Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire calls Arc “an economic OS for the internet,” highlighting its dollar-based fees, sub-second finality, and enterprise privacy features as USDC adoption surges across emerging markets ahead of Arc’s 2026 mainnet launch.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire described Arc as an “economic operating system for the internet,” framing it as blockchain infrastructure built for programmable money, tokenized assets, and machine-driven economic activity. In a later conversation, he said Arc is designed to support transactions at very low cost, with sub-second finality, a known validator set, and built-in privacy primitives, positioning it as infrastructure for enterprises and agents that need real-time, provable settlement.

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