Arc was engineered to move perfectly stable money. Every transaction was predictable. Every settlement was final. Every dollar behaved exactly as intended.
Then engineers heard scratching inside the ledger. A Persian cat had been feeding on liquidations, failed breakouts, leverage, and the shattered dreams of late-night traders.
They classified him as a rounding error. He scratched through the firewall. They placed him inside an immutable contract.
The contract stayed locked. The cat got out.