Entities

Circle

Entity Type
Location
Founding Date
2013

Circle is a global financial technology company that empowers businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications worldwide. Its platform has supported over 100 million transactions worth tens of billions of dollars, with nearly 10 million retail customers, over a thousand businesses, while storing and securing more than $5 billion in digital currency assets.

  • Circle is the creator of USD Coin (USDC), the fastest-growing, regulated, fully-reserved stablecoin.
  • USDC now stands at a 3+ billion market cap and is adding more than 100 million net new digital dollars in circulation every week. 
  • It is the most regulated crypto company in the world, with an E-Money Issuer License to operate in the European Economic Area, Money Transmitter Licenses in 48 US states, and the first BitLicense to be awarded by the New York Department of Financial Services
  • It also operates and is licensed as Broker-Dealer and Alternative Trading System by FINRA, and recently received a comprehensive Digital Assets Business License in Bermuda for its international operations.