Key Points

• BlackRock, New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange, Visa, Mastercard, the DTCC, Galaxy, Global Payments and Moneygram are among the initial group of partners that will help run Circle's new Arc blockchain.
• The next 12 months could determine whether Arc drives measurable ecosystem adoption or becomes another blockchain ecosystem measured by partnerships more than usage.
• Circle also announced integrations with BlackRock, BNY, DTCC and Standard Chartered spanning tokenized asset settlement, digital asset custody and more.