In the first half of 2026 alone, Coinbase and others took more than $800 million, but Circle doesn't seem to regret it.

When investing in Circle, USDC had not yet been launched.

From gold reserves to USDC liquidity, XAUm is further expanding the application space for gold in onchain finance.

Binance subscribed to approximately 1.237 million shares of Circle, and alongside the investment, a five-year commercial agreement to promote USDC was also finalized.

Failed to replicate Robinhood Chain's explosive success.

Circle's halo can't save Arc's narrative vacuum.

Trump insists that U.S. interest rates should be cut to below 1%, and the Fed should cut rates quickly.

With Robinhood Chain having set a stellar precedent, no one wants to miss this new train at this moment.

The first-day hype was mainly concentrated on three platform tokens, with no meme coin reaching a market cap of ten million dollars yet.

Including a cross-chain funding guide and a list of Arc official X accounts worth turning on notifications for.

Circle's self-developed Layer 1 network Arc is scheduled to open its public mainnet on September 16, 2026. From its project inception in August 2025 and the launch of its public testnet on October 28, 2025, to completing a $222 million institutional presale at a $3 billion valuation in May 2026, market opinion on it has remained polarized: some see it as a watershed moment for traditional capital entering blockchain, while others denounce it as abandoning decentralization and reducing it to a private consortium chain for traditional finance.

When influence can be priced, no one can stay on the sidelines.

Arc mainnet will officially launch on September 16.

When Robinhood Chain launched, touting "compliant stocks" and "on-chain finance L2," who could have imagined it would spark a renaissance of on-chain Memes?

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