Circle Gateway adds cirBTC and EURC to its unified crosschain balances

Circle has widened the scope of Gateway, its crosschain balance product. On October 23, 2026, the company added support for cirBTC and EURC, two assets that previously sat outside a system built around USDC. The pitch is simple. Instead of tracking separate piles of the same token on a dozen blockchains, a user holds one unified balance per asset and spends it wherever it’s needed. What Gateway actually does now According to the research findings, funds become accessible in under 500 milliseconds once a deposit is finalized. The update also brings gas-free Nanopayments to cirBTC and EURC. Gas fees are the network charges users pay to process a transaction. Removing them matters most for tiny, frequent payments, where a fee can easily exceed the payment itself. Circle is positioning the feature for businesses, wallets and agentic applications. That last group means software agents that transact on their own, often in high volumes and small amounts. Liquidity works on an on-demand model. Rather than parking capital on every chain ahead of time, users pull it where it’s required, when it’s required. Gateway remains non-custodial, per the research findings. Users also keep a 7-day trus...