Embedded-finance provider tracked in the Embedded Finance Index — disclosed by 22 companies across 3 categories.
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Founded in 2013 as a Bitcoin consumer payments app, Circle pivoted away from retail crypto trading after launching USDC in 2018 to focus entirely on B2B stablecoin infrastructure. The company shut down its consumer Circle Pay product circa 2020 and abandoned a SPAC deal in 2022 before refiling for a traditional IPO. By 2024–2025, Circle had repositioned as a publicly traded stablecoin issuer and payments network operator — operating USDC, EURC, and USYC while building Circle Payments Network (CPN) as a global stablecoin settlement rail connecting banks, PSPs, and enterprises.
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<img src="https://www.embeddedfinanceindex.com/api/badge/circle/install" width="1" height="1" alt="" style="display:none">22 companies disclose Circle in their stack in the Embedded Finance Index 2026, including Owlting Group, Coins.ph, Moneygram, Kast, Safenetpay, Buda, Confirmo, Owlting, Gresham, Bitcoin and 2 others.
Circle is an embedded-finance provider in FX / Payouts, Crypto / Stablecoin and Lending. It ranks #2 of 57 Crypto / Stablecoin providers by disclosed buyers.
Circle has applied for a national trust bank charter for First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A. (Circle National Trust) with the OCC. Status: approved (2026-07-10).
The most-disclosed Crypto / Stablecoin alternatives to Circle are Zero Hash (25 buyers), Bridge (16 buyers), BVNK (13 buyers), Fireblocks (12 buyers), Tempo (12 buyers) and Lightspark (9 buyers).
Circle was founded by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville and is founded in 2013, headquartered in New York City, United States.
Circle has raised ~$1.1B (pre-IPO) in total.
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