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a16z interprets the investment logic of Arc: driven by a $90k stablecoin market, the "economic operating system" will reshape the on-chain financial infrastructure
Deep Tide TechFlow News, May 11th, a16z Crypto published an article explaining the investment logic of Arc, pointing out that stablecoins have evolved from a crypto trading tool into a core layer of global financial infrastructure, and are driving blockchain to upgrade from “application-layer finance” to a “system-level economic operating system.” Last year, the trading volume of stablecoins reached approximately 9 trillion USD, placing them on the same scale as global payment networks like Visa and PayPal. The total supply of USD stablecoins also exceeded 270 billion USD, with cross-border payments, B2B settlements, and foreign exchange trading becoming the core use cases for stablecoins, gradually making them the “upgraded layer of global capital flow.”
a16z Crypto stated that existing blockchain infrastructure still mainly targets crypto-native users and individual developers, lacking native support for large institutional needs. The main reason for participating in the ARC token ecosystem is that as global finance gradually moves onto the chain, only a few public blockchains will be able to support the “on-chain economic system foundation.”