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: today is read-only (queries, pathfinding, events). Runner support will enable invites, minting, transfers, wrapping with the same typed APIs.