Circle Introduces Arc Builders Fund To Support Early-Stage Projects On Its Blockchain
In Brief
Circle has launched the Arc Builders Fund and Investor Network to support early-stage projects leveraging Arc’s enterprise-ready blockchain.
Fintech firm and stablecoin issuer Circle revealed the launch of the Arc Builders Fund and Investor Network, a new initiative under Circle Ventures created to speed innovation and real-world adoption on Arc2, described as an Economic OS for the internet. Arc is an open Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for enterprise use, offering stablecoin-denominated transaction fees, deterministic sub-second finality, and configurable, opt-in privacy to support onchain economic activity at scale.
Through the Arc Builders Fund, Circle Ventures will deploy capital into selected companies while also providing access to a curated investor network and active, hands-on support for early-stage teams. The program is intended for projects that benefit from Arc’s architectural advantages, including use cases such as perpetual derivatives, credit and lending systems, onchain foreign exchange, agent-driven commerce, and other emerging financial primitives. By backing these teams, the initiative seeks to translate Arc’s technical advances into the backbone of a new generation of native internet financial products, bridging experimental ideas with scalable adoption and drawing additional investment from leading institutional backers.
The fund will initially concentrate on several high-impact areas. One focus is continuous markets and capital formation, where Arc’s low-latency performance and predictable fee structure enable new market designs ranging from perpetual exchanges and automated market makers to order books, private liquidity pools, and prediction platforms, supporting faster pricing and more efficient capital flows. Another priority is the tokenization of offchain assets and the development of onchain credit markets, using Arc as the base layer for real-world assets and credit issuance to unlock new sources of liquidity.
Foreign exchange is also a core area, with plans to use Circle StableFX and the Circle Payments Network to expand onchain FX activity on Arc by onboarding new issuers, liquidity providers, and cross-border corridors. The initiative further targets agentic commerce, enabling autonomous software agents and machine-to-machine systems to transact using stablecoins on financial rails optimized for speed, reliability, and programmability.
In addition, energy and compute are highlighted as long-term opportunities, envisioning connected devices with economic autonomy that can directly pay for energy, data, and services, supported by programmable settlement and predictable costs at the intersection of finance, AI, compute demand, and wholesale energy markets.
For builders, the objective is clear: access to focused funding, close collaboration with Arc’s core product and infrastructure teams, and the compounding benefits of an ecosystem structured to support the next phase of the internet economy, with an emphasis on execution speed, clear intent, and strong alignment between applications and Arc’s technical strengths.
Arc Builders Fund Unites Leading Global Investors To Accelerate Innovation On Arc
The Arc Builders Fund has attracted an expanding network of prominent global investors who will be able to review and track projects applying to the program. This investor collective spans leading venture firms and crypto-focused funds across multiple regions and stages, creating a strong capital and expertise layer around the initiative and increasing the likelihood of downstream financing for teams building on Arc. Among them well-known firms such as 500 Global, Breyer Capital, CoinFund, Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, Haun Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nyca Partners, and DCG, alongside a broader set of crypto-native and institutional funds.
The fund is structured to back builders whose products are fundamentally enabled by Arc’s differentiated architecture, with a clear trajectory toward real-world adoption and the creation of core building blocks that other Arc-based applications can integrate and extend. The most compelling teams will demonstrate that features such as deterministic transaction finality, stable and predictable costs, native onchain foreign exchange, configurable privacy, and enterprise-ready infrastructure are essential components of their product vision rather than optional enhancements.
For teams shaping the next phase of the internet-native economy, Arc positions itself as the execution layer where those ideas can be realized at scale. Interested builders can join the waitlist to receive additional details and updates from the Arc Builders Fund.
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Alisa, a dedicated journalist at the MPost, specializes in cryptocurrency, zero-knowledge proofs, investments, and the expansive realm of Web3. With a keen eye for emerging trends and technologies, she delivers comprehensive coverage to inform and engage readers in the ever-evolving landscape of digital finance.
