DFNS now supports Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol on Arc. Three weeks after Arc’s mainnet launch, institutions on DFNS can move native USDC between Arc and any other CCTP-supported network, Ethereum, Solana, Base, Stellar, Avalanche, and more, in one governed transaction. The asset that lands on Arc is canonical, Circle-issued USDC, the same dollars that pay for every fee on the network.
Why Arc
Arc is the Layer 1 Circle built for stablecoin finance, and DFNS supported it with full Tier-1 integration from its first day. USDC is the native gas, so every fee is denominated in dollars. Malachite consensus delivers deterministic finality in under half a second. The founding validator set, BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo, and Visa, is the clearest statement yet of what the chain is for: settlement by the institutions that run markets.
A settlement network is only as useful as the liquidity that can reach it. CCTP on Arc, live since September, is how USDC reaches it: burned on any supported chain, attested by Circle, minted natively on Arc, and back again. Arc supports the full CCTP feature set, including Circle’s Forwarding Service, so USDC can be delivered to an Arc wallet with no gas and no signature required on the destination, and standard transfers settle as fast as the source chain finalizes.
What it enables
The institutional pattern is direct. A bank or payment company holds operational USDC on Ethereum or Solana, moves it onto Arc through CCTP when a counterparty settles there, settles with sub-second finality and dollar-denominated fees, and moves the proceeds back to wherever its treasury lives, every leg under the same controls. A tokenization platform issuing on Arc funds subscriptions from USDC on any chain its investors already hold. A payments business settles on Arc and pays out on Stellar’s cash network, with CCTP connecting the two.
And the Circle stack is now complete on one platform. Circle Mint brings fiat in and out of USDC. CCTP moves native USDC across chains, including onto and off Arc. Arc settles. Each piece was integrated on DFNS separately; together, they are one governed cycle: fiat to USDC, USDC to Arc, settlement, and USDC to fiat, every step passing the Policy Engine before anything signs, every step in one audit trail.
How it works on DFNS
CCTP on Arc runs through the same integration as every other CCTP network on DFNS. In the dashboard, select the Circle CCTP provider in Swaps, choose a source wallet and an Arc wallet, or the reverse, review the quote, and sign with a passkey. Through the API, it is one call. Because Arc is EVM-compatible, the wallets, token standards, and contract interactions institutions already use on DFNS apply unchanged, and because its gas is USDC, there is no second asset to fund before a transfer can land.
Get started
CCTP on Arc is available now for all DFNS wallets on Arc mainnet.
- Learn more about onchain core banking: dfns.co
- Explore the platform and documentation: docs.dfns.co
- Talk to our team about Arc and CCTP: sales@dfns.co
