Vision

Building Infra­structure for the Future of Value Trans­fer

To date, the power of our internet’s global, instant network of information has been constrained by outdated financial systems.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.

Allison Riley Borison

Head of Go-to-Market

Former product at New York Fed: Project Cedar, Cedar x Ubin+, and Regulated Liability Network.

Kyle Crawshaw

Principal Software Engineer

Former IT & Security lead at Circle, infrastructure at Drift, and R&D engineering lead at Boston Fed.

Gert-Jaap Glasbergen

Distributed Systems Engineer

Lead Engineer and Co-founder at Wadagso, Former Software Engineer at MIT DCI.

Ben Kincaid

Platform Engineer

Former devops consultant in financial services.

Michael Maurer

Distributed Systems Engineer

Engineer at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. Computer Systems graduate student. Formerly engineering research in MRI tech at MGH.

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.

PArSEC

Executing smart contracts in parallel

Project Hamilton

Building a hypothetical central bank digital currency

OpenCBDC

Experimenting with CBDC design

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