Arc, Circle's USDC-native Layer 1, goes live on public mainnet on September 16, 2026, and Banana Gun support from day 1 for Arc means there is no waitlist and no separate setup. You get the fastest execution speed for Arc on Banana Gun from the first minute.
What Is Arc?
Arc is not another general-purpose EVM chain. It is Circle's own L1, built so that USDC is the native gas token. Fees are denominated in dollars, there is no separate chain token to hold for gas, and finality lands in under a second through the Malachite consensus engine, with an EVM-compatible execution layer built on Reth.
The validator set is permissioned and reads like a directory of traditional finance. Alongside Circle, the eleven founding validators include BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard, ICE, Standard Chartered, Galaxy, MoneyGram, SBI, Sumitomo and Global Payments. Arc raised $222 million in a private presale led by a16z, launching at a $3 billion fully diluted valuation. BlackRock has flagged plans to deploy its BUIDL fund on the network, and DTCC is targeting tokenization of DTC-custodied assets in H2 2027.
Why Wallet Selection Is Important Here
Every wallet trading on Arc mainnet is trading on a chain that did not exist in production yesterday, whatever experience it brings from elsewhere.
Testnet activity does not count. Testnet USDC is free, testnet risk is zero, and a wallet that looked brilliant on the Arc testnet was making decisions with nothing on the line. There is no multi-cycle track record to check, no drawdown history to study, and not yet a single mainnet cycle to point at. Some of the traders showing up on Arc carry years of experience from Ethereum, Solana or Base. The chain itself has no way to tell you which ones do.
How to Judge a Wallet To Copytrade
A few checks still hold up on a tape this short.
- Trade count over profit. Three lucky trades tell you nothing, thirty tell you something. On day one, nobody has thirty.
- Position sizing consistency. Wild swings between small and large trades often mean a wallet still finding its footing on a new chain.
- Behavior during any drawdown you can find. A wallet that has never sold at a loss has not been tested yet.
- Activity on other chains. This matters more on Arc than anywhere else right now, because it is the only place a real record can exist. Arc is EVM-compatible, so the same address may already have a long history on Ethereum, Base or BNB Chain that you can pull before you commit.
For the mechanics of pulling a wallet's record before you copy it, see the guide on how to track a wallet on chain.
Setting Up Copy Trade and Sizing Your Entries
Add the wallet address inside the Telegram bot, then choose from three copy modes: Simple, Advanced and Advanced Presets. Confirm the exact options inside the bot itself, since menus change faster than any article can track.
If you're new to wallet mirroring, Copy trading covers the underlying mechanics: your bot detects a transaction from the target wallet and submits a matching trade from yours. On Arc, sub-second finality means the gap between the target wallet's fill and yours is measured in blocks that clear in under a second, and Banana Gun is built to close that gap first.
Buy Fixed sets one fixed amount for every trade you copy, so a large position from the target wallet does not become an oversized one in yours. On Arc that amount is in USDC, the same asset paying your gas, so there is no second token to keep topped up.
Buy Only Once blocks repeat entries from the same wallet for seven days.
Min and Max Market Cap filters stop the bot from copying into tokens outside a range you set. On a chain whose token roster is being written in real time, this is the filter that keeps you out of a launchpad token that existed for eleven minutes.
On a chain that is hours old, these filters are the main guardrail against a wallet's bad day, and against a wallet that simply has no good days to point to yet.
Exits, and Where Banana Pro Stands
Trailing Stop Loss follows a position upward and locks in an exit once price pulls back by a set amount. Limit orders let you fix a target exit price in advance, useful when you have not fully vetted the wallet you are copying, which on Arc is every wallet.
Arc is supported on Banana Pro from day one. the web terminal that already covers Ethereum, Solana, Base, BNB, MegaETH, Robinhood Chain, HyperEVM, and Stable. Both run on the same engine, which is what delivers the fastest execution speed for Arc on Banana Gun.
Start small if you copy a wallet on Arc now. Cap exposure with Buy Fixed, tighten the market cap filters, and set a trailing stop before you look away. Open Banana Gun in Telegram or Banana Pro on the web, pick a candidate wallet with a record somewhere else, and lock in sizing and exits before you turn the copy on. That order matters more on a chain that launched today than on one with years of history behind every wallet.
