Why Build on Circles?

Circles is a decentralized protocol with social and economic value for humans, communities, and groups. It’s a collective effort to bring a fair distribution model for money created, owned, and shared by people.

• Every user mints 1 CRC/hour, ensuring equal opportunity regardless of join time.
• Trust-based social graph makes trusted tokens fungible, backing the economy with real connections.
• Demurrage (~7%/year) keeps currency circulating; for most humans it’s offset by steady income (orgs always pay).
• Decentralized verification via human trust provides soft sybil resistance without central authorities.
• Group currencies let communities share a currency backed by members’ personal tokens—reducing risk, simplifying payments, and easing integration into existing protocols.
• Joining the developer community helps build a more equitable, inclusive financial system.

Rust SDK note: the current alpha already covers querying, pathfinding, event/history access, transfer planning, invitations/referrals, and native runner-backed writes. The main remaining gap is browser-hosted Safe execution.