Circle Launches Agent Stack for Autonomous AI Economic Actors

May 11, 2026

Circle Internet Group launched Circle Agent Stack on May 11, 2026, a suite enabling AI agents to function as autonomous economic actors. Available at http://agents.circle.com, the platform includes Agent Wallets for autonomous fund management, Agent Marketplace for service discovery, and Nanopayments supporting gas-free USDC transfers as small as $0.000001 at machine speed. Circle trades on the NYSE under ticker CRCL.

Circle Agent Stack launch

▪Jeremy Allaire is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle.
▪Circle trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CRCL.
▪Nikhil Chandhok is Chief Product and Technology Officer at Circle.
▪Circle Agent Stack products are immediately available at http://agents.circle.com.
▪Circle Internet Group, Inc. announced the launch of Circle Agent Stack on May 11, 2026.
▪Circle Agent Stack is a set of services and tools designed for the agentic economy.

AI agents as economic actors

▪Circle Agent Stack helps developers and self-running AI agents build systems where agents can hold assets, discover services, and transact programmatically with USDC across supported blockchains and payment protocols.
▪Circle Agent Stack includes products that help enable agents as autonomous economic actors.
▪Circle Agent Stack is the first full suite of services Circle is launching where AI agents themselves are the customers, not just developers and enterprises.

Initial product suite

▪Agent Wallets are permissionless, policy-controlled wallets optimized for agents to hold, send, and manage funds autonomously within predefined guardrails.
▪Agents can sign up and begin using Agent Wallets immediately.
▪Circle CLI is a command interface that lets developers and AI agents build applications on top of Circle's entire platform suite, with a focus on wallets, payments, and policy management for agents.
▪Agent Marketplace is a curated directory of agentic services that both humans and AI agents can browse, evaluate and integrate with.

Nanopayments infrastructure

▪Nanopayments powered by Circle Gateway is a protocol that enables gas-free USDC transfers as small as $0.000001 at machine-speed and scale.
▪Nanopayments powered by Circle Gateway is designed for high-frequency, sub-cent, machine-to-machine payment flows.

USDC for agentic economy

▪Circle combines USDC with programmable wallets, service discovery, machine-readable controls, and payment infrastructure built for software.
▪USDC is internet-native, programmable, and always available.
▪Circle's platform includes the world's largest stablecoin network anchored by USDC.