Circle Stablecoin talks about infrastructure improvements for the use of Spur
Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group plans to encourage greater adoption among companies and institutions by 2026 by building a more sustainable infrastructure.
Circle's chief product and technology officer, Nikhil Chandhok, said in a blog post on Thursday that the company is considering pushing Arc, a layer-1 blockchain testnet designed for institutional and large-scale use, into production.
At the same time, Circle plans to focus on utility and accessibility by expanding its tokens, USDC, URC, USIC, and partner-launched stablecoins to multiple chains.
“This means strengthening native support on high-impact networks, tightening integration with Arch, and making it easier for enterprise users to manage, operate, and program these assets as part of their daily operations,” Chandhok said.
Stablecoins were one of the hottest crypto topics in 2025, with the United States passing laws to regulate tokens, institutions and banks looking to launch their own stablecoins.
More institutional adoption for stablecoins
Circle added that it wants to scale up its applications, such as payment networks, where institutions can accept stablecoin payments “instead of building and using the underlying infrastructure themselves.”
The stablecoin giant will also continue to invest in developing stablecoin USDC seamlessly on-chain, improving the user experience by fixing “on-chain complexities” and creating better developer tools, Chandhok said.
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“We will also continue to expand our partner and developer ecosystem to expand usability and global scale, and bring Statcoin and Internet-scale finance to more markets and use cases,” he said.
USDC has the second largest share by market cap.
USDC has the second largest share of stablecoin market capitalization among US$-pegged stablecoins, worth more than $70 billion, according to Defi Data Aggregator Defillama. USDt (USDT) is the largest, accounting for more than $186 billion of the total market capitalization of $306 billion.
The stablecoin sector surpassed $300 billion in market capitalization for the first time in October of last year, driven mainly by USDt, USDC and Athena Labs' producer stablecoin, USDe.
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