Circle
Circle builds blockchain-based financial infrastructure, including the USDC and EURC stablecoins, payments networks and developer APIs for cross-border value exchange.
Circle, founded in 2013, builds blockchain-based financial infrastructure intended to connect financial institutions, enterprises and developers to an internet financial system. Its technical work spans stablecoins, digital assets, payments infrastructure, financial APIs, cross-border payments and programmable money, delivered largely through developer-facing tooling.
Central to the company's offering is USDC, described as the world's largest regulated stablecoin, which combines fiat stability with blockchain speed and programmability and is reported to enable trillions of dollars in economic activity. Complementary products include EURC, a euro-denominated stablecoin; the Circle Payments Network, which supports near-instant global settlement and low-cost, 24/7 cross-border payments; and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain positioned as an economic operating system for the internet.
Circle reports serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide and holds regulatory licences across eight jurisdictions: the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Bermuda, Canada and Japan. The company states a focus on full transparency and regulatory compliance, and frames its work around raising global economic prosperity and supporting an always-on digital economy.
Engineers and builders at the company work against problems in cross-border settlement, payments infrastructure and financial application APIs across the financial services, banking, enterprise and developer-platform sectors.