{"id":658076,"date":"2026-09-16T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=848076"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:57:18","slug":"blackrock-and-visa-now-validate-circles-arc-so-do-two-xrp-ledger-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/blackrock-and-visa-now-validate-circles-arc-so-do-two-xrp-ledger-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackrock and Visa Now Validate Circle\u2019s Arc; So Do Two XRP Ledger Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/circle-targets-25b-payments-flow-for-usdc-with-400m-tazapay-deal-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Circle Logo on a smartphone\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Circle has opened Arc&#8217;s public mainnet with 11 founding validators drawn almost entirely from traditional finance. At least two of them are also among Ripple&#8217;s closest commercial partners. The Validator List Reads Like a Bank Directory Arc&#8217;s genesis validator cohort is Blackrock, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Galaxy, Global Payments, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circle has opened Arc&#8217;s public mainnet with 11 founding validators drawn almost entirely from traditional finance. At least two of them are also among Ripple&#8217;s closest commercial partners. The Validator List Reads Like a Bank Directory Arc&#8217;s genesis validator cohort is Blackrock, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Galaxy, Global Payments, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-658076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}