Real-world finance is moving onchain: payments, FX, credit, tokenized assets. Arc is the Layer-1 built for exactly that, and we want you to build on it.
Crecimiento and Arc are launching the Arc Acceleration Season: a six-week online program for Latam fintech and AI startups ready to build on Arc, the stablecoin-native blockchain developed by Circle, and take their business into its next phase of growth.
We're selecting a focused cohort of exceptional businesses, already live and showing traction, to build on Arc as the network reaches mainnet. You don't need to be onchain today. What matters is a real business ready to grow on the infrastructure where real-world financial flows will run.
Applications close September 22nd.
Apply to the Arc Acceleration Season
What is the Arc Acceleration Season?
A structured, hands-on program designed to help your startup grow on Arc: six weeks to scope, build and launch the integration that moves your business into its next phase.
It's a builder program where you go deep on the Arc and Circle ecosystem, ship a live integration, and pitch on Demo Day in front of investors and ecosystem leaders. You get direct support from the Arc and Circle team throughout, and every team on stage at Demo Day is a real business with traction, ready for its next stage of growth.
The program follows a three-phase arc: Build, Ship, Show, opening with an onboarding week.
- Onboarding (Week 1): Get oriented on Arc and the Circle stack, meet the team, and lock in on your business milestones and the integration you're going to ship. You'll have direct access to the technical team through office hours.
- Build (Weeks 2–3): Heads-down building with weekly technical office hours and async support, working with App Kits, Gateway and StableFX toward a functioning prototype on testnet.
- Ship (Weeks 4–5): Take the product into production. Deploy on Arc mainnet and harden it for performance, cost and edge cases, while you sharpen your go-to-market: who your first customers on Arc are and how you'll win them.
- Show (Week 6): Refine your pitch, polish your demo, and deliver at the online Demo Day. This is where you prove what you shipped and how it will help you continue to scale.
About Circle
Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications worldwide.
Circle is building the world's largest, most-widely used, stablecoin network, and issues, through its regulated affiliates, USDC and EURC stablecoins.
What is Arc?
Arc is the purpose-built L1 blockchain from Circle, and serves as the Economic OS for the internet: the programmable trust layer and transaction engine where capital, humans, and machines coordinate to drive real economic growth.
Arc enables builders and issuers worldwide to power the next era of onchain lending, capital markets, FX, and payments, igniting liquidity across currencies and asset classes.
Arc is in public testnet with mainnet launching on September 16th, which means the teams in this cohort build as the network goes live, and grow with it.
What you get
Direct support from Arc and Circle. Technical support (office hours, deep dives and pairing sessions with the Circle team) and business development guidance across the Arc and Circle ecosystem.
Curated mentorship. A weekly rhythm that keeps every team moving: group mentoring on Mondays, a masterclass matched to the week's focus on Tuesdays, office hours with the technical team on Wednesdays, and 1:1 mentoring sessions on Thursdays, booked directly with the mentors each team needs.
A clear path forward. Every team earns points on Arc House and, ideally, becomes an active member of our community and ecosystem, with access to more collaboration opportunities such as co-marketing, grants and additional support.
Who's behind this
Crecimiento is the movement driving Argentina's tech ecosystem to position the country as a global hub for innovation.
Our Acceleration Seasons are built on a simple belief: builders need real conditions to ship, a live product to integrate, the team behind it within reach, mentors who challenge the business, and a stage with investors at the end. Six weeks, one working product, one Demo Day.
It's part of a builder funnel that runs from the Aleph Hackathon through the Acceleration Seasons and into the Startup World Cup.
Who should apply?
You're a good fit if:
- You're a pre-seed to seed fintech or AI startup from Latam.
- Your product is already in market or in closed beta.
- You have at least one technical co-founder on the team.
- You're committed to scoping and implementing the Circle tooling that is live on Arc.
- You're ready to move fast. In six weeks you ship on Arc and set up the next phase of growth for your business.
Key dates
- Applications close: September 22nd, 2026
- Selected teams announced: September 24th, 2026
- Program starts: September 28th, 2026
- Demo Day (online): First week of November, 2026