Card-to-USDC payments infrastructure
The Arcana processor
An inline, no-popup checkout where the card genuinely buys USDC through a licensed on-ramp and settles straight to Arcana or the merchant. ByteNFT's legal core, cloak removed: disclosed, coded to MCC 6051, real flow of funds.
The bright line
All four hold at once, or it isn't clean. This is the whole product.
Disclosed
You are told here, in the terms, and on your receipt that your card buys USDC.
Coded to the real activity
The charge is a crypto purchase at a registered on-ramp under crypto MCC 6051.
Real flow of funds
Card → licensed on-ramp → genuine USDC → merchant. A true transfer, not a wrapper.
Licensed operator
The on-ramp holds the money-transmitter / MSB licenses. Arcana orchestrates only.
On-ramp rails
Swappable behind one adapter. Sandbox runs today, the licensed rails wait on peptide underwriting and keys.
Live ledger
A sandbox snapshot of settlements from the demo checkout below. The full operator view, every merchant, Arcana's gross across the whole book, and on-ramp routing, lives inside Arcana OS.