Grants for exceptional teams building on Arc and the Circle Developer Platform
Funding, co-marketing, and mentorship for teams building systems for real-world financial flows onchain.
Funding and support that helps you grow
Milestone based funding
Tiered USDC funding tied to meaningful integrations and ecosystem impact.
Co-marketing to amplify your mission
Circle co-marketing support, including blog features, social amplification, event participation, and more.
Technical guidance and mentorship
Hands-on guidance from Circle teams supporting integration and architecture decisions.
Circle ecosystem access
Relationship building across Circle teams and strategic ecosystem partners.
What we look for
Use cases we’re focused on
We’re prioritizing applicants whose businesses help us build the new internet financial system.
Agentic economic activity
Enable autonomous AI agents to coordinate, contract, and settle value in real time with programmable, stablecoin-native infrastructure.
Stablecoin FX
Build real-time onchain stablecoin FX products with transparent pricing, instant settlement, and predictable fees.
Peer-to-peer payments
Launch instant, low-cost peer-to-peer payments with stablecoin-native transfers and deterministic settlement.
Treasury management
Deploy stablecoin-powered treasury products faster with embedded wallets, transfers, compliance tooling, and programmable liquidity management.
Prediction markets
Create capital-efficient prediction markets for economic and financial outcomes that aggregate information into real-time price signals with programmable logic and instant, deterministic stablecoin settlement.
Lending and borrowing
Build lending and borrowing products with instant stablecoin settlement, automated collateral logic, and composable onchain risk management.
Here’s what to expect once you apply
You can track your application and message our team directly through the grants platform.
Check out some of our Grantees
See how past grantees integrated Circle products and launched successfully.
Think your project is a good fit?
If you’re building on Arc and Circle Developer Platform, we’d love to review your application.
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