CIRCULAR is a token whose entire backing sits in an on-chain USDC reserve. Redeem into it pro rata, any block. Backing per token starts near zero and can only rise. On Arc, the stablecoin chain, in the chain's own money.
No treasury discretion, no oracle, no promises. The reserve is a contract, the floor is a division, and redemption is a function anyone can call.
A 3 percent tax applies to every swap in the CIRC/USDC pool, charged in USDC and deposited straight into the reserve contract. No treasury wallet, no multisig, no discretion. The pool works, the reserve fills.
Backing per token equals reserve divided by supply. Taxes push it up. Redemptions remove reserve and supply in the same proportion, so they cannot push it down. The figure steps up or holds. By construction it does not step back.
Burn CIRC, withdraw your pro rata share of the USDC reserve, in one transaction. No oracle, no queue, no permission, no counterparty desk. On a chain with roughly half-second blocks, the exit is always about 0.5 seconds away.
Arc is Circle's L1. USDC is the gas and the unit of account: every fee, every price and every balance on the chain is already denominated in dollars. A reserve attested in USDC needs no translation here. It is the native language.
Arc mainnet opened on 2026-09-16 with a handful of live projects, most of them launchpads and cat coins. CIRCULAR intends to be the first token on the chain whose entire premise is a mechanism you can verify from a block explorer: a reserve you can read, a floor you can compute, a redemption you can execute.
Blocks land roughly every half second, which means the attestation you are watching above is not a monthly PDF. It is the resting heart rate of the chain.
A third thing: a redeemable rising floor. Read the columns before you decide it reminds you of something.
| CIRCULAR | A plain memecoin | A stablecoin | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backing | A USDC reserve, on chain, readable every block | None | Off-chain reserves, attested monthly |
| Redemption | Pro rata, permissionless, any block | None | At par, through the issuer, with onboarding |
| Backing per token | Starts near zero. Only rises. | Zero, forever | Fixed at 1.00 |
| Market price | Floats. The floor is a redemption value, not a peg. | Floats | Pegged to 1.00 |
| Upside | Open | Open | None by design |
| What it is | A redeemable rising-floor experiment | A bet on attention | A dollar |
CIRCULAR is not a stablecoin. It is not pegged, and it is not redeemable at a fixed dollar. Backing per token starts near zero; the mechanism makes that number rise, it does not make the market price obey it. Price trades wherever the market takes it, and this is an experiment: you can lose everything you put in.
Move USDC to Arc with CCTP or a supporting wallet or exchange. USDC is the gas: one asset funds the wallet and the swap.
The CIRC/USDC pool lives on Uniswap v4 on Arc. The buy link on this page goes live the moment the contract does.
The 3 percent tax on your own swap is already funding the reserve you now hold a share of. Full circle, from your first block.
Burn CIRC for your pro rata share of the reserve at any block. The floor does not expire, and it does not go down while you wait.
No. It is not pegged, it does not target one dollar, and nothing about it is stable by design except the direction of the backing. Backing per token starts near zero and rises with activity. The market price floats freely above it, and sometimes toward it.
Your pro rata share of the USDC reserve: your balance divided by total supply, times the reserve. Burn CIRC, receive USDC, in one transaction, at any block. No oracle prices it and no one approves it.
Not by the mechanism. Swap taxes only add to the reserve, and redemptions remove reserve and supply proportionally, so the figure holds or rises.
The market price is a different matter entirely. It can fall regardless of the reserve, liquidity can be thin, contracts can have bugs, and USDC itself carries issuer risk. This is a high-risk experiment, not a savings product.
No. Loudly, no. CIRCULAR is an independent experiment that admires how Circle runs USDC (full reserves, attestations, redemption) and runs a token the same way, on Arc, in USDC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Circle, USDC, or Arc. No Circle or USDC brand assets appear here, and none ever will.
In its own contract, funded directly by the pool hook. The design ships with liquidity burned at launch and a deployer that holds zero. Contract addresses and verified source will be published here and on the explorer at launch. Until then, treat every figure above as a demonstration.
The contracts are a port of an audited reserve-floor stack, being adapted to Arc now. The CA, buy link and chart wire into this page the moment they exist. Until they do, the only honest number on this page is the block counter.