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Circle’s Arc Chain Meme Market Fizzles One Day After Launch

Circle’s stablecoin-focused public chain Arc saw its meme-token market collapse within a day of launch, with liquidity fragmented across more than 50 launchpads identified before the chain went live. Arc product team member Rachel Mayer posted a dog image captioned ‘Arc’s duke is here,’ which drew mockery rather than buying, and a team livestream was likened to a Fed meeting. Traders said Arc’s first-day playbook mimicked Robinhood’s chain without its retail trading gateway.

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The fizzle suggests that stablecoin-native infrastructure and meme speculation are uneasy bedfellows, and that a fragmented launchpad landscape can drain attention before a chain even goes live. The mockery of the team's own marketing points to a credibility gap: a product built for payments is being judged by a culture it did not court. The open question is whether Arc can pivot its narrative toward utility, or whether the meme-market failure will define its early reputation.

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