SafePal Adds Arc Testnet Support as Circle Expands Ecosystem Push

SafePal has added support for the Arc Testnet, giving users a direct way to explore the emerging network through SafePal Wallet and interact with its early ecosystem. In a tweet, SafePal said the Arc Testnet is now live on its platform, allowing users to try testnet dApps, claim exclusive testnet tokens, and prepare for future support of Arc mainnet assets inside SafePal Suite.

The move comes as Arc continues to position itself as a new kind of financial infrastructure for the internet, one built around stablecoins, tokenized assets, and global interoperability. The network’s early testnet activity already reflects that ambition. Participants span the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, a geographic spread that underlines Arc’s goal of connecting local markets to the global economy. Rather than acting as a niche blockchain for a small group of users, Arc is being framed as an “Economic OS” for the internet, designed to support a broad range of companies and developers building on enterprise-grade infrastructure.

At the center of Arc’s design is support for stablecoin issuers and tokenized financial assets. The network is being built as a foundation for fiat stablecoins, tokenized equities, credit products, money market funds, and other onchain financial instruments. One of the key features in its roadmap is the use of stablecoins as gas tokens, which could make transaction costs more predictable and more closely tied to the assets people are already using on the network. Arc is also expected to introduce native infrastructure for stablecoin swaps and foreign exchange liquidity, a combination that could make it more useful for payments, treasury management, and cross-border settlement.

Global Stablecoin Network

The testnet is already drawing support from currency issuers across several regions. Among the issuers joining Arc Testnet are AUDF issued by Forte AUD, BRLA issued by Avenia, JPYC issued by JPYC Inc., KRW1 issued by BDACS, MXNB issued by Juno, which is a Bitso company, and PHPC issued by Coins.PH, and QCAD issued by Stablecorp. Circle is also working with other stablecoin issuers and stakeholders, including those behind dollar-, euro-, and other fiat-backed stablecoins, as it builds out the network’s asset support and liquidity framework.

Developer adoption is another major part of the Arc story. The testnet is being positioned as a day-one environment for builders, with an extensive list of ecosystem participants already involved. On the AI side, Anthropic is contributing Claude Code-powered builder tools to improve the developer experience. Wallet providers, including Bron, Exodus, Fireblocks, Hecto Innovation, Ledger, MetaMask, Privy, Rainbow, Turnkey, and Vultisig, are connecting Arc into desktop and mobile workflows. Developer tooling is also coming from names such as Alchemy, Chainlink, Crossmint, Dynamic, Fun.xyz, LayerZero, Pimlico, thirdweb, and ZeroDev, while cross-chain access is being supported by Across, Stargate, and Wormhole.

Infrastructure providers are also lining up behind the testnet. Blockdaemon, Blockscout, Bridge, Elliptic, Quicknode, Ramp Network, Tenderly, Transak, and TRM are among the firms helping make Arc more accessible, performant, compliant, and reliable. That broad technical support matters because Arc is not simply being launched as another general-purpose blockchain. It is being built with an eye toward financial applications that require stability, liquidity, and institutional-grade tooling from the beginning.

The digital asset market side of the network is just as broad. Decentralized exchanges and liquidity protocols such as Curve, Dromos Labs, Euler Finance, Fluid, and Uniswap Labs are participating in the Arc ecosystem. Centralized exchanges, including Bitvavo, ByBit, Coinbase, Coincheck, Hashkey, Kraken, and Robinhood, are also involved, widening access to the network. Market makers and OTC desks such as Auros, B2C2, Cumberland, Galaxy Digital, GSR, IMC, Forte Securities, Keyrock, NONCO, Wintermute, and Zodia Markets are helping support liquidity.

At the same time, borrow-and-lend platforms like Aave, Maple, and Morpho are expected to help bring credit and capital efficiency into the ecosystem. Yield and tokenized fund participants, including Centrifuge, Superform, Securitize, WTGXX, and CRDT by WisdomTree, are adding another layer of financial utility, alongside custodians such as BitGo, Copper, Taurus, and Zodia Custody.

Arc is also being linked to broader payments and fintech use cases. The network’s architecture is being described as useful not just for people and businesses, but also for agentic AI systems that may one day send, exchange, and settle value in real time across borders. That vision is reflected in the range of companies engaging with the project, including Amazon Web Services, Brex, Catena Labs, Careem, Cloudflare, Corpay, dLocal, Dmall, Ebanx, FIS, Hecto Financial, LianLian Global, Mastercard, Mercoin, Nuvei, Noah, Pairpoint by Vodafone, Paysafe, PhotonPay, Ramp, Sasai Fintech, Sumitomo Corporation, Visa, WorldPay, and Yellow Card.

Arc’s public testnet is still experimental, and that is part of the point. It is meant to pressure test performance, strengthen security, and validate integrations before any real money moves on mainnet. For now, SafePal’s announcement gives users another way into that ecosystem as it develops. With Arc testnet support now live and mainnet asset support said to be coming next, the wallet provider is signaling that it wants to be part of the network’s growth from the earliest stage.

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