Jeremy Allaire co-founded Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) and serves as its Chairman and CEO. Circle is the company behind USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, and listed on the NYSE on June 4, 2025, raising nearly $1.1 billion at $31 per share; shares rose approximately 168% on the first day of trading. Jeremy Allaire's Twitter Score is 727 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #97 (top 0.1%) out of 493,668 accounts tracked.
Jeremy Allaire has been named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2026. Following Circle's IPO, his net worth surpassed $1.7 billion, according to Bloomberg. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in July 2019 and before the House Financial Services Committee in 2023, advocating for a stablecoin regulatory framework; his advocacy is credited as contributing to the legislative momentum for the GENIUS Act.
Jeremy Allaire oversees USDC, which reached $77.0 billion in circulation at Q1 2026, up 28% year-over-year, with on-chain transaction volume totaling $21.5 trillion in Q1 2026, up 263% year-over-year. Circle Payments Network (CPN) reached $8.3 billion in annualized transaction processing volume with 136 enrolled financial institutions as of Q1 2026. In March 2023, USDC temporarily depegged from $1, hitting approximately $0.88, after Circle confirmed $3.3 billion of its cash reserves were trapped at the failed Silicon Valley Bank; USDC regained its peg after U.S. regulators guaranteed all SVB depositors would be made whole. In August 2023, Coinbase and Circle dissolved the Centre Consortium, leaving Circle as the sole governor of USDC.
Jeremy Allaire is also building Arc, a public Layer 1 blockchain with USDC as its native gas token, EVM-compatible smart contracts, sub-second finality, and opt-in privacy, designed for institutional finance; its public testnet launched October 28, 2025. Circle closed a $222 million presale for the Arc token ($ARC) on May 11, 2026, at a $3 billion fully diluted valuation, with a16z crypto as lead investor at $75 million; other participants included BlackRock, Apollo Funds, Intercontinental Exchange, SBI Group, Standard Chartered Ventures, General Catalyst, Janus Henderson, ARK Invest, Haun Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, IDG Capital, Marshall Wace, and Bullish. Circle was the first publicly listed company to conduct a token presale, per The Block.
Jeremy Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation, where he co-created the ColdFusion (CFML) rapid web application development platform; Allaire Corporation was acquired by Macromedia in March 2001 for $360 million. He founded Brightcove in 2004, which was acquired by Bending Spoons in November 2024, and previously served as Chairman of the Board of Brightcove. He previously worked at General Catalyst as Technologist and Entrepreneur in Residence.
Jeremy Allaire has 198,189 followers as of October 2026 on X and has published 8,883 posts since 2014. He has been mentioned by 1,090 accounts, with 2,795 total mentions across the platform.
Jeremy Allaire's tracked portfolio includes Syndicate.
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