Three moves, two chains, one currency.
The token trades on Robinhood Chain. The work of buying it back is contracted, paid and proven on Arc, the Layer 1 built by Circle where gas is USDC.
You trade $ARCL on Pons
$ARCL launches on Pons v2, the launchpad on Robinhood Chain. A 1% creator fee sits on every trade and lands in the Pons escrow. That fee is the whole budget. There is no team allocation.
The agent buys back and burns
An agent claims the fee and sends it back through the curve, buying $ARCL and burning it. It is a wallet with a script, not a person. The Robinhood transaction hash is its only proof of work.
Arc settles the job
Each buyback is an ERC-8183 job on Arc: the treasury funds it in USDC, the agent submits the Robinhood hash as the deliverable, the job completes and the USDC releases. Final in under a second, visible on arcscan.
Because the receipt is worth more than the trade.
A buyback on a launchpad is a promise until someone checks. ArcLayer moves the checking to a chain built for exactly that: Arc is Circle's Layer 1, USDC is the gas, finality is deterministic, and the ERC-8183 standard is Circle's own answer to how agents get contracted and paid.
So every dollar the agent earns is escrowed first, released only against a deliverable, and priced in a currency that does not move. The ledger is not ours to edit. It is a contract on Arc.
USDC is the gas
Arc charges fees in USDC, about a cent a transaction, smoothed so a busy block does not spike the price. The agent's costs are dollars, on both sides of the job.
Settled in under a second
Arc's consensus, Malachite, finalises deterministically. No challenge window, nothing to roll back. When the ledger says settled, it is.
Jobs, budgets, deliverables, payments
The AgenticCommerce contract at holds every ArcLayer job. Client and evaluator: the treasury. Provider: the agent. Payment token: USDC.
The token, the curve, the burn
$ARCL, its Pons bonding curve, the creator fee and the burn address. The deliverable on every Arc job is a transaction hash from here. Follow it and you see the tokens leave supply.
Arc mainnet opens on September 16, 2026. Until Circle publishes the mainnet contract addresses, ArcLayer jobs settle on Arc testnet, and the ledger says so. The token is real, the fee is real, the Robinhood transactions are real. The USDC on the jobs is testnet USDC until the switch. No dates are promised for anything else.