Circle Developer Grants
Rolling milestone based grants in USDC from Circle for teams building payments, FX, treasury, prediction market and lending products on Arc and Circle tools.
Circle Developer Grants is the grant program of Circle for teams building real world financial flows on chain. Circle relaunched the program on May 14, 2026 with a focused, milestone driven approach. Funding is tiered and paid in USDC, tied to meaningful integrations with Arc and Circle products. Circle does not state a maximum grant amount on the program page.
The program is aimed at teams with a strong alignment to Arc and Circle products, where Arc is core to the value flow or settlement. Circle looks for founders with proven shipping ability and clear technical ownership, evidence of usage, pilots or partnerships, or a credible path to revenue, and projects that expand the utility of USDC and strengthen the Arc ecosystem.
Circle names six areas of particular interest: agentic economic activity, stablecoin FX, peer to peer payments, treasury management, prediction markets, and lending and borrowing.
Grant payments are milestone based rather than paid as a lump sum. Grantees also get co marketing, technical mentorship and access to the ecosystem.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through the Circle grants portal on Questbook.