Circle
PulseAugur coverage of Circle — every cluster mentioning Circle across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
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Circle launches Eclipse suite to boost creator community businesses
Circle, a platform for creators to build membership businesses, has launched Eclipse, a suite of five new products designed to foster community engagement. The new offerings include an AI partner, a unified admin inbox,…
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LG Electronics builds blockchain for ad sales on Arbitrum
LG Electronics is developing a blockchain-based advertising platform using Arbitrum's layer-2 technology. This new network aims to create a shared database for ad inventory and track customer interactions, streamlining …
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Crypto lending protocol Morpho raises $175M at $2B valuation
Morpho, a startup focused on blockchain-based lending and borrowing, has secured $175 million in a funding round. The investment was led by prominent crypto investors including Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, and a16z crypto,…
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase eye stablecoin platform
Major payment companies Visa and Mastercard are reportedly in discussions with Stripe and Coinbase to establish a new stablecoin platform. This initiative aims to challenge the current dominance of players like Tether a…
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Agent economy's 'settlement' term splits into three funded meanings
The term "settlement layer" in the agent economy has emerged with multiple interpretations, leading to confusion. Three recently funded products, AEON, Circle's Agent Stack, and Fireblocks' Agentic Payments Suite, each …
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Agent economy's 'settlement layer' concept splits into four distinct meanings
The term "settlement layer" is being used ambiguously in the agent economy, referring to at least four distinct concepts. These include payment-rail settlement for agent-to-merchant transactions, micropayment rails for …
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Circle and Nium Partner to Bolster Stablecoins and Agentic AI Payments
Circle and Nium are collaborating to enhance stablecoin and agentic payment systems. This partnership aims to address existing vulnerabilities within agentic AI frameworks. The initiative focuses on improving financial …
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Circle embraces agentic commerce despite market immaturity
Circle, the issuer of the stablecoin USDC, is actively exploring agentic commerce, a nascent field within AI. Despite the technology's significant promise, it has yet to achieve widespread adoption or a "mainstream mark…
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x402 protocol enables per-API call payments, five services live
The x402 protocol, designed for per-API call payments in USDC, has seen rapid adoption since its launch in May 2025. Major players like Coinbase and Cloudflare have implemented it, with hyperscalers AWS, Google Cloud, a…
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Circle cofounder's Catena Labs raises $30M for AI finance tools
Catena Labs, a startup focused on enabling AI agents to conduct financial transactions, has secured $30 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Acrew Capital and a16z crypto, with participation from ot…
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Augustus bank secures OCC charter, raises $40M for AI-powered stablecoin clearing
Augustus, a stablecoin-focused bank founded in 2022, has secured a national bank charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The 25-year-old CEO, Ferdinand Dabitz, aims to modernize global cur…
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Hashlock Markets bridges autonomous economy gap with trustless OTC settlement
The autonomous economy is rapidly developing infrastructure standards, with four emerging protocols for agent identity, commerce, and payments. These standards, including ERC-8004, ERC-8183, OKX Agent Payments Protocol,…
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Crypto trader Joe McCann questioned in Tanzania after fiancée's death
Crypto trader Joe McCann is reportedly being questioned by Tanzanian police following the death of his fiancée, influencer Ashly Robinson. McCann's crypto fund, Asymmetric, which had previously raised money from notable…
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AI Continual Learning Research Tackles Catastrophic Forgetting
Researchers are exploring novel approaches to continual learning in AI, aiming to overcome the challenge of "catastrophic forgetting" where models lose previously learned information when acquiring new skills. Google Re…