After the launch, this team founded with Ela Kagel and Andreas Arnold the Circles Cooperative in 2020, which works on establishing in Berlin a basic income flagship pilot, as a political and research case study to test and show how Circles, as a community, complementary currency can work. The Circles Coop is also in charge of supporting all the communities around the world who want to implement Circles in their areas. The Coop is handling the general communication platforms of Circles UBI: Circles Instagram, Circles Berlin Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, the circles.garden wallet and this website.

Circles is an open source project, so we
don't have control about groups and communication platforms who use the brand Circles. Be careful, some of them might be scammers. We list here the ones whom we are working together with.
To read and contribute to the discussions regarding the Circles system, updates or new ideas to improve it, check out aboutcircles.com Saraswathi Subbaraman
Product Designer Martin Köppelmann
Initiator @adz Development Blanka Vay Coordinator Cryptoengineer Sarah Friend Julio Linares Research & Community The idea of the Circles basic income system has been around since around 2013. It was initiated by Martin Köppelmann.
Circles was built and launched in October 2020 by Julio Linares, Sarah Friend, Adz, Saraswathi Subbaraman and Blanka Vay, with the funding and support from Martin.