1990s
Allaire Corporation
Jeremy Allaire builds Allaire Corporation, shaping early web tooling.
DT NETWORK
Inspired by Jeremy Allaire's vision that blockchain connects the internet and money before founding Circle
Dot Network is built around one primary source: a Boston Globe profile of Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder and CEO of Circle, from December 2022. In that interview, he recalls the moment Bitcoin clicked for him: when "all of a sudden, like, a million dots connect." That line is the lore and narrative inspiration for this project. The ARKNET Engine built on Arc is our original visualization networking protocol of that idea: a living, interactive network of millions of interconnected Nodes that represents participation, connection, and growth across the network.?
Late 1990s
Macromedia
Macromedia acquires Allaire, expanding the reach of Jeremy's web platform work.
2000s
Brightcove
Jeremy creates Brightcove, pioneering online video infrastructure.
2008
Financial crisis
The crisis prompts deep study of monetary systems and how money moves.
2008 to 2012
Monetary systems
Research into how global money, banking, and technology intersect.
2012
Bitcoin
Discovering Bitcoin: the moment when, in Jeremy's words, a million dots begin to connect.
2013
Circle founded
Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville found Circle to build internet-native financial infrastructure.
2018
USDC launches
Circle launches USDC, a dollar-backed stablecoin for open internet money.
2025+
Arc
Circle launches Arc: an EVM chain with USDC as native gas.
Now
Dot Network begins
Dot Network opens ARKNET as a living visualization networking protocol of that connecting-dots moment, built on Arc.