Circle completes $222 million $ARC token presale! Project valuation hits $3 billion

ORIGINALCircle 完成 2.22 億美元 $ARC 代幣預售！項目估值衝上 30 億美元

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According to CNBC, USDC issuer Circle has completed the pre-sale of $ARC, the native token of its Layer1 blockchain "Arc," successfully raising $222 million and pushing the project's valuation to $3 billion. This funding round attracted not only cryptocurrency venture capital giants but also top-tier Wall Street financial institutions. The list of participants includes BlackRock, Apollo Funds, as well as renowned venture capital firm a16z crypto, Cathie Wood's ARK Invest, cryptocurrency exchange Bullish, Haun Ventures, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), and Standard Chartered Ventures. This fundraising marks a significant shift in Circle's strategic core. Known historically for USDC and payment infrastructure, the company is demonstrating unprecedented expansion ambitions, preparing to step out of its comfort zone and fully enter the "institutional-grade finance" market, attempting to build dedicated blockchain rails for traditional financial institutions. Circle also released the Arc whitepaper today (11th), which states that the $ARC token will serve as the "native coordination asset" within the ecosystem, playing a core role in network governance, maintaining validator security, and overall network operations. In fact, the Arc blockchain quietly began testing as early as last October, with a very clear positioning: a blockchain tailored for stablecoin capital markets and "regulated financial activities." Future use cases will focus on Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization, cross-border settlement, and compliant on-chain finance. How is $ARC different from the USDC we are familiar with? Simply put, USDC is a "stablecoin" pegged 1:1 to the US dollar, primarily used for value storage and daily payments; whereas $ARC is more like Ethereum's ETH or Solana's $SOL, with its core value lying in coordinating the network's economy and security model. In other words, Circle is building its own ecosystem, rather than just providing a medium of exchange.

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