Circle and Fireblocks Collaborate to Enhance Digital Asset Offerings for Financial Institutions.

Circle Internet has partnered with Fireblocks to facilitate stablecoin payments for financial institutions. The collaboration aims to build trusted rails for stablecoin-based finance, making it easier for institutions to offer digital asset services.

In a significant move to bolster the stablecoin ecosystem, Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL) and Fireblocks have announced a strategic partnership aimed at facilitating stablecoin payments for financial institutions. This collaboration is set to create trusted rails for stablecoin-based finance, making it easier for institutions to offer digital asset services.

The partnership combines Circle's established stablecoin network with Fireblocks' institutional-grade custody, tokenization, and payments infrastructure. This integration will provide financial institutions with cross-border treasury and tokenized asset settlement capabilities, leveraging the strengths of both companies to advance payments on-chain.

Michael Shaulov, Co-founder and CEO of Fireblocks, emphasized the potential of this collaboration: "Together, Circle and Fireblocks are working to build the trusted rails that enable stablecoin-based finance at a global scale. By combining Circle's stablecoin expertise with our institutional infrastructure, we're empowering financial institutions to innovate with confidence. Those who move now will set the standard for tomorrow's financial ecosystem."

Jeremy Allaire, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Circle, echoed this sentiment: "The future of money is programmable, and this collaboration with Fireblocks can make that future real for institutions worldwide. Together, we're creating a seamless infrastructure that makes it simple to harness the power of stablecoins for payments, treasury operations, and settlement."

Stablecoins like USDC are redefining how money moves, offering near-instant, programmable, and borderless transactions. This collaboration addresses the challenges financial institutions face in launching new stablecoin-based products, meeting security and compliance requirements, and accessing diverse liquidity providers.

Through the integration, Fireblocks customers will gain seamless access to Circle's stablecoins and products, including Circle Gateway, a new crosschain primitive that enables a unified USDC balance for instant crosschain liquidity across supported chains. All integrations will be underpinned by Arc, a new open Layer-1 enterprise-grade blockchain purpose-built for stablecoin finance.

This strategic collaboration follows Fireblocks' announcement of Fireblocks Network for Payments, an initiative connecting payment providers, banks, fintechs, and other organizations with trusted access, liquidity, and compliance required for stablecoin payments. The interoperability of Fireblocks Network and Circle Payments Network will provide a unified experience for financial institutions, spanning treasury management solutions across cross-border, merchant, and retail use cases.

With Circle providing widely used stablecoins and Fireblocks securing more than $10 trillion in digital asset transactions, the collaboration represents a major step toward an institutional-grade, programmable financial system. It offers financial institutions the ability to innovate strategically, launching and scaling digital asset services that drive new revenue, enhance liquidity access, and meet the compliance and operational standards of traditional finance.

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