Circle launches L1 blockchain Arc Builder Fund

Circle launches the L1 blockchain Arc Builders Fund. The fund aims to accelerate innovation, focusing on supporting project teams that can fully leverage the design advantages of Arc, including on-chain markets with low-latency architecture; RWA and private credit markets built on private composable rails; on-chain foreign exchange flows combining Circle StableFX and the Circle payment network; smart commerce for autonomous systems and machine economies; and energy and computing protocols based on deterministic settlement.