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Discoveries · Programmable Money The next institutional form of onchain dollars may not look like a stablecoin at all. The Clearing House is building a

Discovery Brief Crypto does not have a shortage of Layer 1 blockchains. That is precisely why Arc is worth examining. Circle opened Arc’

Infrastructure · Discovery Circle spent years making USDC portable across other people’s blockchains. Now it has launched a blockchain of its own.

Ecosystem Discovery · September 17, 2026 Circle’s Arc mainnet is now live. Its more consequential proposition is not simply faster settlement, but an ecosystem

People to discover · Stablecoin infrastructure The most revealing people in crypto payments are no longer trying to persuade consumers to “pay with crypto.

Research / Privacy The crypto industry has spent years treating transparency and privacy as opposing choices. A recent set of experiments on Stellar is

Payments & Stablecoins / Discovery On September 9, 2026, U.S. Bank said it had completed a live cross-border payment using USBDC, its proprietary dollar-backed

Payments & Stablecoins · Discovery Stablecoin payments are entering a less visible but more consequential phase. The important question is no longer

The most interesting crypto payment product of 2026 may not look like a wallet, card or checkout page. It may look like an ordinary web request that briefly