Vision
Building InfraÂstructure for the Future of Value TransÂfer
To date, the power of our internet’s global, instant network of information has been constrained by outdated financial systems. The next wave of digital commerce demands payments infrastructure that can support entirely new business models.
As our internet evolves beyond advertising and subscriptions, businesses need payment systems capable of handling microtransactions, real-time metering, and usage-based pricing at unprecedented scale.
To date, payment systems have failed to support these models. We've built the system that can.
Our Funders
Meet Our Team
Robert Bench
Founder & CEO
Senior Advisor MIT DCI. Former Boston Fed, GC Circle Trade, Deputy GC, CCO, Head of Policy at Circle.
Madars Virza
Co-founder, Chief Scientist
MIT DCI, Co-founder Zcash, Co-inventor Zerocash, Co-inventor libsnark.
Anders Brownworth
Co-founder, Head of Research & Development
Former custody & trading architect at Circle and developer of USDC and OpenCBDC.
Tyler Frederick
Co-Founder, Head of Product
First-ten employee at Poloniex, surveillance at Circle, strategy at Bitstamp. Former Bitstamp, Boston Fed, Circle & Poloniex.
Kevin Karwaski
Co-founder, Head of Technical Operations
Former trading infrastructure and technical operations lead at Circle Trade & Boston Fed.
Kyle Crawshaw
Principal Software Engineer
Former IT & Security lead at Circle, infrastructure at Drift, and R&D engineering lead at Boston Fed.
Ben Kincaid
Platform Engineer
Former devops consultant in financial services.
Team member research
Built by the team that brought USDC to market and led years of research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative, we combine deep experience in blockchain technology, distributed systems, cryptography, and financial infrastructure. Our work developing Project Hamilton and OpenCBDC culminated in breakthroughs in parallel transaction processing that enable unprecedented scale.
