# Heath Tarbert (slim)

> Heath Tarbert is president at Circle. Circle Gateway Nanopayments and Circle Wallets (Agent Wallets, Programmable Wallets) on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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President, Circle.

Heath Tarbert is president of Circle, leading its legal, compliance, risk, policy, communications, talent operations and international expansion.

## What Heath builds

- [Circle Gateway Nanopayments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/circle-gateway-nanopayments.md), graded B, 67.7/100, in Payment & monetisation platforms. Circle Gateway Nanopayments is a hosted x402 facilitator that settles gas-free USDC payments as small as $0.000001. Buyers sign offchain authorisations against a Gateway balance, and Circle settles net positions onchain in batches. President, Circle, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Circle Wallets (Agent Wallets, Programmable Wallets)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/circle-wallets.md), graded BB, 72.4/100, in Agent wallets & spending controls. Circle's wallet APIs (developer-controlled, user-controlled and modular wallets) plus Agent Wallets, a USDC wallet an agent drives through the Circle CLI with per-transaction, daily, weekly and monthly caps and address allowlists. President, Circle, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Jeremy Allaire](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeremy-allaire/), Co-founder, CEO and Chairman, Circle
- [Li Fan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/li-fan/), Chief AI Officer, Circle
- [Nikhil Chandhok](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nikhil-chandhok/), Chief Product and Technology Officer, Circle

## Questions

### Who is Heath Tarbert?

Heath Tarbert is president of Circle, leading its legal, compliance, risk, policy, communications, talent operations and international expansion.

### What does Circle make?

Anchor Terminal lists Circle Gateway Nanopayments and Circle Wallets (Agent Wallets, Programmable Wallets) from Circle.

### How are Heath's tools graded?

Circle Gateway Nanopayments is graded B, 67.7 out of 100; Circle Wallets (Agent Wallets, Programmable Wallets) is graded BB, 72.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.circle.com/leadership/nikhil-chandhok
- https://www.circle.com/blog/building-the-financial-rails-for-the-agentic-economy
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandhok
- https://www.circle.com/about-circle
- https://www.circle.com/nanopayments
- https://x.com/jerallaire
- https://www.circle.com/
- https://www.circle.com
- https://www.circle.com/contact-us
- https://help.circle.com/support
- https://help.circle.com/support?id=support_form
- https://www.circle.com/leadership/jeremy-allaire
- https://developers.circle.com/

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