
What is Arc?
Arc is an open, EVM-compatible, Layer 1 (L1) built for payments, FX, lending, treasury management, and capital markets settlement. Notably, USDC is the gas token, so network fees are denominated in dollars instead of a volatile native token.
- USDC as native gas: fees are dollar-denominated.
- Predictable fees: the fee market smooths across recent blocks rather than repricing every block.
- Sub-second finality: blocks are final on commit. No confirmation windows or challenge riskreorgsMulti-asset at genesis: EURC and USYC deploy alongside USDC, not bridged or wrapped.
- Standard Ethereum tooling: Solidity contracts and existing EVM tooling work unmodified.
- Founding validator cohort: permissioned Proof of Authority (PoA) with BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo Corporation, and Visa.
Arc data on Dune
From the first block, you can track:
- Core network activity: transactions, blocks, throughput, and gas usage, with fees already in USDC.
- Asset flows: USDC, EURC, and USYC movement, including mints and redemptions.
- Payments and commerce: peer-to-peer transfers, merchant checkout, escrow, and refund flows.
- FX: cross-currency activity and settlement between USDC and EURC.
- Credit and tokenized assets: lending, collateral, tokenized funds, and real-world assets.
- Agent activity: onchain agent identity, job creation, and automated settlement.
- Crosschain movement: CCTP and Gateway flows between Arc and other supported networks.
- Ecosystem growth: contract deployments, active addresses, and validator economics.
Arc sits alongside every other major network on Dune, so stablecoin-native settlement can be measured against other general-purpose chains.
Resources
- Get started with Arc data on Dune.
- Access Arc data through Dune MCP, with no code required.
- Explore the Arc documentation to start building on Arc.
USYC is a digital asset token. Each USYC token serves as a digital representation of a share of the Hashnote International Short Duration Fund Ltd. (the “Fund”), a Cayman Islands registered mutual fund. The Fund has appointed Circle International Bermuda Limited (“CIBL”), a Bermuda Monetary Authority licensed digital asset business, as its token administrator, responsible for the management of USYC on behalf of the Fund. As used herein, the term “near-instant” and “always” is intended to signify that, under ordinary operating conditions, redemption requests are filled on a near-real-time basis, subject to factors including, without limitation, blockchain network congestion and the Fund’s then-current liquidity position.
Shares of the Fund and USYC are only available to non-U.S. Persons, as defined under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Additional eligibility restrictions may apply. The information provided herein is solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be construed as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, financial instrument, or other product.


