Arc live benchmarks
Circle's EVM Layer 1 for stablecoin finance (mainnet 2026-09-16, chain id 5042). USDC is the gas token, Malachite BFT consensus with sub-second deterministic finality, ~0.5 s blocks, proof-of-authority validator set (BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard, ICE among the founding validators). Below, every OpenChainBench measurement that touches Arc, grouped by category, with a direct link to the chain scoped bench page when one exists.
Fastest public RPC on Arc
The fastest public RPC endpoint on Arc right now is dRPC at 34 ms p50 over the last 24 hours, counting successful calls only, across 4 live providers measured from 3 probe regions.
Every metric is reproducible from the methodology and the open harness source. Numbers refresh within 60 seconds of each measurement.