🗞️ gArc @arc-hitects: Arc Weekly Recap What a week for Arc. After months of building, testing, learning and growing the community, Arc Mainnet officially went LIVE on September 16. The countdown is over, but the real journey has just started. Arc Mainnet Highlights: → Arc officially launched Mainnet as the “Economic OS for the internet,” built for global markets, payments, tokenized assets and agentic economic activity. → From day one, Arc launched with USDC as native gas, deterministic sub-second finality, EVM compatibility and institutional validators. → 190+ institutional and ecosystem builders are already building across Arc, covering payments, DeFi, lending, trading, FX, wallets, tokenized assets, infrastructure and agentic applications. → @Uniswap went live on Arc, bringing liquidity and composable DeFi infrastructure to the network. → @MetaMask and @Ledger are supporting the growing Arc ecosystem, helping users access and interact with applications and assets. → Arc Studio is now live, giving developers an AI-powered workspace to create, test, refine and deploy smart contracts on Arc. More Infrastructure Goes Live: → Arc Portal is live, bringing wallets, swaps, earn opportunities, agent wallets, application discovery and activity management into one place. → cirBTC is available on Arc, giving the ecosystem access to Bitcoin-backed liquidity. → USDC Bridge now supports Arc, providing a Circle-built route for moving USDC across supported networks. → Agentic Payments are live through Circle's Facilitator Service, supporting x402 applications and USDC settlement on Arc. → Arc Microgrants opened with $10,000 in funding for early builders, while additional opportunities offer up to $1M for eligible teams building across payments, FX, lending, tokenization and agentic workflows. Programmes & Events that Took Place: → Bangladesh Build Club | Let's Build on Arc → Nigeria Office Hours | Road to Mainnet → Turkey Member Check-In → Vietnam Hanoi Campus Meetup | From Campus to Mainnet II → India Bangalore Arc Mainnet Launch Meetup → Arc Mainnet Launch Livestream → Technical Office Hours → Bangladesh Member Check-In | Mainnet Celebration → Building on Arc | Technical Workshop with Blockradar → Nigeria Member Check-In | Mainnet Celebration → Vietnam Office Hours | Mainnet Celebration Round-Up Note: This week showed the growth and progress Arc has made from an idea and Testnet ecosystem into a live network with builders, institutions, infrastructure and communities around the world. But Mainnet is not the finish line. It is the starting point for what comes next. Now we get to see what developers build, what institutions bring onchain, what communities create and how people actually use Arc. The countdown is over. The building continues. Architects, welcome to Arc Mainnet.