Company
Circle
Peer-to-peer payments technology company
Circle Internet Group, Inc. is a payments technology company. Founded by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville in 2013, it is currently headquartered in New York City and issues two types of stablecoin: USDC, which has a conversion rate pegged to the U.S. dollar, and EURC, which is euro-denominated.
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“Circle Internet Group, Inc. is a payments technology company.”
Named in 2 pieces
Web3 × AI
Agent-Native Money
Coinbase's x402 protocol, launched in May 2025, and Mastercard's June 2026 Agent Pay for Machines are converging on stablecoin rails built for autonomous agents, with Cloudflare, Stripe, and Circle racing to plug in.
Analysis
The Agent Economy Needs a Bank
Mastercard, Stripe's Tempo, and Coinbase's x402 built rival payment rails for AI agents in 2026. The transaction counts already published point to one billion machine payments before 2027 closes.