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Acquisition establishes Circle as the leading U.S. blockchain patent holder and deepens its foundation for the next generation of onchain financial infrastructure NEW YORK – July 27, 2026 – Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL), one of the world’s leading financial platform companies, today announced the acquisition of fundamental assets from the IBM blockchain patent portfolio.

Crosschain payments only feel instant if the dollars are already where the payment needs to land. In the past, to settle the moment a user taps “pay,” networks have had to hold liquidity on the destination chain in advance. Spread that across dozens of chains and the economics get hard: capital sits pre-positioned everywhere, and the lowest-traffic chains are where parking that capital makes the least sense.

Milestone enables institutional custody services NEW YORK — July 10, 2026 — Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL), one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A., a national trust bank. The bank will operate under the name Circle National Trust.

import { createInterface } from "node:readline/promises"; import { stdin as input, stdout as output } from "node:process"; import { createPublicClient, createWalletClient, defineChain, formatUnits, http, isAddress, isHex, parseUnits, } from "viem"; import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts"; import { arcTestnet, arbitrumSepolia, avalancheFuji, baseSepolia, celoSepolia, codexTestnet, cronosTestnet, hyperliquidEvmTestnet, injectiveTestnet, inkSepolia, lineaSepolia, monadTestnet,...

Build AI-native financial applications, discover and pay for services in a machine-readable marketplace, and equip agents with a wallet and balance. Circle Agent Stack provides the building blocks. Works with Legacy finance isn’t built for AI. Agent Stack is. Agent Stack is purpose-built for AI from the protocol up. It delivers the tools developers use to ship AI-powered applications and the financial primitives agents need to hold value, discover services, and transact programmatically.

what you’ll learn Learn how to build a voice call automation with Circle Agent Wallet, AI assistants, and USDC to pay for services, place calls, and return proof of execution. Agent workflows are easy to execute when they only generate text. They become harder when the agent needs to complete a real task end to end: find a service, pay for it, use it, and return proof of what happened. That is where many developer workflows break.

Eligible institutional clients can access USDC through a single onboarding and service experience, without needing direct Circle accounts Dubai, United Arab Emirates — July 2, 2026 —  Standard Chartered today announced the launch of its capability enabling institutional clients to access USDC minting and redemption, developed in partnership with Circle Internet Group, Inc. (Circle) (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of USDC1 through its regulated entities.

When Melyn McKay worked in South Sudan, there was not a functioning ATM in the entire country. To move humanitarian funds, she would fly to Dubai, withdraw cash from her own bank account, and carry it back across the border in her trousers, hoping no one would stop her at a checkpoint manned by armed soldiers. For 15 years, across South Sudan, Lebanon, and Myanmar, she watched the same pattern repeat.

what you’ll learn Circle expands Stablecoin Payouts access into Europe, helping Circle Mint partners automate compliant third-party payouts with USDC and EURC. Access stablecoin payouts now. Circle Mint France partners can now use the Payouts API to send compliant stablecoin payouts in USDC and EURC, helping automate global payout workflows through Circle’s full-stack payments infrastructure.

BNY to Provide Comprehensive Stablecoin Services Combining Custody with Mint and Burn Capabilities NEW YORK — June 29, 2026 — BNY (NYSE: BNY), a global financial services company, today announced an expanded relationship with Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL) as part of new stablecoin enablement capabilities for institutional clients. Circle’s USDC will be the first stablecoin on BNY’s Digital Asset Custody platform, enabling BNY clients to store, transfer, mint and burn USDC.