Getting stock exposure while staying on Arc is usually messy. Astock tries to simplify it. You send USDC on Arc and receive a token like aNVDA or aTSLA in the same wallet. Behind it sits the real tokenized stock, bought and held on Robinhood Chain.
How It Works
You pick a stock and deposit USDC. A 0.25% fee comes out first. The rest goes to a vault on Robinhood Chain that buys the stock and holds it in reserve. A matching amount of the Arc token is minted to you, usually within a minute. Selling works in reverse: the token is burned, the stock is sold, and USDC comes back after another 0.25% fee. No fee while you hold.
Reserves and Tokens
The site shows the reserve on Robinhood Chain next to the circulating supply on Arc and refreshes both every 20 seconds. About 29 stocks are available so far, added as liquidity allows. Once on Arc the tokens are regular ERC-20s that other contracts can use.
Holders of the ASTOCK token also get payouts in actual stock. A large share of the token’s trading fees is used to buy stock and send it directly to wallets. People can pick a preferred stock or take the round’s default. Several rounds have already paid out.
Extra Pieces
You can set recurring buys so a fixed amount of USDC purchases a stock automatically. There is a gift feature for sending stock tokens, and a launchpad for creating tokens paired against stocks instead of stablecoins. The platform is also preparing to support xStocks alongside the current Robinhood Chain versions.
It is still early and limited in size, but the public reserve vi
ew and the direct USDC-to-stock flow make it one of the simpler ways to hold a slice of stocks like NVDA or SPY without leaving Arc or opening a separate brokerage. The site shows the current stocks and live reserve numbers if you want to check the state yourself.