Circle Ventures Launches Arc Builders Fund for Internet Economy Innovation

James Ding
Dec 17, 2025 20:37

Circle Ventures introduces the Arc Builders Fund to support early-stage projects on the Arc blockchain, fostering innovation in internet-native financial products.

Circle Ventures has unveiled the Arc Builders Fund, a strategic initiative aimed at bolstering early-stage projects on the Arc blockchain, according to Circle Ventures. This move is designed to accelerate innovation within the internet economy by providing necessary funding and resources to promising ventures.

Driving Innovation with Arc

Arc, described as the Economic OS for the internet, is an open Layer-1 blockchain optimized for enterprise adoption. It offers features such as stablecoin-based gas and deterministic sub-second finality, alongside opt-in configurable privacy, to support real-world economic activities on-chain. The Arc Builders Fund aims to leverage these capabilities by supporting projects that can benefit from Arc’s unique infrastructure.

The fund will provide financial backing, access to an investor network, and hands-on support to early-stage teams. This support is intended to transform Arc’s technical advancements into a foundation for new internet-native financial products, such as perpetual markets, credit protocols, and on-chain FX.

Focus Areas and Investor Network

The Arc Builders Fund will focus on several high-impact verticals, including always-on markets and capital formation, offchain assets and credit markets, FX, agentic commerce, and energy and compute. Each of these areas is poised to benefit from Arc’s low-latency infrastructure and scalable solutions.

To further its goals, the fund has engaged a network of top-tier investors, including Breyer Capital, CoinFund, Dragonfly Capital, and Electric Capital, among others. These investors will gain visibility into submissions to the initiative, potentially providing additional capital to promising projects.

Invitation to Builders

The Arc Builders Fund is seeking teams whose projects align with Arc’s unique capabilities and who can demonstrate a clear path to real-world use cases. Successful candidates will leverage Arc’s features like deterministic finality and enterprise-grade rails to create innovative solutions in the internet economy.

Circle Ventures is inviting developers and founders to join the Arc Builders Fund initiative to harness the full potential of Arc’s infrastructure for the next generation of internet economic products.

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