Circle Gateway (Nanopayments)
Unified USDC balance across chains with instant cross-chain minting; Gateway Nanopayments enable gasless sub-cent USDC micropayments via x402.
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Description
Per Circle's docs: deposit USDC to non-custodial Gateway Wallet contracts and mint on any supported destination chain in under 500 ms with one API call; permissionless with no sign-up. Nanopayments go down to $0.000001 using x402 and batched settlement.
Agent access
Related
- Circle Agent Stack: Circle's agent-native tooling (Circle CLI, agent wallets, nanopayments) for agents to hold and move USDC, pay for x402 services and stay within compliance guardrails.
- x402: Open standard for internet-native payments built on HTTP 402, letting APIs and agents pay per request across crypto and fiat networks.
- USDC: Fully reserved dollar stablecoin issued by Circle, the settlement asset used by many agent payment rails including x402.
Sources
Machine-readable
- JSON
- Markdown
- Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)