There are many Chinese capital figures on the Circle shareholder list, IDG、 Baidu Ventures, Yixin, Everbright Holdings, CICC Jiazi, Bitmain, Huaxing Capital, and others have all invested from 2016 to 2018. China already has a solid foundation in the cryptocurrency industry. I first learned about Circle in 2016 and thought its name was great. There was a former colleague who was a designer at Circle and they had a small team in Beijing at that time. However, not long after, the Chinese team disbanded.