Circle is a consumer Internet company focused on transforming the world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for storing and using money.
Circle provides mobile apps aimed at enabling greater ease-of-use in online and in-person payments, enhanced security and privacy for customers, and the convenience of free, instant, global digital money transfers.
Unlike existing systems for using money which are based on closed and proprietary technology and networks, Circle is building on open Internet standards and protocols, including digital currency technologies such as Bitcoin