Introducing the Arc Builders Fund

Innovation happens when the right builders meet the right infrastructure at the right time. That moment is now.

Today we’re introducing the Arc Builders Fund and Investor Network¹, a new Circle Ventures initiative designed to accelerate innovation and adoption on Arc², the Economic OS for the internet. As an open Layer-1 blockchain engineered for enterprise adoption, Arc delivers stablecoin-based gas, deterministic sub-second finality, and opt-in configurable privacy to power real-world economic activity onchain.

The Arc Builders Fund provides funding from Circle Ventures for select companies, access to an investor network, and hands-on support for early-stage teams building applications enabled and accelerated by Arc’s unique design, such as perpetuals markets, credit protocols, onchain FX, agentic commerce, and more.

By providing support to these builders, the initiative aims to turn Arc’s technical breakthroughs into the foundation for a new era of internet-native financial products. Each investment helps connect bold experimentation to scalable adoption while attracting follow-on capital from top-tier investors.

Fueling the next wave of the internet economy

The fund will be initially focused on high-impact verticals including:

• Always-on markets and capital formation: Arc’s low-latency infrastructure and predictable costs are built for new types of onchain markets, from perpetuals DEXs and AMMs, to CLOBs, private pools, and prediction markets. These markets can enable faster price discovery, more efficient capital formation, and set the foundation for composable innovation across the network.
• Offchain assets and credit markets: Arc provides the foundation for bringing real-world assets (RWAs) and credit markets onchain, and we aim to support leading issuers and credit protocols to unlock new forms of onchain liquidity.
• FX: We plan to leverage Circle StableFX³ and Circle Payments Network (CPN)⁴ to grow onchain FX on Arc by securing new asset issuers, liquidity providers, and opening up corridors that dramatically expand cross-border financial flows.
• Agentic commerce: AI agents, autonomous infrastructure, machines governing machines, all currently forced to operate using financial rails built for humans: slow, expensive, and unpredictable. Agentic tooling with USDC and other stablecoins on Arc should be a foundation for the emerging machine economy.
• Energy and compute: Imagine a world where IoT devices had their own wallets and economic autonomy able to pay for their own energy, data, and maintenance. We are positioning Arc at this intersection of onchain finance, AI and compute demand, and wholesale energy markets, where programmable settlement and predictable fees deliver clear real-world advantages.

For founders and developers, the purpose is straightforward: targeted capital, a direct line to Arc’s core product and infrastructure teams, and the network effects of an ecosystem designed to help you build the new internet economy. We prioritize velocity, clarity of purpose, and unmistakable fit between your product and Arc’s capabilities.

Investor network

The Arc Builders Fund has engaged a growing community of top-tier investors who will gain visibility into submissions to the initiative, including:

• 500 Global
• Breyer Capital
• Canonical Crypto
• CoinFund
• CRV
• Curql Fund
• CV VC
• DCG
• Dispersion Capital
• Dragonfly Capital
• Electric Capital
• Faction Ventures
• Fin Capital
• Flourish Ventures
• Hack VC
• Haun Ventures
• Headline Asia
• Infinity Ventures
• IVC
• Kindred Ventures
• Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Nyca Partners
• Offline Ventures
• SC Ventures
• SNZ Capital
• Strobe Ventures

An invitation to builders

The Arc Builder Fund supports teams whose products need Arc’s unique attributes, who can demonstrate a path to real use cases, and who build primitives other Arc projects will want to compose with. The strongest candidates will show how deterministic finality, predictable fees, onchain FX, opt-in privacy, and enterprise-grade rails are not nice-to-haves but necessary for their roadmap.

If you’re building what’s next for the internet economy, Arc is the place to do it. Sign up here for the waitlist to learn more from the Arc Builders Fund.

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¹ This communication is for informational purposes only and reflects Circle Ventures’ current plans to deploy capital to support teams building on Arc. It is not a fundraising communication for any Circle-sponsored fund and should not be relied upon for any securities transaction. “Arc Builders Fund” is a descriptive label for a Circle Ventures internal initiative. No fund or investment vehicle is being formed and no investors are being solicited. Any referenced capital may be deployed by Circle Ventures, at its sole discretion, and may differ from amounts described. The “Investor Network” refers to third‑party firms interested in reviewing Arc opportunities. Members have no commitment to invest; any decision will be made independently based on their own diligence. Circle Ventures is not acting as an investment adviser to any person or as an intermediary in any securities offering. Circle Ventures will not receive remuneration from Investor Network. Any introductions are solely for convenience so potential investors can engage directly with issuers. Eligibility to participate in any offering by an issuer, if and when made, will be determined solely by that issuer and its counsel, including any requirements relating to investor status, suitability, jurisdiction, and compliance with applicable laws. Nothing herein is investment, legal, accounting, or tax advice. Prospective investors should conduct their own diligence and consult their advisors.

² Arc testnet is offered by Circle Technology Services, LLC (“CTS”). CTS is a software provider and does not provide regulated financial or advisory services. You are solely responsible for services you provide to users, including obtaining any necessary licenses or approvals and otherwise complying with applicable laws. Arc has not been reviewed or approved by the New York State Department of Financial Services. The product features described in these materials are for informational purposes only. All product features may be modified, delayed, or cancelled without prior notice, at any time and at the sole discretion of Circle Technology Services, LLC. Nothing herein constitutes a commitment, warranty, guarantee or investment advice.

³ StableFX is offered by Circle Technology Services, LLC (“CTS”). CTS is a software provider and does not provide regulated financial or advisory services. You are solely responsible for services you provide to users, including obtaining any necessary licenses or approvals and otherwise complying with applicable laws. StableFX is a collection of API and on-chain smart contracts that enable data sharing between counterparties to a transaction without intermediation by CTS. CTS’s role is limited to broadcasting information between the relevant parties and to the on-chain smart contract that enables settlement directly between the relevant parties. CTS does not accept or transmit digital assets on behalf of StableFX users. The product features described in these materials are for informational purposes only. All product features may be modified, delayed, or cancelled without prior notice, at any time and at the sole discretion of Circle Technology Services, LLC. Nothing herein constitutes a commitment, warranty, guarantee or investment advice.

‍⁴ Circle Technology Services, LLC (CTS) is the operator of Circle Payments Network (CPN) and offers products and services to financial institutions that participate in CPN to facilitate their CPN access and integration. CPN connects participating financial institutions around the world, with CTS serving as the technology service provider to participating financial institutions. While CTS does not hold funds or manage accounts on behalf of customers, we enable the global ecosystem of participating financial institutions to connect directly with each other, communicate securely, and settle directly with each other. CTS is not a party to transactions between participating financial institutions facilitated by CPN who use CPN to execute transactions at their own risk. Use of CPN is subject to the CPN Rules and the CPN Participation Agreement between CTS and a participating financial institution.