing a five-step plan for a "Bitcoin operating company": Twenty One Capital's CEO Raphael Zagury stated in an interview with Coin Stories that the company is transitioning from merely holding Bitcoin reserves to becoming a deep "Bitcoin operating company." Zagury disclosed the specific five-step implementation path for the first time: First, improve corporate governance and professional structures in the middle and back office; second, introduce Bitcoin industry operating entities with self-sustaining and profit-generating capabilities; third, comprehensively promote horizontal industry mergers and acquisitions; fourth, flexibly use public capital market tools to continue increasing Bitcoin holdings at the appropriate time; fifth, focus on expanding and developing Bitcoin collateralized lending business.Circle minted 10 billion ARC genesis tokens, exploring a shift to PoS consensus in 2027: Stablecoin issuer Circle officially completed the minting of 10 billion ARC tokens this week. Circle clarified that this minting is merely a milestone for underlying technology verification and is not a commitment for public issuance. The core positioning of ARC is to serve as a security guarantee, practical function, and decentralized governance coordination mechanism for the Arc network, with the network's native gas fees still strictly settled in USDC. Additionally, Circle is proactively exploring a smooth transition of the network's underlying consensus mechanism from the current Proof of Authority (PoA) to Proof of Stake (PoS) in 2027.ProCap Financial (NASDAQ: $BRR) sold 50 BTC for a discounted buyback, holding over 5,250 BTC: Financial company ProCap Financial, focused on digital asset allocation, announced that starting from September 3, it repurchased an additional 2.2% of its circulating common stock at a significant discount of approximately 22% to the net asset value (NAV) per share, with the funds for this buyback sourced from the sale of about 50 Bitcoins on its balance sheet. Since the buyback plan was initiated, the company has repurchased approximately 12.2% of its circulating shares. As of the market close on September 15, its total circulating shares were 84,937,392, and the treasury still holds approximately 5,254 Bitcoins, corresponding to an NAV of about $3.62 per share. The company's management emphasized that it will steadfastly execute the stock buyback strategy until the secondary market trading price is no longer below the net asset value.

According to monitoring by Ai Yi, about 2 hours after the mainnet launch of Arc, the public chain under Circle, the total amount of USDC in the network has reached 372 million, accounting for approximately 0.05% of the total USDC supply, with the current total number of on-chain addresses being about 176,000.Previously, some users entered Arc across chains at an 80%-100% premium in USDC before the mainnet launch to participate in early Meme coin trading.

The blockchain data platform Allium released the report "Stablecoins and Payment Status: September 2026." The report shows that in August 2026, the supply of stablecoins reached $303 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6%, with Tether and Circle accounting for 85% combined. Exchanges held $89 billion, and DeFi protocols held $26 billion.In the first eight months of 2026, stablecoin payments reached between $401 billion and $527 billion, a year-on-year increase of 42% to 63%. Enterprises received 58% to 64% of the payments, with B2B being the largest channel. The growth rate of cross-border stablecoin payments is seven times that of traditional fiat channels. From January to August, the total transfer volume reached $85 trillion, and after excluding internal exchange transfers, DeFi, and infrastructure transfers, the real economic activity was $4.0 trillion, of which transactions accounted for 69%, value storage accounted for 13%, and payments accounted for up to 13%.B2B settlements reached between $137 billion and $153 billion. In corporate operations, service fees were $56 billion, salaries $43 billion, vendor payments $28 billion, and retail purchases $19 billion. In geographically attributed payments, 61% were domestic. Thailand received $10.8 billion, Turkey $7.8 billion, Indonesia $6.3 billion, and Mexico $6.1 billion. The proxy payments on the x402 protocol reached 29 million monthly transfers in August, averaging $0.06 per transfer. Ether.fi Cash's monthly expenditure increased to $108 million.

According to the official announcement, Gate announced that it will fully integrate with the Arc public chain on September 16, covering core Web3 scenarios such as Trenches, Gate Wallet, and on-chain market data. Gate's Trenches will exclusively offer 0 Gas transactions, allowing users to view popular and newly issued tokens on the Arc chain, access market data, and participate in trading directly without incurring additional Gas fees. Currently, Trenches supports limited-time Gas-free transactions for on-chain assets on Robinhood Chain, and with the addition of Arc, the 0 Gas coverage scenarios will further expand.Arc is an open Layer 1 network created by Circle for the financial market. This integration allows Gate users to access related assets and liquidity through Web3, wallets, and on-chain trading products, expanding coverage of emerging public chains.

Circle's public chain Arc will officially launch on September 16. Following the previous launch of the Robinhood chain, tokens represented by CASHCAT achieved returns of thousands and tens of thousands of times. The market expects a similar trend to occur on the Arc chain. Therefore, on-chain funds are actively seeking opportunities for early positioning and front-running.Currently, third-party platforms have emerged in the market that offer USDC exchanges from the Ethereum mainnet to USDC on the Arc chain. Relevant data shows that the current USDC on the Arc chain is priced nearly double that of USDC on the Ethereum mainnet. Leading platforms have facilitated 11,660 exchanges, with a total transaction volume exceeding 5 million dollars, while the platform charges a 3% service fee for these transactions.Previously, several crypto-native platforms announced that they would support the Arc chain as soon as it launches, including the NFT trading platform Opensea and the meme coin platform fomo. In response to the announcement of fomo's launch, Circle co-founder Jeremy Allaire also made a positive response immediately, serving as a potential support hint for the crypto-native community. Whether Arc can successfully continue the on-chain boom after its launch still needs to be verified by the market at that time.

According to The Block, Cathie Wood's Ark Invest sold most of its holdings in Coinbase, Circle, Bullish, and Bitmine as cryptocurrency-related stocks rose. The specific sales included $7 million in Coinbase, $13.87 million in Circle, $3.96 million in Bitmine, and $687,700 in Bullish stocks.Ark also reduced its holdings by $40 million in its own issued Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB).

Circle's euro stablecoin EURC compliant with MiCA is now live on the South Korean exchange Upbit, covering KRW, BTC, and other markets, providing Korean users with a more convenient access channel.Circle is the issuer of the US dollar stablecoin USDC, and EURC is its euro stablecoin. Upbit is one of the major cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea.

Circle announced that it will stop supporting USDC and CCTP V1 on the Noble blockchain, and Noble will not connect to CCTP V2. Starting from October 13, 2026, Circle Mint will cease minting new USDC on Noble, while redemptions will remain open until January 12, 2027.Thereafter, the USDC contracts and CCTP routing on Noble will be fully suspended. Circle advises users to migrate their USDC on Noble to other supported networks before the deadline and will take a snapshot of the remaining balances at the time of suspension, initiating a manual redemption process on January 13, 2027.

According to Token Terminal data, the tokenized U.S. Treasury product USYC (under Circle) has increased its market value by 2 billion dollars in the past year, ranking first among similar assets; iBENJI and USDY follow closely, with increases of 1.7 billion dollars and 1.5 billion dollars, respectively. BlackRock's BUIDL grew by 552.5 million dollars during the same period, ranking fifth.

ARK Invest crypto analyst Lorenzo Valente stated that stablecoins have a significant network effect. Although there are thousands of stablecoins in the market, as the market capitalization threshold increases, the number of tiers is rapidly leveling off. Currently, the stablecoins that are truly worth paying attention to are those with a market capitalization exceeding 10 billion dollars, gradually moving towards the 100 billion and 500 billion dollar levels.Data shows that the number of stablecoins with a market capitalization exceeding 1 billion dollars has only increased from single digits to the current 12 since 2021, while the number of stablecoins with a market capitalization exceeding 10 billion dollars has actually decreased from its peak in 2022, with only Tether and Circle's stablecoins remaining. Valente believes that entering the 10 billion dollar market capitalization club has become very difficult, and in the future, the 100 billion dollar level stablecoins may only have two competitors for a long time, while it may take more than two years for only one to reach the 500 billion dollar level.

Circle's blockchain Arc tweeted that the transaction memo feature is now available on the testnet.Developers can attach structured context to a single contract call without modifying the existing contract. Applicable scenarios include invoice numbers, payment reference numbers, customer IDs, and reconciliation tracking.

Since this week, the on-chain market driven by Robinhood has temporarily cooled down, with mainstream cryptocurrencies experiencing a pullback. The market is pinning its hopes for the next round of activity on the Arc Chain, which will launch on September 16.Arc Chain, developed by the stablecoin issuer Circle, is an open blockchain network primarily aimed at institutional users. There are differing opinions in the market regarding whether it will support the crypto-native meme coin culture. Platforms such as OpenSea and fomo have announced that they will support Arc Chain as soon as possible. In response to the fomo launch announcement, Circle co-founder Jeremy Allaire has made a positive statement.

The Block Research released a report on September 8, stating that during the period from October 2025 to August 2026, Bitcoin fell by over 50% and the total cryptocurrency market value decreased by over $2 trillion, while the total supply of stablecoins remained around $290 billion, with about 90% issued by Tether and Circle.In the past 365 days, the transaction volume of stablecoins exceeded $90 trillion, more than doubling compared to 2025. The daily turnover rate increased from 0.38 times in August 2024 to 0.78 times in August 2026. Ethereum holds about $147 billion (turnover rate 0.51 times/day), Base holds $4.5 billion (16.7 times/day), Solana about $13 billion (1.08 times/day), and Tron over $90 billion (0.25 times/day). The Bank for International Settlements statistics indicate that the stablecoin transaction volume in 2025 was about $35 trillion, with payment-related transactions accounting for 1.1%. Chainalysis data shows that in 2025, illegal addresses received at least $154 billion in stablecoins.The GENIUS Act was signed in July 2025. In April 2026, FinCEN and OFAC jointly proposed to classify payment stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act, and in August, the Treasury proposed a definition to clarify the scope of applicability, which is still a proposal. Companies such as Paxos, zerohash, Rain, and Altitude describe a shift from one-time KYC at onboarding to continuous lifecycle monitoring of on-chain behavior, counterparties, turnover rates, and geographic locations.

According to official news, the Circle Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) now supports a fast transfer prepayment fee feature. Previously, the protocol fee would be directly deducted from the USDC transfer amount on the target chain; with this update, developers can pre-quote and collect fees using the native Gas token or USDC from the source chain before executing the transfer, thereby simplifying the fee handling for cross-chain transfers and ensuring that users receive the expected amount of USDC.It is reported that the prepayment fee mechanism mainly improves the predictability of fees in cross-chain applications. Users do not have to bear the reduction in the actual amount received due to additional deductions on the target chain; at the same time, the CCTP Quote API can uniformly calculate fees for different supported chains and integrate Fast Transfer and Forwarding fees into a single quote, so developers do not need to build systems to separately calculate multiple protocol fees. In addition, fees can be paid directly using the native token of the source chain, which will not reduce or affect the actual transferred USDC balance.Currently, the prepayment fee feature supports USDC transfers on all EVM chains covered by CCTP, but it does not support transfers initiated from Solana; transfers to Solana are still supported. Developers can obtain specific fee quotes through the Quote API and integrate this feature, and relevant developers can refer to the CCTP official documentation to build a more predictable cross-chain USDC transfer process.