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Officials can't write these. So we did.

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Arc vs Ethereum

Arc vs Ethereum

Arc is faster, cheaper, and easier to onboard onto, at the cost of a much smaller, permissioned validator set, KYC-gated gas, and the regulatory exposure of a single issuer (Circle) sitting at the center.

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