Learn Arc, from absolute zero

Five stages, roughly thirty lessons when complete. No jargon goes unexplained, and nothing here assumes you have used a blockchain before.

Stage 1

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01
What is Arc, from absolute zero
Arc explained assuming you know nothing about crypto: a payment network built by the company behind the digital dollar, where fees are pennies and settlement is instant.
02
What is USDC, simply
USDC is a digital dollar: one token, one dollar, backed by reserves, moving over the internet. How it works, who is behind it, and why it is the money of the Arc network.
03
Your first Arc wallet
Set up a wallet for the Arc network from scratch: what a wallet actually is, how to protect the recovery phrase, adding Arc, and trying it free on testnet.
04
Gas on Arc: why it's dollars
Every blockchain charges fees called gas. Arc is the first major network where gas is simply dollars — what gas is, why that matters, and what things cost.
05
The five scams to know before you touch anything
Before your first real transaction on Arc, learn the five scam patterns that catch newcomers: recovery-phrase theft, malicious signatures, fake tokens, fake support, urgency.

Stage 2

06
How to get USDC (buy, receive, or bridge)
The three ways dollars become digital dollars: buying USDC on an exchange, receiving it directly, or bridging it to Arc — with the beginner-safe path for each.
07
Sending money on Arc
Your first real transfer on Arc, step by step: addresses, amounts, the fraction-of-a-cent fee, and the checks that make an irreversible payment safe to make.
08
What finality means — and why banks care
Arc settles in under a second, finally. What settlement finality actually is, how card payments and wires really work, and why sub-second finality is Arc's institutional pitch.
09
EURC and the other digital currencies
Arc isn't dollars-only: EURC, regional stablecoins, and StableFX — onchain currency exchange that runs around the clock. The multi-currency picture, simply.
10
Keeping money safe: custody, simply
Self-custody, exchange custody and hardware wallets without the ideology: what each actually protects against, and a sane setup for a normal person on Arc.

Stage 3

11
Reading Arcscan: the public ledger
Every Arc transaction is public. Learn to read Arcscan — transactions, addresses, tokens — and turn trust me into check the chain in ten minutes.
12
Your first bridge
Moving USDC between networks scares beginners more than it should — and less than it should. What bridging is, why Arc's native route is unusually safe, and the checklist.
13
Dapps, and connecting to them safely
What a dapp actually is, what connect wallet really grants (less than you fear), what signatures grant (more than you think), and the approval hygiene that keeps you safe.
14
Swaps and slippage, with coffee
How a DEX swap actually works, what slippage is (explained with a coffee stand), why price impact punishes big orders in small pools, and the settings that protect you.
15
Airdrops without getting burned
Real airdrops exist; so does an entire scam economy dressed as them. How legitimate airdrops work, the claim-site trap, and the rules that let you collect free tokens safely.

Stage 4

In production — publishing with Phase B.

Stage 5

In production — publishing with Phase B.