Circle CTO: Why We Built Our Own Payment Chain with Nikhil Chandhok

The Rollup · Sep 13, 2025 · 28m

Stablecoins are becoming the foundation of global finance, but scaling them requires purpose-built infrastructure.

In today's episode, we sit down with Nikhil from Circle to explore why they're building Arc, their dedicated payments chain for USDC and the competitive landscape of stablecoin infrastructure.

Let's get into it.

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