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🗓️ Sunday, June 14, 2026
➮ Arc announced testnet v0.7.2, activating June 18 at 5:00 AM PT with new network features.- Biggest announcement of the week, builders already upgrading nodes
➮ Arc: "The Bored Room" — an eight-hour waiting game exposing legacy financial rails: stalled approvals, FX leaking value, payments that never arrived. "Funny because it was fictional. Painful because it was familiar"
➮ Arc shipped the next installment of the Unified Balance Kit technical series: modeling spend readiness across confirmed balances, pending inbound funds, and committed execution flows
➮ Aerodrome confirmed it's coming to Arc, deploying exchange infrastructure to power stablecoin-native FX — 437 likes on Aerodrome's announcement, 666 likes on Arc's. Critical liquidity infrastructure landing
➮ Circle released a new episode covering Circle Forwarding Service for Gateway — simplifies crosschain USDC transfers without managing destination chain gas fees
➮ Arc is at ETHGlobal New York (June 12–14) with $15,000 in prizes for stablecoin-native submissions using Circle tooling, wallets, App Kit, and the new Agent Stack
➮ Bobbilee announced the first
@arc regional chapter roundtable in Vietnam, kicking off June 15 — hosted by local community leads. Also posted Singapore's first in-person Arc meetup for June 18
➮ Circle shared that the debate about open payments infrastructure competing with closed networks is "over" — Dante Disparte on what settled it and what's next for stablecoins
➮ Jeremy highlighted Arc's proposed multi-proposer architecture: "Value to app developers and probably fair markets" — 119 likes. Technical design getting attention
➮ Sam: Jennateeman and Corey with devs at ETHGlobal — "Fomo is real" — 81 likes. Team fully deployed in NYC
➮ Canteen: Chess engine on Arc testnet — play against a rule-based AI for private USDC wagers, three Elo levels, all derived from scratch in the browser. - Builder energy
See Y'all in Tomorrow's News Updates 💙