Circle Arc surpasses $30 billion in USDC… aims for 100,000 transactions per second in payments segment

Circle’s Arc mainnet has processed over $30 billion in cumulative USDC transfers since launch, with about 500,000 daily transactions as of October 30 and more than 50 million cumulative transactions. Circle is developing “Arc Sectors” for payments, institutional finance, and AI agents, targeting payment throughput above 100,000 transactions per second. As of late October, USD Coin, cirBTC, and EURC on Arc totaled roughly $1.5 billion, a snapshot of assets held rather than cumulative transfer volume. The figures, disclosed in Circle’s third-quarter earnings materials, position Arc as a high-throughput settlement venue for stablecoin payments and institutional use. Watch next for the payments sector’s progress toward the 100,000 TPS goal and growth in assets held on Arc.