circulo

What is circulo and what is it for?

circulo is a historical peer-to-peer payments app built around gift-like transfers and a simple credit system. It was designed to let participants send units that recipients could choose to accept, making community giving the focus.

circulo is the archived first Circulo project, described by its maintainers as a generosity-oriented peer-to-peer payments system using the Unyt Accounting engine. Its README marks Circulo 1 as deprecated and the material as archival.

Instead of treating a transfer as automatically accepted, Circulo debits the sender when they send units, while the recipient's balance does not include them until they accept; if they do not accept, the units remain available for them to collect. The README describes a simple credit rule in which sending increases a user's credit limit, making the system easy to experiment with.

For example, one community member could send units to another, who could choose whether to accept them. The project FAQ and archived README explain this gift-oriented credit model; the README also says testing of Circulo 1 is complete, so this profile describes a historical project rather than a current installation path.

From 3 public sources, checked 1 November 2026.