Gas denominated in USDC
Fees are priced in dollars, not in a volatile asset you have to go buy first. Every transaction on Arc is quoted in the money it moves.
_ internet money broke the internet
$HTTP
had to take P for money
In 1999 the web reserved a status code for money and then shipped without any. 402 Payment Required sat empty for twenty-seven years while the whole internet built workarounds around the hole. Circle spent thirteen of those years building the “HTTP for Money” it named in 2013. On 16 September 2026 it went live as Arc. The protocol is finished. We took the P.
CONTRACT
TBA — LAUNCHING ON ARC
- ARCchain
- USDCnative gas
- <500msfinality
- 0 / 0tax
+420.69%
+133.37%
+69.42%
Connection established
HTTP/1.1 402
Done, but with errors on page.
arc chain
SECTION 10.4.3
PAYMENT
REQUIRED
The web launched with no way to pay for anything. The authors of HTTP/1.1 knew it, so they wrote a status code for the money that did not exist yet and left a single sentence next to it: reserved for future use.
That placeholder outlived the browser wars, the dot-com crash, Flash, mobile, and three generations of advertising. Every paywall, every card form, every subscription trap, every cookie banner selling your attention because the payment was impossible — all of it is scar tissue grown over one unimplemented line.
Money did not break the internet. The internet shipped without the money, and then spent thirty years pretending that was fine.
>$ curl -i https://internet/money
HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT
Server: the-web/1.1
X-Note: "reserved for future use"
Retry-After: 9999999999
# 2013 -> attempting "HTTP for Money"
# tunneling USD over bitcoin ...... FAILED
# waiting for the chain to scale .. FAILED
# ethereum, 2016 .................. OK
# usdc, oct 23 2018 ............... OK
# arc mainnet, sep 16 2026 ........ OK
>$ curl -i https://arc/money
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/money
Gas-Denomination: USDC
Finality: 0.4s
> Success. $HTTP_The code was always there. Nobody had the money to put in it.
ORIGIN
HTTP FOR MONEY
This ticker is not a joke about a protocol. It is the exact phrase the man who built the dollar stablecoin used to describe what he was trying to make — written down publicly, thirteen years before the chain existed.
“The real origin story began in early 2013 when Circle co-founder Sean Neville and I were deep in evaluating how it would become possible to build an HTTP for Money that would enable dollar digital currency to operate on the public internet by building on blockchains and crypto.”
- 1999
402 is reserved
HTTP/1.1 defines a status code for payment and leaves the body empty. Reserved for future use. Nobody uses it.
- 2013
“HTTP for Money”
Allaire and Neville start evaluating how to put dollars on the public internet as an open protocol. The phrase goes on the record.
- 2015
Tunneling fails
Years spent pushing dollars, euro and pounds over Bitcoin. The technology moves slowly. Circle takes the first NY BitLicense instead.
- 2018
USDC ships
23 October. The dollar becomes a token anything on the internet can hold. The rail exists. The chain under it still does not.
- 2026
Arc goes live
16 September. A Layer 1 where gas is priced in USDC and blocks settle in under half a second. Thirteen years late, 402 finally resolves.
- NOW
Had To Take P
The protocol got finished. The chart went green. Somebody was always going to do this, and it is us.
SUBSTRATE
WHY ARC
Memecoins normally launch on a chain that has nothing to do with the joke. This one is native to its own punchline: the first network where the gas you burn is a dollar.
Sub-500ms finality
Malachite, a Tendermint-derived BFT engine. A transaction is settled the moment the block closes — no confirmation counting, no reorgs to wait out.
EVM execution on Reth
Solidity, Foundry and Hardhat work unmodified. The launchpad, the router and the LP are all tooling you already know.
Built by the USDC issuer
Circle’s own Layer 1, opened to the public on 16 September 2026, with a founding validator set drawn from the institutions that settle the old internet’s money.
$HTTP is an independent community memecoin on Arc. It is not issued, endorsed, operated or in any way affiliated with Circle, Arc, or any person quoted on this page. The history is real. The coin is a joke about the history.
HEADERS
SUPPLY
Fair launch on an Arc launchpad bonding curve. No presale, no team bag, no unlock cliff waiting to land on your head six weeks from now. Everything is in the response.
TICKER
$HTTP
ARC
X-Name: Had To Take P
X-Symbol: $HTTP
X-Chain: Arc
X-Total-Supply: 1,000,000,000
X-Buy-Tax: 0%
X-Sell-Tax: 0%
X-Liquidity: burned
X-Mint-Authority: revoked
X-Team-Allocation: none
X-Presale: none
X-Utility: 402 Payment Required
X-Roadmap: see below
Cache-Control: no-storeSTATUS CODES
The roadmap is a response chain
- 100
Continue
Launch on the curve. Contract renounced, LP burned, chart open. The client is told it may proceed.
- 200
OK
Graduation to a permanent market. Holder base, terminal listings, the parts of a memecoin that are just being visible enough to find.
- 402
Payment Required
The whole point. Merch, a paywall that actually takes $HTTP, and every joke about the code that has been sitting unused since 1999.
- 301
Moved Permanently
Wherever this ends up, it does not come back. No redirect chain, no second launch, no forwarding address.
GET /money
HOW TO BUY
-
1
Get an Arc-capable wallet
Arc is EVM-compatible, so any standard EVM wallet works once you add the network. Fund it with USDC — on Arc that is both the asset and the gas.
-
2
Bridge USDC to Arc
Move USDC across with Circle’s native transfer route or any supported bridge. Keep a little spare; fees are cents but they are still fees.
-
3
Open the contract
Paste the $HTTP contract address from this page into the Arc launchpad or your router of choice. Verify it character by character. Copy it from here and nowhere else.
-
4
Take the P
Swap, confirm, hold. The block closes in under half a second, which is roughly how long the decision took you.
CONTRACT
TBA — LAUNCHING ON ARC
ERROR LOG
FAQ
Everything that gets asked in the first hour of a launch, answered before the first hour.
What does HTTP stand for here?
Had To Take Profit. Or Had To Take P, depending on how much you took. The protocol borrowed the letters first; we are only giving them a second meaning that fits the chart better.
Is this affiliated with Circle or Arc?
No. Not at all, in any direction. $HTTP is a community memecoin that happens to launch on Arc and happens to be built out of a real, publicly published quote. Nothing here is issued, reviewed or endorsed by Circle.
Is there a presale or a team allocation?
No presale, no allocation, no private round. Fair launch on the curve, same entry as everyone reading this.
Why launch on Arc instead of somewhere with more users?
Because the joke only works here. A coin about the internet’s missing payment layer belongs on the chain built by the company that spent thirteen years trying to write it.
What is the utility?
402 Payment Required. It is a memecoin. It does not do your taxes, secure your identity or settle interbank flows. It is a bet on a joke that a lot of people are going to get.
Can I lose money on this?
Yes, all of it, quickly. Memecoins have no floor, no revenue and no obligation to you. Nothing on this page is financial advice. Size it like it goes to zero, because that is the default outcome.