Program guide

Arc Microgrants

Arc Microgrants

500 USDC × 20 grants · ends Oct 14

Difficulty:
Medium (estimate) — 20 winners per round; past counts not published

What won before

in Arc's tracks at ETHGlobal Cannes 2026

  • Pay-per-use micropayments for agents and content (4 winners)
  • Prediction markets settled on real-world signals (2)
  • Real-world USDC payments: offline mesh, trip pooling (2)
  • Example: NanoCrawl — Agents pay publishers per page in sub-cent USDC

What Arc wants now

  • Agentic economic activity
  • Stablecoin FX and peer-to-peer payments
  • Treasury management

Your best bet

  • A pay-per-use agent app settling USDC micropayments, live on Arc mainnet

Builder bonus: new pool · leaderboard

All programs

Sources: program page · past winners · priorities