Aros the stable dog · $AROS

They didn't invite us. So we're buying our own seat.

Every trade funds a public reserve — visible on-chain, held in USDC. The moment ARC is tradable, that reserve buys ARC on the open market and distributes it to $AROS holders.

Not a promise. A balance you can watch grow.

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Live on Stable
Gas in USD₮
Reserve in USDC

Aros, a German Shepherd, sitting in a living room wearing a black Circle t-shirt — photographed by Circle in May 2015. — @circle · May 2015 He never got a token. He got a t-shirt.

The ARC Reserve

A balance you
can watch grow.

Trading fees on $AROS are collected into one public wallet and held in USDC. Nothing is claimed, nothing is promised. The wallet is either growing or it isn't — and you can check.

Reserve balance

Armed — opens at launch

$0.00 USDC

ARC bought 0.00 Begins when ARC is tradable

Distributed to holders 0.00 Pro-rata, straight to wallets

Reserve wallet coming soon Published at launch, verifiable on-chain

Figures are placeholders until launch. When the contract is live this panel shows the real wallet and the real balance — not a projection.

01
Someone trades

A fee is taken on every $AROS buy and sell on Stable. It doesn't go to a team wallet.
02
The reserve fills

Fees settle into one public address and sit there in USDC. One wallet, one number, anyone can watch it.
03
It buys ARC

The moment ARC is tradable, the reserve buys it on the open market — the same market they kept us out of.
04
Holders get paid

The ARC is distributed to $AROS holders pro-rata. No staking, no lockups, no claim button.

The Lore

Circle was a meme company
before it was a monetary institution.

Aros is the proof.

2015

A photo of a dog in a t-shirt

On 5 May 2015, Circle posted a photo of a German Shepherd wearing a Circle t-shirt.

Aros just learned he can buy dog treats with #bitcoin! Another happy Circle customer (arguably our cutest)!
— @circle, May 2015

Circle in 2015 was not a bank. It was a consumer app — founded in Boston in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville to put money on the bitcoin blockchain. You could send a payment with an emoji attached. With a GIF attached.

That same year, Circle took $50 million from Goldman Sachs and became the first company ever granted a New York BitLicense.

So Circle was already both things at once: the company serious enough to get licensed by New York, and the company that put a t-shirt on a dog and called him a customer.

2018

The dog treats era ended

Circle stopped being about bitcoin payments and became about USDC — dollars on a blockchain, launched with Coinbase.

Nobody announced it. It just stopped.

2026

The suits arrive

Eleven years after Aros, the same company launches Arc — its own Layer 1, where gas is paid in dollars.

Its founding validators

BlackRock is expected to deploy BUIDL on it. Visa is a design partner and will settle USDC across it. ICE owns the New York Stock Exchange.

And the ARC token was sold before anyone outside could touch it

$222,000,000Raised

$0.30Price per ARC

$3,000,000,000Valuation

8 May 2026Round closed

Led by a16z. BlackRock, Apollo, ARK and Standard Chartered inside.

Retail allocation none

Circle confirmed there are no retroactive rewards for testnet users.

The room was closed. That isn't a complaint. It's just the fact.

The Turn

Both of those
are Circle.

2015

crypto was a dog
buying treats

2026

it's BlackRock settling with
the New York Stock Exchange

Aros was there first. He is the last artifact of the era before the suits arrived — the mascot of a company that used to attach GIFs to payments and called a dog its cutest customer.

He never got a token. He got a t-shirt.

The mechanism is the punchline

They sold ARC at $0.30 in a room
we couldn't enter.

So AROS buys its own seat.

Public, not promised

One wallet. One address. Published. You don't have to trust a roadmap — you can read a balance.

Bought on the open market

No allocation, no round, no cap table. The reserve buys ARC the way we were always going to have to: like everyone else.

Paid to holders

ARC goes out pro-rata to $AROS holders. Hold and it lands in your wallet. Sell and the next one skips you.

▎ Every trade funds the ARC Reserve.

The facts

No mystery box.

Name: Aros the stable dog
Ticker: $AROS
Chain: Stable — the USD₮-native L1
Contract address
Reserve asset: USDC — Circle's dollar
Reserve buys: ARC — once tradable
Distribution: Pro-rata to holders
Presale: None — that was rather the point

Frequently asked

Questions a
reasonable dog
would ask.

What is $AROS?

A meme coin on Stable named after Aros — the German Shepherd Circle photographed in a company t-shirt in May 2015 and called "another happy Circle customer." He is the last mascot of the era before Circle became a monetary institution.

What do I get for holding?

Trading fees fund a public reserve held in USDC. Once ARC is tradable, that reserve buys ARC on the open market and distributes it to $AROS holders pro-rata. No staking, no lockups, no claiming — it arrives in the wallet holding your $AROS.

Why is the reserve in USDC and not USD₮?

Because the joke only works in Circle's own dollar. $AROS lives on Stable, where gas is paid in USD₮ — but the reserve that buys Circle's token is denominated in Circle's stablecoin. Aros wore the t-shirt; he may as well hold the currency.

When does the reserve start buying ARC?

The moment ARC is tradable on the open market. Until then the reserve does one thing: sit in USDC and grow. The panel above shows the balance either way.

How much ARC do I get?

Your share is pro-rata. The bigger your share of the $AROS supply, the bigger your cut of each distribution.

Do I need to claim anything?

No. Nothing to claim, nothing to connect. Distributions go to whoever is holding when the batch goes out — which also means selling before a batch means the next one skips you.

Is this affiliated with Circle, Arc or Stable?

No. $AROS is an independent community meme coin. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Circle Internet Financial, Arc, the Stable Foundation, or any company named on this page. Everything stated about them here is publicly reported fact, referenced as commentary.

Where is the contract address?

Coming soon. It will be published here and on our X account at launch, and nowhere else first. Any address you see before then is not ours.

Buying our
own seat.

The room was closed. The reserve isn't.

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They didn't invite us. So we're buying our own seat.

Reserve balance

Someone trades

The reserve fills

It buys ARC

Holders get paid