Vision
Building the Transaction Layer for the AI Economy
The next wave of commerce won't be driven by humans clicking buttons — it will be powered by billions of AI agents making autonomous decisions. Every data lookup, API call, and compute request is an opportunity for interaction. Current payment infrastructure simply can't handle this future. We've built the system that can.
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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
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.
Matt Dionis
Principal Software Engineer
Former Staff Engineer at Catena Labs; Senior Engineer at Auth0; Engineering Manager & Tech Lead at Circle.
Gert-Jaap Glasbergen
Distributed Systems Engineer
Lead Engineer and Co-founder at Wadagso, Former Software Engineer at MIT DCI.
Jasmine Jobe
Associate Product Manager
Former Boston Fed Project Hamilton.
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.
Shaun Scovil
Principal Software Engineer
Former VP of Engineering at The Suite, Director of Engineering and General Manager at Poloniex, and senior engineering leader at Circle.
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, and financial infrastructure. Our work developing Project Hamilton and OpenCBDC culminated in breakthroughs in parallel transaction processing that enable unprecedented scale.
