The best way to keep money on your chain is to make it effortless to move off it. That contrarian bet sits at the centre of the Circle Arc blockchain, and Circle's Chief Product and Technology Officer Nikhil Chandhok explains why liquidity that cannot leave is liquidity nobody sends.Four and a half years at Circle, issuer of $73.3 billion of USDC, taught Nikhil Chandhok two things: receiver preference drives stablecoin distribution, and people leave money where they know they can pull it out. Speaking with host Sri Misra, he explains why Arc was built as a USDC liquidity hub rather than a walled garden, why settlement finality and USDC denominated gas matter to enterprises, and why agentic payments today look like websites in 1997. Arc mainnet goes live on 16 September 2026.👉Why Arc was designed so USDC deploys in one click across the roughly 30 chains it already reaches, instead of locking liquidity in.👉How settlement finality and USDC denominated gas change the pitch to enterprises that do not want to hold a native token.👉Why nested AI agents hiring other agents create a new internet architecture that three day settlement money cannot serve.Subscribe to un# for weekly founder conversations and follow Sri Misra on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/srimisra for daily insights.00:00 - Circle, USDC And What Comes Next05:19 - Liquidity Fragmentation Across EVM Chains06:22 - Arc As A USDC Liquidity Hub10:07 - Morpho, Uniswap And cirBTC On Arc13:12 - AI Agents And The 1996 Internet#NikhilChandhok #Circle #USDC #ArcBlockchain #ArcMainnet #Stablecoins #StablecoinLayer1 #SriMisra #alphaunhashed #DeFi #AgenticPayments #AIAgents #CryptoPodcast #futureofpayments Disclaimer: The information presented is for educational purposes only. Views expressed are those of the speakers, not necessarily the channel. You are responsible for your own research and decisions.Copyright: © 2024 Aarna AI Pte Ltd, Singapore. All rights reserved. You may share this video using the YouTube share function.