Circle Launches Agent Stack for Autonomous AI Economic Actors

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