Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire described **Arc** as an “economic operating system for the internet,” framing it as blockchain infrastructure built for programmable money, tokenized assets, and machine-driven economic activity. In a later conversation, he said Arc is designed to support transactions at very low cost, with **sub-second finality**, a **known validator set**, and *built-in privacy primitives*, positioning it as infrastructure for enterprises and agents that need real-time, provable settlement.

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