Happy gArc Friday CT ☀️ Next up in our @Arc Ecosystem Highlights is @AIsaOneHQ and this one takes us straight into the agent economy 🤖 AI agents are getting pretty good at doing things on their own Research, trading, coding, finding data, calling tools, but the weird part starts when they need to pay for something Most services still expect a human to create an account, choose a plan, add a card and hand over an API key AIsa is building for a world where the agent can handle much more of that itself It gives agents one place to access data, models and other digital services, with usage paid per call instead of signing up with every provider separately AIsa already tested that model around Arc, letting agents pay for individual API requests in $USDC through x402 + @Circle nanopayments, so expecting it to go live on mainnet real soon 👀

Architects ready. Globally connected. Day one, and already builders across countries, cultures, and experience levels are bringing real use cases to Arc. This is why I joined @circle. A global community helping shape what comes next. Thanks for sharing, @tlay_io. @arc × USDC

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Take the Leap, @Anthropic There's been a lot of debate about whether now is the right moment for Anthropic to complete its IPO. Markets are jittery, the calendar is crowded, the valuation conversation is loud. And most importantly, there are valid, serious concerns about the safety of these technologies.  But I want to make the case for why going public will be a net good for society. Not as a bystander, but as someone who took a company through this exact door fifteen months ago, in a sector that was  contested. When Circle listed on the NYSE, we were operating critical financial infrastructure in a space defined by technical complexity, fast-moving regulation, and deep public skepticism. A lot of people thought the smart move was to stay private, keep our heads down, and let the noise settle. What we found was the reverse. Going public didn't expose us to scrutiny we couldn't handle. It gave us the highest-standard framework in the world for demonstrating that we deserved trust. Audited financials. Quarterly disclosure. Independent board governance. Sarbanes-Oxley controls. Real-time accountability to millions of shareholders and to regulators in every market we serve. The result wasn't fragility. It was confidence. Banks, governments, and enterprise partners who had been cautious about stablecoins could finally look at us through a lens they already understood.  Going public wasn't just good for us and our shareholders.  Public-market discipline turned a novel technology into legible infrastructure. But public-market discipline is only half of that equation. The other half is clear rules of the road. Innovation at infrastructure scale needs both: companies willing to subject themselves to transparency and accountability, and policymakers willing to define durable standards for how that technology can operate. For stablecoins, the GENIUS Act helped provide that regulatory architecture - moving the conversation from whether the technology belonged inside the regulated financial system to the standards under which it could operate there. That distinction matters for AI. An IPO cannot substitute for fit-for-purpose public policy, and regulation cannot substitute for the discipline of public markets. They are complements. One makes companies legible to investors and the public; the other establishes the obligations, protections, and boundaries that allow an emerging technology to earn durable institutional trust. AI is at precisely that moment now, and the stakes are higher. Frontier AI companies are becoming core infrastructure for the global economy. Their model capabilities, safety practices, compute commitments, revenue concentration, and governance structures are matters of genuine public interest. Right now, most of that lives inside private companies, visible to a handful of investors and whoever reads the leaks. An IPO changes that. It brings a frontier lab into the most rigorous disclosure and governance regime humanity has built. It forces clarity about risks, dependencies, and how decisions get made. It gives the public, policymakers, and the market a durable way to hold the company accountable, not through episodic drama, but through the boring, relentless cadence of public reporting. Anthropic has built its identity around safety and transparency. The public markets are the institutional embodiment of those values. Yes, the timing is never perfect. It wasn't for us either. But there's a window right now where the world is asking hard questions about who controls the most powerful technology of our era and how. The best answer isn't a press release. It's an S-1, a listed ticker, and the accountability that comes with them. We should be encouraging these great companies to take the leap to public markets, to subject themselves to public scrutiny and accountability, and we as a society need to do our part to hold them to the highest standards.

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“We are building for a world in which AI are native economic actors.” @circle CTPO @chandhok tells @kateirwin how agents on Arc can on-ramp into USDC and use it to pay for everything from inference to research. Thank you to @Grayscale for being a sponsor of the CoinDesk Media Network.

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.@arc IS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL FINANCE. As an architect from Nigeria, I support @circle , @USDC , and the @arc blockchain in advancing accessible, efficient, and innovative digital finance. The future is being built on open infrastructure and global connectivity.

Circle CEO @jerallaire isn't fazed by the Senate's decision to block the CLARITY Act. He believes regulators will keep moving crypto market structure forward, and Congress will eventually catch up with additional laws. "The key thing is that a year ago The GENIUS Act, which makes digital dollars legal in the U.S. financial system, became federal law. So a lot of our work is done." "CLARITY is about how trading venues get set up, clarifications around how DeFi is treated, etc. It's market structure." "The agencies that regulate these things, like the CFTC, the SEC, even the bank regulators too, they're all just going to move forward and regulate it themselves." "Eventually we'll get additional laws passed through Congress."