Tower Exchange joins Arc accelerator as cohort expands to 12 teams

Tower Exchange joins Arc accelerator as cohort expands to 12 teams

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2026-09-09 08:33:53
Stablecoin DEX aggregator Tower Exchange said it has been selected for the Arc Accelerator Program after previously taking part in the Programmable Money Hackathon. The team said it built the product to address fragmented liquidity across DEXs on Arc, which had been raising trading costs for users. Tower Exchange also presented its progress to the Arc team during a Demo Day hosted by Encode Club and Arc. Separately, Arc ecosystem builder dinhdat said the accelerator cohort was increased from the originally planned eight teams to 12 because of the strength of submissions. Besides Tower Exchange, the selected projects include YIELD, TakumiPay, Attnn., XyloNet, PREDGE, GridProof by OpenVPP, Hash PayLink, Novi Corpus, Shadow, Xiaolee and Yamata, covering use cases such as SME finance, QR-code USDC payments, cross-chain stablecoin exchange, machine-to-machine payments, infrastructure for AI agents and a unified margin account built on Arc.

Stablecoin DEX aggregator Tower Exchange said it has been selected for the Arc Accelerator Program. Before that, the project took part in the Programmable Money Hackathon.

The team said the product came out of a specific problem on Arc: liquidity is spread across multiple DEXs, increasing costs for traders. Tower Exchange said it built its stablecoin aggregator to address that issue. The project has also appeared at a Demo Day hosted by Encode Club and Arc, where it presented its progress to the Arc team.

Arc expands accelerator cohort to 12 projects

Arc ecosystem builder dinhdat said the accelerator cohort was expanded to 12 teams from an original plan of eight because of the quality of submissions.

In addition to Tower Exchange, the selected teams are:

  • YIELD, an autonomous CFO agent for small and medium-sized businesses in Europe;
  • TakumiPay, which supports QR-code USDC payments and connects to Indonesia’s QRIS merchant network;
  • Attnn., an attention trading marketplace;
  • XyloNet, a stablecoin swap and cross-chain platform on Arc;
  • PREDGE, which offers pay-per-use settlement for signed market signals;
  • GridProof by OpenVPP, a machine-to-machine payment protocol for power grid and electric vehicle use cases;
  • Hash PayLink, which provides non-custodial USDC payment links and QR-code collections;
  • Novi Corpus, which offers governed economic identity and capped vaults for AI agents;
  • Shadow, which provides programmable working-capital credit for agents;
  • Xiaolee, a creator super app that uses the x402 protocol to send campaign payments directly to creators’ wallets;
  • Yamata, a unified margin account using Arc as a shared USDC credit layer.
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