Circle Ventures

Circle Ventures supports founders & teams building on #USDC & #EURC to help fuel global economic prosperity. Venture arm of @circle.

[Morpho 🦋 @Morpho]

Morpho Association has raised $175M to build the open credit network for the world.

Co-led by @paradigm, @a16zcrypto, @RibbitCapital with strategic participation from @apolloglobal, @vaneck_us, @circle_ventures, and @Ledger @Cathayinnov.

The round also included participation from @variantfund, @wmt_ventures, @preludexyz, @IOSGVC, @HashKey_Capital, @sbigroup, @Bpifrance, @mirana, @bamazizimesh, NJJ Capital and 10+ other strategic partners.

The funding will help accelerate Morpho's position as the foundation for onchain credit.

[Turnkey 🔑 @turnkeyhq]

Thrilled to announce a $12.5M strategic investment to meet accelerating demand for crypto wallets and verifiable computing.

With participation from @circle_ventures, @archetypevc, and existing investors @BainCapCrypto, @FactionVC, @galaxyhq, @sequoia, and @variantfund.

[idOS @idOS_network]

The idOS Economy Network is launching tomorrow on @arbitrum, powered by USDC.

This is a critical step towards creating a self-sustainable data economy for stablecoins, without sacrificing users' data security or privacy.

Thanks to @circle_ventures for backing our vision!

[Jeremy Allaire @jerallaire]

Congrats to Ian and team!

Seamless USDC business accounts and payments with both fiat and crypto interop in the background presents a great UX!

[Crossmint @crossmint]

We’re excited to announce a strategic investment from @circle_ventures.

It’s one of many ways we’re working with Circle to bring stablecoin-powered payments to billions of users and AI agents, and millions of companies. 🧵

[Space and Time @spaceandtime]

We're thrilled to collaborate with @circle_ventures to bring USDC to Space and Time.

Developers can use USDC to pay for ZK-proven queries on SXT Chain, where the funds are automatically converted into SXT.

Space and Time is now connected to the global stablecoin economy.

[D2X Group @D2X_Official]

🚀 D2X raises €4.3M in strategic funding

We're excited to welcome @CMT_Digital , @circle_ventures , and @CantonNetwork Ventures as strategic investors - alongside renewed support from @p72vc , @TiogaCapital , @GSR_io , and @FortinoCapital.

This round marks a key step forward as we continue to facilitate institutional adoption of digital assets, with the funding supporting product expansion and client onboarding.

With USD-denominated BTC & ETH futures now live  - and options launching soon - we remain focused on delivering regulated, institutional-grade infrastructure for the digital asset derivatives market.

Read the full release here: https://t.co/NFvtw64dEQ

[OpenBlock @openblocklabs]

1/ Introducing TxnGym: a reinforcement-learning environment where LLMs learn to turn your intents into valid transactions –– powered by @NousResearch’s Atropos, @Circle’s @USDC, and a fork of @Base.

[tyllen @0xTyllen]

Nine months ago we ushered in AI Payments to the mainstream, with our announcement of @PaymanAI. Today we’re excited to launch the strongest financial infrastructure ever for AI Agents.

https://t.co/VquZfmmtID

Existing financial API providers have been built for the SaaS world, not the AI Agent world. We’ve built Payman exclusively for AI Agent developers.

AI Agents require a different type of financial control, regulation, and ease of integration that developers aren’t getting today. We’ve thought of all the ins and outs so you don’t have to.

Built by AI developers for AI developers, we've thought of everything your AI needs to handle payments safely.

We’ve raised $13 million from incredible investors like @Visa, @cbventures , @circle, @freestylevc usher in a new wave of money movement for AI Agents.

Get started today!

[Lens @LC]

We're excited to announce a $31 million strategic raise led by @FactionVC to fuel the rise of SocialFi.

[Superform @superformxyz]

1/ Superform has raised $3M led by @vaneck_us Ventures to launch SuperVaults: Intelligent Onchain Yield Products

The first SuperVault, SuperUSDC is now live, earning 22% APY: https://t.co/OzM9Xj4WYM

[Space and Time @spaceandtime]

We are thrilled to announce that Space and Time Labs has secured a $20M Series A, bringing our total funding to $50 million. 🚀⏳

SxT is empowering the community to own their future in an AI-powered world by providing the tools they need to build sophisticated, data-driven applications, tokenize them onchain, and win in the AI economy.

Generate a new world with Space and Time, secured by our sub-second ZK coprocessor.

Exclusive by @FortuneMagazine: https://t.co/JtdqAtHyyg

[Rhinestone @rhinestonewtf]

⚡Funding Secured! ⚡

We’ve raised $5M, led by @1kxnetwork and with participation from @coinfund @lattice_fund @HeartcoreCap @circle @AlchemyPlatform @zksync and @BuildOnCyber

Transforming smart accounts into a platform for open innovation 🚀

[Blackbird @blackbird]

Restaurants spark joy. Waiting for and splitting the check? Not so much. With Blackbird Pay, that's a thing of the past. Check in to open your check, plus set your tip and split the bill, all from our app, and when you're done, simply get up and go. @packyM with the deep dive ⬇️

[Sui @SuiNetwork]

Out now on Sui Mainnet:
🎊Mysticeti 🎊
Meet the breakthrough consensus protocol that reduced consensus time on Testnet by 80 percent!

Mysticeti achieves the fastest overarching latency, reaching consensus on Testnet in 390ms with 640ms settlement finality. This represents an 80% reduction from Narwhal-Bullshark 😲

Mysticeti marks a new milestone in DAG-based consensus algorithms. In addition to decoupling latency from throughput, the algorithm also manages to maintain extremely high throughput (even in the presence of network and node failures)!

So what exactly does Mysticeti mean for performance – and for you? 🤔

💧Fewest rounds to complete commits:
Mysticeti validators sign and share blocks without certification, making each round a half round trip, the least round-trips of any DAG-based consensus algorithm.

💧Increased throughput *without* increased latency:
Forgoing the primary-worker distinction, Mysticeti simply inlines transactions within the primary’s block and still delivers a very high throughput – well over 100K TPS without significant increases in latency.

💧 Earlier committed transactions:
Mysticeti’s novel commit rule naturally appoints multiple leaders every round, allowing more transactions to be committed earlier.

To be clear, this is a rollout. Not all Mysticeti improvements will be evident today. During the upcoming weeks, the upgrade process will unfold in several steps.

Dive in and see for yourself how Mysticeti offers an improved user experience with lightning fast transactions across all apps, from games to DeFi. And stay tuned for further upgrades during the roll out on Mainnet.

[idOS @idOS_network]

Announcing our $4.5m round led by @fabric_vc, and including leading web3 ecosystems and organizations @arbitrum, @Circle Ventures, @ripplexdev, @NEARProtocol, @GnosisDAO, @Aleph__Zero, @radixdlt and @tezos.

This round also marks the creation of the idOS Consortium—a collaborative initiative among leading web3 ecosystems and organizations. The Consortium aims to develop the identity layer of web3 and promote the adoption of decentralized identity throughout the web3 space.

idOS is a decentralized data storage and access management protocol. It enables ecosystems to provide an identity layer for dApps to solve compliant user onboarding and significantly reduce friction. For users, idOS provides control over their data and the ability to decide with whom they share it.

A cross-chain, composable and compliant identity layer is a crucial element for web3 to achieve mainstream adoption. Our goal is to bring DeFi into the real world by enabling everyday use cases that leverage decentralized, permissionless, and more efficient web3 infrastructure.

We call this OpenFi.

To make this a reality, we are working together with our Consortium Partners and teams such as @safe, @Celo, @Fractal_ID, @KwilTeam, @monerium, @MentoLabs, @OVioHQ, @gnosispay, @zealwallet and many others.

Monolithic identity systems and closed standards have been major obstacles to the adoption of decentralized identity. This is a call for all identity builders, ecosystems and OpenFi infrastructure providers and dApps to join us in our mission. Let's come together to finally build an open identity system the way it is supposed to be!

Read the full announcement blog here: https://t.co/OFDHCBJEwH

[Circle Ventures @circle_ventures]

Centrifuge is bridging the gap between tokenization and DeFi.

Today, @Centrifuge has announced its Series A funding to power their mission to drive widespread adoption of institutional DeFi. 👏

[Centrifuge @centrifuge]

Centrifuge has raised $15M to scale the adoption of institutional DeFi.

With this round of Series A funding secured, we're excited to share our key focuses for Centrifuge's development, innovation, and adoption across the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance: ↓

𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: We're building the most efficient and user-friendly fund management platform onchain. Managers can launch funds, tokenize assets, and offer investment opportunities — all through Centrifuge.

𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: We're continuing to build more integrations for lending, borrowing, and investing in real-world assets, taking advantage of the entire DeFi ecosystem's composability and utility.

𝗘𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: Through being a founding member of the Tokenized Asset Coalition as well as hosting the global Real-World Asset Summit, we're fostering an industry where a rising tide lifts all boats.

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁: Key hires to our core team will accelerate Centrifuge's development and adoption.

"The Centrifuge team is a leader in real-world asset tokenization, taking a deeply thoughtful approach to design decisions around legal, regulatory, and smart contract architecture. We believe we're reaching an inflection point in institutional adoption and are excited to double down with the Centrifuge team." - Ben Forman, @paraficapital.

"We firmly believe that Centrifuge is poised to claim significant portions of this market. Having pioneered their category, the team demonstrates unwavering resilience through many years of commitment across several market cycles. Their expertise in navigating the intricacies of integrating real-world assets into decentralized finance is unparalleled." - @felix_macht, @greenfield_cap.

We're grateful for Centrifuge's supporters who share our vision of a better financial system onchain. As we move forward, we're more enthusiastic than ever about creating a more efficient, fair, and inclusive financial system. 🌀

[Huma @humafinance]

We're excited to announce that Huma Finance and @arf_one are joining forces to redefine global finance with a groundbreaking merger 🤝🌍

About one billion people around the world are dependent on international payments, and this collaboration is set to transform cross-border payments and asset tokenization, democratizing financial access for businesses and people around the world.

Together, we’re on track to surpass $3B in on-chain liquidity volume by the end of 2024. Our solution, enabled by @Circle’s $USDC, @StellarOrg, @Celo and @0xPolygonDeFi, has already facilitated over $1B in cross-border payments.

Read more: https://t.co/ah9VdeI09p

[Encrypt Onchain @EncryptOnchain]

🔥 First ever FHE Summit @EthCC

Full day focused on FHE in web3 on July 10th in Brussels.

Explore our vision and top speakers here 👇

[Obligate @obligatecom]

Obligate has issued a landmark digital bond for Euronext's Metavisio (Thomson Computing). A first for public companies, this USDC issuance on
@0xPolygon PoS bypasses traditional banks! @circle @CredoraPlatform #DigitalFinance https://t.co/oI2cABzQkn