Circle

Circle was selected as a winner of Newsweek’s AI Impact Award for Best Outcomes, Financial Services for 2026. This recognition reflects our ongoing work as an AI-driven company, including AI-assisted development and agentic workflows that help teams build, execute, and deliver with greater speed. Congratulations to the teams whose work contributed to this recognition. Full list: https://lnkd.in/gaXvhZ8K

There is no global, real-time financial infrastructure that software can program into. Jeremy Allaire explains why agents need to spin up financial endpoints dynamically and transact at micro scale across hardware, software, and services. That is what Arc is being built to support.

Circle’s Post-Quantum Security Roadmap explores a phased approach to potential post-quantum resilience across Arc, USDC, smart contracts, validators, and infrastructure systems. The whitepaper explores: ✅ Quantum-secure signatures ✅ Private execution environments ✅ Validator hardening ✅ Infrastructure migration ✅ Account recovery planning Planning for long-term security, operational readiness, and institutional adoption. https://lnkd.in/g89yWCMz

Circle's Chief Economist Gordon Y. Liao discusses why building the financial rails of tomorrow is so important, with agents in mind as key economic actors on Bits + Bips.

USDC is designed to move like the internet: fast, global, and programmable. Circle Chief Technology and AI Officer Li Fan at SXSW to discuss how onchain infrastructure supports real time, low cost digital currency movement.

When Circle saw agents judging agents and pursuing economic rewards payable in USDC, the potential of an always-on smart economy became clear. Dante A. Disparte’s advice to regulators and central bankers: you cannot have the economy of the future unless you have the money of the future. Stablecoins plus the agentic market coming online is one of the most powerful integrations happening right now.

Circle has been named to FXC Intelligence's Top 100 Cross-Border Payment Companies for 2026. As cross-border payments enter a new era, this recognition reflects Circle’s role in helping businesses and financial institutions use stablecoins to move value globally with greater speed, reach, and efficiency.

On June 4, Circle is hosting a live AMA session from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. EDT with CEO Jeremy Allaire on X and YouTube. Submit your questions live through either channel beginning at 8:45 a.m. EDT.   Set Reminder: https://lnkd.in/gE8-fP6m Our X Handle: https://x.com/circle

APIs were built for developers with keys, accounts, and billing systems. Agents need something simpler: discover a service, understand the price, pay for access, and keep working. With Circle Agent Stack, developers can add x402 payment gates to APIs so agents can pay per call in USDC. ✅ Charge as low as $0.0001 per call ✅ Let agents access endpoints without a traditional checkout flow ✅ Earn in USDC automatically ✅ List services in the Agent Marketplace For API providers, this opens a new surface for monetization. agents.circle.com

Introducing ChainBench, built in collaboration with @OpenZeppelin. ChainBench is a benchmark for evaluating how LLMs generate crosschain smart contracts. It measures model-agent performance across 42 tasks, including contract generation and translation workflows based on real-world OpenZeppelin Contracts. The research shows frontier models perform well on simpler tasks, but can still fail in security-critical edge cases as complexity increases. Read the full research: https://lnkd.in/gvFJYQe2