Circle Ventures, part of stablecoin issuer Circle (NYSE:CRCL) has invested in Elliptic, a prominent digital asset intelligence firm.
The terms of the investment were not immediately available.
According to a public statement, Elliptic has joined Circle’s Agentic Design Partner Program, an initiative to shape compliance for AI driven financial services.
Circle explains that as more autonomous services are introduced into financial services, Elliptic is well positioned to manage these challenges due to its already developed agentic compliance layer.
The company shared that Elliptic believes agentic AI in regulated industries must be built in partnership with regulators and they must evolve continuously.
Brian Schultz, Vice President of Corporate Development and Ventures at Circle, said compliance and risk management must evolve alongside autonomous systems.
Elliptic CEO Simone Maini, declared that the compliance challenge for agentic finance is being solved right now. Maini explained they are building inside the infrastructure where agents run.
“Circle’s participation in our Agentic Design Partner Program and Circle Ventures’ investment reinforce the importance of building agentic compliance infrastructure from within the systems and workflows these applications will rely on,” said Maini.
Recently, a somewhat similar initiative was announced in the UK which seeks to engage with regulators, policymakers, academicians and innovators to develop agentic regulation. The approach is somewhat different as it directly involves public participation.
