The fee-funded increase compares with a roughly 3% baseline and rewards stake held during the window, rather than when the fees accrued.

Hegota's scheduled changes target censorship resistance and wallet flexibility; the broader vision relies on proof aggregation and open research.

The AI-assisted contest targets offchain GPU work, not Bitcoin fees. The experimental method still requires a direct path to a miner.

Anza is asking app developers to test programs and integrations as the upgrade moves validator voting off-chain. Mainnet activation remains pending.

Tokenized real-world assets have crossed $38 billion in distributed on-chain value, spread across treasuries, private credit, real estate, and equities. For teams deploying RWA apps, picking a chain is only half the decision. The RPC layer reading and writing to it is the other half.

Priority fees and paid Fast Feed subscriptions allocate 97% of proceeds to the DAO treasury and 3% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild.

Arc went live on mainnet on September 16, 2026, with eleven institutional founding validators already committed. The RPC layer underneath is what determines whether any application, from a bank's settlement pipeline to onchain liquidity and swap activity, can actually ship on day one.

Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% support and 58% participation, but exchanges must confirm the swap before a second vote sets the snapshot, claims and shutdown schedule.

Arc, Circle's USDC-native Layer 1 for institutional stablecoin finance, is now available through Chainstack Global Nodes, Dedicated Nodes, and Chainstack Self-Hosted, as the network opened with eleven founding validators including BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, and Mastercard.

The Layer 1 charges gas in USDC and runs proof-of-authority across a permissioned set of 11 institutions plus Circle. More than 100 applications are live at launch, with Aave, Morpho and Uniswap anchoring DeFi. Circle minted 10 billion ARC tokens this week without committing to a public launch.