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Circle Internet Group has been revealed The road to victory in 2026 Centered around Arc, a layered blockchain technology designed to be “ Economical operating system “Global Finance.
The company aims to push Arc from testnet to production while expanding its Circle Payments Network and StableFX services to capture market share in stablecoin stability.
The move comes as Circle faces increased competition from Tether, which generated $5.2 billion in revenue through 2025 and now controls 60.1% of the $311 billion stablecoin market through USDT.
Circle’s USDC token has a 24.2% market share with a trade value of 72.4 billion, lagging behind despite growing 108% year-on-year.
The Arc test network does 150 million transactions
Arc’s public testnet has processed more than 150 million transactions since its launch in October 2025, with about 1.5 million wallets with a latency of about 0.5 seconds, according to Circle’s latest update.
The network attracted more than 100 investors, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, Société Générale, and Visa within its first 90 days.
Nikhil Chandok, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Circle, said the company is working to achieve production planning through ” Expanding the group of auditors to share more “and” Establish a governance model that aligns with the company’s risk and compliance expectations “.
The network uses USDC as its main gas token and offers a second-party guarantee that is designed specifically for financial transactions.
The company integrated Arc with its data transfer protocol, which now connects 19 blockchains and has planned $126 billion in growth from December 2025.
Circle launched Gateway, an interactive platform that integrates USDC scales across the network, and launched Build, a suite of AI development tools along with App Kits, to accelerate app development.
Tether’s dominance is the Fed’s pressure to pay to put Circle on the market
The attacks on Circle organizations are growing as Tether expands beyond stablecoins into traditional currencies, recently raising 140 tons of gold worth $23 billion and launching USAT, a federally regulated stablecoin under America’s new GENIUS Act.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino told Bloomberg that the company “ It will soon become one of the largest gold depositors in the world, for example When you buy more than one ton per week.
Tether has emerged as the most profitable cryptocurrency in 2025, accounting for 41.9% of all stablecoin-related revenue and maintaining its position as the third largest asset in the world with a market capitalization of $186.8 billion.
The company owns more of the US economy than Germany, South Korea or Australia, solidifying its role as a major economic participant.
Currently, the payment network Circle has signed 29 financial institutions since its launch in May 2025, of which 55 have been evaluated as suitable and another 500 are expected.
The network operates in eight countries and has reached $3.4 billion in annual sales volumes, through partnerships with Binance, Corpay, FIS, Fiserv, and OKX.
Major financial institutions are demonstrating the transformation of exchanges through blockchain technology
BlackRock is planning to expand its business in the field of cryptocurrencies, as it announced jobs in the field of digital assets in New York, London and Singapore, while offering a salary of $350,000 per year for managerial positions.
The asset manager has accepted the BUIDL token fund as collateral on Binance and has recognized the emergence of Bitcoin as an important step in the construction of the 2025 portfolio.
Visa also announced in December 2025 that it will allow US financial institutions to settle the funds using USDC on the Solana platform, providing “seven-day availability and flexible processing.” Weekends and holidays “.
The first partners, Cross River Bank and Lead Bank, have already begun to settle with Visa in US dollars, with a plan to expand the growth of the US until 2026.
” Financial institutions are planning to use stablecoins as part of their financial services “, said Rubel Berwadker, Global Head of Growth Products and Strategic Partnerships at Visa.
The payment giant is working as Arc’s developer partner and plans to implement a blockchain-based verification system once it’s launched.
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Circle’s partnership extends to Asia, where the company signed a partnership agreement with Lian Lian Global in December 2025 to explore stablecoin-backed payment solutions for global merchants.
The agreement will assess the USDC’s performance Supporting fast and flexible transactions, especially on the world’s highest paying channels “, according to the announcement.
The company’s stock market fund, USYC, has grown more than 200% since June 2025 to nearly $1.6 billion in assets as of January 2026, as StableFX launched on the Arc testnet to support 24/7 stablecoin forex trading.
Circle said revenue of $214 million in the third quarter of 2025 as USDC sales rose to $73.7 billion.
Chandok stressed that Arc is a big platform that wants ” It moves value with the same openness, reliability, determinism and speed as information “, which puts Circle in a competitive position as stablecoins to be” A way to connect to the digital economy around the world “.
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