Join us as we welcome our first named grantees of 2026, who wowed us with their projects as we closed out 2025. Learn more about our winners!
Building the future of money requires more than great ideas — it takes real infrastructure, real execution, and builders determined to ship. Through the Circle Grants Program, we support teams turning stablecoins and programmable money into production-grade systems that work in the real world.
We’re excited to introduce our first group of grantees for 2026. This round stood out for their technical depth, execution velocity, and clear momentum through strong platform alignment, meaningful integration plans, and credible paths to success. These are builders proven to ship, designing with Circle infrastructure at the core and building toward production from day one.
To get there, we keep selection rigorous and hands-on. From the outset, teams get meaningful exposure to Circle’s Ecosystem, Ventures, Product and Business Development groups, who review and test applications, evaluate technical implementations and strategic alignment, and stay closely engaged as projects continue shipping. As builders gain traction, that cross-functional engagement helps us unlock additional support, strategic introductions, and co-marketing opportunities to accelerate growth across the Arc and Circle ecosystems.
The result of the selection process is an incredible cohort that’s already building in places programmable finance needs most, including:
• AI-powered financial agents and autonomous commerce
• Payments and treasury infrastructure
• Capital markets and FX systems
• DeFi and liquidity applications
• Real-world asset platforms
Many teams are already integrating Circle products such as Wallets, Gateway, and CCTP, with early experimentation on Arc as a core part of their roadmap.
We can't wait to support these teams as they continue building and iterating, especially as Arc progresses toward mainnet.
Welcome to the newest Circle Developer Grant recipients! We can’t wait to see what you build.
As we prepare to reopen the Grants Program, there will be a stronger emphasis on meaningful Arc integrations. Arc (currently in tesnet) is a stablecoin-native settlement layer designed to power real-time payments, FX, lending, and agent-driven economic activity with predictable fees and deterministic settlement. The next phase of the program will prioritize builders progressing from testnet to mainnet with production-grade deployments that expand capital efficiency, liquidity access, and ecosystem impact.
Stay tuned for Circle’s Developer Grant application reopening
