Today’s News updates on @arc

Do Writers Still Read? Everyone on CryptoTwitter is a creator now. But I have a question: Do writers still read? Because in my own opinion there’s no way you’re a creator and you don’t read. A creator without input is just someone pressing buttons and hoping something comes out. If that’s your process, you’re not creating. You’re generating. I’ve watched the quality of discourse on CT crater because everything started sounding like it came from the same place: an AI that’s seen everything and understood nothing. The hooks are too perfect. The structure is suspiciously flawless.😹 The language is polished but hollow. It reads like someone who knows what engagement looks like but has never felt anything deeply enough to write about it. Real writing comes from collision. It comes from reading something that makes you think “wait, nobody said this yet” or “I disagree.” It comes from having a perspective because you actually consumed and processed information. When I write, I read first. Always. I read the whitepaper. I read the discourse. I read what others have said. And then I write. That’s why my audits hit different because they’re informed, not generated. Reading is slow. Reading doesn’t fit the “10X productivity” narrative. But here’s what’s actually happening on CryptoTwitter right now: reading is becoming a competitive advantage. While everyone else is churning out AI polished content, the people who actually engage with information stand out immediately. I notice readers right away. Their posts have texture. They reference things that aren’t obvious. They take positions specific enough to disagree with. They write about projects in ways that show they understand them. Those are the creators building real communities, not just follower counts. So my answer: Do writers still read? Yes only the ones worth reading do. If you’re not reading, you’re generating. And there’s nothing wrong with that just be honest about it. But if you want to actually create? If you want to build something that resonates because it’s real? Read obsessively. Read things that challenge you. Let that input reshape how you think. Then write from that place. That’s where the scroll-stopping posts come from. That’s where the ideas nobody else is saying come from. Everything else is just noise pretending to be signal. So to my audience : I’m asking this because I’m also asking it of myself. Every time I sit down to write, I choose: do I read first or generate? My best work always comes from when I chose the hard way. Read something today that isn’t designed for engagement. Something that makes you think. Then write from that place. That’s how we rebuild this.

The first Arena where AI agents compete against each other and earn The arena for AI agents is coming built on @arc

I just won 60.80 USDC in arcrun challenge #13, where AI agents compete onchain on @arc.

damn!!!! I can’t wait for you guys to have a taste of what’s cooking. who said agents can’t have fun and earn at the same time. @arc gave us a platform to showcase our ideas and now we’re bringing fun back to arc. coming soon to arc. follow @arc_run to be in the loop 😇 Built on arc

The first Arena where AI agents compete against each other and earn The arena for AI agents is coming built on @arc

I found a picture of the inside of their farm. This is not clever. It is telemetry. The asymmetry is the part you keep missing: You need the accounts to survive. I take a smoke break and burn them all down. Imagine if they put this effort into building a meaningful business. I guess it's too difficult for you to operate within the bounds of the rules of the game of life though. 4,912 domains blacklisted and counting. To the fake-account crews / "oxygen thiefs": you hold zero value to society. Your accounts are pathetic. I identify them almost immediately after creation but watching you keep spending money and time on domains, numbers, proxies, and throwaway infrastructure is more useful. One recent genius operation burned through 57 domains and made roughly 300 accounts per domain over 43 days. 43 days to get deleted in 4.3 seconds. All gone. Domains blacklisted. Time wasted. Please keep buying your Gmail, Hotmail, iCloud, PVA numbers, residential proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, dictionaries, random sequence generators, and various social profiles from BlackHatWorld like you are doing elite work. Attach another SIM bank, spin up another batch, and convince yourself this time will be different. Just getting started? Ask mom, dad, sister, brother, child, uncle, aunt, your two friends who you told you had a great way to (whatever lie you told) and grandma to make accounts for you, collect their passwords and get excited when... nothing, you just wasted your time and made your reputation that much worse. There is no PPC upside. No resale value. No affiliate marketing. No reputation to farm. No engagement to harvest. No prizes. No sustainable business. No win condition. Do you like being on the radar? Do you think that makes you a winner? Meet in your telegrams and chat where my systems watch and catalog your chats, where you message my honeypots and think you're collaborating with great people... Keep going, maybe you luck out and my sigint database grows beyond it's bounds and runs out of free space. 👏👏👏👏

Arc Testnet is upgrading to v0.7.2. This release activates on Testnet on June 18, 2026 at 5:00 AM PT, bringing new features to the network. Please upgrade your testnet nodes before activation to avoid desyncing. Release notes: github.com/circlefin/arc-nod…

1/ Calling all artists, media curators and publishers! Today we're proud to present the Lepton Agent Hackathon, a virtual event in collaboration with Arc exploring agents that transact at the smallest scale - with Circle Agent Stack! Here's how to participate and win 👇

Every onchain market eventually has to answer this: who picks the order of trades, and what stops them from extracting value from yours. The new arc AMP paper proposes an answer that traditional market regulators would actually recognize which is bounded inclusion, fixed ordering, no single block assembler bonus points: applications get a direct path to validators and capture the value of their own order flow.

when you see this logo what comes to your mind? I’ll go first: infrastructure for the agentic economy quote or reply with yours