đź’¸ Get up to $5k to build on Circle Ecosystem

Superteam now supports Circle Grants and recommends applicants with high community reputation scores. These are grants for projects that increase the adoption of Circle’s products, like USDC, EUROC, CCTP, Verite, and more. Even though the primary focus of the grants is to fund dApps, integrations, and technical contributions that increase the total number of active wallets with USDC, etc., we’re happy to support dev tooling projects, educational content, developer tutorials, and community and media work as well.

As the sole issuer of USDC, Circle is committed to supporting developers globally across blockchain communities and helping to deliver the vision of free, open, and permissionless internet. Anyone with an idea or proof of work is welcome to apply and receive a funding decision for a $1 - 5,000 grant. Upon approval by their team, payouts will be made as per Circle’s monthly grant cycle.

👩‍💻 Areas of focus:

  1. Build dApps: Use Circle’s developer APIs to build dApps to accept traditional and USDC payments, automate payouts, embed multi-asset accounts into your product or service, or power your internet marketplace.
  2. Dev Tooling: Create tools, programs, and hacks to make it easier and faster for engineers to build the next generation of dApps using Circle APIs.
  3. Education: Create videos, articles, explainers, case studies, deep dives, technical tutorials, etc., to onboard users, builders, and projects to Circle’s ecosystem.
  4. Community: Organize hackathons, university initiatives, workshops, and other events to educate about Circle’s products and developer APIs in your local builder's communities.

🎯 Quick RFPs

If you don’t know where to get started, you can proceed by applying to complete one of the following RFPs as well:

🧠 Broad ideas of interest

  1. Commerce and Checkouts: Build solutions that help businesses and creators to accept USDC & EUROC on low-cost blockchains like Solana via different channels like e-commerce, Point-of-Sale, and Scan-and-Pay. The solutions should be practically feasible and significantly increase onboarding and payment acceptance UX for merchants. The merchants can be for a particular niche like the fashion industry or generalized for all purposes as well.
  2. Wallets: Create a multi-chain USDC wallet, where a user only interacts with USDC while the chain and gas fees are abstracted away. It can also be extended further as “wise”-like multi-currency wallet with EUROC and other local stablecoins.
  3. Banking and Fintech Integrations: Stablecoins like USDC allows for holding currencies like dollars on the blockchain without needing a bank account. Think of ways in which banking can be solved for both businesses and individuals using USDC. Making it easy for existing FinTechs and Superapps to integrate USDC via plug-and-play SDKs. Case studies can also be created, along with detailed mock-ups on how USDC can be integrated into popular applications like Revolut or Venmo (which can be both global or regional).
  4. Borrowing and Lending: Build protocols which enable lending and borrowing via USDC - can be completely on-chain like AAVE or Real-World Asset based like Credix Finance, where USDC solves for programmable and borderless money. USDC can also serve as a base asset for investing in tokenized assets like fixed income, real estate, and commodities by both retail and institutional investors. Institutional DeFi use cases, where USDC solves for the trusted digital dollar of choice and stable and programmable liquidity, can also be explored.
  5. Payouts and Payrolls: Stablecoins like USDC enables developers to connect their products to an uber-money API that delivers 24/7 liquidity and near-instant payments to anyone with an internet connection. Apart from traditional employee payrolls, some of the interesting payout use cases can be — gig worker payouts (like Uber drivers), betting and gaming, creator payouts, and so on. Ideal solutions should abstract away all complexities of blockchain and wallet creation & management, giving a web2-like UX while leveraging the efficiency of digital dollars to attract a wider audience.
  6. Remittances: Solving the huge problem of remittances via USDC while building efficient on/off-ramps at both ends (receiver and sender) - the overall flow costs should be lower than traditional remittances. The creation of FX Markets on-chain by leveraging multi-currency stablecoins like USDC and EUROC, along with AMMs and Order books, can also be researched further.